Comment Raid (not reviews)

[Inspector_Spinda]

For those of you not suited to reviews. Go to my comic and comment on as many pages as you'd like and I'll return the favor. No spam comments

https://tapastic.com/series/Souldew
https://tapastic.com/series/Mercenary-Inn
https://tapastic.com/series/Moglin-Tales

[Kamikaze]

Not meaning to offend here, but this seems a liiiiiiittle shady and disingenuous. :/

[Inspector_Spinda]

@Kamikaze what do you mean? I'll edit what I wrote if something's wrong

[TomSawyer]

seems a liiiiiiittle shady and disingenuous

Other topics ask people to subscribe

For this all you have to do is comment
There is no issue as long as it's a full sentence and not spam

[Inspector_Spinda]

I didn't mean spam I meant actual comments

[TomSawyer]

That's what I'm saying

This is actually harmless
I don't see anything wrong with this

People find out about another comic, and get a comment

[Kamikaze]

I find it a little shady/disenginuous because of a few reasons:
1. You're asking for comments straight out, but...with no real direction. Like what are the comments supposed to focus on?
2. If you're trading comments, there's no garuntee that one side will actually stay true to the agreement. They may put it off.
3. Comments and likes on the Tapastic site are used to help gauge activity, leading to what's fresh/trending algorithms picking it up for front page. This kinda feels like you're trying to game the system, even though I'm sure that's not your intent.
4. If you want more comments on your comic, perhaps try some new methods of engaging with your readership, instead of coming onto the forums begging for them. I know it's hard to get noticed out there, but do you really want to get noticed because you did a comment for comment thing, or because readers...you know, actually LIKE what you're doing and want more of it?
5. I'm gonna be blunt, and again meaning no offense here, but these kind of tactics are used on other sites too including Kickstarter. I reeks of desperation at best and seen as scamming people at worst. Don't be that guy.

If you decide you wanna do it, that's cool. I can't stop you and I hope it works out.

[Inspector_Spinda]

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1. Fair enough
2. Same with reviews which people do all the time
3. Not to sure what this means
4. Just for fun. Beside I gave no minimum so if you don't like they'll comment less. I gave no promises to comment the same amount of times.
5. Didn't think of this. If you say so I guess.

[PotooGryphon]

@Kamikaze's points are exactly spot on. It's generally not viewed well to ask for subs, likes, and comments on the forums because the Tapastic algorithm does track this activity on each series and series that get a boost in activity appear on the front page under Popular or Trending.

So asking for these interactions on the forums instead of naturally gaining that through creating a quality comic and reaching readers that genuinely like and follow does hurt the series asking for such aide.

It hurts the series because you don't want to bloat your series with fake subscribers and readers that read once and never return. On platform sites like Tapastic it's good to have a healthy active following of readers that come back for each update and comment/like/share naturally because they appreciate your series. With readers like that a series builds consistent ad revenue, and activity that can land them on the front page of the site with each update.

You also don't want to build a readership based on a contingency of you comment on mine I'll comment on yours. You should want readership with no strings attach and you can freely comment on whoever you'd like and they can return the favor if they so choose to.

Also @TomSawyer is right. There are topics that pop up on the forums of sub swapping however the mods also close those topics down for the same reasons.

Also also, side note, this topic shouldn't have been tagged "Reviews" if "(not reviews)" is in the title. Very confusing.

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