Quality and Volume of Posts
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free skin care · Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:49 am

Lately it seems that there has been an abundance of posts with either one word or short one liners. The posts I am mentioning add nothing to the thread. Moderators always try to give a member the benefit of the doubt. However, when I log on to see one member's posts taking up nearly a whole page, adding nothing, I am more than frustrated. It takes much time to sort these situations out.

Members have been contacted in regard to this problem. Please be mindful of others when posting on EDS. Post that add nothing to the forum will be removed and member notified. If such repetious posts continue membership to EDS, unfortunately, will be discontinued.

Take a moment to read Essential Day Spa's guidelines in full. Especially note the below quote regarding post quality.

Thank you in advance.

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Quality and Volume of Posts:
Please be mindful of existing members and refrain from adding posts to the EDS forum that do not beneficially add to the content of the EDS Forum. Each post potentially triggers thousands of emails to members who are watching the topic in question. High volume of such posts degrades the service that EDS Forum can provide to its members and additionally may have the effect of affected members reporting the activity to moderators. This may result in the withdrawal of EDS Forum access from the post author, should they be found to be abusing the EDS Forum.

free skin care · Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:34 am

AMIntheMorning wrote:

Oh and I noticed that some of the higher up there in posts people have a lot of one liners and no real input, I hope there isn't favoritism going on amongst the moderators Sad

I don't see any favouritism whatsoever. Some one liners do add input. The real problem is when people are obviously just posting with no other real intention other than to boost their post number in order to obtain a higher discount. You usually see this in newer members, often those who have joined a day or so ago and who go through old posts, continually adding comments.

This means that you have to wade through 50 or more topics (usually with the addition of such illuminating comments as "Me too!"/"I will try it!"/"Thank you!" or something entirely random where the poster obviously has not even bothered to read the thread, in order for you to find legitimate posts to read.

Also, many people subscribe to threads of interest and are alerted when new comments are posted. Imagine how annoying it is when they suddenly receive a barrage of 50 or so emails to tell them that these threads have been updated - only for them to find that they are all made by the same person on a post-number-boosting spree.

free skin care · Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:30 am

AMIntheMorning wrote:

Ah okay I see where you're coming from and I'm glad to see there is no favoritism going on. I was just worried that if I make a few short posts and some long ones which I do, I make both that I will labeled as posting just to increase my post rating.

No, there's absolutely no need to worry about making short posts - just so long as it's something you genuinely want to say and not just to boost your number of posts (you'd be surprised at how many people do this). The length of your posts doesn't really matter - it's the contents that count! Smile

Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:44 am

Thank you for all the reports ladies. The posts in question have been deleted and the user won't be posting them again.

Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:33 am

Kat ~<3 wrote:

Wow really, now I look like a jerk because I just read through a bunch of forums and gave input? I gave input I thought would be of use to others... who knew you had to be an expert to contribute to the sacred forums! What's the sense of offering discounts for forum posts and then turning around and becoming annoyed when people are doing just that? Maybe some might view some posts as "useless"... now I feel as if I will be crucified for my enthusiasm and heaven forbid that I posted 15 reviews in a row.

Kat ~<3, I think you misunderstand. The mad poster in question had pasted the exact same unrelated sentence into at least 50 threads. Not only did it clog up the forum with dozens of resurrected threads with the same nonsensical sentence, it also pushed the active threads to the back and promptly released notifications to the thousands of members who were watching/subscribed to those threads. Imagine logging in to read the exact same sentence from the same person over and over and over again which, yes, would be considered rude, inconsiderate and annoying in any discussion in any community.

Hopefully you are able to read this entire thread as you will find that genuine contributions are *always* welcomed and appreciated whether as one post or 1000. As mentioned above, the length of the posts do not really matter and you do not need to "be an expert to contribute to the sacred forums" as you mention but since it is a community of discussions based on sharing experiences and information, hopefully whatever is posted contributes *something* relevant to said discussion.

free skin care · Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:48 am

I realize that English is not everyone's first language here, so let me say this plainly and as clearly as possible:

This is not a chat forum.

Except in the EDS lounge, this forum is for questions and information about skincare and makeup.

There is a "thank you" button to the left side of posts that allows you to send a thank you to posts that have been helpful. You should not send a separate reply to a thread simply to say "thank you."

The product review section is not for questions or miscellaneous skincare information. It is only for review of products.

We are a friendly forum, but we do want new forum members to understand the forum posting rules. The rules make the forum easier to use for all of us and help us all find the valuable information here.

Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:09 pm

its my first day and this is already one of the coolest places ive ever been! kudos to those who shape this website! Very Happy

Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:04 am

photoqueen wrote:

There is a trend, that some new EDS users are not searching the wealth of information on this site and just post a web link, with "comments" or "what do you think" as the only text, and the link could be to a lightstim or baby quasar product, we could sink a battle ship with the amount of quality feedback we currently have in the archives.

I see this site as a knowledge base and users can't expect us all to spend hours typing text that is already on archived topics.

PQ

I agree! I spent 4 weeks reading through hundreds of posts before signing up and posting anything myself. Sometimes though I search for something I know I read and yet when I search it I cannot find it. In that case I may ask. The sheer volume of information can be overwhelming though and not everyone is able to work through it for a myriad of reasons.

Cheers
Kat

free skin care · Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:33 am

I'm just popping in here to have a quiet little scream.

Arrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! Mad

Okay, finished now, thanks.

free skin care · Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:05 am

Sorry, just had to pop back again quickly.

Please won't somebody make it stop? Crying or Very sad

free skin care · Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:42 am

This kind of thing happen in different kinds of forums. No doubt there will be some people who take advantage of the number of post to get more discount.

We only have one face/body... I really wonder how much things we can buy, we can try, and find the suitable thing for our skin as a routine.

I looked back the day I joined till now, I realised that my posts are still very limited. Laughing

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