My understanding is that in an online group, 90% of the people are lurkers, 9 percent will like and sometimes drop a short comment and only the remaining 1% regularly participate. That shapes my expectations for online activity.
I'm one of those who can't stand to just lurk. If it isn't interesting enough to jump in, I don't hang around long. But lurking is still okay.
Substack is first and foremost an online platform for digital newsletters, as opposed to a wordpress blogging site. Most of the newsletters I subscribe to outside of this platform don't even give the option for subscribers to comment. So, I see the option here as a bonus for readers: even if they don't comment, they get to read comments from some pretty informed naturists and learn more about the subject.
When I chose the title for this newsletter, I had two things in mind: to report on the greater naturism/nudism community, and to encourage readers to engage in a micro version of that community here -- hence a community within a community.
Feb 18, 2023·edited Feb 18, 2023Liked by Jillian Page
I hope that I'm not counted as a 'lurker', not having participated here much recently! I want to point the finger at Substack as the reason. I'm very wary of leaving a digital trail online, it comes with my line of work in IT. Substack have tweaked their settings in what I think is an attempt to make it harder to use without giving up more of our user data. I won't compromise my privacy for a service that I actually subscribe to, using a little of my hard-earned. For a while I couldn't be bothered, plus I had little free time, I now have a workaround where I give up even less of my data, and it works for now, so I will aim to be back here more Jill. I have been reading the posts in my email, but I did miss the engagement from both reading and adding posts, so I second this small post explaining the pros of greater engagement.
My understanding is that in an online group, 90% of the people are lurkers, 9 percent will like and sometimes drop a short comment and only the remaining 1% regularly participate. That shapes my expectations for online activity.
I'm one of those who can't stand to just lurk. If it isn't interesting enough to jump in, I don't hang around long. But lurking is still okay.
Substack is first and foremost an online platform for digital newsletters, as opposed to a wordpress blogging site. Most of the newsletters I subscribe to outside of this platform don't even give the option for subscribers to comment. So, I see the option here as a bonus for readers: even if they don't comment, they get to read comments from some pretty informed naturists and learn more about the subject.
When I chose the title for this newsletter, I had two things in mind: to report on the greater naturism/nudism community, and to encourage readers to engage in a micro version of that community here -- hence a community within a community.
I hope that I'm not counted as a 'lurker', not having participated here much recently! I want to point the finger at Substack as the reason. I'm very wary of leaving a digital trail online, it comes with my line of work in IT. Substack have tweaked their settings in what I think is an attempt to make it harder to use without giving up more of our user data. I won't compromise my privacy for a service that I actually subscribe to, using a little of my hard-earned. For a while I couldn't be bothered, plus I had little free time, I now have a workaround where I give up even less of my data, and it works for now, so I will aim to be back here more Jill. I have been reading the posts in my email, but I did miss the engagement from both reading and adding posts, so I second this small post explaining the pros of greater engagement.