Oct 17, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and friendly blogging chatter.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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To help us make the Community Pool a productive space for discussion, here are some tips and guidelines you might find useful:

  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
  • The Community Pool comments section can get quite big — and starting duplicate threads doesn’t help. Thanks for not posting the same question more than once, as well as for not starting numerous threads in a single Pool.
  • If you’re looking for quality feedback, be as specific as you can. Questions about a particular post tend to draw more comments than ones about entire blogs. Questions about specific design elements are more likely to be answered than ones asking for general layout advice.
  • We discourage leaving links without a more substantive message or question. These are often overlooked by other bloggers, and we frequently remove them to make the comment reading experience smoother. Also note that including multiple links in your comment might automatically put it in the moderation queue, which will delay its publication.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
  • 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.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.

Are you a new blogger looking to share your very first post? We have a special forum for bloggers just like you in our weekly First Friday posts.

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  4. I’m not fond of writing cliche introductions, but hello, my name is Mark Yang. I’m a High School student who mainly writes recommendations and reviews for Japanese animation (Anime) and Japanese comics (Manga). I’m a big fan of non cliched stories where they aren’t unbearable to watch, and it can range from Anime animators like Hayao Miyazaki (also the creator of Spirited Away, and many more award nominated movies), and Makoto Shinkai (also known for creating 5 Centimeters Per Second and The Garden of Words).

    But besides Anime and Manga, I’m also into playing video games, and I occasionally write posts for them as well, most notably old school video games like the Tekken series, Tenchu series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. As most games are almost as old as me (16 years old currently), but I still enjoy the unique aspects that’re within games like those.

    Anyways, I’d always like to respond back to your critiques, recommendations, and all of the supportive comments that would like to send me. Thank you.
    -Mark

    https://0205marky.wordpress.com/

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  6. Seeking feedback on my short story, Mr. Cook. It’s my first published short story. I am not super experienced and I have just gotten back into writing after years of not doing it. I know confidence is key but I guess I am a little worried that it’s “just a cute story”.

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