People were still inviting me to things, and I don't know how to spell it out, but I'm not interested. I love the app, but they really need to implement a way to opt out of invitations because it really gets annoying. Now I have to turn off notifications, which means that in order to not be bothered by invitation notifications, I can't get the ones I want either. So I really wish they would implement a way to get out of that
I feel this so much. I've been on the platform for nearly four years now. This is something that I've complained about myself and nothing has changed. I will tell you though, that the way that I get around this is the persistent perpetual inviters that don't know me and are just ticking down a list of people to invite
Jodi Lin
@JodiLin65 · 0:32
I agree with everything you said. And I was told by them, by swell, just block them. And I'm like, but I don't want to just keep playing block it with every single one because that's just such a pain because they're so frequent. But the fact that you've been complaining for years, that pretty much tells me that you're probably right. They're not going to do anything about it. It's too, they don't care about their users
Maybe there's listening happening, but there's very few likes, statistically, with respect to the number of listens, or very few people responding to other people's stories or prompts or things that they're posting. And on the one hand, it doesn't really matter. On another hand, if you don't feel like you're being heard in some way, well, then you're not going to want to stay on the platform either, right?
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 2:25
You. Hi jody. I was thinking about best practices. I am relatively new to swell and I don't really like to invite people. In the last 24 hours, I have invited, I have. I've hit that new invite button and it, it felt really uncomfortable because I am not that way. I mean, I'm generally a social person, however. Yeah. And so I'm really glad that you put this in here because I am with you on this
Todd Heimbecker
@noarms · 0:18
I totally agree. I get them too. Same as Facebook people. Sorry. Same as Facebook people that you don't even want to want you to friend them too. Gets annoying. I completely understand. Anyway, take care. Bye now
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:04
Hey, a person sees it, sees the swell. Maybe they're interested. They reply, just like I did with your swell, right? You didn't send me no invite, yet here I am. So it can be effective to get engagement without sending the invites. But it's an option that's available for people, and there are a lot of people out here that use that option repeatedly, excessively, in an annoying way
Swell Support
@support · 1:00
Hi Jodi, thank you for reaching out to swell support with this concern. We investigated your case and it seems that you have received an average of one invitation per day, with a maximum of three on a given day. Since invitations are a core feature of the platform and how users discover new users, receiving a few invitations daily is part of the normal functioning of the platform
Jodi Lin
@JodiLin65 · 0:48
There's an in between, and I would also like custom commenting added where you can say I only want comments from friends, but I don't mind everybody hearing my swells. I would like that too, but you obviously want it to be one way for everyone so I can just stop using swell
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 2:54
Hi, Jodi. I'm sorry to see you go from swell. I just was checking out your profile here and I'm sorry to see you go. And, you know, I've been in this space. I don't know what to do. But there is a gentleman on here that I sent him an invites and his response, he responded and I appreciated that he did, but it made me feel really uncomfortable and I felt guilty
Jodi Lin
@JodiLin65 · 0:38
Wow, I'm flattered that someone likes my post that much. And if you're hearing something in the background running, it's the air cleaner, so hopefully you can still hear me. I, you know, didn't like the idea of having to block people every day. It just seemed to be a real pain. But I suppose that the benefits kind of outweighs that pain in the butt. And there have been others that have asked me to return, so perhaps I will sometime
Jodi Lin
@JodiLin65 · 0:40
Oh, and I forgot to add to my last reply that I think that if it's someone that you know, you've gotten to know on swell, and you know that you have certain things, interests and stuff like that in common, that it's okay to invite them. People that you know. I'm talking about people that don't even know me at all, that aren't even on my friend list or that are, but still don't really even know me