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Roger D. Mucci, Lets shake things up at your home today! (Shaken...with a Twist 216.633.2092)

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Rainmaker
3,988,007
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

This is the biggest flaw with the new feed. It is posting whatever the numbers say is worthy. I am tired of seeing market reports over and over.

Feb 12, 2015 11:10 AM
Rainmaker
3,988,007
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

The score is coming from other social media and not just AR. The blogger is posting on their on website and spreading across social media. They could even be hitting their own site multiple times to increase the score. The algorithms are picking it up. But never fear it won't be up more than 5 minutes or so. The posts are rolling off fast including the good posts. Hopefully they will change this back. I don't think it has made anybody happy.

Feb 12, 2015 11:09 AM
Ambassador
3,164,119
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Matt Holder I think we'd all like to know why AR continues to try to fix something that ain't broke?

Feb 12, 2015 02:46 PM
Rainmaker
2,817,671
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

Right.  It's an automatic algo done by a robot with no human screening.  I am not liking this at all.  But, I'm thrilled about the recent post they put up where they are going to change things.

Personally, I think the high traffic ones should all be on a separate page.  Most of them seem to be very low interest and relevance to 99% of us.

Feb 12, 2015 11:18 AM
Rainmaker
613,494
Eve Alexander
Buyers Broker of Florida - Tampa, FL
Exclusively Representing ONLY Tampa Home Buyers

Now we are on the same playing level as Zillow Zestimates...

Eve

Feb 13, 2015 12:49 AM
Rainmaker
15,290
Matt Holder
Director of Product | Trulia - San Francisco, CA

We're working on solutions to your feedback. Nothing's perfect out the gate but together we'll make the experience and the community better.

Feb 12, 2015 02:15 PM
Rainmaker
825,809
Maureen Bray Portland OR Home Stager ~ Room Solutions Staging
Room Solutions Staging, Portland OR - Portland, OR
"Staging Consultations that Sell Portland Homes"

The current "new" feature page is not worth any time reading it .... I agree with you Roger D. Mucci 

Feb 12, 2015 12:56 PM
Rainmaker
4,319,419
Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Andover, MA
Andover, MA: Andover Luxury Homes For Sale

Roger D. Mucci I like it when my picture is there..... - feels like winning your contest! 

(And surprisingly. I have started liking this news feed style home page for ActiveRain, of course popular blog entry with no comments is not something that I'd like to see...)

Feb 12, 2015 12:47 PM
Rainmaker
1,771,867
Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

I don't get it either Roger?

Feb 12, 2015 12:18 PM
Rainmaker
2,817,671
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

Oh and here is the link to the post w/ some of the planned changes.  I can't wait...the current page is not working at all.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/4602028/home-page-updates-on-the-way

Feb 12, 2015 11:20 AM
Rainer
279,878
Dipti Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Andover, MA
On a team with Praful Thakkar

I don't have any clue!

Jun 22, 2018 10:52 PM
Rainmaker
630,251
Ajay Pandya
e-Merge Real Estate Unlimited - Columbus, OH
Realtor Ajay Pandya

This happens!

Feb 09, 2018 07:26 PM
Rainer
105,987
Chris Mamone
Keller Mortgage - Tacoma, WA
Senior Loan Officer

Roger - I couldn't agree more! I've got an average of 100-200 people clicking and reading my blog posts, and yet comments are very very low same thing 4 people. I'm not sure how to fix this and if I knew how, I would be sharing with you!

Debbie - I get tired of seeing market reports too. They are boring. Its our content we actually write and contribute that makes the rain what its mean't to be.

Feb 18, 2015 02:55 PM
Rainmaker
463,619
Kim Boekholder Utah Real Estate/ PECO
Results Real Estate 801.580.5624 - Draper, UT
Broker Results Real Estate/Leasing Specialist PECO

I just skip the homepage and jump right into the questions or who I am following.    I'm trying to stay positive on the changes but its getting difficult.

Feb 17, 2015 06:09 AM
Rainmaker
927,795
Ron Marshall
Marshall Enterprises - Saint Michael, MN
Birdhouse Builder Extraordinaire

I saw that, too, Roger.  And, I was laughing my 4$$ off.  I think they might have retuned their algorithms now.  But, you might recall what I think of the algorithms anyway.  LOL!

Feb 14, 2015 04:15 AM
Rainmaker
2,224,473
Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

The new changes make me wonder what else we are in store for. I'm not looking forward to this. I think it's some way to help make trulia look better in the search engines and I have an issue with that. 

Feb 13, 2015 02:53 PM
Rainmaker
1,683,912
Larry Johnston
Broker, Friends & Neighbors Real Estate and Elkhart County Subdivisions, LLC - Elkhart, IN
Broker,Friends & Neighbors Real Estate, Elkhart,IN

Good evening Roger, I agree,  It all looks disorganized and definitely out of place.

Feb 13, 2015 12:29 PM
Rainmaker
15,290
Matt Holder
Director of Product | Trulia - San Francisco, CA

Thanks Roger D. Mucci & Tammy Lankford. While some of you on this thread liked the old version of the home page, there are many others who did not like it for many reasons. First of which being the content was stale and second being the same people showed up time and time again - so there was no variety.

We're aiming to help strike a balance between the highly curated content of the previous home page with a greater ability to discover new blogs, new questions, and new people. In doing so, we hope to grow the community and make the community more vibrant. We want to enable richer conversations between members so that everyone can learn from each other and get information they need to become more effective and successful agents.

Your feedback is very important to us achieving that vision and we're working hard to deliver it for you.

Feb 13, 2015 02:25 AM
Rainmaker
5,868,372
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

I thought the same thing yesterday, makes the platform look a bit silly.    If 4 comments is high traffic, why would anyone be on here?

Feb 12, 2015 11:20 PM
Rainmaker
1,292,363
Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543
Realty ONE Group Advocates 484-237-2055 - Downingtown, PA
Selling the Main Line & Chester County

I am pleased I am not the only one confused, thanks Roger for putting it out there.

Feb 12, 2015 10:17 PM
Rainer
97,521
Shannon Thomas
Selling Indy Metro, LLC - Avon, IN
Managing Broker, E-Pro, ABR,SRS, SFR

I have been looking for good blogs to read and there are so many local reports.  Unless it has to do with my areas I don't care about seeing them. I love the great informative posts that active rainers are known for.   I hope they fix this soon.

Feb 12, 2015 09:13 PM
Rainmaker
5,104,806
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Roger -- I think you are just as confused as many of us are!

Feb 12, 2015 09:08 PM
Rainmaker
4,434,127
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

I do not like the new system either.

Feb 12, 2015 08:58 PM
Rainmaker
4,333,175
Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Cell: 631-805-4400
The Top Team @ Charles Rutenberg Realty 255 Executive Dr, Plainview NY 11803 - Plainview, NY
Long Island Condo and Home Specialists

It's so annoying that they feel the need to keep changing, and keep making excuses they will fix the problem...Don't make the changes then if you don't have it right!

Feb 12, 2015 07:34 PM
Rainmaker
637,434
Hella M. Rothwell, Broker/Realtor®
Carmel by the Sea, CA
Rothwell Realty Inc. CA#01968433 Carmel-by-the-Sea

Roger D. Mucci - Every time I go into AR, there are major changes. I just don't have the time to figure all this out, so I keep going to my trusty "followers", like you, and do my same old stuff. Hope AR doesn't get changed to a point where we can't talk meaningfully to each other any more like we have been.

Feb 12, 2015 07:31 PM
Rainmaker
409,203
Jim Paulson
Progressive Realty (Boise Idaho) www.Progressive-Realty.info - Boise, ID
Owner,Broker

It reminds me of people that post silly questions on Facebook just trying to get comments so that their exposure rate goes up.  I know one guy that loves to post things like "what is your favorite.... (color, cat, dog, car) and people post their answer which ends up on their feeds giving exposure to the person that asked the question, what how will that ever help him sell a house?  Kind of like the people here that obviously reply to every single post one at a time so they can get their 25 points per reply.

Feb 12, 2015 05:20 PM
Rainmaker
1,622,432
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

I don't even visit that page any more. It just does not have any sense. I hope, they will add filters. It would be even better if we can customize what we want to see ( save in settings).

Feb 12, 2015 05:16 PM
Rainmaker
1,622,432
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

I saw a blog with no comments but with 1.1k likes( high traffic?). Seems, some members know how to game a system and get a lot of views and likes. Maybe they will write a blog post about it and teach us?

:)

Feb 12, 2015 03:56 PM
Rainmaker
2,012,678
Christine Donovan
Donovan Blatt Realty - Costa Mesa, CA
Broker/Attorney 714-319-9751 DRE01267479 - Costa M

It doesn't make much sense though it sounds like AR is working on it.

Feb 12, 2015 03:06 PM
Ambassador
1,076,531
John Meussner
Mortgages in AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, IN, MD, MN, MT, NC, NJ, NV, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI - Fair Oaks, CA
#MortgageMadeEasy Fair Oaks, CA 484-680-4852

Activerain has gone algorithms.  I'm glad I'm not the only one hating this.  They say change is inevitable and change is good.  I'd argue this is the worst change I've seen to this site.

Feb 12, 2015 01:36 PM
Rainmaker
5,772,575
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

I agree Roger, it is a strange new way.  They are doing their best, and not coming up the way it was intended, I think...Robots are not that smart.  A

Feb 12, 2015 01:20 PM
Rainmaker
4,571,456
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

It seems pretty useless to me --- looking forward to the next update/revision.

Feb 12, 2015 01:04 PM
Rainmaker
2,443,250
Evelyn Johnston
Friends & Neighbors Real Estate - Elkhart, IN
The People You Know, Like and Trust!

That doesn't even make sense does it Roger? I have to agree with you.  Sounds like a bug needs to be fixed.

Feb 12, 2015 12:18 PM
Ambassador
6,392,879
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Lots of things here dont make sense to me, best to just keep doing my thing and not worry about how they are doing things.

Oct 16, 2019 08:31 PM