I think we are getting off topic here!
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It’s all related to the reasons why CC is not getting the traffic it needs to get ads to work.
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But to be honest it’s a way to address the problem from the other direction. Don’t throw good money after bad. Fix the problem.
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If CC were a non-profit, there could be fundraising, grant-writing and so on. Is that a possibility? It does provide a service to students and parents without resources, along with those who do have resources.
I’m sorry that young adults have experienced this. I think people should really stop and think the impact of their post on the minds of high schoolers with goals and the fact it can demotivate them and deter them from achieving their dreams.
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yeah. There are ways to give advice, even advice the person does not want to hear, in a kind way.
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You also have to understand many come on for chance mes - but don’t appreciate the response if it’s not the one they want.
In other words, they simply want you to tell them they have a great chance. And get upset of you don’t.
And doing so is not helpful to anyone.
If someone simply comes for affirmation, they’ll end up being hurt later.
It’s an open site so I’m not sure how it relates to a premium service. Unless you mandate words or tone, you’ll get responses from a wide variety of spectrums.
I don’t, for example, see anything coarse toward anyone in what I write but I’m exactly the person you are referencing.
I’m not sure how all could be sanitized but perhaps responders have to be approved through an upfront process for a pay service and then the site can determine who it wants for their paying customers. Of course by doing so they might lose valuable opinions.
I think chance mes in general are ripe for automation. Today - there’s a lot missing from the process that makes their validity questionable. But with improvements in technology, the chance mes can one day be automated with accuracy. And it wouldn’t be far fetched for student apps to be reviewed and decisions made similarly - with less human involvement.
The site owners might look past today and at the landscape 5 and 10 years out to best determine how to monetize the business. I, for one, don’t know what it looks like but I suspect much different than today.
One last thing - how bout a retail merch store for all things for all colleges. Got an acceptance to UGA. Tell us and get a pop up ad - buy a UGA sweatshirt 20% off etc.
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There is something to responding in a kind way the first time and just not responding if they are confrontational about your opinion. There is a nice mute feature on here that you can use to just not see someone’s posts. Sometimes silence is the best option. Also, I was not talking about you or any one person, rather just a collective problem I have noticed here on CC as a high school student.
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But most students don’t seem to see that, not to mention some of the ones that do come here aren’t treated well by adult posters (edit: I see that’s been covered)
It seems like there are more parents on Reddit than CC too, IMO…talking about parents looking for admissions help, not parent forum type stuff. I don’t have data that support that tho.
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I will say that the people on Reddit, especially on A2C, are not treated well by the fellow high school students there. I once did a chance me for myself there and got tons of comments and DMs saying that my extracuriculars sucked and my test scores (33 ACT at the time) was not high enough for anything. So, if we turn CC into a more kind and welcoming place, I think people will come from Reddit in droves. I’m not the only person on there that this happens to.
PS: I got into all the schools they said I would not lol. 
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While true, such behavior also violates ToS. Flag it and let the highly paid moderators deal with it. I avoid chance threads and will not be proactive in monitoring those threads. So unless someone flags, I don’t see.
That said, don’t conflate frankness with rudeness. Not liking an answer does not violate ToS, nor does being incorrect.
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Unfortunantely, many HS students don’t understand the nuance between being rude and being frank. Some of the chance me responders are very frank, and the people who post don’t pick up on that. Others are just plain rude. It’s just something we need to work on as a community to ensure people feel welcome here. That way, more people will come here at take advantage of what the site has to offer.
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I would suggest that posting multiple times in the same chance me threads in the absence of direct engagement from the OP can only be construed as rude and as such should be prohibited.
If the OPs want further questions answered they can ask but if they are told the same thing repeatedly on an unsolicited basis by the same poster it is a form of bullying in my opinion.
It also frequently results in the threads going off topic and digressing into personal narratives that often aren’t applicable to OPs situation.
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How does one find out about reddit?
I’ve heard a lot about it on here. and I don’t remember how I found out about the CC but I probably googled something and came to a thread. It might have been colleges for the Jewish B student.
I suppose I’d find reddit the same way.
I don’t know the metrics but I wonder what one does vs. the other - to gain customers or traffic.
I also don’t know the financials of each - who makes what or how much.
I’m just aware of the CC forums.
Do CC or Reddit advertise anyhere?
Responding to you - but I suppose anyone can know.
I don’t know how reddit works, or who owns it. Ditto for metrics and such.
I understand - but I do think many take things not as they are intended. It is difficult to tell tone on a website.
Back to my point, because the site is open, how do you manage it?
Perhaps if it’s a pay service, you “qualify” people - and perhaps that leaves some out from responding. That might be the cure. But then, you might miss valuable feedback.
I don’t have the answer - but it’s just an observation. I do see people get upset and I’ll re review what I wrote and sometimes I will edit but typically I see nothing wrong.
But people are different - see things different - and I’m not sure how the website could or would handle that short of censoring - including eliminating posters - and that might be a solution…I don’t know.
So - the topic is feedback is needed on a premium subscription and I’m not sure some of the recent commentary relates to this…perhaps we can focus on that?
I do think they idea that some are “turned off” by responses on the website is relevant - but is there a way for the site to optimize this into revenue - rather than continue to editorialize about the perceived practices of certain posters - as this seems to be devolving into.
Yes, by being kind to newcomers here. As people continue to get good info from here and are not treated poorely, they will spread the word and people will keep coming here. Then ad revenue will be up and all of this will hopefully be solved, no premium subscription required.
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Are there ads?
I’ve read about people talking about them…or not working.
I haven’t seen any - but maybe I’m just not paying enough attention.
But is part of the issue here competition? If reddit and C Vine and other sites have similar types of offerings, how does the site stand out? Differentiate itself?
I’m not the owner but I think that’s what the OP was asking about.
While I appreciate your response, I think they’re looking for other offerings, etc. We truly don’t know how traffic will adjust based on “kindness” (is there an elasticity of kindness?) - nor do we know the elasticity of demand for whatever products that might be sold here.
i did a chanceme that got downvoted into OBLIVION. and i definitely think the responses i got here were way more realistic than the handful i got there.
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