Your request for comments needs to be juicier. Make it funny, controversial, competitive, or encourage them to share their experiences with making the recipe. Also people like to feel like experts. Ask them something like Question: How would you make this vegan without turning it into rabbit food? Answers in a comment please!
This is the brightest and most poignant comment I've seen on here today !!!!!!!
For example, I have asked some of my friends questions about social media and promoting one's writings, and although I have been very courteous (prefacing my question with profuse apologies for imposing on their terribly valuable time; they're probably just jerking off but always profess to be oh so busy) and have asked limited and specific questions, they invariably tell me that there are too many people competing to get their 15 minutes of fame and they try, through a succession of smirks, snide comments, and sneering slaps in the face, to make me want to do myself in.
I have the same problem. Interestingly, they have responded in droves the few times I have run a survey (which I do through Google Forms). I have also reached out personally to my biggest readers (all of whom I know in person or well enough online to have their personal email addresses) to ask for feedback -- no one has turned me down.
I think sometimes people are just too busy/distracted/tired/living life to comment or ask questions. It's not necessarily a lack of engagement or a reflection of your work.
I can't tell you what I have done about the problem, but I can tell you what I would like to do about the problem:
I would like to kidnap them, tie them up and then proceed to read -- or more likely scream at the top of my lungs - the corpus of my creativity. I will read poems with the sarcasm and savagery of Alexander Pope, essays that will make Bertrand Russell and Christopher Hitchens appear middling, mediocre and middle American and excerpts from novels that will make Norman Mailer seem as peaceable as Little Orphan annie.
In all seriousness , it can be a real fucking pain. Most people are stupid. Ergo most people like stupid entertainment, books, movies, music. The masses are morons. The masses extol the Brady Bunch, Hee Haw and Sally Jesse Raphael. If you are good,, it will be, more difficult to get acclaim.
I can't get my readers to engage and leave comments - even when asked. What can I do beyond asking questions and requesting feedback?
Your request for comments needs to be juicier. Make it funny, controversial, competitive, or encourage them to share their experiences with making the recipe. Also people like to feel like experts. Ask them something like Question: How would you make this vegan without turning it into rabbit food? Answers in a comment please!
I've found that there is almost no correlation between asking people questions and getting comments.
This is the brightest and most poignant comment I've seen on here today !!!!!!!
For example, I have asked some of my friends questions about social media and promoting one's writings, and although I have been very courteous (prefacing my question with profuse apologies for imposing on their terribly valuable time; they're probably just jerking off but always profess to be oh so busy) and have asked limited and specific questions, they invariably tell me that there are too many people competing to get their 15 minutes of fame and they try, through a succession of smirks, snide comments, and sneering slaps in the face, to make me want to do myself in.
I have the same problem. Interestingly, they have responded in droves the few times I have run a survey (which I do through Google Forms). I have also reached out personally to my biggest readers (all of whom I know in person or well enough online to have their personal email addresses) to ask for feedback -- no one has turned me down.
I think sometimes people are just too busy/distracted/tired/living life to comment or ask questions. It's not necessarily a lack of engagement or a reflection of your work.
Makes sense :)
It depends on the topic. I have some which have 50 comments, others with 2.
Well, mine is always food, and that's what my readers expect to see! But no feedback...
Hmmm, keep at it. Took me months to start getting public feedback.
I have the same issue. I am running a discussion thread next Tuesday as an experiment and I fear the crickets. 😬
Enlist the help of your closest friends!!
I can't tell you what I have done about the problem, but I can tell you what I would like to do about the problem:
I would like to kidnap them, tie them up and then proceed to read -- or more likely scream at the top of my lungs - the corpus of my creativity. I will read poems with the sarcasm and savagery of Alexander Pope, essays that will make Bertrand Russell and Christopher Hitchens appear middling, mediocre and middle American and excerpts from novels that will make Norman Mailer seem as peaceable as Little Orphan annie.
In all seriousness , it can be a real fucking pain. Most people are stupid. Ergo most people like stupid entertainment, books, movies, music. The masses are morons. The masses extol the Brady Bunch, Hee Haw and Sally Jesse Raphael. If you are good,, it will be, more difficult to get acclaim.