Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Never apologise for a long comment, you know they are more than welcomed on my posts (good or bad) and yours are always really interesting and engaging so they are especially welcomed.
The thing that perhaps got lost in my post was the "sometimes you have to get mucky and do things you do not like for the greater good" aspect.
I don't want a feed full with rubbish and self promotion, but I also have changed my view that writing some articles purely for growth is OK and even something I encourage.
I think I agree with every one of your (counter? Agreeing?) points! The real gem in there is "I generally structure articles in blocks of the topics I want to talk about", this is a great tip for people who want to write about varied subjects but still make it easy for people to engage. Damn, I missed a real good one there! 🤣
In fact the only point that I possibly do "disagree" with (would question is more accurate) is:
I'm not on the boat of "please follow and subscribe" because that never had an effect on me as an audience, so I don't expect others to do it.
There is a ton of research and case studies that show that asking for likes, asking for follows etc. all result in higher follows / likes, but it very rarely puts people off (as long as it is subtle and you don't repeat it over and over again in the same piece of content). It is probably the one thing I would say "do it, it could help, it certainly won't hurt!"
As always your comment is better than my original article...you should really just start a blog with all your comments on 🤣
p.s. as for the "my stats aren't as good", I would say you are wrong there.
You have a higher view rate and reaction rate per article than me! Those are the real statistics that matter for someone who writes out of passion and enjoyment and show what I already know, you write consistently high quality and engaging content!
Oh yeah, I'm not saying asking for likes/follows doesn't work, that's definitely a personal opinion. I avoid it because I don't like it. I might try adding something like "you can follow me to know when the next post on this series is published" or something like that, to check if that helps with engagement.
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Ah, get you now! 100% do it in a style that fits your personality and do what works for you! (unless your personality is like mine and really enjoy swearing, roasts and articled written with "venom", in which case maybe let just 50% of your personality out on somewhere like DEV...or get a ban like I did 🤣)
Never apologise for a long comment, you know they are more than welcomed on my posts (good or bad) and yours are always really interesting and engaging so they are especially welcomed.
The thing that perhaps got lost in my post was the "sometimes you have to get mucky and do things you do not like for the greater good" aspect.
I don't want a feed full with rubbish and self promotion, but I also have changed my view that writing some articles purely for growth is OK and even something I encourage.
I think I agree with every one of your (counter? Agreeing?) points! The real gem in there is "I generally structure articles in blocks of the topics I want to talk about", this is a great tip for people who want to write about varied subjects but still make it easy for people to engage. Damn, I missed a real good one there! 🤣
In fact the only point that I possibly do "disagree" with (would question is more accurate) is:
There is a ton of research and case studies that show that asking for likes, asking for follows etc. all result in higher follows / likes, but it very rarely puts people off (as long as it is subtle and you don't repeat it over and over again in the same piece of content). It is probably the one thing I would say "do it, it could help, it certainly won't hurt!"
As always your comment is better than my original article...you should really just start a blog with all your comments on 🤣
p.s. as for the "my stats aren't as good", I would say you are wrong there.
You have a higher view rate and reaction rate per article than me! Those are the real statistics that matter for someone who writes out of passion and enjoyment and show what I already know, you write consistently high quality and engaging content!
Oh yeah, I'm not saying asking for likes/follows doesn't work, that's definitely a personal opinion. I avoid it because I don't like it. I might try adding something like "you can follow me to know when the next post on this series is published" or something like that, to check if that helps with engagement.
Ah, get you now! 100% do it in a style that fits your personality and do what works for you! (unless your personality is like mine and really enjoy swearing, roasts and articled written with "venom", in which case maybe let just 50% of your personality out on somewhere like DEV...or get a ban like I did 🤣)
Sometimes I get a low-quality flag, I get you.
Didn't even know that existed on DEV. I rarely report posts (only obvious spam with no dev aspect at all).
Some of my posts have a few, but generally are folks being confrontational/hateful, or commenting something completely unrelated.
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