If an arbitrary post, unrelated to the preceding one can be called a sequel, then yes, you are reading one. And hence, your decision to skip the prequel (my posts, I will call them whatever I wish) shouldn’t be a deterrent for you to fathom the path breaking revelations that I am trying to make. As a matter of fact, after reading this post, you might realize that it probably wouldn’t have made any difference if you had skipped this part as well. However, now that you are here, see if you can endure the pain and read a few lines, and lest you have recently been unceremoniously escorted out of your office because of your voting spree during working hours and now you have ample time to vote, read and comment, then you might want to skim through part 1 as well.
Today, we will take a sneak peek into the lives of voters, including me (needless to mention here that I will be the hero in this story), and will also discuss people we regularly stumble upon in blogworld. Love them, hate them, and at times we need to ignore some of them as well. Those who are counting on this post to unravel the mystery of parliamentary election voting and assuming that by the end of this post (and subsequent discussions, if any) India’s fate will be decided can be rest assured that I have no intention of indulging in such heinous acts. We are referring to indivotes here, which, apparently, you have absolutely no clue about (and I can see the fate of this post on indivine). So, you can just read this post as a ………………… ummmmm ……a post. Also, you might differ with me at many points and your inner voice will scream out at the end of each paragraph, “THIS GUY IS A FRAUD!” but I am not going to argue with you because you are my visitor and visitor is god. So yeah, you do have a valid point; now, can we begin this mudslinging session?
Before I proceed any further, allow me to inform you that I am one of those aggressive voters who can promote your posts even before you submit them on indivine. Not too long ago, I used to follow a preposterous process of reading each and every post before promoting them; however, as time progressed and I was getting bombarded with votes from individuals who wouldn’t recognize my blog if they allow the page to load, I found it little difficult to read all their posts, as part of the return visit regime, within a stipulated time of 24 hours on a given day. And thus, another legendary voter was born. I, perhaps, owe it to the individual who pioneered the art of blind voting, laying a foundation for generations to come. After reading a post, we anyway promote it irrespective of whether we like it or not, so why read it in the first place?
These days, I scour through the bays of indivine to identify potential voters. From broken links to grocery lists and from suicide notes to medical reimbursement bills; I promote everything that indivine approves as a legitimate link. In an unprecedented move to unite the entire nation, I vote for posts in diverse languages; viz. Tamil, Telegu, Gujarati, Bengali and so on. Some of them return the favor and the rest consider this as the beginning of a long term association, and most of the time my dashboard looks like this:
Being academically challenged has been a boon for me till situations demand application of complex analytical skills, e.g. common sense. Hence, I ascribe the raison d’etre for this noble gesture (illustrated in the image) to the contents of my blog and to secure some future votes, I embrace new alliance. For next one week I read and promote all the posts submitted by them, but on 8th day when I present my solitary post, they renege on the silent vows that we made to each other. Like Karan-Arjun’s mom, I pacify myself by saying, ‘They will come,’ and continue to refresh statcounter.
Rose-pink light of dawn penetrates the darkness of the night and my post still awaits the arrival of Karan-Arjun with moist eyes. It needs a stalker like me to discover that those new friends are on indivine reading and promoting all the posts ignoring the ones which are there on their respective networks.
Now, I am getting this strange feeling that this post is not going to get more than 5 votes. Anyway, my next category of bloggers demonstrates an inexplicable and bizarre trait. Their primary objective is to accumulate as many votes as possible by promoting least number of posts (they are probably oblivious of the fact that voting on indivine doesn’t involve monetary transaction), a reminiscent of an MTV roadies task where the participants are asked to buy an astounding number of items by judiciously spending a fund of 5 rupees allocated to them. This task is accomplished with a tactical move by dodging past the posts of bloggers, who have already voted for them, with the help of this following maneuver:
They are blessed with the memory like an elephant and can recall activities of each and every blogger even while on the verge of a cardiac arrest due to frantic voting. Thumb rule – please follow ‘you vote first’ policy for them.
The cribbers: Perpetually livid over the dearth of visitors on their blogs; however, as their powerful writing covers all the essential elements of everything one can think of, they prefer to read their own blogs whenever they switch from a writer to a reader. They disdainfully ignore comments of ordinary bloggers like us but vehemently complain about less number of comments coming from indiblogger. They are the shining lights of moral and ethics who condemn blind voting but go on a voting spree as and when required.
Like books kept in the library, their posts are displayed on indivine for lesser mortals to enlighten themselves, and the degree of fury (due to lack of visitors) is directly proportional to the number of posts they submit. This act of generosity is a testimony to the fact that a decent number of bloggers are not aware of how a blogger network functions. If they had the right approach then they would have been reading and appreciating few posts and not fuming at the sight of those posts getting read and promoted.
Indiforum – where delusion wears the veil of excellence: A platform for creative minds to congregate and +1 each other the entire day. Unless you are one of those 5 – 6 people who spent half their lives on indiforum in search of nirvana, you might not get your queries answered (your gender plays a key role here as well). However, you can start a thread titled ‘paid writers required’ and see the magic.
Nah, I am not done yet. I need one more post to discuss the following:
- Indiforum (with examples)
- Copycats
- Phony bloggers
- Something which I haven’t decided yet
Also, I have realized that after that post I actually have nothing to write about ….hmmmm….lucky you!!
About Debajyoti
I ‘endured the pain’ and read ‘all’ the lines. I generally read posts before I vote for them (ie. as of now) but today, half way through this post, I cast my vote for this one. What a privilege to be the first ‘god’of this post. What were you expecting — 5 votes? You’ve got two already.
Before you know it, you’ll be on homepage. Who doesn’t enjoy reading you, Deb.
you couldn’t even complete the post
. hey, thanks for the comment Nambiar, dunno whether anyone else will read this or not 
‘prequel’ (my posts, I will call them whatever I wish)?
Hahaha.
This can’t be last of the series, Please…. We’re having so much fun reading this and trying to figure out where we fit in (yeah, yeah … I remember — your readers don’t fall into these categories, nevertheless…)
Have a great day!
i actually wanted to write a decent post and that’s why i was taking so much time but then i screwed up completely and just published whatever i wrote. will proofread this once i get up. now, i am going to sleep. at least i have a comment here
Me and not being able to complete YOUR posts?
. (I came back and read the rest)
This IS a decent post. And it also shows that a lot of research has gone into it. And you’ve been very honest too.
The good that I see with votes is that sometimes it just means ‘Support’. Support is one thing that we bloggers need, to keep us going. And most often, the most amount of support you get is from fellow bloggers.
Sometimes I’m left with nothing to say in a comment, so then, I just vote to say, I read this post and I support you.
. That’s something nice about IB.
And about the blogs that get the most amount of votes — whether they deserve it or not, I guess we could give them credit for being good at selling/promoting their posts.
so you are posting your comment in three parts, brilliant
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not much research, what i see is what i write
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well, as Mark Twain said “if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” and i guess i used this quote for the billionth time now.
there is no way we can question people for voting or how voting works on indi. people can vote for whichever post they want. even indi team cannot do anything about it. won’t say anything beyond this coz i need to save few things for part 3
hahahaha… that was a brilliant analysis of the blog brotherhood on Indivine!!
thank you so much! i guess, we can write a post on bloggers almost everyday
Deb, your analysis of Indivine was great! I wish I had read it a couple of months back
. Actually, there ought to be a tutorial for indivine as well, and your post must be used as a pointer. I started submitting my posts on Indivine very recently though I have been blogging for years. And, I will concede that I’ve been missing out reading good bloggers like you for so long because I was ignoring Indivine 
. But voting completely confounds me. And, your post had me in splits because I face the dilemma about voting for Tamil, Telugu blogs; I cannot read them 
. But, now I have nirvana after discussing with a few enlightened bloggers about how to tackle Indivine. Indiblogger is a great platform! Long live hypocrisy!
ha ha ha, indiblogger indeed is a great platform. those who don’t have any network, like me, can completely rely on indiblogger and it can work wonders.
i try to read Tamil, Telegu posts on translator but i don’t think it works.
tutorial for indivine will be the most complicated book on earth and it will give the word hypocrisy a whole new dimension
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surprisingly blind voting gets us genuine readers
. so yeah, long live hypocrisy, long live indiblogger, and long live blind voting!!
Unless, you have nothing else to do and sit in front of the computer the entire day reading posts, blind voting is unavoidable. Everyone wants reciprocation, but no one has the time to indulge. So, the shortcut is blind voting. I think this whole voting sham has been recognized. Perhaps, that is the reason why these votes are no longer valid for contests. I wish there was someway in which we can do away with this voting thing altogether. Add people to your Indi network and browse through their posts or any new posts that catch your attention. Why bring in voting at all? When you see 200 votes and click excitedly on that post and find a piffling entry, you feel cheated. So, there should be a way around it. Since, so many of us are talking about the charades playing out there, Indiblogger ought to figure out a way. What do you say?
inditeam promptly replies back to all the mails unless it’s related to some irregularities. i have sent them mails regarding plagiarized posts but they haven’t responded yet.
yes, even i would love to see genuine readers and there are ways how inditeam can regulate that. but the reason why i don’t think inditeam will do anything about it is because voting is the only feature which separates indiblogger from other blog directories and networks. here posts get visibility because of votes and that’s why people are more active here than other platforms.
although they have recently implemented s0mething where the post with maximum votes gets bumped out of homepage.
Long-awaited sequel, Debajyoti! Do not promise only to deceive. I am depending on the next one to arrive.
I am manfully avoiding the (painful) exercise of trying to slot myself in your categories:)
because i didn’t know what to write
. and the next one is going to be even more confusing.
you actually don’t fall under any category because you are my friend
Ok. Confessions first. I have never promoted a post on Indivine and neither have I read any. I hardly get time to write my own posts and go through the posts on my reader. Add Indivine to this and I can kiss my sex life goodbye.
Why are people crazy about votes? Search me. I write because I love writing. Seriously.
ha ha ha, even i love because i love writing but the problem is that it’s a painful process for me
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whenever i log into indivine, my hand automatically clicks on the promote button
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votes actually push your post up on indivine and it gets the visibility, that’s it. but yes, you have to spend a lot of time on indivine if you want to get a decent number of readers from indiblogger.
hee hee… even telugu and tamil deb? wow! serial voters like you are the need of the hour in places like Tamizh Nadu. Thanks for the nice read.
language has never been a hindrance for me; i am a multilingual voter. many thanks for the comment
hmm…the post definitely is not a sequel..
Ah! Now, I get it when you put that comment on my blog. Why don’t you go to indiblogger and am going to vote for you? I am like, what’s this voting thing about? hahaha…bahut gyaan mila aaj.. 
And as usual, it’s a Deb’s trademark post.. 
btw, I really donno how to vote..if that is what you want, take a million votes from me to you..LOL…
having a profile on indiblogger and not voting is a crime
. so search for your id and password and log into indi, it’s an amazing platform. i love voting. for me a read is incomplete if i don’t vote for that post 
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thank you so much for the comment and for those million votes. but it is a sequel. at least, that’s what i wanted it to look like
I was reading it.. started going over my head! So commenting for the half read post! (Am I honest or what??? Like you say, it’s a major risk at my end
We don’t have half votes – so you are getting a full one for that!
and now you are reading half posts. it went over my head as well but who cares, i have a post
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thanks for the comment but i don’t see your vote on indi
Good analysis Deb. I have been the victim too. Nice that you brought out such a good analysis out of it…
thanks a lot Vinay. you can turn into a hero from victim in no time
And yea is the indiblogger working? I am not able to access it from about a week now..
indiblogger is working fine coz i have been voting
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may be, there was some problem with cookies or something they say (and i don’t understand
). but yeah, indi site is not 100% ok, it gets stuck at times.
march on, please. may god give you the strength to scroll through pages
Vinay even i too had been shut out of ib for many days-it’s a relief to know i had not been targeted for GKW(GOD KNOWS WHAT).
i usually don’t leave any comment unanswered but dunno what to write here. May be i can convey your message to Vinay.
I’m the Cribber!
BTW…I promoted your post after reading it.
yes, you have promoted, i crosschecked.
you don’t fall under any category now coz you just read my post
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Ohh man…I was really looking forward to being stereotyped!
no worries, i will stalk your blog from now on and will see if i can write a post on you. i am jobless ha ha ha.
Did you say read it and then vote I doubt that very much, I am sure the promote this post button gets hit immediately, I have never understood the voting thing.
I also started with indivine initially but stopped now I have again started, have been visiting a few bloggers from there, I do vote sometimes too , but I do make it a point to read the post comment on it and then maybe vote.
And yes you are the writer your post you call ot what you want to..
I am going to come back to this post again… To enlighten myself..
Bikram, you get over 200 comments, so, it’s ok if you don’t understand this voting thing
. but indiblogger will always get you new readers, so please continue to use it 
when i have nothing to do, i go through some of the posts on indi and that’s just because i do love to read once in a while. there are bloggers who haven’t visited my blog in last 2 months but i still read their posts because they are weird and don’t read anyone
thanks for the comment Bikram
wow! great writing..
even i wrote a post on my fellow bloggers
http://blogerience.blogspot.in/2012/06/quick-reference-guide-to-blogosphere.html
thank you so much for the comment Nupur. would love to go through your post
Your post is a research paper on the scandalous demeanour of the voters, implying the inherent rot among the bloggers. It is a startling mirror you have planted in the middle of the Blogland!
Not that it is going to make any dent in the thick hide. It is sad how a magnificent platform like Indivine is being lynched by the remorselessly opportunistic mediocrity.
first of all i am grateful to you for reading this post in spite of the emergencies.
indivine indeed is a magnificent platform although inditeam has to work on certain areas.
well, as long as loopholes are there, people will exploit them
I missed what I should have said right off the bat: Carry on Deb!
thank you so much. but what do i write next
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reading your blog is always fun. I enjoy it..keep blogging
thanks a lot Deepz!! i try my level best to write ok ok kinda posts. keep reading
सीधी और सटीक बात
बहुत खूब
thank you so much. glad you liked it
Hahaha,, it is one interesting post. ENjoyed reading it.
I completely agree to the categories u created. Sadly most blogger communities work on help me and I’ll help u kind of phenomena. very few actually dont care about the statistics but focus on the quality.
love ure writing style. Glad ure continuing this series, will look forward for the next post
hey, thanks StyleDestino!!
i have more categories to discuss. we can actually write a book on that
thanks a lot for the kind words. will try to write a decent concluding part
I hope the Inditeam is reading this one and plugs the holes in its vine
No one but a master of the medium could have come up with this tutorial on voting on Indi 
Waiting for the last post in the series. And don’t worry, you will come up with some thing else after wards.
i seriously doubt if they can actually do anything about it. however, what they can do is, revamp the forum and make it more helpful for everyone. also respond to the mails with regards to plagiarism or malicious blogs of unknown origin (will write about that in my next post).
many thanks for the comment Zephyr!
Wow ! I read through and laughed out aloud !
Writing humour is perhaps the most difficult of them and you have managed to do it pretty well !!
thank you so much! i guess, it could have been better. there are quite a few dull statements in the post which should have been worked on.
expecting 5 votes ? you already have 70 votes now ! make it 71 ..after commenting on your blog the next thing i would do is vote for your post..
well untill about 2 months ago i didn’t even know indiblogger existed. But since i joined i have had the opportunity to read such fan blog as yours … now i have kind of got addicted to indi. prob few months down the line i might start voting without reading !
And once again i love your sense of humor ! keep writing sequel after sequel after sequel
hey TTT, thanks for the comment and vote. just realized that i wasn’t getting any comment for past few hours, so thanks again!
well, my blog is relatively new and fortunately for me, i joined indiblogger almost immediately after i created my blog. so, i never had an issue with lack of visitors. indiblogger rocks and as long as indiblogger is there, even our blogs are going to rock as well
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p.s. – i don’t vote blindly for my blogger friends and regular visitors but for rest well………….
would love to write the sequel but am too lazy to do that
I’m new here, but this has been a hilarious read. I was trying to place myself somewhere into these categories. But then, let me give myself some time to become a fanatical stereotype. I will, sooner or later. But my freshness to indiblogger is on my side.
Lovely and a hilarious read to the core!
hey, thank you so much. well, new bloggers don’t fall under any category, but then the onus is on them to decide where they want to see themselves
. thanks again for this lovely comment 
I followed u here after u promoted my post in indivine..Than again u being from Silchar is another aspect that brought me here since m too from Silchar..but after going through each and every line I was laughing and just trying to fit myself into one those categories u described..but being a starter i could not just make out which category I fall into..it was such a lovely read and really u do have a great sense of humor..
well, new bloggers are excluded from this discussion; however, in future you might feature in any blogger related post.
many thanks for this lovely comment!! and yeah, i never had any visitor from Silchar on my blog, so you are the first one. thanks again
cease and desist, deb. truth hurts. change your display pic is what i mean, it is too good.
there are a significant number of bloggers on indi, whose posts i end up promoting and then reading, and i don’t have any problems with that, since they rarely let me down.
indi is a network of bloggers, and in the interest of increasing traffic, it is understandable that it is going to be a bit of help me and i will help you deal.
i have found that the indi advice of ‘adding bloggers to your network helps your work be discovered’ should be applied judiciously. it took me a while to figure that out, and i have gone through exactly the same thing as you, he he he. the good thing is that you can always prune your network. some of the finest blogging has come to my notice through indi. so has some of the worst.
i have felt exactly how you have felt about votes, and i have even gone for several weeks not voting for any posts just to see if people still vote for mine. thankfully, the people who follow me or have me in their network helped me keep the faith by voting consistently.
i have also found that trashy or low value posts do not pick up votes, while those that are meaningful to my readers do. god knows why this post of yours is picking up so many votes. obviously it is guilt, but then i really wouldn’t know…
the dream of every writer is to have a discussion like this on what one has written. may your tribe prosper and may i also be able to write posts like this…
yeah, will stop but once i complete the series
i scratch your back and you scratch mine is the foundation of a blogger network. ironically, people who condemn this want only their back to be scratched.
it actually annoys me when i see people from my network intentionally ignoring my post and reading the entire world. that’s why i don’t believe in network. people can read my post whenever they want. that way, at least, i don’t have any expectation from them; and it feels good when i see a unexpected comment from them.
i probably don’t know anything about blogging or bloggers outside indi. the only blog which i read before joining indi was ‘fakeiplplayer’
at times, even when you don’t vote, your post gets promoted because people are familiar with you and your blog. some of them will promote it because they like your blog and they follow it, and the rest know that you won’t let them down when it comes to visiting their blogs.
a decent number of voters vote only when the post is good and they do read. so yeah, even i have noticed it. whenever, i recycled an old post, it didn’t get too many votes. so, some of them do read our posts. but in general my posts get few votes because people know if they don’t vote, i will stop voting for them as well
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i will take at least 2 to 3 days to write a comment like the one which you have written. so i have a lot to learn from people like you and the whole thing is a learning process for me.
many thanks for the comment
Well everyone wants to be recognized and get voted. When it comes to votes, politics and strategy is a natural course of action. Your post was endurable and hilarious as always
thank you so much. am glad you found it endurable although when i read it last night, i felt it made no sense.
yes, we need to apply some strategies for specific individuals to get their votes
. but being honest (even while voting blindly) and little generous and selfless get us maximum votes. when i try too many things, i lose out on votes 
LOL
i was waiting for part 2! Good one! Part 3, please 
hey, thanks a lot Ash and i guess, i read couple of your posts including that ‘in law’ one but forgot to comment. so sorry about that
. will go through your blog archive today 
Hmph! Now, this is not done
…. you visit and leave silently! I protest 
)
no, that was not intentional. the page got closed and i had to go out. and i forgot to visit again
…in many ways this one is even better than part1
..look forward to reading the 3rd 
You’re a genius Deb!!
ha ha ha, although i am a novice blogger but such comments make me feel great
. who doesn’t like to be complimented. god bless you 
and will start writing part 3.
it was a nice humorous post!!/.. but it was a bit long!!…:) anyways keep doing the good work!!
ha ha ha, i know, my posts are usually bit long coz i don’t know when to stop. but i do post cartoons to compensate for that. thank you so much for the comment
u r most welcome… so browse through my blog too.. http://sahisridhar.blogspot.in
already posted a comment on your blog
You know what, I could not connect much to Indi for the past two days that your post went out of the Posts From My Network List before I saw it
This is one category of bloggers who decide to submit around six of their posts together and it clogs up the space on the Posts From Your Network Space!!
Deb, I do read most posts before voting but confession- A few I just I skim through rather than reading word by word
And if I am in total disagreement with the contents of a post, I do the terrible deed of not promoting
What a post!! Awesome
hey, that’s okie Jayashree, I got your vote and comment
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so my posts are the ones which you skim through……..hmmmmmm.
and you don’t promote even after reading a post!!!! that’s terrible!!! i promote even without reading
awesome post, yeah, thank you again
Like it or not, the post has some interesting points to offer. I mean, if no one understood the meaning of our posts, no one would vote for it.
And if you’re voting just for the sake of voting, then you might as well not vote. You’re not giving justice to the writer by voting.
So, in short, great post
yeah, totally agree with you. thank you so much for the comment
Nice analysis Deb,i will tell you my strategy-i never vote without reading…in fact when i read a post on my reading list i don’t esp. go to ib to vote..i comment if i have something to say…if i come across a post i have already read in my reader,on indivine then i just vote & leave..and even among my favorite bloggers-if a topic does not interest me then i don’t read it;where is so much time? ..personally i value comments much much more than votes.
who doesn’t like comments? but voting blindly is still better than other cheap tactics people employ. will elaborate that on my next post. many people disapprove voting and they have opined on my blog in the past. but i do keep an eye on everyone, so, i know how honest those people are.
hhah
that was nice and humorous and yes true too .
Comments are what we bloggers yearn for –because that tells us that our posts have been read .
waiting for the next part
thanks
rajni
absolutely. we love to know what our readers have to say about the post although i want people to say – ‘excellent’ or ‘brilliant’ ha ha ha. a vote helps our posts in many ways but we cannot figure out what the person thinks about the post.
yeah, will start writing the next part soon.
many thanks for the comment
going through the post I’ve been thinking why in the world would you insult me so openly hahaha . A humor filled factual post. Loved it once again deb.
And hey, you’ve got so many Gods commenting lol. I’m one of them
when we vote for a newbie, that person usually adds us to his/her network without visiting the blog; that’s actually normal, but when i joined indi, i used to add people even when no one voted for me
. i was confused, didn’t know which one is promote button and which one is add.
thanks a lot for the comment and yes, you are one of the Gods here
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So the juggernaut rolls on – the merciless dissection of blogger psyche!
I follow a simple tit-for-tat strategy unless of course the bloggers writings bore me to death.
as far as voting is concerned, i usually vote back unless it’s an outrageous post and the same goes with comments as well. however, i do read some of the bloggers who don’t read anyone at all primarily because they courteously reply back to comments, and they are just nice people.
of course, there is no rule or strategy when it comes to reading exceptional writers like you
I am new to blogging & I joined IndiBlogger almost a month back…I got 15 votes for a post which made me happy….now I am beginning to have doubts whether people actually read it or not coz personally I still hvnt voted for any post
thanks for the tutorial..waiting for the “sequel” ….. and till yet toh I too thought will-only-promote-the-blogs-I-read-and-liked….But God knows 
when i joined indi and people voted for me and added me to their networks, i almost had tears in my eyes and told myself “there are still good people in this world.”
in case i was one of those 15 people who voted for you then let me tell you, i did read your post
although your blog looks a little unfamiliar to me.
you can always promote the posts which you read and like, that’s actually the best policy and that way you will get maximum number of genuine visitors.
many thanks for the comment. i am actually getting quite a few comments from newbies. so this is a tutorial
I think a large portion (maybe even the majority) of users do this on Indivine, Unfortunately.
Almost just as bad are those that skim and reply with a disconnected comment, oftentimes which usually ends up with great post,awesome post,keep writing and all that–garbage. People even tend to comment twice on a post without even noticing that their previous comment is already the comment section!Votes /comments can never judge the credibility of a writer /popularity of a blog!!
I usually just skip over posts until I find something truly interesting or something that really grips me and put forth as much effort as I can to get into it, which admittantly can be a little difficult at some times but if its worth a read ..it done with the its purpose of spreading the message !! you are a fabulous writer ..coming back to read your next post can be the only solution to quench the thirst..nothing more nothing less!!
yes, majority of users do it on indivine and it’s an open secret, and we have more or less accepted this but commenting without reading a post can be really annoying.
comments like this motivate us to write better. so, thank you so much for this lovely comment and will try my level best to write decent posts
Hi Deb…finally came the second part..now waiting for the third part. I never believe in the voting system of Indi.., may be because I generally stuck at 6-7 votes. but, these 6-7 votes and comments from people like you really encourage me for the next post.
ha ha ha, yeah, i am bit slow. believe me, few votes won’t do any harm. a post gets noticed on indivine because of votes. you write exceptionally well and your posts deserve to be noticed. we do so many things for traffic (at least, i do). from SEO to keywords. how many of those strategies attract genuine readers. but indiblogger is the only platform which gives us readers and that too in abundance.
Excellent…!!!!
thank you
haha… the comments and your replies were more interesting than the post
more time was taken for reading comments…
For me voting ‘behavior’ is different at different times. On most of the occasion, I read the posts, but sometimes I may not be patient to read the whole post and become ‘aggressive’ as you said. It will be a relief if the post is a photo or a cartoon
On the whole it was an interesting post
ha ha ha, that’s a smart way of saying that the post was boring.
even i don’t mind photo and cartoon posts
but there are many bloggers i follow and i just love going through their posts. however, my blog is surviving because of blind voting 
thank you so much for taking out time and reading the post and the comments
No No!! I didn’t mean that it is boring. It was really interesting. If it was boring, I would not read it or comment. I only meant that for a cartoon or a photo, the length of post will be very small, so it will be easy to watch, so that there won’t be a feeling that I have voted without seeing the post.
See, now I am making the 99th comment for this post… due to this length I said the comments were more interesting than the post.. hi hi
ha ha ha, see, that was a strategic comment reply so that you come back and comment again and my comment count goes past 100
i love photos and cartoons. my next post is going to be a cartoon. so, hopefully i will get few extra comments
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thanks a lot for the comment
LOL.
I’ve been on Indiblogger for about ten days and this ‘indiscriminate voting’ was the first thing I discovered. Even posts with non-functioning links got promoted.
just checked your profile and realized that even i have voted for your posts, but let me assure you that i did read them
. those were short posts so the length was not an issue.
many thanks for the comment and with time you will come across many more amazing scenarios. keep blogging
Hahaha! Thoroughly enjoyed the post!
Loved the last thing: New paid writers required..I had thought of it at a time, but anyways, brilliant work
thank you so much. after submitting this post, i visited forum and saw quite a few similar threads. it was a coincidence as i never wanted to target anyone in particular. unfortunately, a lot of people are annoyed with this post now
Excellent one
Loved this line. It made me laugh! ” I, perhaps, owe it to the individual who pioneered the art of blind voting, laying a foundation for generations to come. ” Superb work 
ha ha ha, thank you so much. hey, i like the way you wrote your location – Chennai (Madras), i love the old names of all the cities.
loved your blog and those wacky posts
. waiting for the next one.
not all. your posts are short unlike mine, so, i could go through a few
ok
I am new to Indie but not new to blogging, believe me this helped
Thank you. glad it helped.
I am new to INDIBLOGGER. Got a nice insight into the types of bloggers her
so, it’s actually becoming a tutorial for newbies. a very wrong tutorial
. hey, thank you so much for the comment 
Deb.. you crack me up every single time.
Another post that will test the endurance of the stomach (due to laughing alone 
) of every reader. With your prequel and sequels, you have made this one into a block buster franchise! 
You ripped apart every type of blogger possible and I am waiting for you to continue this noble act in the next one too! 
ha ha ha, thanks a lot Raj. oh yes, i will continue with this series but right now i really don’t know what to write next. initially, i thought i will write a serious one but then it will affect my pageviews. so, i will try to write a humor post again. i am losing quite a few regular visitors because of these posts though
thanks again for this lovely comment
Ahh, you wrote the second one and I’m late to the party….
. Anyways, der aaye durust aaye. I kinda knew 2 posts would not cover the wide variety of bloggers on the blog brotherhood so I am going to now run over to the next installment in the series. You’re the Aamir Khan of all things indi shining light onto the dark corners and shady transactions. Keep up the good work… hum tumhaare saath hain.
i am soon going to be the villain of blogsphere.
i am really confused and losing all my regular visitors. you also started avoiding my blog
i will write the next part soon. but i guess i forgot to visit your blog. will read your posts later tonight.
I have not been avoiding your blog. I haven’t been reading much or writing much since it is summer vacation here and DD’s home and so are other kids in the neighborhood. All day long, I’m either being asked questions or being asked to go to the park or being asked for permission to watch TV. Too much chaos, too little time and peace to read or write. So you haven’t missed much on my blog at all.
summer vacation should be cool. but i guess, these days kids have to do some homework during vacations as well. still better than going to school.
i don’t feel like writing anymore. that’s why i post cartoons.
Haha…the entire analysis is brilliant. You had me giggling with every line. Fortunately or unfortunately i still belong to the category who reads every single post before promoting them!! The Karan Arjun part was hilarious, its always a prolonged and eager wait, those Indi promotions.
hey, thank you so much!! even i love to read every single word before promoting but for survival i promote blindly as well, and that’s only for those who promote my posts without reading (and for new blogs that i haven’t seen before). i know, it’s a prolonged wait and i get furious as well
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i saw your new post on indivine. will read it later tonight
Its actually quite logical, the whole blind promotion thing. I should try that too
Yeah no hurry, take your time 
haha, see everything has a logic. try that, it’s fun but can be annoying as well. you will see some of those blind promoters ignoring your post and voting for others even though you promoted his/her post. but it really helps your blog grow, trust me
It took quite a long time to scroll and arrive at the comments box and forgot what I had in my mind to put down. Well it was a very good and interesting piece.
hahaha, thank you so much for reading this post. i am sure, this is not your kind of post and you are not aware of these voting system. some of my bloggers friends have been kind enough to leave comments. but i will lose readers because i am not able to read any blog right now. really disturbed because of what happened in Guwahati.
Great insights into the system.
Well voting without reading somehow feels like cheating!
And getting votes without comments feels like I have been cheated.
Within a few days of joining indi, you figure out ‘good’ blog does not have a direct connection
to being a ‘popular’ blog and vice versa.
Anyway, had a Grrreat time.
Debajyoti – do you do your caricatures yourself?
well, i don’t feel cheated anymore. i know my voters and i eagerly wait for their votes
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i agree about good blog and popular blog, and it applies even outside blogsphere
thank you so much for the comment. yes, i do these caricatures with the help of some cartoon design sites
and apologies for the delayed reply. approved from dashboard and then was searching for it. now realized that you commented here.
broken links to grocery lists and from suicide notes to medical reimbursement bills..you promote everything ! Now I know, why you vote for me !
Though I still wonder…which category I fall into ( in your view )..
By the way, I am 200th voter for this post, any prizes for that ??
i read and comment on your posts as well. 200th vote
, thank you so much 
hahahaha i am so greedy. i will read all your posts from archive 
You might be disappointed !
no, i love reading old posts. will read your old posts tomorrow
I guess, I am on the initial stage of the Indivine madness as you once were; I read the entire posts before voting for them. Guess that will change eventually but, as of now, I did read your ‘entire’ post and endured it all + enjoyed it all the same. Looking forward to more from you, Deb!
yes, we do read posts that we like. thank you so much for the kind words
Yipee! I found my category, I am a cribber! going to be two months old on indivine but my report card (read network, votes, comments) is not particularly encouraging;) My head is really spinning after peels of laughter, hahaha… You are amazing!
About indivine, it may have many loopholes to plug, but through this platform I met so many genuine and talented writers. When I first time logged into indivine, I was both astounded and happy to see that poetry is still alive (but it completely ducks me why people find solitude, loneliness, suicide??? only worthy topics). I came in contact with so many prolific writers both in term of beauty of language and content. Though I haven’t still bitten by the blind voting bug, lets see how long I can save my skin. But yes! logic of promoting a post completely defies I mean.. any logic! Some posts are not even worth commenting. But may be I have not yet experienced Nirvana;)
who said i am not a cribber, we all are
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indiblogger is the best thing that happened to indian blogging and i will always be grateful to indi for this lovely experience.
yes, we have experienced nirvana. why else do you think we vote for every single thing that pops up? sadly, indi made some changes to stop people like us from voting for everything
would love to read more of your poetry. will be reading your blog tonight once i am done voting
many thanks for the comment again Meenakshi
Well some of the comments are as good as posts… not sure if I promoted this ( u c i promote before reading
oops the secret is out! but sure did read most of the post….
Best part IMO…. “they prefer to read their own blogs whenever they switch from a writer to a reader”
hahaha, this is an old post. so it’s ok if you don’t promote it
. most of us promote before reading. at times, if it’s a long post then you will be logged off by the time you finish reading but mostly because we know that we don’t have the time to read 
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many thanks for the comment
Absolutely hilarious and absolutely bang on!! The analysis of voting on Indivine is simply superb! Was a part of Indivine long back and it took me a few months to realize what was happening. When I was voting for a post, I read and commented on it. Though my posts received good votes, but those voters never read or commented on my post! Have learnt and understood now and I am AWAY from it now!!
thank you so much! yes, that’s how it works and i have no other option but to take full advantage of it. i keep losing visitors on a regular basis but thanks to indivine, i keep getting new visitors
Your post confirms my apprehensions.
Now its confirmed why I (read my blog) lags behind and will always be one of the backbenchers.
Anyway from the practical aspect, its not possible to read all the blogs and comment as well as most of them are, sorry to say, below par.
With due respect to all cobloggers, I can only read a few which interest me and dilligently and foolishly comment on them as well.
A few feel they are the cat’s whiskers and never return a visit let alone the comment.
A few put up a condescending remark or too.
Some show their stupid sincerity as I do myself and press the Like Button or give a one-liner comment.
Since nobody presses the “Follow” button, you know their intentions as clearly as looking at yourself in the mirror.
After a while this marathon voting spree is exhausting and boring and as fake an exercise as the one which we indulge in at regular intervals to chose our representatives to run the circus called governance.
Anyway, thanks for being an, as you said it, involuntary visitor to my posts and commenting regularly on them, howsoever, mediocre they may be.
On the aside, your command over the language is superb.
it’s not necessary that we will like the posts of those who read our blog. however, those who read our blogs sincerely need to be read (at least for the sake of courtesy) because all our readers have a blog and they all need readers too. and i know who is a genuine reader and who is not.
i am not totally against blind voting as all of us, at some point or other, would have promoted a post which we didn’t like. moreover, it’s only because of voting, i have few readers now.
i am always thankful to my readers and hence, i write only to entertain them. there are many other things which i would love to write about but i don’t because i know there is absolutely no reason why someone should read them.
a visitor do not come back to a blog second time because of return visits but how a blogger responds to his or her comments. everyone has self respect and no one likes to get insulted, especially when that person spent time reading a post and then took the time to comment.
actually i have written one more post on the same voting thing so won’t say anything more than this right now
. many thanks for reading this old post 
Exception to the rule…I have come back the second time. Am as grateful as you are for those who read my posts and would like to write for them, very much so. I also agree with you regarding the courtesy part and do resort to it. My intent was for those blogs which ‘we’ blindly vote ‘without’ reading, which need not be of those who read and vote for us. I have not come to term with that as I would really, really , like to read and assess the blog before promoting these which again may be a grossly wrong way of doing it as per the practices in vogue and the strategies involved for looting votes. Somewhere in the process we are not doing justice to those blogs which may need to be voted and not being done so.
absolutely, blind voting is wrong although i know i wouldn’t get so many votes if i don’t resort to it (no one will); however, in order to get visitors people resort to many other things which in my opinion are not acceptable as well e.g., commenting on every post that pops up (that also is manipulating the system), using multiple and incorrect tags and so on. some of us submit our blogs to numerous sites that promises us free visitors. those visitors are nothing but blind clicks and we accept them gleefully.
i do visit many blogs during my free times and find many exceptional yet not so popular blogs. however, i have realized that they are the most ill-mannered bloggers we have in blogsphere. no wonder they don’t get too many visitors.
if someone writes well and is not entirely a selfish kind of a person then that person will eventually get enough visitors.
many thanks for the second comment!
A clarification for the second last line of my previous comment. The tag mediocre refers to my post and not your comment.
Thanks for enduring me.
don’t worry, actually i consider my comments mediocre. no wonder i never get a decent comment reply
Don’t know how this showed up on my Indivine, it seems like this post was written a long time ago… well, thoughts never become old, and this blog was still very enjoyable! The Indivine vote bartering system is interesting, and yes, the unspoken expectations and etiquettes by far seem to promote one’s ability to network more than talent. But that said, that’s how the world works in reality, and blogging just reflects it in its own way.
exactly, it’s just a mini version of real world. this vote bartering system is indeed interesting and i look at it as a game. and this probably is the most interesting game i ever played.
thank you so much for reading this old post!
Just noticed the top posts v/s latest posts tabs in Indivine… this is one of the top posts in my favorite category- humor, and so will always be on the first page…duh. Just wanted to say you don’t need to turn your stalker alerts on! But I’m glad I came across this post, it was very entertaining.
thank you so much! although, after your comment i read it once more and realized that i could have spent some more time proofreading it
. thanks again!