Before I start, I wanted to let you know that the winners of the Free Ad contest have been added to my far right sidebar. I had been planning on doing a formal post about it but because I’m daft and failed to realize I had put the ending of the contest for easter weekend, that plan went out the window. So, TADA!!! Congrats to the winners, and if I didn’t pick you, I’m sorry. I had so many entries and picking just 6 was hard as hell.
Moving on…
I’ve decided it’s time for me to turn into an even crankier bitch. Everyday I take a few hours to do my daily Entrecard drops and as of late, it’s become a rather annoying process. Therefore, I have set forth this nice set of rules in order to preserve my sanity.
For starters, I really do stop and read your blogs. I am not a power dropper who races through 300 cards a day for the sake of doing it. I take my time and go one by one and read new posts. I will more than likely comment on your post if it’s something I can relate to. However, I definitely will no longer comment if:
1. Your site is covered in so many crap ass ads that I have to scroll half way down the page to find the actual post.
2. You use blogger and aren’t kind enough to make it so that people who don’t use blogger can comment on it without having to sign up for their service. It’s not complicated… you want comments, make it so others can leave them.
Additionally, I will not drop cards on sites which:
1. Play music - Turn that shit off. I don’t give a rats ass if you have my all time favorite singer set to auto play on your blog, I don’t want to hear it. Point, blank period. Turn it off!! When I am surfing the ‘net, I am listening to my own music. I don’t need your crap blasting over mine. Plus, it’s rude… Especially when I am at work. What the hell is the point of it anyway? I am sure you aren’t sitting at your own web page listening to that shit on autoplay. That’s why there is iTunes and Windows Media Player and Imeem and other options. If we wanted to hear music, WE’D PLAY IT OURSELVES.
2. Have cards so low on the page I need to hire a private eye to find it. That’s right… if you can’t move some of your sidebar junk around to add that itty bitty 125×125 widget above the fold then you most definitely won’t miss whether or not I drop a card on it. I spend enough time reading and dropping… I don’t feel like spending more time scrolling up and down looking for something that should be easy to find.
Of course these rules do not apply to anyone I might currently love and adore because naturally I’m going to be willing to put up with their faults. Anyone else, you’re screwed. With that said, now you know what might have happened if I suddenly stop dropping on your site. If I have offended you, oh well, get over it and fix your blog.
Edited to add (thank you Mirjam): If you are doing that tacky ass thing with the whole page of ads before I can even see your website, you can add yourself to the list. If I wanted to see a whole page of ads, I’d look in the damn newspaper.
Have a good day.
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A bit tetchy today aint you?
By the look of things I would guess I am on blogger and I have made it bliss for non-bloggers to leave comments. I’m thoughtful like that.
PS: I am totally going to steal that Monique signature bit. Way cool.
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Haha. I made my blog comment friendly, too. AND, because of the whole dofollow thing, the little Google bots wind up being your friend if you grace me with a comment.
“If I have offended you, oh well, get over it and fix your blog.”
This made me chuckle, you sound just like one of my closest friends.
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hi monique =) you’re becoming one of my fave sites =) here at entrecard your posts are amusing and honest. By the way thanks for commenting on my For love? yes its worth it post. that 30 minute thing u do with your hubby is a great idea!
i also get annoyed with sites that has background music playing. i have a couple of songs on my own site but I let the reader choose to play it or not. neway, have fun blogging!
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hahaha good one!
I would add a number 3 of blogs I don´t drop nor give another look, the ones that have actually managed to scare visitors away with a full page advertisement before even entering their blog, what the F*** is that about anyways?? They really think people enjoy having to click away a crap ad only to enter into an even crappier blog?
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I like your attitude. lol
One of my pet peeves about dropping cards is when I have to stay half a day at their site searching for their cards! And, I don’t comment on blogger blogs that make me sign in.
Good for you!
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Hooray for you girl. I’ve gotten to where if I have to hunt for it I’m going on. Is my blog comment friendly?
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@ Bri - lol, very touchy… and pissed.
@ Jillian - that’s cuz you are so schmart! so many damn blogger users aren’t, and that’s just sad.
@ Wendy - Another smart person. Thank you for giving us the choice to listen to the music instead of forcing it down our throats.
@ Mirjam - Oh, I so forgot that one. Adding it to the list.
@ Kim - Thank you
We should start a movement of people who refuse to search for that damn widget. How hard is it to move it up????
@ Carol - Your site is VERY comment friendly. And thank you for making it that way!
I am so with you… all your things annoy me as well. I’ve been attempting to be a power dropper… I have bookmarks that I try to drop on daily, though of course I won’t be able to do it daily, there is such a thing as life away from the computer. lol. However… I try to stop and read (as I have done here, obviously) and I’ve found some interesting blogs!
And for sure people, TURN OFF YOUR MUSIC! I hate that!
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Personally, I agree with you 100%! And let’s add that having video or audio on auto play slows the loading of a site and will cause me to close it before it’s even loaded.
I also won’t reciprocate drops on site that load with photos of almost or completely naked women, I don’t need to see that, so don’t bother dropping on my site either.
Okay, I’m done, back to work I go…
Preach It Girl!!!!!!
I was extremely disgruntled while trying to go through my dropbox yesterday. I ended up on several sites that had me searching all over for their card (why do they put it all the way at the bottom???) and the ones with embedded music were annoying as hell.
I always try to follow those who drop cards on my site, but some of them have such frustrating sites that it isn’t worth the time.
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I am with ya but no g-d letter verification either. Even if I could make out the letters, what I have to say is usually not worth the effort.
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Hooray I passed the past because you commented on mine
I love your list it should be the law
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You go girl! I totally support your sentiments. It takes courage to write such a post and I am glad you did it. Cheers!
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@ Cyn Blue - I do the bookmarks as well, and then I go to reciprocate drops and find all the idiots!
@ Lynne - Oh those are good ones too. I hate autoplay anything. I am very much capable of hitting the PLAY button myself. Thank you very much!
@ Rae - I don’t know why the hell they put it all the way at the botton.. its so damn annoying!!
@ Christine - Word verification pisses me off too. Most of the time the letters are mushed together and almost impossible to make out!
@ Claire - Of course you pass!
@ Jasmine Shanae - Thank you
I wonder how many people are pissed about it and chose not to share their anger… Oh well.
LOL. I agree 100% with what you said! All of those things piss me off. At least most of you are kind enough to search for the widget on their site, I just close the page and move on. If I can’t find the widget, I won’t read a post either, I guess that is part of the “fuck this shit” syndrome.
Lot’s of comments on this post makes me wonder how many people out there feel the same way. hehe
I’m with you on the blogger thing - soooo annoying.
If an entrecard click leads me to an ad I have to click-through, I don’t go through it. I figure that’s what the person wanted me to see and I close the tab.
I hate embedded music — video only bothers me if it slows me down or is massively distracting (I feel the same about a bunch of animated ads starting out a page).
I don’t need an entrecard widget above the fold, after all I do want to spend a few minutes browsing and reading the site, but I don’t want to have to hunt for it amongst tons of blog widgets. I realize that’s a just me thing, heh. (But people who hide it in somewhere between posts on their blog, argh!)
Thanks for always posting honestly, I love reading your blog for that!
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Phew…I hope I’m not on your Sh*T list. lol Because I just love your blog. I did move my widget up a little higher. ‘Cause I love EntreCard. It’s fun and I’ve been exposed to lots of new blogs that I enjoy.
I think my comments are easy…they are moderated because I HATE HATE HATE spammers. Not the computer generated spammers but the people who waste my time by typing about unrelated nonsense trying to sell me something. So I do approve comments. But I approve them even if they disagree with me (so rare! LOL).
I am so tired of typing in my details though when trying to leave comments. I love leaving Blogger comments because I can just start commenting. Not sure why others won’t keep my info saved. *pout*
=)
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@ Kevin - I do do a bit of searching, but I won’t spend too long doing it. And I hate hate hate when its on the absolute bottom buried in some useless crap ads and stuff.
@ Nicola - You think with as many of us who don’t like it, others who use Blogger would make it a little more user friendly.
@ Erin - LOL, good point. And, I don’t mind scrolling down a bit for the widget, it’s the searching for it that makes me insane!
@ castocreations - You most definitely aren’t on my poopooca list… I like you and your blog. I wonder if there is a widget I can install to remember people’s information. I use Firefox, so it remembers all my personal info for me. Don’t know what I would do without it.
Wheeee! I won.
Thanks for the link love!
I was just going to move my widget to a second page & put it at the bottom AND have Right Said Fred “I’m too sexy” autoplaying on my blog. Guess not.
I don’t want you to call me any names…
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Well, I certainly do appreciate the time you take to stop by my blog for a drop. I don’t think you’re being out of line at all to be picky with your surf-drop time. Nothing annoys me more than those net audio ads… I don’t know if it’s my browser or cruddy Vista or a combination of them both. But lately, when I hit blogs with those things, everything grinds to a complete stop and Firefox dumps me. So that’s become a real pet peeve.
I’m not sure what people try to accomplish by putting any sort of audio on their site…
Oh honey, I do hope you reach the people that need it… because heaven knows there are a lot of them out there. And how about those people who drop cards on me but don’t even HAVE an entrecard widget on their blog? Ok that’s not the annoying part… the annoying part is that their blog is incoherent! Or just plain regurgitation of some news article?!?!
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eek! I think I have a few of these on my blog - no music, but my entrecard is a bit lower on my page… I THINK comments are okay though??
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I hope you don’t mind but I have tagged you, I hope you join in, but don’t feel obliged to, I love reading your posts and i wanted to thankyou for your comments hugs Ella xx
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I just wanted to thank you for the comments left on about Letters To My Grandson Zachary Alexander — This Woman’s Blog and
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Hahahaha…
I’ve come across a few bloggers now who have listed there blog complaints. Since I’m new to the public blogging world, I’ve tried my best to avoid doing anything on these complaint lists
I HATE the autoplaying music OR talking ads. Especially when sound settings are different - sometimes it all of a sudden just BLASTS out and I swear at the computer. lol.
thanks for sharing! and congrats to all your winners
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Rightly said my dear, I will not recip a drop if I cannot find the damned entrecard. I keep mine at the top. One of my kids left the volume on the computer waayy up and when I clicked a site with music I about crapped my pants when it blared out. One more thing, when I first started blogging I did not know about comments by a non Googler. Someone told me how to make it easier and I changed it.
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As my time is taken up by more and more sties to drop on, I’m beginning to drop out the sites that I need to hunt for the widget as well.
It’s not that I don’t want to spend time; it’s just that I only have the time to spend if you like Entrecard enough to make it, I don’t know, prominent, and not six levels down on your sidebar because you think it’s worthless. (So why are you here?)
I should install CommentLuv. It seems a rather neat and commenter-appreciative plugin. And that comment-editing plugin (with a short timeframe) is nice. I already have subscription to comment threads.
BTW, the only music-embedded site I haven’t found annoying is 1verse’s.
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I don’t like searching for the widget either, but try hard to drop especially if I reciprocate, but will not reciprocate on a blog blasting music I did not ask to hear, whoever thought up that invention should be slapped everytime I encounter such an intrusion on my tranquility.
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Amen, sister!
While I share fragileheart’s wish that the people who need to see this message actually see it and do something about it, I really don’t think they will. Sigh. But I don’t feel bad about letting their cards sit in my Inbox any more. If they don’t love me enough to shut the music off and take the ads away, then they don’t get one of my precious drops.
Oh… and bitchiness + humor = awesomeness.
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hey Moniquie, I know you weren’t ignoring. It happened on four other blogs, even my own comments were in moderation on my own blog. i’ve been keeping up with ya.
i agree about music. hate it and well my EC card is staying low, although I did move it up.
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@ Angelika - I knew you were a smart woman.
@ Aywren - For about a week, everytime I opened up a group of blogs I had to hear about how they were giving away 1000 movies. I was so irritated.
@ fragile heart - I hope so too because I really don’t want to have to cut anyone off.
@ karla - lower on the page is ok… just not lost in the page or on the very bottom.
@ etta and carol - i’ll get to it as soon as I can and you are welcome.
@ Lisa - Hopefully people will realize how much most of us hate them forcing their music choice down our throats and quit it.
@ etta rose - maybe if more of us stopped dropping, they’d figure out their card is in a stupid spot. And thanks for fixing your comments. lol.
@ Arachne Jericho - I doubt I will ever enjoy a site with embedded music that auto plays for me. And CommentLuv is a very nice plug in. Grab it.
@ Ada - ROFL! I find it hard to believe someone thought it was a good thing to have embedded music. I even hate it when I go to an music site. If I want to hear it, I know how to hit play.
Well said, Monique. I want my readers to have as easy an experience as possible, I put the Entrecard widget above the fold and NO INESCAPABLE MUSIC. And of course the requisite goofy sh*t out of my head as content.
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AMEN! Couldn’t have said it better myself~
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I gotta add one more thing to your list (which I completely agree with, by the way!) - it’s when a person hasn’t posted in over 2 weeks without any explanation but is still taking time to drop Entrecards on everyone else’s site.
I guess I just don’t understand the point of driving traffic to a blog that is never updated…
Thanks for the entertaining post - someone had to say it!
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I agree with all of this too..
And stepping outside the internet.. I have my own car stereo.. thanks for sharing your music, but I prefer my own thanks. Turn it down, won’t you please?
(I hate having such things imposed upon me.)
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I would like to thank the Academy….
I was so excited to see my ad on here that I immediately called my husband and told him to go look at your site and that the Lucky Charms were fair game for breakfast!
I have been cut off from the computer for the last two days as I care for my mom. I thought the perfect way to relax would be to read my favorite blogs. I have had 3 hours of sleep in the last 48. This so made my evening! Thank you.
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You’re one of my top droppers! I’d hate to lose you…
Is my entrecard too low??
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