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RE: It's Back! Fortune Cookie Fortune
howdy there @glenalbrethsen! you can't stop reading those dang fortune cookies can you? lol pretty soon they'll have you hooked and believing in them! lol. the comments are excellent and I don't have anything to add, I just wanted to show my support, very fun and interesting post as usual. wasn't that in a fortune cookie too? lol
More to the point, I can't seem to stop having Panda Express! It does, though, tend to give me something to write about. I think I'm good as far as believing in fortune cookie fortunes go, but as someone else pointed out, God can use all kinds of ways to get the message to us. I tend to like the still small voice way, though, but hey.
It's kind of different that you don't have something to say, but thanks for stopping by and for the support. :)
howdy back there @glenalbrethsen! the still small voice is the way to go over fortune cookies everytime so that's wise. I like those posts though, very interesting that you keep getting those fortunes that can pertain to your life and it's entertaining.
hey I don't have anything to say a lot of the time, especially when there are many comments and they are so well written and intelligent that I don't want to ruin the flow of things! lol.
I'm not that good at commenting, I'm just good at getting OTHER people to comment.
I would say you do well with your commenting,but I'd also say that the greater talent is getting people to comment back. Can't really hold much of a conversation without people answering back. Sadly, I think more people could stand to learn how to do that. Maybe you could write a post?
Yeah, I figure the still small voice is more reliable.
Well, I hope the fortune cookie fortune posts are entertaining. I seem to get some decent engagement on them, too. Still have some posts to pump out in order to hit double digits this week, so if I'm successful, you may (or may not) see a flurry of activity from me tomorrow and Saturday. :)
howdy Glen, on some of these posts I see so many foreigners trying to make conversation and I feel bad for them but they sound terrible! The ones with broken English that sometimes are funny because the language is butchered. So I don't know what happens to most of them, I assume that most quit. anyway I was just thinking about poor commenters and thought of those poor people, you can tell that some of them are trying so hard to write intelligently.
If I were to write a post about how to get people to comment back I think that would be the worlds shortest post. lol. All I would say is to ask people questions. lol.
It's definitely hard to decipher some of the non-native English speakers comments. I don't know what happens to them, either, other than hopefully they find a community that speaks their native tongue where they can actually get some rewards. Some of the language communities are so small, or lacking in accounts with higher SP, that it's tough to get anywhere, which is why I assume many of them venture out into the general English areas hoping to make something happen.
They, however, aren't the only ones who need to know how to comment. There are plenty of English speakers, even ones who aren't spamming, that end up with three or four words, or a short sentence, and that's it. I'm not sure why. If you've got nothing or next to nothing to say, is there really any worth in doing it?
There's two reasons for commenting—hoping it will be worth it to someone to upvote it, and to further discussion on the topic (or even off topic). How often do small sentence comments get rewards? Not a whole lot. How often does the one line spur a conversation. Not that much. Either the one liner has to be really good (and most aren't), the one replying knows the person and gets what they're saying because of other conversations they've had, or the replier has to get creative and push it along as if something was actually said.
So, there's a lot of that short sentence replying going on here, and I'm not sure why, except people's times are really, really valuable and short on Steemit that they don't have the time to put in a complete thought.
I'm not saying people need to write multiple paragraphs every time. I understand that there are times where one sentence is adequate. There's also times where no comment is best. But if I find something worthy to comment on, where I can actually add to the conversation in a meaningful way, I feel like I should include my thoughts on the matter and then stop when it's sufficiently covered.
re: commenting post
Yeah, I suppose you're right. "Ask questions!" would not make for a very long post. :)
yes sir I agree completely. it's strange on some posts to see like 5 or 6 comments consisting of a few words. I do that but only if I think it's funny, otherwise I don't comment if I can't add anything or if I get there late and everyone else has commented what I was going to, but better.
I truly feel bad for some of the foreigners but they need to find another platform unless they can find a group with their language here like you said, seems to be a lot of Indonesians.