Nov 14, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and blogging camaraderie.

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.

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  5. Hello Blogging Friends. Just got a new post up talking about how people complain about Christmas music and decorations and my opinion about it all. If you care to take a look, I would appreciate it. You can check it out along with my other posts at: http://merrymadnessblog.wordpress.com Thanks! I will be blog diving here later in the Community Pool and will be checking out some blogs. I am always on the lookout for new and interesting blogs to read and follow. I find it cool to see other people’s perspectives about life.

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  6. Hi all. Just did my latest painting. It’s called Owl Mountain. Thanks in advance for taking a look. Just looking for feedback on it. I’ll take the good, bad and ugly :)https://woodcanvasartist.wordpress.com/blog/

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  10. I’ve been writing about my year abroad in China and about my current study goals – wondered if anyone would mind having a quick look and commenting on (don’t need to answer all the questions!):
    – Whether I’m trying to combine together too many topics in my blog (travel, studies, career stuff, etc.)
    – Are my study related blog posts genuinely helpful/ motivational?
    – Recommended topics for keeping up the study abroad section now that I have returned to the UK (I’ve been posting more generic advice type articles but not sure if more reflective pieces would be better)
    – If they know of other bloggers posting about similar topics, for potential collaboration/ feedback 🙂

    Any help/ comments – positive or negative, no matter how small, would be very much appreciated!

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  13. I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and check out a rare photography blog, “Autumn 2016.” I took this photo a few weeks ago on our local hiking trail, and love the way it turned out. If you like it, please click the like button on the post page. Feel free the browse the archives, and click the follow button so you don’t miss future posts. Comments and feedback are always welcome, and please leave them on the post page as well. Thanks in advance for taking time out of your day.
    Drew

    Autumn 2016

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  14. Hi all – would love some feedback on what I’ve been up to on my blog. Happy to go take a look st anyone else’s – that’s what the Community Pool is for. I’m into writing poetry and photography if anyone else is in to that please let me know so I can check out your work. Thanks 🌾🌾🍁🍂🍁

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      1. I loved the photographs! It was a lot of fun poking around your blog. You have such a fun spirit! I followed so I can see more pictures and read more fun stories.

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  20. Hi there! I run a pop culture blog and I would like some feedback on two posts I have done in the past week. The first is a post about how much I love the movie Snowpiercer ( https://popculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/personal-favorites-snowpiercer/ ) and one about the show Young Justice in relation to the recent election ( https://popculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/young-justice-a-light-in-this-darkness/ ). My concern with the latter of the two posts is that it is too preachy. I’d appreciate some thoughts on this.

    Thank you! Happy blogging! 🙂

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  26. Hello once again people. So this is the new story ive been working on..This is the first part of a many part story ..Hope you enjoy it..Feedback is appreciated.

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