Is it proper to sip your soup loudly? How about burping in public? Well, every country has it’s own manner or etiquette for dining. What is considered proper in one country, can be unethical to another country. If ever you’re planning to travel around the globe, perhaps the game below can help you to not gross out the world.
Ever encountered these things? 
8-) They are called “Smileys” or “Emoticons” - Emotion Icons. These emoticons is used to express one’s emotion in text. Putting these on emails, comments, chats, etc. will definitely make them more expressive, and more friendly. I’m one avid fan of emoticons, as a matter of fact, 90% of my comments and chats contains emoticons. However, not only emoticons can help express emotions through text. There’s also CAPITAL LETTERS, Exclamation Point!, (symbols) @%#^&*$((*#, and (direct text) *sob* *huhu* *haha* *zZzZz* *joking*.
Subtle emotions and meanings can be difficult to transmit through text, as well as satire and humor. These may be misinterpreted as sarcasm, rudeness or an insult. Perhaps these are just result of being absent minded or poor structure of phrase, and not intended the way it was perceived. Putting suitable smileys or other emotion text can save them from being misunderstood.
Ex: “Of course not. I’d rather go alone.”
vs
“Of course not! I’d rather go alone. *kidding*”
Expressing emotions should be used sparingly and responsibly. Thus these may also gravitate anger and other unpleasant expressions.
What is the first thing you’ll do when someone is going to pay you a visit? Perhaps you’re going to fix yourself, clean your place, make sure everything is in order. I’m sure you don’t want your visitors to see your place is at mess. I believe cleaning your place is the most basic act of courtesy one can show to their guests. This gives them the impression that they are welcome to your place.
The same concept applies on our blog. We should keep our blog clean to make it very inviting to our visitors. You don’t want to spoil a good chance to give a pleasant impression to your readers. Even if your contents are good but your site is cluttered and difficult to read, I don’t think your readers will enjoy your posts that much. Perhaps they’ll just browse through and leave – I am guilty of this. When I visit a blog and felt like it’s a mess, I’ll just look at the latest post’s title. If nothing caught my attention, I’ll hop to another blog. On the other hand, if I find the blog is clean I usually stay there for about 5 minutes and see what it has to offer.
Messy blogs can also degrade the value of your blog’s design. It’s senseless to have a very sleek or very cool blog layout when you don’t know how to clean up your blog! Isn’t it much better to visit a place that is not-so well designed but very well-kept? than a well designed but run-down?
I’ve been writing about random topics for quite a while, tough this blog is supposed to be in “Self-Improvement” niche. I love to inspire, motivate, and help improve the quality of life by sharing my thoughts and experiences. But now I think I’m into blog improvement, increase traffic & page ranks, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), MMO (Make Money Online) and social medias. It seems like my interests have been shifting back and forth, but I noticed that they have the same bottom line: Improvement. At least I’m still on the “Improvement” track (LOL)
Well, perhaps my ‘main’ interest is to help improve, enhance, upgrade, build or create something of value; and it confirms as I browsed my archives. It seems like I constantly, unconsciously, add the “improvement” ingredient every time I cook a post. I guess “improvement” has been my main ingredient after all.
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INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET ETIQUETTE
So much for that very long introduction. All I want to do is introduce you to the Internet Etiquette, and notify you all that I’m going to have a steady stream of posts about it for the mean time. *PEACE*
WHAT IS INTERNET ETIQUETTE?
Internet Etiquette or “Netiquette” refers to the practices that were developed to make the experience of internet users pleasant. There were some rules described by Internet Engineering Task Force or (IETF) in RFC 1855, however due to the evolution of the internet these rules now vary from community to community. Well, ‘netiquette’ is primarily concerned about matters of courtesy over the internet.
Isn’t it nice when your readers frequently leave very good comments in your post? It feels like you want to give them great rewards. However, the quality and the mediocre commentators get the same reward when they comment on your blog:
But then, we want to give our quality commentators better rewards, better edge to separate them from the mediocre commentators. Or better yet, we want to SPOIL THEM! – Positively.
So here are some ways to spoil your quality commentators.
1. Recent Comments:
I believe WordPress has a built-in Get Recent Comments widget. By putting this widget, you’re showcasing your latest commentators. The more frequent they comment, the more exposure they’ll get.
**Note: Get recent comments widget also place the link of your posts that are commented. This is also a good exposure for your post and it also sends some link-juice to that post.