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It’s Tuesday and I am beginning my mini-vacation. I don’t return back to work until Sunday. I plan on getting a lot a few things done around the house, Plus, I was hoping to finish setting up the meme and award portion of my own site as well catching up on a few of my favorite blogs. I still haven’t uploaded my doodles for Doodle Week!1
Anyway, as I was surfing the web today, I found myself getting cranky which only means it’s time for me to go down the dreaded, yet pretty simple list, of my blogging pet peeves. If I offend you, sorry, but my usual blog surfing has gone from pleasurable to being rather annoying. And I really don’t like being annoyed.2
With that said, let’s get started.
I Do Not Want To Hear Your Music
I really like discovering new blogs. I enjoy reading what you have to say and share.3 However, if you opt to have auto-play music on your blog any slight possibility of us being friends will come to a screeching halt. I know we all would love to share our new favorite song with the world, but you don’t have to force it down my throat. Direct my attention to it, and then allow me the freedom to CHOOSE to play it if I want to hear it.
Not Everyone Uses Blogger
The world wide web is a big big big place. I mean it’s huge… and I know this might shock some people, but not everyone uses google’s version of a blog. I personally use Wordpress. I know there are people who use Diaryland, GoDaddy’s Quick Blogcast, Typepad, Joomla and well you get the point. So, knowing this, why would you set your comments to only allow people who use blogger? Is that fair? I know we all want to avoid spam and other crazy nonsense, but I am sure you want to have people coming to your blog and commenting right? Otherwise, what is the point? I’ve been nice and leaving comments anyway but I won’t any more. If you won’t take 2 minutes4 of your time to make it so I can comment without using some made up google blog then I figure you don’t want my comments anyway.
Oh Yah! I Get To Spend 5 Hours Searching Your Site!
If you use Entrecard, and actually drop your card on blogs, then you might be able to relate to this.
I do not want to spend my life looking for the Ecard widget on your blog. If you can not find a spot near the top or on the absolute bottom then I’m not dropping on you anymore. Wait… I’m going to make an exception and say that I will drop on you if it’s in the middle… but not if its surrounded by a ton of useless links, pictures, advertisements, garbage, and badges. The days where I enjoyed playing “Where’s Waldo” have surpassed, so I don’t want to play it on your blog with your Entecard. I could be mean and pinpoint the specific blogs I am referring to, but I won’t.5
In Conclusion
- Please stop forcing your music down my throat.
- Enable ALL forms of comments on your blog… It will exapnd your readership, and I bet you will get even more comments.
- Put your Entrecard somewhere where its easy to be seen and quick to click.
Thank you, and I really hope we don’t have to have this little chat again for at least a year.
- I am such a lazy ass! [↩]
- Actually, no one likes seeing me annoyed [↩]
- Unless it’s 20 pages about how to make money quick [↩]
- I am sure it will take even less than 2 minutes [↩]
- Even though I reaaaaaaaallllllyyyyyy want to [↩]
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