Ratings seem kind of like a no-win proposition. People want to know your numbers or letter grades and such, but they don’t want to take the time to read the reasoning behind it. As matters stand right now, we won’t be playing that game of simplicity. You expect more and we demand more of ourselves as a group. If you can’t be bothered to read our words, we can’t be bothered with you. This runs antithetical to the daily demand for clicks, page rankings, sound bites, and blurbs, but hopefully, this is presenting something different for everyone to chew on.
The same goes for social media. Everyone wants to have “conversations” and “community”. There are plenty of those going around, and there are plenty of channels to promote one’s work. At our last tribal zoomering, we made the deliberate decision not to play the social media game, or at least hold out for as long as possible. We aren’t doing this for anything other than the love of hearing our own voices and egos on the page.
Don’t like it? We encourage you to hang out elsewhere. We got us.