Celanith, you pretty much summed up the issue in the first few sentences of your post: celanith wrote: They are into celebrity gossip and yellow journalism, political bashing and trashing, sports, and things that to me are boring so I don't much care to read their stuff and most don't care to read mine. I mean if you are not interested in what others write then why should others have interest in your post. Moreover, boring for one maybe interesting for another. I feel Xomba is the most democratic medium for expression and does offer a good blend for everyone to write and read here. If people are not reading your posts (yet), how can you fault Xomba for that? There is enough for everyone here. I have yet to find someone who was disappointed with Xomba ( both in terms of content and layout) - that includes people above 40's. Categories is an excellent tool to go to the type of content you like to read. And let me tell you i do like to read poetry and stories. I am sure you will find fun here. Sometimes you got to do the right things and not things right. Hope you find happiness here.

Celanith However what I like to write about seldom gets read people don't seem to like stories, human interest, poetry. They are into celebrity gossip and yellow journalism, political bashing and trashing, sports, and things that to me are boring so I don't much care to read their stuff and most don't care to read mine. So we got a problem here in those of us who prefer more human interest, pet, kid, family stories and articles they are the lest read, won't ever get top rating and that is plain not fair. Because too many want the gossip, sports and politics and things I am sick of hearing from the news media already. I want to come online and read some interesting stuff that is not on the news or t.v Entertainment or sports. That is why I mostly write elsewhere and I have read the side bar stuff and most is NOT interesting. It is geared yet again to younger generations under 40. Go take a look at some of the other forums and find out what I am talking about. It isn't going to hurt you and it might even help Xomba to improve even more. I don't recommend Xomba to my friends much the ones I did my age 40 and up said the same as I do not much here to hold our interest and the front page is what catches the eye first the recent Xombytes and blurbs the hot tags, and when they see sports, celebrity gossip and the like it is a turn off. The younger readers don't seem interested in reading what I write and so how am I ever going to get top rating so basically Xomba is age discriminatory toward older people and what interests us. Grandkids, Health, Gardening, Poetry, Walking and Photography, Travel and Vacation with human interest and I hate the xomblurbs or most of them. I don't think it is right people get points for other peoples links they created. It is not quite but close to copyright theft. I would not want someone giving a link on something I created to get points for it without my permission. Though I am guilty of putting up a few xomblurbs to see what interest it would generate most didn't get much attention. If someone cannot be creative in writing and has to rely on someone else's created Utube link or other creative link then that really is getting points for someone else's idea anyway. Just my peronal opinion.

I wish when a user posted something it just automatically put a 1 beside it. That way you would automatically vote for your own stuff. This system won't be changing though. I understand the positives and negatives for both. We've got big ideas for the voting thing just stay tuned. We also have an idea of how you can flag favorite articles as well. Kind of like bookmarks that will list on your profile.

to lobby for the return of the "Recently Viewed" list. Basically it was a list of what xombytes happen to have been viewed recently, without regard to age of the article or category or whatever. I found it a great way to discover older and less-viewed stuff that I wouldn't have seen otherwise.