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Daknight
May '18

You know, this might be a good suggestion for Tapas as in been able to put in an option to opt-out of 'thank you for sub' post if people don't really want to receive them. Say when someone is about to post in your wall a message pop up (if you opt to the 'no thank you for sub necessary' option) which will let the person know that you don't want or don't need to receive a 'thank you for subbing' message.

I know is common and we do it for simple action of being thankful, but for some readers it might be annoying and that part is understandable.

Or be able to pin a top message stating you don't need a 'Thank you for subbing' message.

SleepingPoppy
May '18

That's not entirely fair? While there are lots of suggestions I wish Tapas would prioritize, they do make an effort to listen to their users. They're a small team of people, so what they can get done in a timely manner will vary, and they're also people with their own opinions and priorities.

Daknight
May '18

I am sure they listen to suggestion, but is got to be a group of people suggesting the same thing over a period of time. Is hard to react to every single suggestion unless is by a large number of people. Doesn't hurt to suggest either

SleepingPoppy
May '18

I don't feel here nor there about thank-you posts. The majority of users are on the app, which means they neither see the thank-you, not do other app only users. That said, I think it's both a nice way of showing appreciation and a useful way for people to glimpse your art. I've looked at comics because I liked the thank-you picture on someone else's profile. But I'm nosy like that?

I think the only thing that bugs me about it is that app-users have no idea either way about it, which means they're not in a position to delete the thank-you's if that so desire. Most of them probably don't know they have a profile page, so anything could be posted to it without their knowledge.

However thank-you messages are pretty harmless, and I assume they do it because they see other people doing it, and it seems like "a thing" and if it happens to also have an advertising bonus, why not? Again, harmless. ((but everyone has the right to delete whatever off their pages))

joannekwan(ง ˙o˙)ว here to help~
May '18

Most people I've seen are neutral about them or like them. I've only ever seen a few who dislike them.
If you're unsure about posting them, check the user's wall to see if they've gotten any before and how they react to them (could also PM them asking about it).

But like others have said, many readers now are on the app and are unlikely to ever see their own profile wall.

EDIT: ALSO, if I recall correctly, Tap only has 2 full-time devs, so this is a lot of site for just 2 people to handle, profile walls are on a lower rung of the priority ladder.

Hexigate
May '18

Only TWO full-time devs?

Is Tapas not bringing in enough revenue for more full-time employees? Because that seems grossly understaffed.

joannekwan(ง ˙o˙)ว here to help~
May '18

Not sure if they are planning on hiring another dev anytime soon.
On their About page2 it lists 2 devs and a couple more engineers, which seems enough to handle day-to-day issues concerning bugs and stuff like that.

But yeah, 16 people. That's Tap's full time core group.

shiftingverses
May '18

I write a personal one usually. Mostly because I only have 52 subs on my comic. A new sub is an event for me.

teacup_creations
May '18

I personally love them? I feel like it shows that the creator cares about their subscribers and I also really like snooping around other people's pages and seeing the thank you posts on their walls to find new comics~

I do send them myself but if I notice that the subscriber has reacted negatively to them before or something like that, I try to avoid posting them.

amortelito
May '18
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I have never thought about them as being "desperate". To me is like collecting posters or stickers of the music bands you like. Also is an acknowledgement by the author. Is an extra piece of art asides the comic. In this case I really fail to see why would I consider that annoying. As Daknight said, randomly posting images and messages asking for subs is tasteless. Yes those a despearte and annoying.

ryoko
May '18

I believe users have a way to disable people from posting on their walls. I do post "Thank you" notes because I genuinely appreciate someone going out of their way to subscribe. I've noticed that on some users when I click on them to post a 'thank you' that there isn't an option to message them. I'm not sure if it's when they choose to 'hide library' or if it's another setting.

Im_moron
May '18

if you want my 2 cents, I do it because everyone does it...

Rowein
May '18

I always thought was a nice gesture and never as a desperate one.
But I've never done it, because I'm super awkward with this details and I knew about it too late :_)

Progg
May '18

When someone subscribes to my comic, I check their wall. If there are thank you-messages there from a while back, I figure they probably don't mind, or they would have deleted those.

leecomics
May '18

It'd be pretty neat to start polling the user base about issues like this...

NanettesClouds
May '18

I've been doing thank you posts for awhile, they're pretty helpful when you're just starting out because it helps you make a more direct connection with your readers, early on I got into some friendly one-on-one chats with some of my readers because of the thank you posts, I even got some good feedback sometimes. The other thing that's helpful is, if another creator follows you posting on their wall can be a little bit of a signal boost for you, I would also use it as an opportunity to thank those creators directly for their support and comment on how much I liked their work. Later on I was able to go back to some of those creators who I had started a dialogue with (many of which I had continued to chat with outside of the thank you post) and ask for guest comics (I ended up getting 9 of them!!!).

So yeah, thank you posts are great. They may not be the most effective way to grow an audience, but they're useful for connecting with your readers directly and building up a little bit of a community.

All of that said I'm going to stop doing them once I hit 500 subscribers and start doing something else, because I feel like I've outgrown them, and when I post I tend to get a decent number of new subscribers so it's much more time consuming than it was when I first started and I only had to make 2-6 posts in a week.

Wezboy
May '18

I've always seen the " Thank you for subscribing " posts as a way of people advertising themselves??? XDD I usually send people private messages saying thank you hahaha. Not that everyone does it for advertising, of course. I used to make " thanks for subs " post because I really felt happy about my first subs xDDD. Now I only do it in private hahaha.

CurlyComics
May '18
Daknight

Speaking as a programmer I seriously don't think this is easily achievable, because for a system to opt out thank you posts it has to 'learn' in a way what is a thank you post and what is not. And for that a machine learning specialist will be needed and also there is no way a filter like this would have a 100% accuracy on catching all thank you posts. (I mean if they just post an image, oh boy is it gonna be hard to be categorized as unwanted ...)
It's a lovely idea though, and if computer science advances further it will be possible to implement :slight_smile:
Ps. I dont mean to sound rude, and sorry if I do :slight_smile:
Ps. ps. If someone finds an easier way of doing that , that'd be great :smiley:

Also I think there is an option where you can deny posts on your profile (dunno for sure tho)