User blog comment:Raidra/I failed the Russian Sleep Experiment/@comment-24040907-20141216223636/@comment-4849011-20141217031259

~stares awestruck and with gratitude at meme~ Thank you! I truly appreciate that.

You joked that you'd be cheering me on every other day, so accordingly I've appreciated it every other day. ;-)  Seriously, though, I'm glad that I have friends like you to share this with.  You and my other friends on here make it easy to come here each day.  There was hard work and effort, like you said, but some of it was good fortune too.  I mean, my family and I stayed in good health, I didn't have any major power outages, etc. so being able to earn this badge was a blessing.

As promised, here are some pointers.

1. As I said earlier, compile a list of stories you want to leave commentary on, stories you want to write, pictures you want to post (if you contribute stories and pictures), blogs you want to leave posts on, etc. Since you'll know for a while what you want to do you can make posts with little time or effort. Let's say you have a list of ten stories you want to leave comments on. If you leave a comment on one each day, then you've contributed ten days in a row. However, as you (on another blog) and Grizzly Bear (on this blog) have noted, they should be quality contributions, not some dumb little edits. The least I'll do is post one or two sentences on a pasta, thread, etc, or correct a few minor typos in a story.

2. Find out what your time zone is in relation to the website's time zone (by noting the time by your clock that you posted something, then comparing it to the time given on your list of contributions). That way you can know the earliest and latest times that you can post something and have it count as a new day. For instance, 7:00 PM (when it's not Daylight Savings Time) or 8:00 PM (when it is Daylight Savings Time) by my clock is 12:00 AM by this wiki's clock. This means that if I post something right after seven or eight at night, it counts as a new day, and if I'm unable to post something that night or the next morning, I'm okay as long as I post something before seven or eight the next night. In theory this means that I could post something at 6:00 PM and something else at 8:30 PM and have it count as two separate days.

3. Try to post at the same time every day. For instance, a lot of my posts were made between 8:00-9:30 AM, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, or 7:00 PM-9:00 PM (all by my time). Also, try to post in the afternoon or evening so you won't be as tired and likely to forget. If you have an appointment or something, post before or after the scheduled time.

4. It seems to me that the hardest days are Days 1-25 and Days 85-95. Just try to relax a little and tackle it without letting it become an obsession.

5. Don't get discouraged. I didn't get it my first try, and I'm guessing a lot of other people didn't either.

Good night and sweet dreams!