A Humorous Look at My Pet Blogging Peeves
September 21, 2007 by Lillie
Mig Lica has posted 10 Ways to Make Your Fellow Bloggers Hate You at the Red Dog blog. Following her hilarious, ironic advice is a sure way to failure as a blogger.
Mig tagged other bloggers to add to the list. If you haven’t made the entire blogosphere hate you following Mig’s advice, check out Yvonne Russell’s additions at Grow Your Writing Business. You’ll make yourself a pariah in the blogging community very quickly.
If you want to get me to hate you … or at least click away to another blog … do one of my pet peeves:
- Use partial feeds, preferably just a link to the post without even an excerpt to give me a clue of whether I want to read your post or not. Make me go to your blog to discover your post is on a topic of no interest to me.
- Make it as difficult as possible for me to comment. Require me to sign up for Orble or WordPress or Typepad and login to make a comment. Stop me with a security challenge that people with good eyesight can’t read, much less someone with poor vision. Ask me to answer a question (2+2=_) to prove I’m not a spam robot.
Enjoy a good laugh from the tips on these lists, and if you’d rather be loved than hated, do just the opposite.
[tags]blogging, humor[/tags]
Lillie – These are great!
I hadn’t thought of the poor vision issue. I can only imagine how frustrating that must be when security text is camouflaged.
I wonder where all this fits in with web accessibility standards.
Thanks for mentioning my post, Lillie.
Yvonne
Yvonne,
I actually quit commenting on one blog for awhile because it took me five or six tries every time to get past the security challenge. Fortunately, I let her know in e-mail why I wasn’t commenting, and she managed to get it changed. It’s still a challenge, but I can usually get in one or two tries now.
The math questions don’t bother me, and most of the time the visual challenges don’t bother me either (though I do understand how they can be a problem for some people), but I am not going to register or sign up for yet another service that I’ll have to remember a user ID and password for. I have too many to keep track of now, and I have no interest in signing up with more just to comment on a blog.
dcr,
Right … just what we need – another user ID and password for a site we have no interest in.
Lillie, wouldn’t RoboForm go a long way toward solving this user ID and password problem?
Yes, Roboform is a great tool to manage logins and passwords. I couldn’t get along without it … but it doesn’t save any time if you only go to a site once. If you are going to return to a site, Roboform saves lots of time on future logins. I highly recommend Roboform to manage uernames and passwords.
I can’t stand having to login to leave a comment on someone’s blog. It’s incredibly annoying and pointless (considering all the spam filters that are available).
Having to login to comment seems to be generally unpopular, Malignition.
You pegged that last one so well! I hate hosts that make you join to be able to comment. That’s just bad blogging business.
Denise,
Makes you wonder why companies want to drive visitors away from their communities, doesn’t it?
Its alright to protect your blog from spam comments, but jeez don’t make people register and wait for the confirmation just to post his/her thought about an entry.
Annika,
Requiring registration is a sure way to discourage comments.
I agree that some sites make it nearly impossible to post comments. It’s really unfortunate because it’s just a product of spammers. It’s amazing how a few people can ruin an experience for everyone.
Enjoyed your post!
caitlin,
It is really a shame that the spammers make commenting and running a blog so much more difficult than it should be.