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Originally Posted by tore
By your logic, why bother writing on a forum at all? I mean, if you love writing album reviews, why not just write it in .txt files and save it on your computer? 
I don't want people to have to love writing album reviews for it to be rewarding to do. The whole point of writing on a forum is to share so why not share more? Should being a contributor here only be valid to the most passionate of us, those who might as well write in those .txt files? If that's how high the bar's gonna be, that basically means less people will do it. And the whole argument was about making more people do it more often. How do you manage to think of an idea like a site showcasing the hard work of its members as if it's a bad thing? To describe the goal of making an environment more nurturing towards productivity as misguided sounds like .. you're missing the point. |
You can write to share on a forum because you do want other people to see but that shouldn't be your main focus for writing those reviews. I remember Powerstars started up his journal and he was so concerned with and always focused on wondering why people weren't reading his journal and how he could get more people to read it. I understand that want/need to have others read your work but if that's the main motivation behind you writing it then you shouldn't bother at all is my point. You are only writing it because you want people to blow smoke up your butt and give you compliments about how well/good your reviews are. I feel like you should be more focused on writing it just because you wanted to. I know you don't agree with me on this point but we'll just have to leave it there.
Also regarding the bolded part, I'm not saying that at all. I was going deeper to the motivation behind writing the reviews in the first place and as Trollheart has mentioned. He has created a way to do just what you are thinking about even though it's not on as grand of a scale where it has front page attention, writers are still getting showcased.
Another point that others have brought up, so you wanted to start up a site which is going to have lower traffic overall but you get to showcase/highlight those journals on the front page but sticking around here gives those same journals more attention through the sheer volume of traffic that comes here even if people don't post in your journal saying that they have read it. I had a point of saying that last part but I lost it while writing it so I'll just stop typing and go to bed, I had a long day.