Gifting the Compliment

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This is a compliment from my blog to you and yours …

It’s an appreciation of your published content – your creative talent, your imagination and your inspiration and motivation that you chose to present to your readership for their viewing. It’s to celebrate you as a creator, a writer and a thinker – as a presenter, an imaginator, a poet, a fiction writer – it’s to celebrate you.

That is what this compliment is all about – it’s in its simplest form a complemented reblog of your written and published content.

Since adapting my blog to an eCommerce platform, l have certain default WordPress restrictions in place and one of these is that l am no longer able to simply hit ‘reblog’, of another’s content – the same application is found on my own blog from your perspective. So the Gift is a way of very deliberately reblogging content from the last week’s worth of reading or however long a period it is. 

Recently I also introduced a newer blog reading system and this means l am now reading collectively more blogs per week and catching up to only being a week behind in my reading. I will never be entirely caught up with everyone’s day to day postings – but let’s be honest – who is?

As l read through the marvelous content of authors, l want to share your words, your humour and so on and that is what the Gift is about.  l don’t manically LIKE everything with a pulse either – I like what l like and l only like it if l have read it, and if l loved it for whatever reason, then l am going to want to gift you a compliment. I will share it again with my own readership and feel sure they will love it too.

Gifting the Compliment is simply my way of saying to you ….

‘Hey I really liked that post you created and l wanted to let you know with this compliment!’

There is no need for you to do anything else – you don’t have to respond if you do not wish to, l am not fishing for compliments back – l am complimenting you for the great content you have produced –  you don’t even have to acknowledge it, if you want to say thanks – great, if not – great– how you respond and react or not is down to you. 

Although the ‘Compliment’ is not an award, l have noticed that at times the ‘internal WordPress’ notification systems do NOT work and those that l am complimenting are not even aware of this post presence or that they have been complimented.

There is no ‘ceremony or pomp’ attached to these Compliments – there is no call to action to respond – there is no additional tagging, no questions to answer – it is just a compliment and purely a gift of thanks.

However, what is the point to being complimented if you don’t even know that? So, in addition to this published post, l will leave an additional comment on your most recently published post 12 hours after publishing just to say  ‘You have been Complimented’ with a link to this published post in case the notification has landed in your spam or you haven’t seen it.

Rory Matier

Gifting the Compliment Directory

Gary of Bereaved Single Dad	Spring
Melanie of Sparks from a combustible mind	Fandango’s Provocative..
Sadje of Keep it Alive	Topical Tropical Trinity # 5
Ashley – Mental Health @ Home	Pandemic Life as a Pre-Existing Hermit
Beth of Life… Take 2	Monthly Goal Intention – April
Fandango of This, That and The Other	Tale Weaver — Confinement
Stephen Blyse Writes	Death Sentence
Lennon Liberated	Hump Day Shenanigan’s
Britchy of Bitchin in the Kitchen	Dish the Dirt!
Paula of Light Motifs II	Dreamless
KK of Finding French Charming	Does Social Distancing Ruin Your Chances of Finding Love?
Suzanne of Ellie894	Ode to the Cookie…
	10 Happy Points to you all!! See Happy Points Counter Directory Gifting the Compliment Directory

Thanks for reading – catch you next time!