Come on people! They are trying only to get attention!!! This is called suspense! I agree that they should mention app name in message, but we could have said a little nicely... They are only trying to help us... After all, whats the delete key for? I really like these reviews and the only thing i ask is the app name be put so people know what they are clicking. Was i not nice? Well, apologies, not towards anyone! Let's all smile haha! Sent from my super iPhone
> On Jan 26, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Scott Rumery <blindfait...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Alex for that input I really do appreciate it. You are very right. > I do not click on links that say click here to read full post. I will try and > do a better job with these in the future. > > Scott Rumery >> On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I don’t think anyone here is trying to put down the work you guys have done, >> and yes, website traffic is the goal of most blogs and similar services. >> However, this: >> >> Check out this app, number 6 on our Top Ten Apps list: [url] >> >> says nothing except that you only had time to type up a sentence and then >> paste the link. This: >> >> Check out Sendero GPS, number 6 on our Top Ten Apps! With Sendero GPS, you >> can plan routes, explore distant locations, discover nearby points of >> interest, figure out where you are, and so much more! Check out our review: >> [url] >> >> makes me really want to know more, because that sounds like a great app and >> I want to know what else you have to say about it. >> >> To be very clear: I have no problem whatsoever with you guys posting these >> app picks here, and I even welcome it as it lets newer list members in on >> some possibly useful tools for them to go try. However, when is the last >> time you clicked a link because someone basically said “click this link”? I >> never do, and I’m sure most people don’t, because I have absolutely no idea >> what the link goes to and if it is worth it. Giving us just a one-sentence >> summary of the app, and the app’s name, provides that missing information >> and will, it seems to me, make people more likely to click through to the >> website. Maybe I’m off base here, but those are my opinions. Again, I’m more >> than fine with you guys posting content like this, and would suggest doing >> it more than once a year, but you may want to look at how you are trying to >> draw people in. >>> On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Scott Rumery <blindfait...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Christopher, >>> >>> As the Senior Partner at Fedora Outlier I thought long and hard about >>> having anybody from the firm posting about these daily blogs to this list >>> just because I was worried about this type of negative reaction. Our team >>> has been working very hard on this list and you are 100% correct when you >>> say that we are trying to get some attention for our website. If I am not >>> mistaken this is what is done every day on the Internet, and because our >>> list is talking about iOS apps I thought that there would be some people on >>> this list that might enjoy reading our posts. >>> >>> Let me clue everyone into how this list has developed. Each one of our team >>> members picked one of the apps in the list and then wrote up a post about >>> that app. This way we were assured of having very different styles of >>> writing which in my opinion would make for some interesting reading. I >>> believe that we have accomplished this. >>> >>> When you make the statement that this list has a drum role feel to it you >>> hit the nail right on the head. This is the whole point of any kind of a >>> countdown. >>> >>> Finally, everyone on this list or any other list in which people post blog >>> snip its in order to get people to go to their websites have the right not >>> to click that link or to just delete the post, however, I do not think that >>> it is fair for those of us who are working very hard on trying to create >>> content that hopefully the community will like, should be ridiculed for >>> just trying to get noticed. >>> >>> I have said my peace on this and I would hope that others on this list will >>> not hold my words against me if I have said anything in this message to >>> offend them. 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