Oct 27, 2013 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Community Pool

The Community Pool is for those of you looking for input, whether on post ideas, writing, blog design and layout, or anything else. If you have a post, page, or idea you want to bounce off someone, leave a comment. Your fellow bloggers can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

Read on for the ground rules and to leave a comment . . .

  • You’ll get the best feedback if you can be as specific as possible about what you’d like people to respond to or where you’re struggling.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. We’re here to help and support one another, not to beat anyone down.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.
  • No running on the deck.

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    1. Most people won’t comment if they have to submit their email and all that stuff. You can adjust that in your dashboard. Everything’s looking great so far, just checkout other blogs and comment on them there are many inviting personalities here at wordpress….. 🙂

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  7. Hi! I’m so glad to have discovered this blog! 🙂 please feel free to visit and leave some feedback at mine at dragoneystory.wordpress.com thank you! 🙂

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  9. I’ve got a bit of a thing against posts that have spelling mistakes, grammatical howlers, and uncorrected typos. My question: is it just pedantic old me, or do others think the same? By all means tell me to get a life if you disagree with me….

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    1. I think that this depends on the blogger’s original language. Many bloggers whose original language is not English are trying to socialize with other cultures and benefit from this by improving their English. Consequently; their blogs have more mistakes than others.

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      1. I have a saying which you will find on my blog and that is
        ‘My grammar is not 100% but neither is my maths, but I still count’
        Because of the way I was educated and the mild form of dyslexia and suffer and a form of Dyscalculia, I get criticised. It is not my fault that my education was shit and if your wondering Dyscalculia is a form of Dyslexia with numbers, so how fast are you going to criticise someone now without knowing their situation!!!!

        People like you really piss me off, they play the grammar almighty just because you can form a sentence quicker or better then someone else and you just love to make sure that you tell them.

        So I suggest you keep your grammar advise to yourself, because I bet your crap in the bedroom!!!! Oh sorry I surmised without knowing you.

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    2. I kick myself when I see typos in my published posts….a question of more haste less speed.
      The blogs I enjoy are those that are well written, not only in terms of style but in accurate use of language.

      I take Seifsamakarem’s point about bloggers whose first language is not English…I shudder to think how many howlers I’d make writing in French or Spanish and have great admiration for those courageous enough to blog in a language not their own.

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      2. Of course you really mean that as well, but I really hope you use the intelligence you obviously have before you try and criticise someone elses grammar.

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      3. Sure thing, Pete. As I said elsewhere, it’s been instructive and I’m glad I asked what I thought might be a fatuous question.

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      4. No Question is silly, but its the way its put forward. I have spent a life time of ridicule even being cane at school for not having the ability to write proper or able to add and subtract. Yet with all that I have spent years with children in school helping them to read, write and working on numbers. With the numbers know what to do and how to do it concerning numbers but I cannot get to an answer or it will take me a while. Yet in my training at college I taught those on my course who were just genuinely no good with numbers or been out of school a long time and never used complicated maths in their daily lives and we all had to pass the maths course before moving forward and I was the last on the course to pass the maths part of the course.

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      5. Hi Pete. Sounds like that cane is stinging you still, despite all you’ve achieved in the years since then. Nope, no ridicule intended, at least not from me (hint hint). I do a lot of subbing and copy-editing and I’m genuinely interested in the answers I to my query, so thank you. I meant it!
        BTW if I don’t reply to any more posts tonight, it’s because I’m finishing off some work then crashing out.

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      1. Absolutely. Thanks for making that point. I’m glad I raised this question and I’ve enjoyed learning from the answers. Must stop thinking like a copy-editor!

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      2. well, Carol, in my case: if it distracts you from the poetry, then pls let me know, ok?! I’m never too old to learn and there’s always room for improvement in my book 😉 if I need, it better be now

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      4. No need to worry, some are just have nothing better to do then pick up on non essential problems.

        If you think, in the 1960’s when I would fell the sting of a cane for not useing proper grammar, to the modern world and the internet, the world has become much smaller and with the use of the mobile phone and the internet, language has changed, even evolved to become something our forefathers would not recognise. Even regional dialects have changed, my two granddaughters both born in Scotland of English mother and Scottish father, their grandparents being my wife and I with me being English but have lived in Scotland twice as long then in England and my wife is Scottish and only lived out of Scotland for two years
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        My grandchildren and their parents all live in Wales have done for three years now, the youngest one has partial deafness her language skills are slow in developing, her sister speaks Welsh and English with a Welsh accent.

        When my wife and I are together I speak to her using Scottish slang and vice versa and my English parents don’t understand me when I speak to my wife, they say I talk to fast and with a Scottish accent, but Scots can hear my English accent.
        I have to change the way I speak when speaking to my parents face to face or on the phone.
        When my grandchildren visit the eldest regresses to her native accent for the time she is here and returns back to the Welsh accent when returns home.

        I have spent many years working with children with additional support needs and I wrote a paper on groups of children who are autistic and how they have started to speak with an American accent and the concerns that will bring to their language development, they were picking up the Americanism from the Americanised TV programs and games they have watched and played.

        I believe within 50 years that the loss of regional accents and even national accents will have changed globally.

        But never apologise for the way you speak or write, you are a none English speaker 🙂

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  12. Evening y’all. Would love an overall appraisal of my posts in general…..i want U all to tell me what U think about my style…thnx………….the site is htttp://nimmieblog.wordpress.com

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  16. I would appreciate feedback on the design and content of my blog 🙂 Is the content interesting and is the layout easy to navigate? Thank you in advance: thesisterseternal.wordpress.com

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  17. I would be so happy to get some feedback. I’ve had a few readers, and have a few followers, but I’ve gotten no real feedback. If you could read just even a little bit and let me know how you think it’s going I’d be very greatful.

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  18. questions from a fairly new blogger: 1. how do you put proprietary info over a photo? I’d like to put my blog name over photos in my posts. 2. Along the same line, should I be putting a proprietary tagline at the beginning or end of my posts, such as, “this post first seen on prayers and piazzas…” ? Is there a way to do this automatically or type it into each post? Thanks so much for your advice, everyone!
    http://.prayersandpiazzas.wordpress.com

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  21. Good Afternoon Friends!

    I just recently started another blog:

    http://upliftingmotivation.wordpress.com/

    It’s a second for me, but this one focuses on positive thinking and motivation. I would love some thoughts on what you would expect to see/enjoy seeing on my blog (e.g. quotes, stories, ideas, etc.).

    I also would love to have any thoughts about design. I may have a graphic designer help me out, however I would love to read your suggestions about that as well.

    Thank you all so much, I hope I find some positive thinkers here with GREAT thoughts.

    -theconsciouswriter

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    1. Hi there!
      I really enjoyed reading your blog! I love the message of being motivated and uplifted in this crazy thing we call life. I look forward to reading more from you! =)
      ❤
      Christina

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      1. Thank you so much for your kind words. I truly appreciate it. I will be following you as well! I’m excited to work together to make out blogs all that they can be!

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    2. Hey. Clicked the follow 🙂 Nice start. Hope to see more posts. I myself try to write your kind of blog but somehow different 🙂 Would like if you visited my blog and left your review also 😉
      For that time. Like 😉

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  26. If anyone would like to comment on my posts. I’m new here and I just want other peoples opinions on different topics i bring up in discussion. I think a lot of what I will be posting will be good topics of discussion. thank you

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    1. I am new on thing also and asked a similar question, but because I posted my question in all caps, the person that replied said he would not want to read my blogs because he doesn’t like when people write in all caps! lol go figure…I would like to read your post, good luck!

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    1. The photos are great, but what does horizon mean to you? You are a writer and you are awesome about yourself, on how you think. Now how many aspects do you feel about horizon? Changing isn’t it?

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  28. Hey, y’all! I’ve had blogs before but nothing too serious. I usually get discouraged when I don’t get any traffic. I really want to make this an every day thing but I haven’t had any traffic at all with this one. Everyone says to find other blogs you like, follow them, find posts that you can “like”, and keep posting. I’ve done all that. I know I only have three posts – and there are more to come – but constructive criticism on the posts I have made would also be more than helpful. Thanks guys! Happy blogging!

    http://perceivingalife.wordpress.com/

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    1. Hello Claire, Checked out your blog. My humble suggestion(if you don’t mind) for you to have some clarity. Getting traffic is important but there is a greater thing that motivates you and keep going. Thats what is important. Be patient, think about yourself, pour your heart out. And thats it, you are great.

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  30. Hey! I would love feedback on my very new blog on life in London and would be so grateful for all advice etc in the blogging community; I’d also love to be linked up to some good blogs too so send links my way!!

    Follow me on twitter too @schulz_alice

    Thanks!! Alice

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