Hello Beautiful Souls,
As we all know, we share each other's articles on forums in order to receive comments. I believe it is a very good way of keeping the community together and to keep the spirits high until comments are restored satisfactorily. One thing bothers me, and I'd like to bring it to everyone's attention.
Recently, I have noticed that many people are sharing the same articles on forums. It's mostly because forums aren't being created under the appropriate topics, I believe. People, I believe, can start their own forum post for their articles by starting a thread with a thought regarding their new article, and the first person who reads the forum post can share the link to their article on the person's forum
The only issue HP sees is that we can't share links to our own articles, but we can discuss them. This way we can get comments and can easily stay connected with the community as well. Posting forums under wrong topics is not appropriate and it is something that HP does not allow.
I think everyone can start their own forum with a thought related to their fresh article and the first person who posts a comment on the forum can share the link to the person's article by pinning down the original post. I believe it would be easy for all of us. What do you think?
Posting forums under wrong topics can result in a ban, and HP forum moderators have the authority to delete the forum discussion. I guess I can't see it of any help. The only issue is that Mr. Bill does not use forums, therefore anyone of us can take on the responsibility of creating a forum for his mailbag each week.
I'd like to hear your opinions on the issue. If anyone has a better suggestion than this one, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you so much!
Blessings and Love to my HP family!
Yes, Misbah, I noticed the same thing. I was about to start a forum thread about a friend's article but before I posted It I saw someone else had just done the same. Subsequently, I saw three separate forum posts about the same article.
Your suggestion may stop the duplication from happening. I think we should give it a try.
Thank you so much for your kind words, John. Yes, I believe we should try this way. HP moderators can be bothered by the current situation, which can result in a ban, and they also have the authority to delete our forums, So I really can't see it of any help.
I appreciate your very kind response.
Blessings always!!
It means everyone should start a forum post about one's work without giving the link and those who want to comment can find his new article in the feed and then comment in that forum post. I think it is good idea and then we do not create crowd in the forum space. Thanks Misbah for streamlining these things.
I'm not sure we are allowed to do this one.
This is message I had received from Matt.
So, I think I'll stick to posting everyone else's work.
Not sure...guess we need to look on forums first so we try not to duplicate or let Hubpages delete ones that are duplicated.
Thank you so much for your kind response, Bredz. I respect your opinion.
What I think is that HP itself would not be happy to have so much forums on the same article under different topics.
I think we can send an email to Matt once again regarding this issue. I am sure the team will try to help us out in this regard.
When we can discuss our articles why can't we share a forum discussion. It's just that we can't share the links to our articles, for this purpose, maybe someone else can do that for us by making a comment and posting a link to our articles. I don't see any problem in this.
What do you think?
Blessings and Love!!!
I'm not sure.
It sounds logical to me, but usually anything with logic doesn't fly well with them.
Link or no link...I'm not certain they would be happy because they don't want us starting our own discussion which would lead to others reading our work.
Yes, I understand. This is because they don't want us to promote our own hubs, but even in this case technically, someone else will be doing it for us because someone else will be posting the link on our forum to start the discussion.
Misbah
I don't want anyone to get banned from Hubpages.
I know this is a difficult situation, but we will make it.
Jump through the hoops for awhile...
Come on sweetie...unless it's cleared by them.
I agree with Brenda. It is best to simply share other people's links to their posts. We can share our links on the other social network sites like Pinterest, Facebook, twitter, etc.
Peggy
Thanks. I know all this is a hassle, but at least they agreed to let us communicate this way.
No, no. It is not about sharing links. It's just that forums are becoming disorganized, and then many of us are not much familiar with forum rules and are posting similar discussions under multiple categories.
Forums are getting disorganized because discussions are being posted under the incorrect topics and are more than one for the same article.
This can cause the deletion of the forum post. HP moderators can aslo mind these activities. Furthermore, if we continue to violate forum rules, we can face a ban. I believe we need to look for a way out.
If everyone agrees to my point I can write an email to the Team to see what they say. I believe we should stay careful.
This is just my opinion. I would love to hear your thoughts as well.
Much Love!
Misbah
I try to look on forums before I post anyone's work.
I usually post on books & literature...
If its a poem i include sub ~ of poems & poetry...
If not...
I just list books & literature.
Hopefully it's that easy...i don't know
I'm a bit confused by some of the posts in this thread, but I think two important points are as follows.
Based on Brenda's email, we mustn't promote our own articles in the forum, with or without a link.
Different people are promoting the same article by a fellow hubber at different times and in different categories. I assume that they didn't see the first post. This might be a problem.
I think Misbah's idea to contact the team is a good one.
Linda, thank you so much for your very kind response. The idea I suggested is that everyone can create their own forums with a thought relevant to their new article, and the first person who will post a comment on that forum can share the link to the person's article by pinning down the original post. I believe it will be simple for all of us, and there will be no duplicate forums.
We can only share a thought, not the link to our articles, as the team stated that we can discuss our articles. If we can discuss our articles on forums then I think we can also start a forum discussion with a thought about our own writings. That makes sense and is logical in my opinion.
Many Blessings and Love to you!
We can only discuss our articles after someone else begins discussions...
I fear that you are going to get our Forums shut down.
Then what?
I mean, they are too busy working to fix all the other problems to deal with us trying to communicate.
Guess we'll see.
Oh! Please don't be afraid, Bredz. I'm not going to do anything unless the community approves my point. If it makes you unhappy let's quit this discussion Be happy!
Lots of Love to you!!!
Don't get mad...
It might make the cyber cookie monster come back out.
Hugs
Bredz
So sweet! I really don't want that cyber cookie monster. Lol!
You are one of my very precious friends.
Lots of Love
Hugs!!!
We can continue doing it the way we are doing it already. However, I believe we just need to double-check it before posting the discussion if it has already been posted by someone else
Love and Blessings!
Yes, I'm not sure how we deal with duplicate posts, except the team did say if it was posted twice it would be deleted.
I think we can continue the way it is. Everyone just has to take some time to check before they post a forum that someone else hasn’t already posted it.
Thanks a lot for sharing your beautiful thoughts with me. I appreciate it very much.
Blessings and Love to everyone!
I agree we must not have duplicate forum posts appreciating same work. It eats the precious server space and no site owners would like that. We must adhere to the policies. I will check and be doubly sure before doing any such thing. Hope we all follow this and comply strictly. It is in our own benefit not to get a bad name from the HP management.
by ofmelancholy 14 years ago
When ı try to promote my hubs or articles at forums ı usually get banned. Are there specific forums to promote? I think linking an article is not spam but forum mods don't think so. Also ı can't see any hub promoted, that made me think ı'm posting at wrong places. Despite all my efforts still very...
by PrettyPanther 14 years ago
I am new here so it's possible this has been suggested before. How about a debate forum, separate from the other forums, where contentious topics can be debated? So, if people wanted to discuss, say, a philosophical topic in the Religion forum and someone jumped in and started debating,...
by rochelj 13 years ago
When a question is not answered here, can you ask the same question in the forum?
by Carolee Samuda 12 years ago
This might be my last forum post because I am tired. I can't be wasting my time beating a dead horse.HP is a business and they need to start treating their business more seriously. They need a task force to sit and brain storm about how to keep spammers out in the first place.I know that I have...
by Juliette Kando F I Chor 11 years ago
I read both forum entries and answers/questions entries but the two features seem to overlap. Many of the questions asked in "answers" are technical questions asked by hubbers about HP. Some elicit long threads of answers just like in the forums. Since the "questions/answers"...
by Paul Goodman 21 months ago
I'm starting to see AI-generated comments in the forum. This may well become the new normal, not just AI in submitted articles but also forum comments will become increasingly common.The comments don't have the colloquial feel and voice that people normally use in the forums. They have the detached...
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |