"Inspire me" etiquette

I reply in their blog.  Also forgoe the quotes 'cause I figure they remember what they wrote.

Good question and answer. I often wondered what to do here as well.

Yeah, I'm confused about that too. I figure they're more likely to read your comments on their blog, not come back to read your responses to their comments on your blog. Does that make sense?

I'm also confused about the "Blogged!" window on the left hand side of the screen. Is that showing only your blog entries, or what? Mine only rarely shows someone else's -- is it because they're not "blogging" or because they don't have publicly viewable blogs?

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Edited by JeepFleeb 2005-11-14 8:01 PM

When you "inspired" A, then someone else left another "inspire" to A after you, then A's blog will appear as "blogged"

highlight it using your mouse then use ctrl+c

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Actually, the blogged feature works this way.  If "A" inspires "B" , then "B" opens that day's inspires then "A"'s blogged feature receives the message "B blogged on such-and-such day".  This way "A" knows that the message was seen by "B"--sort of like the "Sent" and the "Out" boxes for Personal Messages.

TW

Ok, maybe I'm crazy, but if someone rights to me in my blog, the reply button is right there in my window, so that's where I'm supposed to respond. Then on their own log, my name shows up in their blogged! thing-y. So if they want to come back to look, because they asked me a question or whatever, they just click on it, and it shows any subsequent messages since they wrote me a note.

Of course, what you say about copying everything and moving it over to their log is nice, but I don't think that's the way it was designed.

So here's the mechanism as I see it:

On 11/14/05 SuperTriPerson writes me an inspire me:

"Dana, you are so amazing!! I want to be just like you.
What are you doing so I can do that to???"

The next day (11/15/05) dhlundblad responds by hitting the reply button in her own log:

"So sorry, but it's impossible. I can not be duplicated."

Immediately, it says under SuperTriPerson's Blogged!:

dhlundblad 11/15/05

Then SuperTriPerson click's on it and goes back to the same Inspire me box on 11/15/05 and writes:

"Jerk."

Immediately, it says under dhlundblad's Blogged!:

dhlundblad 11/15/05

A subsequent person named KingOfTheWorld posts on the same inspire me thread the next day:

"I don't know, you sound pretty hot to me. Wanna date?"

Immediately, is says under both dhlundblad & SuperTriPerson's Blogged!:

dhlundblad 11/16/05

Everyone (dhlundblad, SuperTriPerson & KingOfTheWorld) click on the Blogged! notification and decide that dhlundblad and KingOfTheWorld probably deserve one another.)

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Does that make sense?? Most of the people who I seem to inspire and who inspire me use this same protocal. Not all of them do, and they post as you mentioned above. If that's the case, I try to respond in such a way so that they won't miss the comment. But it's actually quite handy. It makes it so other people understand the thread of your conversation, their aren't any non sequitors, and all I have to do is click on my Blogged! to find out if there is anything I should know about. It's very convenient.

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Ok, that's all. Gotta go for a run now.

Dana

Dang, you totally lost me there.

I've just been posting a reply back to people in their own blog. Interesting to know that's not how the program is "really" designed.....