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For those who were on EP: How have your posting and commenting habits changed from what they were on EP?

On EP, the default setting showed posts from friends, experience groups we had joined, and the Question of the Day. The only questions that showed up were questions from friends. We could always opt to see all the questions or all the stories being posted, or if we wanted to check out questions on a particular topic, we could do that too.

But on SW, we can either see all the posts (unless we’ve opted out of viewing adult material), or we can see posts from only friends (which is a bit too narrow for me), or we can see all the posts from our friends, all our experience groups, and all the question topic groups that we've posted questions in as well (unless we choose to view only stories, which would mean we would see no questions). I usually choose this last setting, as it seems to be the most reasonable middle ground available, but I still end up having to wade through, or scroll past, all kinds of inane posts.

On EP, I responded to almost all the posts that showed up in my feed on the default setting, because they were almost always posts that interested me. But on SW, I find that I’m much more picky about which posts I respond to. It’s frustrating sometimes to have to look through so much crap before finally finding something worth looking at. But I keep at it, a little bit each day.

If my posting habits have changed, it’s because there are different things going on in my life now, and the stuff that I had posted about on EP is now old news. Also, the last presidential election got a lot of people (including me) talking about politics, which, believe it or not, I usually don’t talk about too much.


So how have your posting and commenting habits changed, and why?
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This is by no mean any EP. it is a poor substitube -but it may be the best right now.

As for me writing, I find the type of story I write is NOT SW fare. Meaning I can see it on EP-as wel as my hard drive. Posting it here -or something similar-would be me preaching to me. This is an example. This would be passed over on here.

http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Will-Take-As-Many-Words-As-I-Want-To-Write-This-Story/5851171

I hate that we have no homefeed- the way we did on EP- and that we have no whiteboard- although I am told that is going to change. I also hate that we cannot block groups as we could on EP. Or mute them--Piss and poop I do not care for. And I so not want to your wife tits- or you. And celebrating the other woman or other man is not something I do- they rare cheaters-or they enable one TO cheat. You wear a diaper- hit the trail. But-i can't block this shit!

So I stopped writing. Music now and again- but that is a universal language. And never any questions.

EP could have intimacy, closeness. This place, not so much.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Elandra77 Wow, thank you for sharing your EP story. I really enjoyed reading it. I agree, it's not the kind of thing that we're likely to see on here, and I don't know how many people would read it here. I see that it got 8 likes on EP, though which is good. :)

Yes, a whiteboard would be nice. And I hope we'll eventually be able to filter things out here like we could there too. Maybe I could post a suggestion about that (though others may have already suggested that).
@TeresaRudolph71 See that's the rub. i know we have some good writers here- and some good at telling a story. But they will not. For roughly the same reason I have stated. Now if we had a blog. One that we could make entries public-or private- then more would. they STILL may not get read, but it would be an outlet to them. Now they have to leave the site and go to another to do that.

Until the site is a support site and not a social one, I do not foresee stories being welcome.

Which defeats the purpose of the section.

The wb is coming-- but the filter issue you should suggest. We need a homepage and home feed
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Elandra77 That's too bad, that some good writers aren't writing here. If only we could make some stories viewable by friends only. But that would take some work to implement.

Thanks, I think I will suggest that.