"Maven Recommends"

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   Will Apseposted 5 years ago

   Haven't seen this before:
   
   
   Any chance the average visitor will know Mr or Ms Maven?
   
   And just how related is that content?

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      chef-de-jourposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      This came right out of the blue. And it can go back into a black hole if it isn't radically improved. To be frank, I think it should be got rid of.

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         Patty Inglish, MSposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Agreed. It pops up on my downward AND upward scrolls on both Firefox and Chrome after I am only halfway down a page, won't let me finish reading any article on HP, and is actually giving me a physical headache.

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      chef-de-jourposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Emailed the team with a strong disgruntlement. I hope they think again and get rid of this nauseating pop-up.

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         jonnycomelatelyposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         ++++

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   lobobrandonposted 5 years ago

   Boohoo... Whether they know what Maven is or not does not matter. What matters is if the content is at least in the least bit related and whether the recommendations are intrusive or not. It is not and it is respectively.

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      Will Apseposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Strangely enough, I care about who recommends stuff to me. Especially if I suspect they might be mad,
      
      In the case above, I visited a page about palm trees and was recommended a poetry analysis, some Filipino proverbs, a chemistry set and a bunch of animals with sharp teeth.
      
      Hmmm.

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      DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      No, the articles from Maven that I saw last night were not related at all. They were all those booty articles that were removed from the recommended section last year.
      Maven should write a hub about this. They could call it "How to Destroy Traffic From Google"

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      DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      This morning my "Maven Recommends" are hubs written about dogs. Not all of them are health related, but an article about naming your dog is at least in the ballpark.

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         jonnycomelatelyposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         .....hoping your dog would come running back across the ballpark.....

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 5 years ago

   Yuk! This is awful. I've just seen "Maven recommends" on one of my WanderWisdom articles.
   
   For anyone who's not yet seen it, it's a broad stripe at the bottom of the screen advertising "recommended" hubs and it overlays your article. It hides a large portion of the article underneath. This is going to have people rushing to close the page and go to another site PDQ.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

   I haven't witnessed this phenomenon on any of my articles (yet), but it certainly looks irritating. Is it only on certain niche sites?
   
   *EDIT* scratch that, just saw it on one of my articles on ReelRundown. Yikes, that's intrusive and annoying.
   
   For whatever it's worth, it came up when I was looking at my article on a desktop PC, but not when I looked at the same article on mobile.

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   Dean Traylorposted 5 years ago

   if you are viewing on your phone, it will cover the entire screen. You can temporarily remove it; however, if you decide to respond to an article in the comment section (while doing this on your phone) it will pop back up and cover the entire screen, including the comment section.

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      FatFreddysCatposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      It will?  Bummer.
      
      Well, pfffft. That sucks

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      lobobrandonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      If you view on the desktop it can also cover the entire screen depends on when it pops up and if you decide to scroll up From what I saw, all the recommended are related in my case, same as from the recommended sidebar. Four of the five are even my hubs, but then again these are the ones that show up in the recommended section anyway. Still not a fan of it unless it pops up only when the reader is about to exit a page (a upward scroll triggers it from what I notice).
      
      

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   Randy Godwinposted 5 years ago

   I have them on hubs which ads are removed by the mods.

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   ZxRedposted 5 years ago

   Please get rid of it. Sometimes it covers the Edit and Stats menu on top and the Comment section below.

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   paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago

   
   
   I'm pretty sure Google is not going to be a happy camper about this.

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   theraggededgeposted 5 years ago

   Not too bothered as clicking it away stops it reappearing. All of the Maven recommends on the hubs I checked were other articles by me

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      MizBejabbersposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      That didn't work for me. I was reading a hub by someone I follow, and the Maven strip kept popping up. I clicked on the X and it came right back. It kept coming back.

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    Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

    I posted on another thread. Readers are not going to like this because it cuts their thought process as pop-ups do. Terrible idea, I wish the Team would check with us first since we know our readers better than they do.

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       chef-de-jourposted 5 years agoin reply to this

       I agree. This is unwanted and hideous. HP staff should convene a meeting and vote this Maven Recommends thing DOWN and OUT.

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    viking305posted 5 years ago

    Please get rid of it- So annoying

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    charlesnuamahposted 5 years ago

    Honestly, it's really irritating and would cause most readers to leave immediately. Hoping Hubpages gets rid of it.

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       lobobrandonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

       That's what I thought too. But average time on page is not statistically very different so far.

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          charlesnuamahposted 5 years agoin reply to this

          Oh OK, that's cool, but I think it's early days yet.

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             lobobrandonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

             Yeah, and HP has a much larger database to check if it works or not and I hope they make the decision based on data.

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       chef-de-jourposted 5 years agoin reply to this

       Agreed. This widget pop-up is a bad idea. Viewers will leave leave leave and not return once they know it's a site-wide pop-up.
       
       Emailed the team because I'm disgruntled.

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          MizBejabbersposted 5 years agoin reply to this

          Agreed. HubPages, are you and big brother Maven listening:  THIS IS RUDE!

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    Savio Dawsonposted 5 years ago

    Now the Maven recommends articles are related, at least, for a few of my hubs. I think there has been some improvement since the last few hours.
    
    Is this work in progress, therefore?

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       lobobrandonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

       Mine were all related yesterday. Checked just 4 hubs.

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