The importance of COMMENTING
Translated from Spanish into English. Thanks to @
Diego* (diaspora-fr.org) for
the original post. I've written this post to Exercise my English abilities. Generally I translate in the other sense (English/Spanish); so I request you to apologize me grammatical errors.
"If you have and apple and I have an apple, and we exchange these apples, then You and I will still each have one apple. But, if you have an Idea and I have an Idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." George Bernard Shaw
There are several differences amongst #Diaspora and other traditional #socialnetworks. But; obviously there is one that everyone can distinguish with a simple view:
the user's posts qualityPermanently, we can see/read excellent posts about
many subjects: #
art, #
traveling, #
gnulinux #
freesoftware #
libresoftware, #
security, #
privacy, etc. The list can grow and grow. However;
the posts can't generate by themselves:
We have this richness of stuff by the effort of #Diaspora User Community. They put on their posts their time, their work (for example, formatting text in #
markdown) to publish things that like, love or interest them.
The Magic Word is #Sharing
The strength of #Diaspora belongs to its Community. The Community shines by itself, spreading light to each part of Diaspora and
make us feeling it alive. Who signs up and walks its first steps on #
Diaspora is reaching a environment where kindness and coolness have their realm. But Diaspora is too much.
It means a way of life, almost a life philosophy. It's all about
#freedom.
The freedom to have the choosing power to share whatever you want with those ones you wish. And it is a fantastic thing, because this social network fills itself with interesting stuff.
Every social network commentary final purpose is the #
interaction that the members make amongst them. If we are here is because
we want sharing things and interact with people. When someone shares something, Diaspora gives us the tools to participate with that post. We would add it to our favorites, clicking on "#
Like" (or the famous #
heart if you are on mobile version), we would reshare it and our third option:
we could make some commentWe need to be honest here: We
made some commentary on the posts that we read/saw
a few. We are not accustomed to leave comments. The many of us are clicking on "#
Like" or "#
Reshare" as our better option; in a
mechanic way. Without know it or ignoring it,
we are losing all the fun that the Diaspora social network can provide us. Of course, people have their reasons to don't leaving comments.
Let's check them out.
Reasons because We don't comment
- Because We agreed with the things what we had read.
"Why Do I need to leave some comment? When you agreed with something, it doesn't appear necessary adding more stuff, It's all said.. !! - Because, We didn't agree with the post content, but We didn't how to say our thoughts/opinions
I didn't want to start a discuss with people who I didn't know. Besides; Why should I say that I didn't agree with the things those I was reading? Perhaps, It could mean anyone would answer me, starting a discuss. A lot of work. My best option is to keep silence saying anything. - Because when sometimes I commented a post leaving my thoughts, I never received a reply (T.T)
I remember the time when I was a full time Diaspora active member, but I didn't receive any reply. So, I decided no losing time writing comments.
Why commenting is an Important thing?
Please ; watch out the following graphic:
This summarize the thing that I want to tell you. Give a thought and receive another. It's all about creating communication, to show us amongst ourselves; and; to support/help us to ourselves. This is the core/essence of a community. I could say this is the core of all communities.
Commenting is an important thing because:
- It creates a mutual relationship in several sensesWe feed and benefit with comments amongst us. It's a interesting thing knowing how the other people are thinking about particular matters. It's necessary to get started a communication in two both senses, and, to get that other users will answer your commentary.
- Sharing your thoughts with others is a good way to get new relationshipsWhen you discover a publishing that you like or interest you, you will ever find to say some things on the text what you have read. Searching people whose have the same thought isn't easy, but finding people who discusses a matter on a healthy way (without trolling, for example) is really, really hard. However it is greatly pleasing, and it could give you some personal satisfaction.
- You can know wonderful peopleThe commentaries are our first step to get started a community, I don't talk of posting activity; I am talking about the people, it is about the community that can be born around Diaspora Users. We are making a great space here to share and talk. It would be the first point to start a friendship with people who commenting and would have same interests with you. Open your mind and believe in this possibility, I said you it for experience ;)
- You can find people who help youWith commentaries we are making the place to us, a place in where exists the possibility to have kindness and wonderful conversations. We don't have the sames thoughts or opinions. We don't need them. However, the thing that the many have is the wish to learn, teach or talk. The experience and the possibility to request help to people who live in different parts of the world, it's so cool.
- It's a way to acknowledge the author for its work writing that post.
If you find useful the information or if you like what you had read; commenting transforms itself on a way to say
"thanks" to its author and show her/him that exists someone who finds useful the information.
For this; besides publishing your own posts, you could participate on the other user posts. Comment and get started some discuss. It will make a richness commentary "rain" to two both; who comments it and- who answers it. :)If you liked this post, please share and comment it :)
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La importancia de COMENTAR
Si hay algo que distingue a diaspora* de las demás redes sociales, sin dudas es la calidad de sus publicaciones. Permanentemente vemos excelentes posts de diversos temas: #arte, #fotografÃa, #viajes, #música, #salud, #linux, #softwarelibre, #seguridad, #privacidad, etc. La lista puede hacerse interminable. Esa riqueza de contenido la tenemos gracias a los usuarios de la comunidad, que con esmero y dedicación comparten dÃa a dÃa las cosas que les gustan, que les apasionan, que les interesan.
La palabra mágica es compartir
Justamente, lo más destacable de diaspora* es su comunidad. Quienes se registran y comienzan a dar sus primeros pasos dentro de la red social, se encuentran con un ambiente cordial y ameno, donde abunda el altruismo y la buena onda. Pero diaspora* es más que eso. Es casi una filosofÃa de vida. Es tener la libertad de poder (por fin) elegir y compartir lo que quieras, con quien quieras...
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#diaspora
