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3/5/2006 5:26 pm |
Hi, Couple of things i'd like to suggest: 1. Save draft's: allow us to save blog entries as a draft to continue it later. 2. bb style linking so we can link to images off other sites (or allow us to imbed images in a blog where we want it). 3. "paid members" posts visible immediately, and queued to be "approved" (obviously the post can still be removed if they violate terms and conditions). anyway just my thoughts and yeah I’m a paid member. oh also you need to start certifying the site for ie7 it occasionally is doing a few weird and wonderful things thanks 5dock
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Sister_Act_4_You - I like the 30 minute rule (at some point a post is a post). And if you're in town, I would love to meet you and get your feedback.  qyxx - Thanks for the comments - for the ones that are not blog related, please send them through the feedback form and email me directly. I'll hopefully, get the "tell us about XYZ" blog soon. goddess1946 - I concur... polls do discourage posting of ideas and should be probably used in moderation on blogs where you want more conversational flow. BROC817 - Yup, we have to juggle free formats and site usability. Thanks!
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3/5/2006 5:30 pm |
<marquee scrollamount=4>let media players on this site !!!</marquee>
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Why bother having the "number" to help stop spammers when really all it does is frustrate me into not posting comments at all. If I am intelligent enough to type the correct numbers in the first time...why is Passion.com not intelligent enough recognize them and allow my post to "post". I should not have to keep trying over and over and over. It takes away my reading and/or writing time. I'd also like to see a much easier way to do simple word commands, i.e...Bold, Underline, Color, Font and Size. Thanks for the chance to voice my frustrations.... I make mistakes, I am out of control & at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ~Marilyn
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3/5/2006 5:32 pm |
oh just one more thing... could our "watched list" be sorted by "latest post" date or could you give us the ability to define how we sort e.g. name a-z (z-a) post old to new (new to old) No of posts (increasing / decreasing) the highlighting you have put in place for new posts is quite useful however its behaviour is a little inconsistant
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3/5/2006 5:49 pm |
i belong to a few sites and they allow you to design your blog page with html codes. will this site allow these things in the future? the pages here are very boring as far as the grafic effects. when its more exciting ill pay to be a member for sure. right now i just dont think this site compares to even simple sites like my-space! this site does have better members though. im so torn between both. TIGGER44135 chears : a.f.f. a.f.f. a.f.f we like best! just TIGGER44135 bouncing away with my comments! {smootches}
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3/5/2006 6:07 pm |
As a currently non-paying member of this site ... I don't know how well I will be heard. Some of my thoughts will be repeats of previous posters. But here I go ... 1) Allow either editing of your own posts/comments or allow a preview of it before it is posted. 2) Give paying members special perks ... ability to use color backgrounds or skins for example. 3) Remove the most popular by comments all together. Why not have a most watched list instead. 4) There should be a way for couples to post as individuals in their blog. I do not think we should have music piped in through the system as one person suggested. We do not all listen to the same things! I would actually, probably stop coming here if I was forced to listen to what some people call music. On the other hand ... I do like the way you now have the highlighting in the watched blogs and posts section. Makes it so much easier to spot what I want to spot. Thank you for your time.
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And I want to add 1. View All to Most Recent Visitors. I don't get a lot of comments but I do get a lot of repeat visitors. 2. Delete Inactive Blogs after say 180 days??? 3. Blogging should still be offered to standard members but paying members should get extra perks. 4. The little gold or silver ball to denote type of membership All of these are already mentioned but i just wanted to reinforce
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3/5/2006 6:30 pm |
I just would like to take the opportunity to thank you for opening up the "floor" for this discussion and be interactive with everyone's suggestion.
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3/5/2006 6:34 pm |
I want to know how to attract more readers to my blog. Currently, the only people looking at it are guys who are looking at my profile. It seems weird that there are only a handful of blogs that show up on the page about blogs. It's boring to blog,blog,blog and not have anyone respond.
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3/5/2006 6:43 pm |
see...wish that edit feature was there...should be "being interactive..." I did think of one suggestion. Have the new post in groups and blogs appear at the top. Save us from having to scroll down and click to the last page. Thanks.
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3/5/2006 6:49 pm |
Not sure if anyone else has suggested this or not, but the ability to hide/show my blog from being shown in my profile. The skin idea would be nice, also.
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3/5/2006 7:24 pm |
Suggestions for improvement: 1. No Blogs for Standard members. *** Being a paying member has no real benifit in the blog section and Standard members are not helping to support the site cost of operations. Standard members can access but not add thier own or comment on the blogs. 2. Silver members only get the "notepad" versions for thier blog *** Silver members have paid for full access but limited features 3. Gold members get a full featured blog. *** Gold members have paid for every perk. 4. Replace recent blogs list with a search the recent blogs option *** It would be much better to be able to search for blogs by people that match cupid settings or personality type or zodiac sign or age or location or..... 5. Suspend blogs after 30 days of no viewer or creator activity and Delete after 90 days of the same. *** This is just good database management. 19 million inactive blogs do not need to be indexed and stored. Pros: Reduced server and other IT support requirements Paying members get a better sense of "membership having it privelges" Con: standard members don't have full functionality of the site and may opt to leave instead of joining. If I have duplicated anyone else's comments, then it is definetly worth noting as something to seriously consider.
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3/5/2006 7:25 pm |
So that is why you never visit me anymore Trav  I just eamiled her that same suggestion, didn't see your post.
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tennismaiden - this "upgrade" happened a bit quick as I was trying to speed up the blogs. We could do better to communicate more... just that we need to find people here who could take over it so we can focus on work (sexyfitwoman helps too) trav - I'll be adding the top men table soon (and top couples if you're a couple). The rest of your comments coming - I'll add some more things while watching the Oscars... then our team will work on the top issues of blogs over the next few weeks!
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3/5/2006 7:35 pm |
I came back for a reason...Oh yeah, Get rid of the poll list!! I'm on this list with a sarcstic (you gotta know me to understand it) first poll. I don't see how anyone who does a poll today would be able to get enough votes to make it to the front page. I look at the front page now and it is way to busy. You are listing us to death! How about a view all polls button on the first page instead of another list. Another suggestion for premium members, give them control of what they want to see on their front page.
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Andrew... 1: I think you could allow for posting photos in comments other than simply member's primary photos (embedded objects perhaps.) This would have to apply to the POLLS, also. As the BLOGer would have a pretty solid shot at control over content, it shouldn't be too great a problem. 2: The comment toolbar would help, if it worked. 3: Use a VIEW ALL HANDLES button to list ALL members who have entered your BLOG and also those who have commented to your BLOG, rather than the current limit of ten for each category (they could page just as the MASTER BLOG pages do.) 4: A button/function that allows one to click on a BLOG Post photo and enlarge the view (I currently use my network albums for an archive of my posted BLOG photos. But that allows only friends to view in full size.) 5: When you do realtime testing on the site, do it in parallel and only funnel volunteer alpha testers to the testing "zone." Also, post notice of any major site work being conducted so we all know that it might be wise to slow down on activity. Most here would do this as a means of useful participation in making the site better... faster! Plenty more but I think those would go quite a ways toward making things more convenient. I have added your BLOG to my watched list. When you post one here for GENERAL issues, I have a couple of pages I need to post to it. Keep yer eyes open and yer hands on the wheel. This thing don't drive itself - no matter what anyone else thinks! Solar... PS: True to my word, I haven't asked for one single favor - yet! *LMAO*
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3/5/2006 8:04 pm |
When I click on the "blog" link, I would like to see the blogs that are from bloggers in my area or at least have that option in settings. This particular post of yours today says that you posted on March 6th, which is tomorrow...today is Sunday the 5th....or could you be somewhere in near Australia? Keep up the good work!
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3/5/2006 8:08 pm |
How about when you block someone from your blog, or commenting on your blog, you can block them from even viewing it? Like your profile.
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3/5/2006 8:59 pm |
Wish list 1. The ability to post animated gif files as both blog illustrations and personal photos. Check out this way limited viewpoint on the matter in the "adding photos to profile section. Your Photos May NOT Be: * No anime or cartoons of any kind - Whether it's moving or still, cartoons and anime are not photos of you! It's that simple. I can hang fine with the no anime or animated cartoons for profile pictures rule but this site will not allow the usage any file in animated gif format whatsoever. And the full range of what can be done with that format is massive. with anime and feature cartoon animation not even being the a spec on the tip of the ice berg. And it would be a snap make an animated gif which was made from photos of you. And sorry for bringup up the profile pictures but that's the only place I've found any words concerning the restriction of animated gif files here and these files will also not work if you try to use them as blog illustration images. But this is the only user participatory (web board type) site that I've ever encountered that , for reaons that still baffle me, disallows usage of animated gifs. I've got high level training in motion graphics for film, TV and web and there currently is absolutely zilch way for me to express myself here in this manner. And there are all sorts of ways that this type of imagery could be useful to accompany blog material and particularly if it were of a sexual nature. Sex indeed does move. So yes, I'd love to be able to use animated gifs in blogs. Very much so I'll add. 2. Varying image sizes for the one now allowed title blog post image. 3. The ability to use multiple images of varying sizes in the text field of the blog. 4 Personal sound libraries and "buttons" (sorta like smiley faces) to which sounds from that library may be assigned and triggered from. 5. Ability use stuff like media player/quicktime video/motion clips. 6. Style sheet type personal customizable blog "look and feel" GUI thingama utility deal. 7. The ability to look up your entire past history of comment posting. (beyond the current 100 comment limit. 8. For the "view my blog" link to be always present in any sort of "browsing of members mode". It's currently not there in a lot of the various methods to browse members. I think I did include all the stuff that currently bites me in the ass here with any decent degree of frequency. And thank you so much for asking us to do this. I've wanted to for quite a awhile now. KC_JJ
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3/5/2006 9:11 pm |
This site just impressed me more...The CEO takes time to Talk to the customers..Damn..Ya'll got a handle on this here Biz...One thing that impressed me most about AdultFriendFinder was that non-payin members like me had the chance to Blog,Meet,and even get lucky( 12 offers )...if ya turn off the normal members photo's ..Males that is...then turn off the norm ,females and couples...ya gotta change that gold member name ...sounds like an austin powers movie...Could i afford it,I wouldnt go for that...Yea Baby...ick...no gold member for me thankyou...I've been tryin to decide whether to up to silver this spring or just dump the whole idea and blog on google where i get paid...as far as the gold member women I've only talked to a couple of those elite and never been offered so much as a cup of coffee...the silver member women are way more friendly and less elite thinking....in conclusion...I probably would only go silver for six months max at current prices... It doesnt make me money,it wont put food on my table and has yet to put a woman in my bed...Handyman
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allow swappinfg of pictures on posts. now, you can delete a photo or keep it, but i have not been able to successfully add a different pic after deleting the first one. i'll take a job app too
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Sexyfitwoman just posted this question: Would getting your posts posted faster be worth a paid membership? (paraphrasing). This is what I wrote to her: I voted no and this is why - I am currently a silver member and, at least until this site drives me over the edge with its technical glitches, intend to continue to be silver. To do that or continue it for the purpose of insuring that the site function AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO FUNCTION in the first place, well that feels like extortion. With all these silly little bells and whistles stuff, I can only assume that upgrading to a server that can handle the traffic is too cost prohibitive, so the company will continue to try to make us happy with small things, since they have made the fiscal decision not to give us what we want. I spent most of my life working for the private sector business world, so I actually do understand their dilemma. However, as a consumer, if I were to find a comparable product, I'd be outta here in a heartbeat. The catch to that is that you'd all have to come with me, lol, or it wouldn't be the same product. Yeah, I'm still [blog 1hotwahine]
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are you changing them now to be three lists? ...most popular male ...most popular female ...most popular couples ??? or are you leaving the males on the most popular list? or am I viewing this in progress? Just a little food for thought............. If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you... {=}
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3/5/2006 10:12 pm |
First of all, I think it's fantastic that there is now communication like this! Bravo! Now for my suggestions which, by the way, may or may not have been suggested already and I apologize if they have! Well, here are my two cents! I think it would be fantastic to be able to have a feature where we could left/right justify or (more importantly) CENTER our words and/or pics! I think that it would be great for people like me who LOVE to use color in their posts to be able to just open up a link to a separate box (like the smilies) to be able to pick out colors instead of typing the names of the colors in! Is there an underlining feature I'm not aware of? I'd like to be able to underline or highlight (kinda like highlighters do in real life...lol) text instead of having just bold and italics as options! I 110% agree that there should be a way to preview our posts so that we don't have to see the mistakes we make and then have to repost repeatedly. I ALWAYS see something I don't like or forgot to say or a spelling error and have to repost. Most annoying! Along the same lines as the above statement, I agree that we should be able to preview/edit comments on others' blogs! I would LOVE to be able to use more pics in blogs other than the tiny one in the top left-hand corner of each post that we are allowed to use from "outside sources" (not sure how else to say that)! That's all I can think of right now! Once again, thank you for doing this! I think it's a giant step forward for the AdultFriendFinder community to be able to talk to someone directly about things that are on our minds!  P.S. How about a free gold membership to the best idea? LOL! I'm kidding of course!
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