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Helpful Tips.
Let us in on a few helpful tips that your unique set of experiences has taught you. Doesn't have to be about anything existential. Could be tips on rabbit grooming, hammering nails, saving coconut crabs, pitching tents, picking apricots....etc, etc. Whatever tasty little morsel of wisdom you can share with the potential new-recruits. (but if you're making it up, make it obvious. After all, you'd hate to have unfashionable bunnies, broken thumbs, dead crabs, unsheltered campers or under-ripe apricots on your conscience....)
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TW

10 to 1

I’m a compulsive writer lately, but I set one rule for myself on Prose: For every post you make, go read at least ten more.

Since I tend to average now about one to three posts a day (yeah, I’m slightly stressed/bored lately - go figure) that equals at least ten to thirty posts a day, roughly.

Because I think reading makes you a better writer, just like listening makes you a better speaker. I just have to set rules to help myself remember so I don’t fall into my own trap of blathering/typing on like an idiot.

I do not always like the posts I read; I only like things I actually like.

I also do not expect anyone to thank me for liking/reposting their posts, because I believe their post earned it.

But I don’t always thank everyone who likes/reposts my posts, for the simple reason that a) I don’t want to create an un-ending cycle of obligatory thanking comments b) I’d rather spend more time going through more posts. [insert credit to rlove327] Particularly the posts of someone who has taken the time to read mine. A notification that someone has liked my post feels more worthwhile to me, so if I can give someone else that honor I feel like that's better than just saying thanks.

That and I hate tagging, I always type too fast and make typos, then realize it and can’t go back and edit my damn comment/tags, then fume over how long it takes to tag things. I’m still not convinced there’s not a better way than tagging to get through online life, but I may just be too old/grumpy to accept the new ways.