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Sebastian

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More options Aug 25 2007, 6:50 pm

From: Sebastian

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:50:34 -0000

Local: Sat, Aug 25 2007 6:50 pm

Subject: Re: How to become a Webmaster Help superstar

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First of all: CONGRATS Susan & Nick! :)

I admit that I didn't post much recently due to my workload and a
recently popped up time waster stealing more than 100% of my spare
time (moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress because many readers
told me that they can't handle the Blogger thingy), but here is what I
do when I've time on my hands.

No. Err. Start over. Here is what I did way back when everything
worked somewhat smoothly (I'm referring to the old sitemaps group). I
tagged all threads I've posted to or which had interesting contents.
That means I read everything. First thing in the morning was to check
my favorites list for new replies and cover that. Next I went to the
main page, read everything and replied where I was able to contribute
something useful.

Since all that is broke nowadays (thread tags don't really work, way
more posts so that I can't read everything) I changed my behavior. Now
I'm checking the main section for unanswered threads with a somewhat
meaningful title and threads where I've posted a reply (hopefully
still tagged, for obvious reasons I miss out on some replies to my
stuff and increase the number of unanswered direct questions). I avoid
large threads because I think they're 80% trolled and don't reply to
PageRank stuff or sitelinks questions any more. Ok, I tell noobs that
toolbar PR is just for fun.

When in time pressure, I just check out this section. All attempts to
use RSS-ish stuff to automate things turned to miserable failure
projects. I never used email options coz my inbox gets stuffed enough.
I stick with the UI.

As for the silent reading, please ask the group folks to add a flag
"read by a Googler" at least for posts passing by the average BS
detector. ;)

And when we're talking about regular superstars, there's only JohnMu
who deserves this award, and since you've shanghaied him we've to live
without rockstars here, at least for a while. ;) I'm looking forward
to praising you in the same way soon! :)

All the best!
Sebastian

On Aug 25, 6:10 pm, silverstall wrote:

> A good frined of mine is a Doctor in pyschology and she pointed out
> that forums by their very nature can become addictive. Many who make a
> post will return to see if a response has been made and then go on to
> make another post in reply. Whilst doing that they see another thread
> upon which they can't resist a post -and so it goes on feeding a
> desire to communicate/help or whatever, in much the same way as any
> addiction.
> A common trait of those with addictive personalities is that they have
> a fearsome memory of the subject-matter of their addiction - e.g. card-
> counting gamblers or which horse came third in the 1986 derby etc. I
> think for some it boils down to their personal memory of all the
> threads they have been involved with. Not that i am saying those who
> regularly post have an addictive personality, as those above who are
> here to geniunly help have their own productivity tools, however she
> thinks from occasionally viewing this forum that some show signs of a
> memory that can only be associated with an addictive personality.

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