How much posting on your wall is too much?

[nathankschulz]

@AnnaLandin Just crappy luck? God, that is no fun.

[Doubtcent]

One thing I also find annoying about wall posts is that if I comment on a popular post, say I was the first to notice it and respond, I will get every reply thenceforward as a notification. Posters, bewarb!

If only there was a "turn off notifications for this post" option.

[keii4ii]

You know what drives me nuts? When creators post a wall notification about their comic update! I ALREADY GET NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT THAT! &#$(^&(@#$%

[60Six]

Question: if you make a wall notification then delete it, will it stjll show up for people who weren't online during it? Like for example, I make notifications when I'm live streaming but I delete them once I'm done with the stream. If one of my subscribers just didn't check tapastic before the post was deleted, do they still get a notification for it? Or do they get one and when they go to check it get some "this post has been deleted" message?

[PotooGryphon]

No, I don't think they get the notification if you delete your post. I haven't yet run into that situation where I encountered a, "This post has been deleted messaged" nor have I received response from bummed readers that they missed a stream but got a notification.

[elixiadragmire]

I've stopped using the wall .... no one read it when I put up important comic related information such as comic cons or hiatuses (I put it there so I didnt clog up my comic with non comic pages which are problematic for binge readers) but noone read them.

I have more or less 'given up' on the wall feature.

[PotooGryphon]

Yeah, I thinks that's another issue. Not many readers read wall posts. Maybe just a handful of them.

Because of that, I kind of do both methods. I wall post and put a short announcement image at the bottom of a comic post for important announcements.

[agentfink]

I'm still trying to navigate my wall for contests and what not-- I've posted occasionally about things unrelated to my comic, but I always turn the bell off for those. It's more to show people I am active on my wall if they want to engage-- which-- like others have said-- most don't!

BTW-- If anyone wants to see a baby condor-- check out the link on my wall to see the live feed!

[60Six]

Cool, thanks so much for the answer! I've been wondering that for a while now

[PixyByte]

I know right? That's what personal FB is for lol

[nobody]

I've unsubscribed from a certain creator because she was posting on her wall several times a week at best, and several times a day at worst. It's sad, because I liked her comic, but I got so sick of the constant updates. If you rarely do live-streams, then by all means - announce it when you're doing one. But if you do one almost every day I just lose interest - I usually don't have the time to watch them anyway due to different timezones or because I'm at work.

As a creator I feel like I should have more patience with this – I've posted a few updates on my wall too! But I think it would've been a little different if other creators' wall posts had a separate notification system or something like that. Your reading list and activity feed is separated, so maybe there should've been a separate notification system for wall posts too. That way you avoid making people excited thinking someone's liked or commented on their own comic and then instead being disappointed that it's just pointless update #109 that week from the same creator. And then when you feel like it, you can go to the wall post activity feed to check out the latest updates from the creators you follow

[Vikiro_Hop]

People using their walls like it's social media is very. annoying. for the most part it's lead to me ignoring most posts when they pop up. Then I end up missing out on important info like hiatuses and such. I'm subbed to around 200 comics at the moment and I don't have the energy to care about each wall post especially when some of them post 3 or 4 times a day. I get that people use it to interact with each other, but it's annoying to people who just want to read a certain artists comic.

Not sure if it's the only reason I would unsub, but If I was on the fence and the creator was just spamming posts then it would definitely push me over.

I think I've only done one wall post ever and that was to let people know that my character made a guest appearance in another persons comic. Everything else I would leave in the comic description or just make an update comic for.

[AngieVX]

I think the problem is that Tapastic put ALL kinds of notifications in one "box": wall updates, feedback, comic chapters updates!
But I feel a bit annoyed by "there won't be any updates" notifications, I don't really need to know that!

[jonufele]

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[dglisson]

Hey, thanks for responding! Just to be clear, it's more like how much of a creator posting on their own wall is too much for subscribers If you want I'll post on your wall though!

[mappypaint]

I rarely post on my wall.XD My wall is full of thank you messages from other creators. However I do see other creators who I think is posting too much on their walls. To me, if it has nothing to do with any of your comics or art, then that is posting too much. I don't want to be notified about what you're having for lunch, where you're currently hanging out, or your time to go to bed. If I see the creators name on my notifications, I just mark it as read and just ignore whatever he/she wanted to share. 99% chance it has nothing to do with the comic I followed.

[LeoKi]

The notifications can be filtered by type on this page but more options would be even better, such as putting notifications about one's favorite comics first. Maybe creators have more options on it, such as splitting their own series from the series they read?

[apurviance]

But overall I'd say it's at least partly about content, not just frequency? -- like if you're letting me know that you just started a patreon, for instance, or letting me know of an upcoming event for you, that makes sense to alert me about.

^THIS!

I'll read posts by folks who tend to post interesting stuff. Interesting to the reader, which is not necessarily the same as what interests the author. Which is why I think I've pushed out only a handful of notices. I'm just not interesting.

Does anyone have an opinion on posting streaming notices on your wall? For me there seems to be a long time delay between posting and anyone getting around to reading it. If at all.

[shazzbaa]

Does anyone have an opinion on posting streaming notices on your wall?

I'd see this as reasonable if you're alerting in advance about a coming event! Like "I'm going to be streaming this Friday at noon! Come join me then!" Whereas just announcing "I'm streaming right now!" is a little less likely to be useful, I feel like?
To me, wall notifications are maybe more comparable to like.... sending out an email to people who subscribed to your newsletter. It makes sense to send an email to say "hey, there's an event this weekend" but "hey this is happening right now!" feels more suited to the transience of social media.

[zetina]

Actually, as your subber who has missed a number of streams, I can say that I'm fairly sure I did get notified but when I clicked the "66 has made a wall post" message, I just get taken to your wall. I remember because I was thinking "oh, she must have deleted a livestream notification".

My memory is not 100% on this though since I check messages with a zombie-like alertness which is to say none. Plus, it might have changed. Depends on how many streams I've missed by now //weeps
The situation I mentioned was a while ago.

@CyndiFoster You didn't get bummed readers because they didn't even know what they missed, I'd wager.

Does anyone have an opinion on posting streaming notices on your wall? For me there seems to be a long time delay between posting and anyone getting around to reading it. If at all.

It's all about luck and time zones, really. Also, depends on how long your streams last. Personally, I don't mind them 'cause I can just check fast if they must have ended by now and move on. Other times, it's lucky when I happen to see 'em when I'm on tapastic! With planned streams like @shazzbaa says, I'm bad with them because then I have to actually plan time, do the time zone converting and then actually remember about it at all, haha xD A spontanous "i'm streaming now" post is just right for me.