January 12, 2006

  • Featured Content

    I am ready with the Secrets to Featured Content.  Two of the post I have written before.  I have rewritten them with corrections that I have learned since the time I wrote them.  All four of these post together took me more than 8 hours to write.  That is including the time I spent on the first two.  But I think you will see that they are very complete so you will have all the tools that you need. 


    I have made them all protected.  I just want to watch who gets them.  So I cleared my protected list because I only had that for pictures anyway.  I realize most of you have indicated that you don’t care.  So this is just for those who care and who have been nice to me.  I appreciate those who have been so supportive of me in the last several months.  This is just a small gift back to you.  I show how to get through the different stages of featured content.  And I give some of the best tricks of the trade.  I am also going to respond to comments in the protected section.  So if you are reading something that doesn’t make sense to you, just ask a question in the first protected post.  I will then answer right in the comment section so that everyone can see the answer.  This allows everyone to understand at the same time.


     


    For everyone else, I thought we would play a little game.  I want to tell you some of the bad things about featured content. 


    # 1 The mean people:  There are people that will dedicate whole post to tearing down your site.  I don’t mean spoofs either.  I don’t mind spoofs.  I am talking about people that will say all kinds of things about you.  If you end up on featured content, that is what will happen to you.


    # 2 Stalkers:  I don’t mind stalkers they way some people mind them.  I have people that visit my site a lot.  It does not bother me.  There is not one creepy person in my top 30 stalkers.  In fact, I don’t call them stalkers.  I call them MVG (Most Valuable Guest).  But if you don’t feel comfortable with someone stopping at your site a hundred times in one day, you probably won’t like featured content.


    There are the email stalkers too.  I had one nice lady who wrote 30 comments in a row in the comment section.  So I had to block and delete her.  About the only people I have ever blocked and deleted are the people who comment about 30 times to draw attention to themselves.  I don’t block critics.  Well, anyway that nice lady got mad that I blocked her.  She sent me 10 emails a day commenting on each post for about 2 weeks.  Again, this sort of thing does not bother me.  But if you are the type of person that is bothered by 10 emails a day for two weeks from an emotional disturbed person, you won’t want to be on featured content.


    So there are two instructions:


    If you want to be added just say so.


    If you don’t want to be added, name a reason you would never want to be on featured content.


     

Comments (337)

  • First, yo.

    Thanks for the guild though. It seems nice. :)

  • Second!

  • I wouldn’t want to be on Featured Content, because for one, I’d have to actually consider the audience for whence my information would go to, and I sometimes post personal stuff aimed at two or three people who read my site.

  • holy crap! who knew there was so much drama out there in FC land??

  • top 10… again!!! yay

  • I want to be added to your protected list! I’m just curious on how one achieves this state of xanga nirvana “Featured” OOOO~

  • This is fascinating… please allow me in.

    dr. tony

  • wow…thanks

  • I probably wouldn’t want stalkers.

    And unless I go Premium, I’ll only ever get on the FC Classic, where no one goes because no one knows it exists.

    I’m fine with what I got.

  • i think it would be fun to be in featured content just because…also, i’ve really been working on improving my writing this year and i’d like to know what people thought when i actually spent time on my meaningful entries.

    <3

  • hmm i wouldnt mind being in it… i guess….. it might be worth it

  • I don’t mind- I’ve been on FC before and I think it’s only because I spend a lot of time on Xanga and have some cool prof. pics.  I’ve got interesting things to say most of the time and am very opinionated (as you know) and I love your site.  However I could give a crap how many people like me.  LOL

    take care!

  • But I’d still like to be added to the list, I’m curious anyway.

    Please?

  • nice…thx

  • could I be added?
    Ta, if possible.

  • I’d like to read it, add me.

  • I should be. I had over 80 comments on one post. I had I think 64 or 66 eProps.

    It was a recent post.

  • I’d love to be added, thanks.

  • top 30

  • I’d like to be added, please.

    -Jared

  • actually…  im better off without being in featured content… thats my final answer…. i like bringing in people to my site of my own means and only having people that i like on my site

  • i would love to be added… it would be an honor! lol.. i think featured content would be great because then people will actaully come to my site.. even though it doesn’t have too much great stuff in it.. it would be great to kno the tricks of the trade just in case i decide to change the direction of my posts!

    keep up the good work!

  • but i don’t really care about being featured…this xanga thing is so I can vent and be an angsty teenager for once in a while

    haha

    -Chris

  • I want to be added, just to see what you say. 

  • I’d like to read it…just out of curiousity of course.  I’ve been on featured several times.  I disliked it immensely.  It’s just like you said, you get stalkers…  And there are the people that just patrol the featured content page and leave hateful comments just to make themselves feel better about themselves.  Who needs that?  Not me.  Any time I get a lot of eprops/comments now I just make the entry protected or private or I post again.  I don’t like the attention it brings. 

  • you provoke thought-minded content. please add me.

  • I’d like to be added, please.  Thanks!

  • Please add me….thanks!

    Candy

  • I have been on featured content a couple times and didn’t like all the people I didn’t know coming in and making strange comments.

    It wasn’t the fact that I didn’t know them — people frequently come to my site through blogrings or whatever, but at least that means we have a common interest or mutual friend.

    Also, their comments usually added nothing to the benefit of my post or the other commenters.  Granted, I usually write about personal/political/faith-related stuff, rather than just general questions.

  • I wouldn’t mind be added.

  • er..for actually doing this, that is

  • add me please?

  • I don’t like Featured Content because I don’t see what the huge deal is, to be honest.

  • I want to be added. I don’t plan on ever being ‘Featured Content’ but I think it’d be interesting to read your ‘process’.

  • I want to read, please.

  • Xanga is just for enjoyment, I don’t want to be on featured, this is supposed to be fun, not a celebrity contest.

  • i’m confused on featured because it a) isnt updated frequently enough and b) so many people must have 44 eprops, why aren’t all of them on featured instead of just one lucky fellow?

  • I think it would be pretty cool to be on featured content…

    I get excited when I see yours and another friend of mine’s up there, cause I actually went to the sites before they were up there haha…

    and then Kerrie’s was up there today! that was neat too haha…

  • I’m in.

  • I wouldn’t mind getting on it, but I don’t have to. It really isn’t that important. Though I would like to see what people I don’t know have to say about my site. Though, I wouldn’t like people who just left comments to curse me off, though I do enjoy a good critizism. It helps you think things through and evaluate them from another perspective.

  • I thought I was added to your protected : ( I know how to get on Featured and I have read your other posts, but I still want to be on your protected cause were friends.

  • I love spoofing people.

    Although after a while, it does seem mean-spirited. I think once is enough. Maybe you should spoof the spoofers?

  • please add me – i absolutely love your site! =]

  • oh yes,

    I didn’t pay attention to your instructions.

    I’m curious how people who write PoStS LiKe ThIs get featured alongside people like you and Dragonskyr… yes I would like to be added if it’s ok.

  • I would love to be added, I’m very curious.
    Thanks much.

  • I’d love to be added. Not sure if I’ll actually go that route, but I’m an information junkie and a techie needs to know!

  • I can definately relate to the mean people. Especially theantidrak guy, he is mean. But whatever. Those actually do hurt me sometimes…it sounds so incredibly silly to be hurt by some random commenter who has nothing better to do, but they pack sting, and I write a lot of personal stuff on my site, so it really does hurt to have people tearing me apart…because what I write about is ME, not some quotes and icons or a different version of me…

    -Hil

  • ;-; I wanna be on the featured content because I want power.

    =D I don’t mind stalkers. I actually encourage then to stalk me. Shame, shame.

    Can I read it?

    …please?

  • And I would like to be added just to see your take on getting on featured, as I’m already there a lot (not as much as you though, ha).

    -Hil

  • I would like to be added [please].

  • I would love to be added.

    I remember when I started getting on featured, I was so excited … then the mean comments and the random stalkers weirded me out.  That’s why I took the automatic eprop feature off my site.  Featured content was and IS not for me.

  • <— wants to be added!

  • Please add me. Thanks!

  • I would love to be added.  I wish to seek such knowledge and wisdom.  Then, all will be ready for my master plan

    Muahahahahaha!

  • I’m confused…what exactly is featured content? I think I’m out of some sort of xanga loop…

  • well i wouldn’t want to be on it often, becuase sometimes i write superficial things such as how my day went and it would be embarrasing for people to read that. but on my good entries, i would love to know what “the masses” thought.

  • I do want to be added, but I dont really care about being on featured content, Ihit it a few times and the wacko factor is too much for me…but curiousity insists that I read your thoughts on the subject.

  • I’d like to be added if it wouldn’t be too much trouble.

    I wouldn’t want to be on featured because of all the people who stop by and comment without even reading what you wrote.That bugs me.

  • Although I don’t really desire to be on featured content, I am curious as to the tips you give. 

    I regularly read a xanga that used to be on featured content a lot and he took his blog off featured b/c he felt that by being on there he was having to “perform” too much rather than just post what he wanted.  In a way, that’s why I blog mostly on blogger…  That way it’s like I’m writing more for myself than for entertaining others.

  • Could I be added, please? I don’t mind being on featured one way or the other but it would be nice to know how it could be done… sorry to hear about all the harassers and stalkers tho. Some people need to find better things to do.

  • i doubt i’ll ever make it to featured because i write for people i actually know, but i’d really like to read the post. please add me.

  • i saw one of those mean ppl post about you… i found it hilarious cause they were complaining about you taking over all the featured content spots… it was way too amuzing…

    stalkers thing is an interesting business… i dont mind them… actually when i “see” (tracker) someone stop by, i always stop by and will leave a comment if i have something to comment about (some posts i just have absolutely nothing to say to)… but then they come back and like “who are you?” i’m like “i saw you stop by, so i thought i would too. i had a comment about your post, so i left it. [smile!] a bientot!” i dont mind ppl stopping by… on this i’m curious and i always stop back…

    which hence brings me to why i wouldnt want to be featured… if i see ppl stop by, then i would want to check out their sites too… and generally i’ll leave a comment cause typically at least one of their posts i’ll have a comment about… and i’ll also want to respond to comments… so i could not handle featured content cause of all the comments i would want to make… so actually neither of your reasonings up there on why i wouldnt want to be in featured content…

    cheerio!    (i just had the sudden urge to say that…)

  • yah..I work SUPER hard on my site, so I think it’d be pretty neat to have people appreciate my site for once. So If you could, please add me. Thanks!

  • OK Dan, the thought has crossed my mind, lets see what you have to say about it all.  Add me.

    Tim

  • omg! i know of a post i would like to be in the protected list to see… “How to be “First” in Dan’s comments!” 

  • I’d want to be added to your protected list ! But the reason that I WOULDN’T want to be on ‘featured content’ is because my xanga is dedicated to close friends, and not things people would be interested in anyway, and then I think I would have to change my whole view on xanga :-! It gets complicated!

                           Later,

                                  ~Francisco~

  • I don’t think I want to make featured content.

  • I already have a Xanga stalker/harasser who tears me down personally and my site and I’ve never been on featured content.  So I sure don’t want to be on featured content and encourage those like her.  That unfortunately is why I have a Protected site all the time now.  

    RYC:  Thanks for the comment about the foaling pictures I posted on my site of Gigi’s foaling last night.  There are many more mares to foal out this foaling season and I will be posting pics of the foals.  And hopefully I’ll catch some on camera like I did Gigi.   

  • Sure add me.

  • I wouldnt want to be on FC. Too many weirdos could find me.

  • I’d like to read it just for grins & giggles.  I’ve never been on featured, don’t really make it a goal to…but it’d be cool to see what you can do.

  • Someone commented 30 times in a row?  Geez that would annoy me.  I sometimes do it twice in a row because I forgot that I already hit enter.  Please put me on the protected list.  Thank you.  

  • I would like to find all the people that used to comment on my old Xanga site though.
    I like making new friends on Xanga.
    But I don’t want the weirdos and the Stalkers. They can stay away LOL

  • One word. “First”!

  • i used to be on your protected list but i’m not sure if i’m still on? if not, add me again please!

  • I want to be added, thanks.

    Nicholas

  • I’d like to read it just for sh*ts and giggles… I’m just kind of intrigued as to how you do this…

  • it’d be cool to read it… i know i don’t really comment much, but i like to visit a lot!

    so if you feel i am worthy, please add me to the protected list.

  • BTW:  Add me again to your Protected List because I sure want to know what to avoid so I won’t be on Featured Content.  LOL

  • the crazies would give me the heebie jeebies…but i guess you have the control with the push of a button. thanks, but no thanks!

  • Please add me…thanks so much!

  • i thought i was already added?

  • Please add me.  I’m curious to read your tips, though I really have no ambition to be on Featured Content.  I really do enjoy your site, and thought provoking subjects. :)

  • love to be added- i’m an attention whore with an agenda!!!!

  • it’d be pretty neat…

  • I was featured for about a week…..  you kinda miss it when you have those 8 comment posts….

    i wanna be added.

  • I don’t want to be added. I like figuring it out myself. But I wouldn’t mind being featured.

  • Hmm, I would like to be added, but mostly out of curiosity. See, if everyone has these secrets to getting on Featured Content, then it will just be harder to get on, and I’m afraid I’m just not that dedicated to becoming a xanga celebrity.

    I probably wouldn’t like being on featured because I think I leave myself open to real-life stalkers. I like being below the radar because I feel safer giving out my cell phone number in posts, as well as some other pieces of information that if I were smarter or more cautious, I wouldn’t post.

  • I’d like to be added, please

  • If your tips are as effective as you say, and a good many of us use them, then it would be like inflation. I think. To many featured contenters.

  • i’ll be added.

    it’s sounds interesting.

  • I have never really thought about being on featured, I would be on classic featured anyway and I am not sure that would be as ‘cool’ as premium featured.. haha

  • I have never really thought about being on featured, I would be on classic featured anyway and I am not sure that would be as ‘cool’ as premium featured.. haha

  • add me please. altho i dont have premium, im curious about it.

  • I’m new to this whole xanga thing.  Yeah, laugh if you’d like, but I really have no educated idea what featured content is all about/ why it is elusive/ cool to be a part of. 

  • Even though I’ve only been reading your site for about a month, I love to read what your thoughts are.  Consider me “in” if you’ll allow for it.

  • I’d like to be on the list

  • I don’t care about being featured.  I’d be curious to read it, but being featured is not a goal of mine.

    I would like to see an end to the Emo kids and the little girl nudity on featured though. 

    Erika

  • I don’t know if you tried to add me yet, but it’s not working if you did. And last time when we were at the party when you said you were adding me, so I could see pics, Nada nothing. humm

  • I’m interested. Always great to be able to reach out to more people.

  • You know how to create a mystique . . . that’s what all the delay is about, and the creation of this select group to learn all the secrets. I believe you have good motives, though. Did you learn how to create a mystique in some Christian Leadership Conference?

    I’m curious as to how this all works, so please add me in. But what I’m curious about is how you got so many diverse people hooked on your site, not how to get on Featured. And the answer can’t be that you ask questions, because other people ask questions.

    The plural of posts is posts, not post!

  • Question: if this is protected, why can I see it? I totally doubt that I am on your list. I don’t care about making featured content. I’m a nobody (like many others) in Xangaland.

  • Please add me, Dan.  I’m not sure I’m ready for FC myself, but it’s interesting reading.

  • I would love to be added :) It’s interesting to see how some people just write a post that’s totally meaningless, but get 183975891375981753 comments. And it’d be a great reference tool :P

    x__Stephany

  • Haha. Ah, featured content. Personally, I think it would be cool to be on featured content. I like to hear peoples opinions, and views on things, and I love the interaction.
    However,If I make it, I do. If I don’t, then I don’t. I have a few faithful readers, and I think thats cool =)

    I really appreciate the time, and hard work you put into those list’s helping people get on featured content. You seem like a really nice, and cool guy. I would like to be on the protected list, and obviously keep what I read there to myself.(Not re-post it and tell the whole world) So if you would like to add me, that would be cool =)

  • I want to be added just because I am so stinking nosey…lol.

    Becky

  • I’d like to be added please.

  • Lost in translation? That is a yes thank you.

  • *raises hand* add me. i am curious.

  • Add me, please.

  • Hmm. Looks like Featured Contents aren’t my cup of tea. 
    I am a paranoid.  I hope tat’s reason enuff. I have all sorts of trackers on my blog and i try to make my readers login before visiting my page so I can know who they are.
    And i simply dun think my blog will ever be good enuff to make its way to featured content. haha.

    But I am a Gemini, and we Gemini are damn fickle — ops! i mean, versatile — and curious. 

    May I ?!?!?!  Have a look at the Secrets to featured contents? Please?

  • Oh, and I just rethought my answer to your “Is the role of a woman in the home a role of submission?” post.
    I went to a Diversity/Leadership camp this summer called ANYTOWN (Anytowner shoutout!), and it was a real eye-opener on a lot of issues dealing with prejudice and the like- I recommend it to anyone and everyone. Anyway, I remember one story that a counselor was telling us on Gender Roles night (my favorite) about when she had lunch with a female friend of hers (the counselor was also female). She said that her friend was looking at the bill and said something about how she’d have to ask her husband for more money soon. My counselor said that initially she was taken aback at the idea that two people in a relationship should do anything less than share resources completely and be equal partners in the marriage. However, she kept her mouth shut, and after thinking about it, realized that the way things were run in her friend’s household were a part of her culture. It was different, perhaps even offensively, from her own, but that gave her no right to criticize. Her friend was happy and this was the way things were done.
    For me personally, I wouldn’t be satisfied with anything less than full equality (I wouldn’t be satisfied in being the dominant partner either, though) in a relationship. However, I need to remind myself not to immediately condemn someone else’s culture because their ideas differ philosophically, politically, or in other ways from my own. It’s something that I know I need to work on.

    Okay, so I guess I’m done with that.
    Except that I want to add one final note. I’ve heard some people (mostly teenage boys, unfortunately) say things along the lines of “I hate all this feminist crap”, and they call people who define themselves as feminists “feminazis”. To these people, I offer the following definition:
    “Feminists want equality. Feminazis want revenge.”
    There is a difference.

    Anyway, I’ll be quiet now and try not to be off-subject anymore.

  • please add

  • reason I would not want to be added: too much of an audiance. I like my little xanga to be apart of the veyr special xanga group we have formed.

  • does the principle the last shall be first apply here? I would like one if you could find it in your heart to add me…

  • I do not have anything to say. I just comment, so there really is no reason because I have no content.

  • May I be on featured content?

  • I’d like to be added please. Thank you.

  • I’d love to read it!  I’m not saying I’ll use the tips after those negatives you mentioned, but I’m REALLY curious to see how you do it! 

  • I would really like to be on FC someday…it’s a nice little goal that I set..

    erin

    PS I love your site!

  • can i be added please? thank you!

  • I’m torn…I don’t know whether I would want to be featured or not…I see the good sides in both…but I also just use xanga for myself…to vent…Hmm…I’ll get back to you!

  • I’d feel too much pressure to make my entries about what other people would want to read and not what I want to write about….and for me that’s not the point of my xanga. I like writing about dorky, little things.

    Sooooooo Dan, I have a question right…going back to all your animal entries…I have a friend who has 2 birds…one of them just died of a lung infection…and the other one was having trouble breathing, so they rushed her to the vet and she stopped breathing along the way. Would you give it mouth to mouth? They did. Anyhoo, just curious. I’m off to London tomorrow soooo have a nice weekend!

  • By all means, add me. I’d like to know what you’ve learned. Thanks for the offer.

  • please add me, thanks!

  • The only thing that I have ever got out of being featured is having a bunch of little asshole teenagers come to my site and be jackasses.

  • I can handle it

  • Dan I think my main reason for not wanting to be on Featured content would be my perpensity to be misunderstood and the inherent negative ego boost I’d have. I’m thankful for people like you who can be on featured content while gaining a good audience (IE a good cross section of people) while retaining your humility.

  • “she kept her mouth shut, and after thinking about it, realized that the way things were run in her friend’s household were a part of her culture. “

    Posted 1/12/2006 at 10:34 PM by hidden_sandwich

    thanks for that! yeah, some women think that working in the home or being “submissive” or whatever is the opposite of feminism. but we forget that there are other cultures who view female gender roles differently from western views (see my comment to Dan’s question on the matter). in addition, many cultures view feminism differently. mainstream feminism is a western view. i also liked how you clarified the differences between feminists and feminazis. i would just make another addition which is that not only do we strive for equality, but feminists want options. if a woman from a western culture, not just a minority woman, chooses to stay at home and be a housewife, who are we to judge her and criticize her for that? if anything, the housewife should be respected for her choice to take care of the home and look after the children. that role isn’t given enough value in this society.

  • add me, xanga jedi master.  not that i’ll be a great xanga jedi, but just in case i ever want to try.

  • sure add me… neither stalkers or mean people bother me… if someone is going to slander or threaten me, theyll just get their site deleted (its against xanga code of conduct)…

    i’d like to know how to be featured… not that i really care, i’m just curious…

  • i’m curious, definitely, but i’m not entirely sure that that many people would be interested in what i ramble about. granted, i’ve had something like 11 new subscribers in the last two weeks from people who read my comments here (who now make up about one-third of the subbies i’ve had over the last two years ). but i’m interested.

  • i’ll also admit that i’ve been interested in that fc spotlight since the days that jyo topped all the charts. probably aren’t too many of his subbies around anymore, are there?

  • I don’t care about being on featured. If I get on there, cool! If not, I just enjoy the people on here. It’s always interesting!

  • say…

    SO

    SO

    please…

  • Add me.

  • Sign me up. I’d love to hear what you have to say.

  • i read what you posted on featured grownups a while back and i would be interested to be on your protected list.

  • I would like to be added

  • I’d like to read your protected posts in general…reading your entries is interesting. :) However, I prefer to not be on FC. I eliminated eprops in case I ever get there…however, being that I haven’t been all that interesting myself, I highly doubt I’ll get there. :)

    For people that want to be on FC, they have some stiff competition since you are on it several times in one day. :)

  • Knock Knock…do let me in :)   I would love to read more about it :)

  • your site always interests me.
    but somehow i never get to look at the comments.
    anyways, i guess i can try it out.
    thanks for making a site like this man.

    kuo

  • hi! can i be added too! stalking is tempting but i promise i’ll restrain myself!! =D

  • I would like to be added

  • This is very interesting.  How long did it take you to figure all this out?  

    I wanted to be added just so I don’t  feel left out!  heh

    If I received 100 comments I would feel like I had to comment back to eveyone that commented…then I’d spend all my computer time commenting on comments.

    I just like being part of a big group like this one…and meeting new people.  It’s very rewarding and I probably will never see featured content unless something scandalous happens and I make CNN news and they show on TV that I blogged.  Then, I’d prolly get all the hits.

  • no because:

    i never check it myself (unless i want to see how many posts you have up there).

    it would make me do xanga for the sole purpose of ill-gotten fame even more.

    so thanks, but no thanks…

  • option #2.
    reason: It’s just not a big deal to me!

  • RYC: Ok…. if you were serious, I think I’ve come up with something you’d be comfortable with on your site….   You’ll have to E mail me from my site so we can work out how to get it on here…   

  • maybe I should have worded that differently….. so we can work out how to get the pics up…..   LOL…..

  • I want dibs on your protected posts, please add THEOLOGIAN

  • i’d like to be added – i’m curious as to what you’d say =)

  • I would also like to be added, for two reasons. First, I would love to see everything that you write, because you do have so many thoughts and great ideas that make me wonder on a variety of levels. Furthermore, finding a way onto featured content would allow me to get a base of responses such as your own, thereby enabling me to probe out reactions that people have to my thoughts and have a more critical analysis of my writing. When that happens, I believe that it may encourage my writing and thinking more, as well as help me to improve both. Thanks for the invitation.

  • Please add me too. I’m not sure what exactly I’m getting into. But go ahead :) I say yes!

  • i’d like to read it…but i don’t think i’d really try to become featured.

  • Hey, How are you doing?
    I am sorry that it has taken me a little while to get around here.  I have been sick the past few days.    But all better now.  I would love to be added, if you wouldn’t mind.  As for featured, I’ve been there before, wouldn’t actually mind being back. 
    Hope you and your family have a wonderful weekend.
    Sara

  • add me! :D you say super interesting things! :D

  • add me! :D you say super interesting things! :D

  • hm.  i never actually said i wanted to be added.  but i do  

    <3

  • okay dan, i know the tricks of the trade because i sat there and figured it out.. but i wanna know what you think they are.  I might know something about it that you don’t and vice versa…  so add me. =)

  • I’d like to be added also Dan.

    Hope u r doing well.

  • FC sounds like more trouble than it’s worth, but you seem to be handling it good.

  • just a quick question: why do people strive to be featured? a xanga is [usually] a personal journal. do people really want hundreds of people reading your journal?? and then, people are so insecure, and they’re bound to get some nasty comments because, well, some people just enjoy getting on others peoples nerves. it would just be kind of depressing at times.

    [note: this is not saying that i want to be taken off the protected list--they're just some things i was thinking about as i was reading your post.]

  • Please add me. I don’t know if I will ever want to be in FC, but I would be interested to read about how you do it.

    I think my posts are too long for one thing. Oh well!

  • I’m curious to see what the big secret is. whether or not i will use it is another story

  • i would like to be added please. thanks.

  • Add me please.

  • Okayyyyyy……..I’m lost…. I’ve been out of Xangaland for a few days and got behind reading your posts…. I Think I want to be on the Protected list…if only for the reason that I’m a NosyNorma (Promised Liz_A that I wouldn’t use Nora )  I wonder about stalkers….I don’t think I’ve had any in Xanga, but I did have one at one time, scared me senseless, which is something pretty hard to do, I’ve come face to face with bears!…Thankfully I have a brother that moved in with me for a few months and took care of the stalker very nicely…. *G* I just get the hugest kick out of your posts………’til the next

  • Yes, I would like to be featured on Featured Content.

    Thanks ;)

    ciao,
    ~*~*Malorie~*~*
    xanga.com/readintomymind

  • can I be added? I’m curious and might want to try for it sometime

  • I’m just curious. please add me.

  • I love your entries.  Edcational, informative and get the thought process going.  I too try to bring out political issues on my site.  Keep up the good writing and please add me to your list.

  • Thanks for subscribing

  • add? me? maybe?

    haha take care dan.. good luck on the rest of your business trip!

  • I am very particular about answering comments, so not answering comments would bother me very much, if some bizarre reason I EVER managed to get on Featured Content.
    That would probably be the worst thing for me about Featured Content. I wouldn’t mind stalkers or people who comment too much. But if it came to emails … I’d have to block them.
    I rather like my role in Xanga society. It’s comfortable.
    God bless,
    Shohna

  • i’d like to see what one has to go through to be on it.
    *shrugs* it’s up to you if you wanna add me. =)

  • Yeah, I’ve gotten all kinds of meanies who pop up out of nowhere. I’ve been called every name in the book for no reason. Does’nt really bother me, but there were one or two instances that did.

    ‘Random props’ people are also pretty ridiculous.

  • Please add me.

    I’d like to be on featured content just once. That’s assuming I actually write a meaningful entry and don’t just piss and moan about my problems like I do. Yes, I can laugh at myself. And stalkers don’t bother me, nasty commenters can get blocked, and e-mail? What’s that?

  • curiosity killed the cat. so please add me.

  • I would like to ask for prayer for a fellow xangan. Thatshortchick‘s husband was in a serious accident, and broke his neck in a bicycle accident. He’ll be in the hospital for quite a while, and his recovery will be expensive. He is the sole breadwinner for the family.
    In the midst of it all she is still thinking of others. Asking people to pray for a woman in Liberia who has cervical cancer and the nearest treatment center is in another country.
    Thank you.

  • You just gave all the reasons I would want to avoid being featured content! :o )

  • I feel that although I would love to reach people, I don’t think that it should be indescriminate. If people find you through a Blogring, then you have something in common, or they’re looking for someone like you. I may not get hundreds of comments (in fact, I frequently get none on many posts) but when I do get one, it’s great to know it’s for a reason, not just because the Powers That Be have told people to look at me.

  • Posting for add-age

  • I’d like to read it…thanks…

  • I want to be added.

  • add me

  • Guess I am not sure what the featured thing is. If you have to be interesting I would say it wouldn’t be a place for me. Unless, of course, we are dieting or talking about grandbabies. I am sure people could care less how much weight I have lost.

    I do, however, absolutely love your site. I don’t comment often but at times your posts carry with me throughout the day. Your questions are the best. I love to ponder.

    Have a great weekend!

  • I would like to be added because I’m interested in seeing what hoops you need to jump through to get on featured content.

    I would not like to be on featured content myself though – I blog for me, not necessarily to be interesting to a bunch of strangers, or even the world at large. It’s too much pressure knowing there are that many people reading, and I don’t want to ever self-censor.

  • I’d appreciate your input in my new xanga.  I don’t want to ever be featured content because I don’t wnat to deal w/ stinky people all over my entries; which are now all protected.  No more mean stalkers for me.

  • I want in protected…

  • no thanks…too much xanga attention

  • I’d like to be on ur protected list

  • Added to what?

    Damn.  I gotta work harder at being a stalker.

  • I would like to be added to your protected list. Thank you!

  • i don’t want to be featured because my xanga is mostly adult content and xanga would ban me from being on the list soon after i made it. Besides, i don’t think my xanga is one that can be appreciated by many outside my kink.

  • Please add me. I aspire to be featured but cant make personal stories compelling enough to evoke comments nor figure out how to draw readers other than blogrings…

  • Hook me up with your featured content secrets.

  • I think your #1 bad thing about FC is a good enough reason for me to not care. I have enough of that in “real life” from people I can reach out and strangle. I don’t need it from people hiding behind electrons. I am glad that you keep your site up and keep us thinking. Thanks.

  • Dan, you are so right about the negatives of being on featured content.  From my experience on being on featured content,  I had that same experience too.  They are some comments that I’ve deleted because they were comments from people that wanted to tear you apart.  So being on featured content has both a good side and a dark side.

  • I want to be added… never would have guessed there was so much drama…lol

  • I would like to be added! I would love to be on featured content!

    I read your site EVERYDAY! I don’t always comment because I’m usually like the 200th person to comment and I didn’t think you read all those comments! But now that I know you do, I will comment!

    Have a good day!

  • Well it’d be nice to know how it is achieved.

    Being added would be nice.

    props for being you.

  • add me

    And you get mean comments like “you poor, poor deluded air-head” even when you’re not on featured!

  • Please add me into your protected list.

  • Although it all sounds very interesting, I’m not sure that I would ever want to be part of featured content. Xanga to me is my safe haven. A place where I can be me, say exactally what I feel, and feel safe about doing so. I do not want to have to deal with stalkers or nasty comments. So thank you for sharing you information with those who strive to be popular. For me…I’ll just stay in my quiet little corner and watch and listen.

  • i would actually like to be added…

  • I’d like to be added to your protected list. Thanks for the offer.

  • I want to be added………………let me know.

  • Can you add me?

  • Ohhhh, I kinda wanna be on that protected list…

    But I wouldnt want to be on featured content because I always worry that what I say will get back to my MIL or my work… and I get agitated by meanies really easily…

  • I wouldn’t mind taking a look.

  • Could I be added, please?

  • yea, i’d like to be added

  • Wow, you definitely did spend a lot of time on those posts :)   nice job, dan~  have a great weekend!

  • I wouldn’t want to be on featured content because that’s not why I am here really. Plus, I like the random factor that my posts aremostly “hidden” in that no one knows about them, but sometimes someone different stumbles upon it.
    About half the comments you get, Dan, no offense are just well………..numbers, no substance. You know, like 1st?!!!
    But that’s okay, you are like the Xanga cult icon. I just don’t want it LOL.

  • yea but ur also a boy.  the guy that was beign crazy and stalking me was like a freakin 200 lb body builder who goes to my school and knows where i work. i DO mind stalkers. i dont mind if people come to my site 4874354 times a day. that doesnt bother me. but when they start coming to my work. thats when it bothers me

  • I’d love to be added, too.Getting my thoughts in front of everyone?  That would rock.  I could put some of my persuasive essays up…

  • I want to be added out of curiosity.

  • Add me to the protected.

  • Add me please :)

  • I want to read your protected posts

  • I’d like to check it out…

  • i don’t think i’ll ever be featured but i’m still very curious so add me.  thanks!

  • please add me :)

  • im want to be added please!!! im not intimidated very often and when i am it usually is a direct threat to me.

  • I enjoy reading your blog, although I am a newbie to it.  I never thought of it as stalking, but now I’ll have to think about it. 

  • What is beauty? Super Bowl ad will be used to start this discussion. Read article about it? Scroll down to the 12th of Jan. to see the origin of this request (not the ad) at HCC.

  • I’m interested. Add me to the protected list?

  • I would enjoy being added, if you are ok with that. Wow…at first when I was going to answer the question of being on FC I was all about it, but after reading some of the posts on here, it kinda makes me question. But then again…anyone can get to your site whether it is on FC or not right? So either way, you are putting it out there.

  • it’s not so much that i dont want to be on featured content, its more so that i dont write the things that are appropriate for featured content.
    negativity-i also wouldn’t enjoy people commenting just in hopes of commenting back,
    on the other hand- i would love all feedback.

  • You seem like a really cool person. But thats not why I clicked into your site. I don’t know which way you voted in the last presidential election, and it really doesn’t matter to me, but this next time around if Ralph Nadar does run again, PLEASE VOTE FOR HIM! He has some really good ideas and I don’t see why the American public can’t give him a chance.

  • I’d love to be added.  I have tons of regular readers. But, I am not sure how to get on FC. Do I have to sign up or something?

  • As i have commented before, I mostly dislike the FC thing. Too many weirdos. You must have an incredible coping mechanism.

  • Thanks for adding me Dan!  You’re a doll!

    Love, Candy

  • I see you really put alot of your time and effort into telling everyone how to get on featured. Cheers to you for a good job. 

  • I’d really enjoy being added to the list of people who are allowed to see the private content (forgot to ask in my last comment).
    If you would, Mr. TheologiansCafe, thanks!
    Gbu,
    Shohna

  •  LET ME IN!!

  • You have PICTURES? Of YOURSELF?

    I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t curious to see those.

  • Sure, I’d like to be in.  You’re a good read.  I’m surprised at all the people who are so proud of having been the first to comment on any given blog.  My husband ran a forum at one point, and the reader base was a bit lower, with a high of about 100 users at any given time.  We had a more clique-ish feel, so we could make jokes about it.  Xanga seems bigger than that.  I guess I just don’t understand the joy or the games.  Take care!

  • yes please

  • Can I read it just to see what you have to say on the subject at hand ?

    God Bless..

  • I am a little new to the whole Xanga thing and have often wondered what it means by protected? If anyone would like to share that information with me then I would be more than grateful!!!

  • Secrets revealed! ^_^ I’d like to be added, if it’s not too much trouble.  I think you’re doing a good thing by this How To Guide To Featured. 

  • I don’t plan on being on featured content, but i would be interested in reading the post.  Could you please add me?

  • I’d like to read it out of curiosity. I don’t think I’d like being featured because I don’t want stalkers, or a lot of mean comments.

  • moo.

  • whoa.  put me on it.  I want to see how you did it. 

  • Of course, I want to read everything you write :) add me please

  • I would like to be added please.

  • curious, so saying i wish to be added.  thank you kindly.

  • I would like to be added in case you start posting more questions on your protected list and I miss out on them.

    However, I don’t want to be featured because I don’t care about popularity. I would like more people to read my site who share my sense of humor, and so I could have some intelligent discussions. But my goal isn’t to make it to the top of the featured content list. I just want to communicate my thoughts and ideas of certain subjects, and explain why I feel that way. What is even more fullfilling to me is being able to put a smile on someones face, and maybe brighten up their day with a joke or funny story.

  • I would like to be added because I want read what you have to say…

  • Some people

  • are just

  • obsessive-compulsive.

  • It’s like they

  • can’t stop themselves!

  • I’m curious.  Could I be put on your protected list please :)

  • I wouldn’t like to be featured.  It’s too much responsibility! 

    I’m glad your featured though!

  • I would like to be added, please! :D

  • man the last rotation of featured had like 48 eprops as the minimum.. i think it had to do with your posts.. its just gonna get even harder from now on.. =/

  • I would never want to be there because I might lose sight of the bigger picture and exchange my soul for glory, even though it is really small petty glory it is still glory. I would never want to compromise myself for a thing as fickle as popularity. You might feel the same way once the tide changes, and it will, it always does, and you can look back and ask, what did I do with that ten minutes I had? hmmmmmmm

  • i want to be added :) tia

    and i blog to learn about others and for me, not to be recognized

  • hello? as a fellow fc’er, shouldn’t i automatically be added to your protected list? how rude!

  • Add me, please.

  • Eh, indifferent. It’d be cool I guess. I don’t think I post often enough, though. It’s usually every couple of days.

  • I think that you should add me to your list :D I’m aching to be popular at least once in my life :P

  • I think that you should add me to your list :D I’m aching to be popular at least once in my life :P

  • Haha!! I probably been to your site at least 10 times! :o just to read though because i usually don’t have anything to comment.  

    I personally would think it’s cool to be on FC, because i’ve never. However, my posts aren’t for everyone to care for, so alll’s good. So i really wouldn’t care. yet.

  • Thank you for taking the time to post this info.   should I decide to be featured, this will come in quite handy.

  • Yes please.  Add me. :)

  • Yes, please add me — for I have the required eProps now, but I’m still not on the list -  what’s wrong with me – :)

  • i was wondering the same thing, actually…

  • I would like to be added please.

  • I think I may have figured out what this “featured comment” thing is….it’s where lots of people visit your site, right? I definitely want to know how you do it…but I’m not sure that I would persue it myself, just because it seems like alot of work.

  • I’d like to be added, I posted on the Physical traits part I. I don’t know why it poped up on the front page but, it did. thanks. –chelle

  • I’m not seeing anything.  So I’m not on it. 

    I feel so terrible.  You hate me?  I’m just a kitty………

  • The Xanga sign in page. Featured content section. The Theologian’s Cafe? I think I’ve seen that name there before. A good tag…no furry animals or famous bands or clothing companies or titles of royalty in itin it. Click. WHat? THere’s a picture of CS Lewis there? Worth checking out.

    I’d like to be added when you get a moment, please and thankyou.

  • I mean, my blog sucks.  I gave up on it a long time ago.  Nobody ever reads it anyway. 

    pleaseprettypleasewithsugarontop let me see the wonderful secrets? 

  • i would like to be added….thanks

  • Hmm….seems interesting enough. i want to be added, just to see what you have to say.

  • I want to be added!

  • I have been your most constructive critic. My goal being to make you into a better person, someone your own children will admire for his wisdom rather than his tomfoolery. Please add me to your protected list, then tell me how to access it since I am heretofore clueless about the secret workings of Xanga.

  • I have no special desire to be on featured content. That’s not my focus, but I am fascinated by your site, the amount of traffic on it, and your philosophical approach to blogging, which appears to be very different from mine. I have wondered if you had set a personal goal to be on featured content, or if it was something that “just happened.”

    I would like to be added so I may see the steps. Thank you! 

  • I didn’t know you still wrote in your protected.

    Am I still on your list? If not I’d like to be added again.

    Amanda

  • Also, I am new on Xanga and I don’t understand how the protected posts work or how to access them. I also don’t understand how to access the information. Is there something else I need to do?

    Thank you.

  • addd meeeeeeeeeeee

  • i don’t want to be in the featured content but can i be added just to see? i’m just curious about it. thanks =)

  • Add me.

  • go ahead and add your bestest friend richyard!

  •   I think it’d be cool to be on the “Featured Content List”. This is like the first time I’ve ever posted anything on this site, but I’ve always liked reading your entries. And I’ve never been on featured content before, so I just want to see what it’s like…yeah. (Sorry for bein’ a suck-up.)

                                       “Asta La Vista, baby!”

  • i would like to be added yes. but i don’t want to be on the featured list. i’m not a big fan of  publcity.

  • add me?  plz?

  • i’d like to be added…..too curious for my own good perhaps, but oh well!

  • I would NEVER want to be on featured content… The regulars on there are just too mean and bitchy.

    =]

  • Oh yeah, and you need to tell me who your protoges are, so I can tear them down.

  • Everyone here knows Dan’s a Xanga stud. Not everyone knows what a stud he is in real life!

  • I would like to be added. Thanks.

  • Could I be added? Please???

  • I’d like to be added. I don’t post anything too personal on my xanga, so I wouldn’t mind stalkers and things like that.

  • Sure, I’d like to be added.

  • I’d love to be added…

    -meagan

  • I would like to be added, if that’s alright.  I’m curious to see.

  • If you have any tips for dealing with the idiots that give me problems when I make FC I would like to hear about THAT! Gawd…FC can be fun but its more trouble than its worth. I had to remove my smilies because of the mean people.

  • add me….just  cause im curious

  • i’d like to be added please. i’m curious. :)

  • Um, just in case you were only looking for the requests to be on the lists in this post, I’ll say it here too:

    Please add me to the list!

    Thank you!

    ~Nicky

  • Can I be added on your protected list?

    Please?

  • I like keeping things compact and manageable; dozens, if not hundreds, of posts per day are hardly compact or manageable in any sense. Thus, I don’t care to be on featured content (though apparently, I have been, according to a couple of my subscribers).

  • Can I be added to the protected list?

  • I mean, I’d like to read it, but mainly just for entertainment. And just like to see the advice you give.

  • Thanks for fixing me…and thanks for the valuable info.  I figured it was something like that, and it’s nice to know how the background of Xanga works as far as collecting the sites for featured.  I was close in the past to making it…at least up until about 6-8 months ago when my posts became few and far between and my commenting back was even worse…but that’s what lack of follow up time does.  That’s my big failure.

    Thanks again for the highly valuable info!

    ~t~

  • I’d like to read what you’ve written, so add me please. thanks.

  • Dear Theologian’s Cafe I like your site very much cause I think it’s a place where people can express their feelings and emotions and have something to do when they are bored and you so deserve eprops so thats all i wanted to say and can I be added to your featured content page?

  • P.S Can I be added?

  • Please add me to your protected list . . .how do you keep track of so many comments???

  • i would like to be added too please.

    <3′s

  • i don`t know bout being on “featured content” but just out of curiousity.. i`d like to know. can i be on your protected, please? :]

  • i’d like to be added, just out of curiosity

  • i dont understand what people want to be added to……i think you should stop with this whole feature content shnit and post some real deep interesting shnit that people can actually talk about.

    i farted

  • Can I be added?

  • yeah, idk about those people that spend HALF AN HOUR scanning your site… just xanga form of OCD. when i first got my xanga i wanted to be on featured but now, i’d hate it. very interesting writing though. i, like many others, would like to read the posts out of curiosity.

    have a lovely day

  • i’d want to be added.  I would love to be on featured contents just to get my voice herd.  It wouldnt matter who read it as long as someone did.

  • “so”

  • I would like to be added. I think it would be interesting it works.

  • I would love to be added to your list so that I can read the Featured Content posts.

  • I guess I haven’t been on xanga or around your blog enough to understand what you mean exactly. I think your discussions are often fascinating because of their eclectic nature and the vast number of comments. If there’s another “protected” list, I don’t know if being on it is a good thing or a bad thing.

  • I would like to be added.

    I seem to be a little behind in the scheme of things, though. It seems this has been going on for a while now. I just hope that won’t be any hindrance to being added?

    And very lovely posts. Great opinions. Thoughtful sentences. Correct punctuaion. 

    A triple play!

    - – > Ariana

  • being on featured content doesnt do anythign for me..it just wastes my time knowing I have to post something new and interesting everyday..i don’t have time for that..

  • I want to be on protected. :)

  • i want to be added… featured content is still a mystery to me.

  • Sign me up yo.

    That is, if you wouldn’t mind.

  • Add me please!  Thanks

  • if its not too late, could you add me?

    thanks :)

  • I am interesting in reading the material, if you wouldn’t mind.

  • i would like to be added.

  • I would love to be added to your list so that I can read the Featured Content posts.
    Posted 1/14/2006 at 1:34 AM by ProfessorTom

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