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Core Audience Members of August 2008
written by Hans
August 1st, 2008Welcome to Catchtheposts! I hope that the content of this blog will be helpful to you. Don't hesitate to use the contact form to send me your comments, feedback, suggested topics or questions. Thanks for visiting!
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Like I do every month, I took in note the top commentator of July and I execute the draw to update the Core Audience’s Corner for August. I’m very proud to announce that one of the winners is Cindy King from Get International Clients. Unfortunately, the second winner just didn’t answer to my email, so I’m gonna give the second place - at least temporarily - to the second top commentator which is Amin Motin from Sublime-Products.com. Note that I will give 24 hours in the future to send me back an answer. This means that Amin will keep the actual place if I don’t receive any feedback today from the second winner. Stay tuned to your email!
Congratulation to both of you and thank you so much for your support. I the meantime, I would like to thank everyone that support me either by being part of my readership or by any other action around my blog! Also, a special thanks to everyone commenting my posts on a regular basis. This is so much appreciated!
Don’t hesitate to give them a visit; you may discover great blogs and excellent bloggers. These 125×125 ads will be online for the next month. Then, as usual, I will reset the top commentator counter and make 2 other winners (still 1 as the top commentator and 1 resulting from a draw)! This way, you will always have your chance to get your place on the top! All you have to do is being part of my email subscribers. By subscribing to the blog you will be part of the draw and you will receive every future articles in your mailbox. You can subscribe by clicking here. Note that privacy is important for me, so be sure that your email address will never be transmitted to anyone!
For more information on how to get your place or to better understand the idea behind this initiative, take a look at this post or just contact me directly. It will always be a pleasure to discuss with you! 
Take note that I published a new poll on the sidebar. Please take few minutes to check it out! Thanks for your participation! 
Congrats to the winner.I am sorry to hear that you did not win blogging idol but I am glad you participated as if not I would not be able to find your great blog.Keep up the great job.
Hans,
delighted as I am to have the spot for the time being, do you think it’s possible the other person just didn’t get your email?
I know I’ve had some emails disappear in the last few weeks, including some from Paypal, which is very odd - and troubling.
Amin
Hans
Hans
I appreciate the link. While I was reading mail a moment ago I got the Google Alert that showed that you had posted. Always nice when that happens.
@Amin - I think I am getting your paypal emails, they keep asking me to resubmit my credit card number.
well done to the 2 winners.
I always enjoy the posts.
Well done to the folks making comments, your comments add to the site and we readers apprecaite it.
Cindy,
lol. Please keep those!
It’s the ones paying me that I didn’t want to lose! Then again, the fact the money appeared in my account was enough to keep me happy!
Is to ture, Amin, that you haved won the AOL/Microsoft lottery, but you refuse the prize because a Nigerian Oil Queen is shipping you all of her money?
No, Richard, that’s not true.
But thank you for your concern and if you get any such emails yourself you should probably just delete them. Most of them are SCAMS!
It’s shocking, isn’t it?
By the way, if you’re really serious about getting the top corner advert this month I won’t stand in your way, so the obvious and disappointing building of post count with short posts isn’t really necessary.
Of course, I may be totally wrong since that may not be your intention. I guess we’ll find out if you reply to this comment to even up your numbers - won’t we?
This thread is actually a good example of why some bloggers won’t allow comments to go live until they’ve been moderated.
Comments that add little to the discussion could be either poorly written, or they could be blog spam. It’s impossible to be certain just by looking, but a good test usually is whether multiple postings are actually necessary.
In some cases they may be continuing a dialogue already commenced - I answered a point Cindy made for example - but in others it’s hard not to assume that the only point of the comment is to get a link.
I suppose one way to get a better sense of that is to look at the type of comment a particular person makes. Are they generally very short - 1 or 2 lines at most - or do they usually engage with the main topic of the blog post and add some extra value to the post?
When Hans decided to offer a couple of prominent slots on his blog every month I think he made a wise decision. It stimulates interest (we can see that very clearly) and it offers its own reward to people who contribute.
But it also has the drawback that it’s actually pretty easy to bend the system.
I’ve thought long and hard about what system would be better, but pretty much any system can be bent, one way or another.
One recommendation I would make to anyone who takes the time to comment is this: do yourself credit by making your post as good as it can be.
Your comment is going to be on record for quite some time and if it’s a good one it will work for you for a very long time. If it’s not the best you can do you’re actually short-changing yourself.
What’s the point in that?
Sublime, his comment followed the thread of the conversation. You should not be so defensive about being the top poster. I am sure you can wait until the last day of the month and do 10 quick posts and get that position - this way you can let people post as they will with making it a battle.
Next, you’ll say that my guest post should not be allowed.
Hi Cindy
Not defensive at all, actually, although clearly you mis-read it that way.
And I’m hardly likely to say anything detrimental about guest posts - have a look at my own guest post on this very blog! Since you replied to my positive comment on your guest post I’m surprised you say what you say - did you forget that you’d already responded to me?
10 quick posts on the last day of the month? Whatever kind of thinking do you have to suggest such a thing? I wouldn’t dream of it and I don’t think anyone else should, either.