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  Increase your Max Submissions per Bookmark

  Kane 8:03 am on July 18, 2011 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: account type (2), doubled (1), enhancement (1), max shares (1), max submissions (1), submissions (2), unlimited (1)

  We’ve had a lot of requests for this enhancement (v2.57), so we’re pretty happy that we got it rolled out.

  In the past, each account type (Free, Lazy Link Builder, etc.) had a “max shares” limit associated with it.  The better the account, the higher the limit.  And each “share” can result in up to 20 or so “submissions”.  Once the share limit was reached, the users bookmarks were archived and could no longer be submitted to the social media sites.  The only way you could un-archive them was to upgrade your account.

  Here’s how this all works now:

  • We’ve removed all “max shares” references and now we use “max submissions”.  The main reason for this is that each share results in a variable number of submissions, depending on numerous factors.  So it’s not really fair that Bookmark A might be archived after being submitted 1000 times and Bookmark B might make it to 1300.
  • You can now increase your “max shares” limit regardless of which account type you have. So if you only have a few bookmarks and therefore only require a ‘Lazy Free’ account, but want your bookmarks to continue to get submitted to the social sites, forever, you can boost your limit to “doubled” or “unlimited”.

  

  Just go to the Max Submission Limits page to increase your limit.

   
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  Tuning Up, Tuning Down – Part 2

  Ben 12:47 pm on November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: account type (2), available shares (1), awesome account (1), customers (1), free account (2), potential shares (1), share queue (8), shares (2), spam (3)

  One of the items that we want to tune down is the amount of sharing that our customers need to do in order to reap the full benefits of their account type.  In particular, those customers currently on the ‘Awesome’ account have the potential to have their links shared a lot, but it requires a ton of sharing on their part.

  To bring that more into line with how we’d like things to work, we’re going to actually tune up the ratio of shares received vs shares given.  Some of you that have been around since the beginning may recognize this as a leap backwards – we used to offer share return ratios greater than one on some account types.

  One element of tuning down that goes along with this change is that we will be reducing the number of potential shares per day for all account types to 5.  The biggest motivating factor here is to keep things at a level that the bookmarking sites won’t consider spam.  20 shares per day is an awful lot, especially if they are happening every day on a number of accounts.

  By tuning down the number of available shares per day, but tuning up the return on each share for our customers with higher accounts, we’ll be able to play a little more nicely with the social bookmarking sites while simultaneously delivering more value to our customers.

  A side effect of these changes should be an increase in the size of everyone’s share queues.  Since you will be going through fewer shares per day, you won’t have as easy a time exhausting the available share queue.

  In part 3 I’ll be addressing some important changes to our free account.