The "REACTIONS" to TREASURE TRAILS (at the bottom of each blog post) -- A reset

Readers.   Thank you for your continued support of this blogsite.

As I've mentioned in previous blogs I don't really get much feedback from readers.  I know that people are enjoying the site because of the volumes of page visits (almost 7 million now since we began) and 663 "members".  Occasionally, people leave comments which in most cases are greatly appreciated and encouraged.

A week or so ago the "Reaction" radial button counts that were at the bottom of each blog entry ("Makes Me Wet", "Sexy", "More of This") which have been used since the beginning of this blogsite in May 2008 were not operating correctly for new blog postings.

I couldn't figure out how to get the problem fixed.   A fellow blogger, suggested I reset the "reaction" radial button settings.   I did this today.

The results didn't surprise me.  I had to rename each "Reaction" option and when I did that, essentially start all of the counts over eliminating ALL accumulated responses.  I hope it will fix the problem that I was having where the reaction totals fluctuated up and down.  (There should only be one indication of these reactions and that is an increase in the total count of each option).

So we started a new day, so to speak.  Some of you may never use the "Reaction" radial buttons or "Comments".  I understand completely.

I use the your "reactions" to sort of gauge the audiences preferences.  Sure, I can see what the page hits are but the daily page visits is hard to truly understand reader's preference.

The Reactions (and the Comments) features make the blog site more interactive.  These indicators make the site more interactive experience for me.  I think that is probably true for the blogsite's visitors by seeing what others thought about the "Reaction" results.  More people take the time to hit a radial button than to make a comment.

When you get the chance, I hope you'll all help update previous entries.

I hope that fixed another issue that some of you may have experienced.   The previous "Reactions" radial button responses were a bit lengthier:  "makes me wet", "sexy", "more of this".     What happened on some entires was that once the first two response counts had two digit totals, the last category fell off and you couldn't see it.   The choice is now "Makes Me Wet", "Sexy", "More!".  This truncation issue should go away now.

But we we had to sacrifice all previous reaction results since May 2008.

Sorry for this bit of housekeeping news.