September 25, 2010
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My Gift To The Xanga Community
A few years ago I wrote about how a person could grow their xanga site by friend requesting other people.
There is now a faster way to do the friend request. Just go to this link: LinkYou can send out friend request by the hundreds. Just go to the most popular ish site entries and copy and paste the eprops on the right of the post in the comment section. Xanga built in a feature that made it difficult for users to send out massive friend request.
But they left open a back door so the ish sites could still send out friend request. If you go to the ish sites, you will notice the people who leave comments have a “@xanga” ending. Just use the find and replace key to replace those endings with “@xanga,” and then copy and paste the list into this link: Link
You can literally send out hundreds of friend request in minutes.
It does not violate any of xanga’s terms of use and you will only be doing manually what the ish sites do with a bot. This is why you have been getting friend request from people without them visiting your site. I have been teaching it to a few people.
But here is the gift part. I showed DearRicky how to do it and that is why hundreds to thousands of you are getting friend request from him today.
You can thank me in the comment section of this post.
Comments (97)
Is DearRicky making a comeback? (If so, 2012 is truly the end.)
That explains why I got one..odd..
Well aren’t you generous.
I’m not going to friend him I noticed back in august he was saying a farewell and he stated it wasn’t his first.
I would try it but really I’m just not that friendly
Christ, I’ve got too many friends already…
Thank you so very, very much. You have no idea just how much I appreciate all your efforts. I know where to send the ninjas!
I’d rather not
What is DearRicky anyway?An it?
I wondered why I got one. …I’m honestly not thankful. I empathize even sympathize, w/ his disability. I do NOT empathize / sympathize w/ his attitude. Gives people like me who have a physical disability a bad name… :sigh:
You’re so smart. What would we do without you?
Wait, so people really don’t know about this friend invite place? o.O
So that’s how I got friend spammed. Thanks for telling me how they found me.
Nifty.
I would rather not friendwhore.
Just great. Thanks a lot Dan! Grrr
I’m not choking you. I’m just hugging you really, really hard.
@Rob_of_the_Sky - LOL!
Ah well that explains a lot. I don’t add people who don’t even visit my site. Hell, I barely add people who DO visit my site if their blog doesn’t interest me. I don’t have time to sift through a lot of blogs so I only keep quality people. No thanks DearRicky, no thanks.
@Rob_of_the_Sky - I laughed out loud when I read that haha
YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!
:shakes fist angrily at computer screen:
yup, I tried that out a few months ago. works like a gem. got tired of doing that, though.
I don’t feel compelled to do this, but if someone else, does, well, the more the merrier. I wouldn’t mind getting a bunch of requests.
Even though I’m not taking this advice because I don’t need thousands of readers, I just have to say that you’re awesome, Dan.
Seriously, though. DearRicky? This isn’t a re-post from last year or whenever he first surfaced, is it?
Shove your gift up your ass. Kthxbai.
EASY ANTIDOTE: I’m not sure I entirely understood how this works. BUT, if this only works with comments left on -ish sites, just don’t comment there. If you do, don’t leave eprops (select “comment only”) Voila!
Dear Dan,
I’ve won’t say never, but I don’t ask anyone on Xanga to be my friend.
Two more people and I’ll have 500 friends. That means these people wanted to be “my” friend, not the other way around. I’m the content provider. I don’t need to be their friends, but I’ll accept their friend requests.
Except for this Ricky fellow, who has “befriended” me many times, and I always turn him down, cause he doesn’t visit my blog.
Thanks to your advice, he (and now all of Xanga) don’t have to visit anyone’s blog.
Wunnerful, wunnerful.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
(I’m a graphic artist you know, I could make you some more varied “xanga logo” designs if you wish.
Beat
But it’ll cost ya.
Michael F.Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
I knew it. DearRicky is your alias Dan.
@Rob_of_the_Sky - I laughed out loud.
Dan, is it simply that you’re trying to give equal footing to those who don’t know from those that do? I can’t see this as something you’d teach otherwise. Hmm.
Oh well. ^^;
Thanks, Dan!
Thanks — now we will have hundreds of friend invites to decline — is there a way to do that en masse?
Bite me.
And DearRicky can thank you for me freaking him out! By the way, where is the little dude?
Well, since you were kind enough to give me a gift I’ll have to send you one… Yes Dan, it’s okay to push the big red button on that ticking box
wow… the real end to xanga.
I hate you, Dan. I hate you.
But I suppose it’s my fault for ever commenting on an -ish site.
There are certain actions that are probably meant to be funny, but turn out to be complete dick moves. Guess which one was yours.
so your to blame then?
Once upon a time it might have meant a lot to me to be in the select few but now I have more interest in quality over quantity. Thanks anyway.
Hahahaha, that explains the friend request. Darn, thought I was special or something. You’ve punctured my dreams
Wow… thanks…
I am fine with the few friends I have now.
prefers to let other come by my site…
You know… I’ve WONDERED about that.
@slmret - There certainly is! Friends > invites > select all > decline.
Rock, meet scissors.
Oh.. I see. I do wonder why I get unseen people friending me.
But why DearRicky?! GOD! *good thing I blocked him a long time ago*.
Thanks a lot!!
I hardly ever initiate friend requests or subscriptions. I think most of my friends were found by other people adding me instead. Every so often, I read a blog that I really like, or get into a really good discussion… only then will I initiate the contact.
And I’m not blogging here for massive feedback, so sending out tons of friend requests would just be pointless. I’d much rather have a few well thought-out comments from people I actually care about, than hundreds of comments from random people. That’s why I’m fairly selective with who I do or don’t add.
Nice! Your first post got me quite a few decent friends and got my new site (this one) quite a few good readers after you posted it however long ago… Since then, however, Xanga got rid of Metros which was a pivotal part of that method.
If I decide I’m desperate for new readers, I’ll try this method.
dislikes your gift.
Jokes on you, Ricky and I are already Xanga friends from a friend request ages ago…though I wasn’t a regular reader of his, nor he of I.
this ain’t facebook – let’s keep it that way!
rofl I love you.
don’t look a giftDan in it’s mouth.
Thanks for this information
thanks Dan -rollseyes- you’re a Saint
DearRicky has friend requested me like 50 times. Each and every time I reject his invite. I should probably just block ‘im.
But adding friends, how does that increase readership? It might bump a few percent, but I don’t know if the return is enormous.
Does this mean Ricky is coming back? I really miss him.
hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thanks (not). I felt oblidged to send Dear Ricky a message explaining why I declined his numerous friend requests of the past week (every time I declined, he sent out a new invite). Thank you. Thank you, Dan.
I have just decided not to accept any friend request if somebody has not visited and commented at least twice. I prefer a few friends that are readers than millions that just want to spam my private pages. Wonder how many new insincere friend requests will now make their way.
You. Asshole.
Haha, this is a great post-xanga blog entry after asking how people become so popular. This method sounds just as bad as those people who go on myspace and facebook, adding everyone they see. Internet sluts! I don’t just add anyone as friends and I won’t just accept any friend request either. For those who do that, I wonder what the people that accept actually care more about: you’re mis-leading profile picture or your actual entries that you spend time out of your life writing. I prefer my friends/subscribers to like the latter.
(But theologianscafe, you’re an exception because you’re blog entries are awesome)
Too bad most of the people here don’t understand that mass friend requesting isn’t all that effective when they’re one-trick ponies…
Ricky had the 2nd most friends out of anyone active and still had less traffic than a lot of other people. So what’s the point of him friend whoring? He should work on other things..
@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength - its not like the post are worth commenting on nowadays anyway.
Btw, if this really is your gift to me, then I request a return for store credit.
Too bad Ricky’s not worth much.
@Paul_Partisan - like not being douchetoolbag?
yeah I made that up.
hahahahaha
Just fyi, I turn down any friend request that isn’t accompanied by a footprint. I accept just about anyone, but at least look at my freakin’ site first, people.
@Rob_of_the_Sky - OMG best comment ever!! You win a bazillion internets!
And I kept my mouth shut all this time hoping this would not get out. Actually for most newbies I would recommend you make yourself a list of people you find interesting and friend request them and only them. Still that tends to be lot of people
That way you can 10,000 people you can’t read rather just a hundred…
Oh goodness. Now I’m not posting any comments on the ish sites. Thanks Dan.
i plan to regift this “present” at a white elephant office party.
@Passionflwr86 - You said it. The guy’s a little fucking parasite – a whoring attention monger.
Sending out mass friends? Tsk tsk, Dan. That’s pretty sad that you take the time to do this stuff. -shake head/finger wave-
@DickDoktorII - lol, major rage.
GRRRRRRROOOAAAAAAANNNNNNNNnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Wow, thanks for letting everyone know how to spam the fuck out of everyone on xanga…..cool
I love friending people who dont even take the time to read or care about anything on my page and just want more foot traffic, lol, thats just…….
Haha, I’ve not a problem with him.
dear dan,
give me your credits, and no one gets hurt.
I was assuming that DearRicky’s hack was much more elegant than that. I’m sure you could parse a comment page with just a regexp with the same result, but automate it over multiple pages. Maybe I should try this…
@Rob_of_the_Sky - best comment by far.
It sure expresses how I feel about it… lol
friendship by the numbers defeats the purpose of friendship.
dude, this is pretty awesome. thanks for the gift!
Gee Thanks so much and I thought you liked me!
Dear Ricky is still alive?
what itswhateyeknow said.
This explains so much -_-
Oh god, this better not become a common practice.
Ricky sucks!!!
Um, why do you want thousands of friends? Is it a contest or something? I don’t get it. :/
Oh, so that’s why I got all these invites.
Hahahaa
ah alright thanks, this question just popped up for me
turnschuhe
download pc games
baby bedding
beaded
lanyards
kitchen faucet
wholesale
lots
table
linens
bath curtains
playstation 3
games
best
air shoes
bathroom faucet
chaussures
sport
flat
tv
vinyl
wall stickers
weight loss products
sleeping bag
Sigh…
it should be in a new category called sheep request
ugh. Dear ricky and serena dante and a few others will never be on my friends list. Even though they send me a request atleast twice a week. (That’s what i get for living in Alabama, as per your LAST hint at friending people. *sigh*)
Not that i don’t like them as people, or even enjoy their blogs, but i can not stand the multiple recommendations these people make daily.
I really REALLLY don’t need your suggestions. thanks.
So anyway. yeah. Thanks Dan.