Maureen,  Personally, it would be like a breathe of fresh air if they'd remove the points system across the board.  Then maybe we'd stop getting so much of the drivel that's out there and just good content. 

I like your analogy Maureen :)  I like Lenn's too.  We are both hanging out under the bus sharing a 40.

Maureen,

Thank you for the kind mention and link.  Fred "Mr." Rogers was always a favorite of mine even though it was my kids that watched him.  Talk about good content he had some good content IMHO.  I am still trying to learn about this sphere called blogging so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Don R.

You are bringing back some bad childhood memories with all these references to MR. Rogers. I could not stand that show! Hopefully everything gets cleaned up with Localism. I know there are many that should be at the top and are not.

Hi Neighbor Pa commenting,  Is this strange or what....but other than the fact new members could never catch up to the high numbered pointers,( it's impossible) 

My thought is the comments and the points are a real bonus.  I have been blogging for just a couple months and its a nice little bonus to see those points add up. When you a new to all of this, it is just nice to even get comments. Thanks for an clever post

I am just a little curious on who is deciding which posts stick and which ones don't.  My market reports don't while I have seen similar ones do. Interesting, interesting interesting :)

I have also noticed that I lost a little gj.  I used to be able to google specific terms from a post.  Now I do that and it doesn't lead me to the specific post but my whole entire blog.  THat's kind of mortifying that if a potential customer doesn't know how to work tag clouds or know the date in which the post was posted.

I think it is still ironing the kinks out though!

I post to localism and they never show up.  Can't figure it all out yet.

I am just hangin out and checkin to see what they are looking for.  It doesn't appear to by a hyper local about the community blog either.  I guess I will just shrug and take another swig of my 40 that's getting pretty dang warm :)

This is a touchy, feely kind of conversation! Some of have been around lurking in the local arena for quite sometime and a "longshot" takes shotgun position.  I'm not sure I'm comfortable w/the new localism model.  I currently have 5 of the top 10 posts and I'm not a featured member.  I guess I'm just skeptical.

I sort of read quickly thru your post but did you say something about them wanting to remove your points for comments?  Did I read this right? 

The entire localism change is still not clear to me.  I have read tons of the discussions about Localism and I feel like after reading them there seems to be a bunch of different opinions if the new localism is a good thing or not. 

Maureen,  Happened across this post when visiting Localism.    I know I need to do some reading about Localism.   From the little I have read something might be wrong in Cleveland's "MR RODGERS NEIGHBORHOOD"    The Second Top Neighbor has been inactive for almost a year as I see it.  Maybe I am missing something. 

Carole, of course, deserves the top spot because of the quality of her posts and the information that she provides.   There are a number of other people that do provide great informational posts that could be deserving of the second position.  If you know of any single post that gives the best information about the "Top Neighbors" please let me know.