This started when reading back messages on polyvore, I noticed I had a still am recieving messages from other users, these tend to be new users and they want to know how to gain more followers, if I can help them out in anyway and opinions on their work. The problem is honestly I hate doing shout outs and trying to critique someone's work, really when they're new users. It's just I don't know whether or not that person is really serious about it and I don't want to look like a fool helping out someone who quits polyvore after a couple months at max. It sounds a bit jerky when I do respond, but unless that person shows some determination giving a good reasons besides asking for how to gain more followers I don't want to help. I'm using polyvore as a way to practice and further my knowledge in the fashion industry and I still need help but I don't like soliciting other users unless I know for a fact that the user is familiar with me. I would love to do collaborations with companies still and I would love to work with other users who do take polyvore seriously and have been on there for a good length of time. As well I just don't think it's fair if i start saying how I managed to gain my audience, or how to work on polyvore when I've almost been on there for two years and learned everything on my own.
Though I remember when I first started using polyvore I honestly thought to use it as a way to find clothes I owned or try to configure and make designs exact to what was in my head and quit quickly. Then I tried to use it again with a stylist idea but because I wasn't getting results quickly enough I quit once again. Finally about 4 or so months into using it I started to gain more likes because I wasn't starting at a 0 follower count, I had more so the results were showing in. But when I had a break again where I was getting lazy, the results slowed. I learned that on polyvore you have to be continous because there will always be people but ya gotta put yourself out there to be noticed and take like a job if you want to gain success. There are the occassions where a new person will come along and suddenly have 1,000 followers i a day and I envy those people but still the journey of gaining an audience and seeing your work evolve is still pretty amazing.
In conclusion, if you want to be successful on polyvore, take it seriously like a job and the results with lots of hard work will come eventually be how much how work you put into it.
