The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsTop 10 Pet Peeves Of Blogging
1. Blog titles that don't link back to the main page.
2. Blogs that have difficult-to-find trackbacks and permalinks. Hello, I want to link to you today, not next week when I finally find your darn urls.
3. Comment sections that require you to register when they're not a big blogger, and even then it sucks.
4. Not having publicly viewable stats.
5. Dead blogs that fail to mention that they're dead.
6. Bloggers who comment/read a site's stuff regularly, but don't actually link or blogroll that blog (hint hint).
7. Blogs that have very distracting backgrounds, making it difficult to read the articles.
8. Blogs that display pictures of hideously ugly people like Helen Thomas, Cindy Sheehan, and Michael Moore.
9. Blogs listed in the ecosystem/ecotraffic that aren't actually blogs.
10. Getting paid in the pennies by ad companies who suck up your load time.
BONUS: Blogs that fail to link Sam regularly (hint hint).
Comments
11. When the Ecosystem stops my page from loading. :P
Posted by: Mark B. | March 2, 2006 01:55 AM
And so say all of us!
Posted by: Barnzeb | March 2, 2006 02:46 AM
Amen.
Posted by: Windigo | March 2, 2006 03:32 AM
Dead blogs that don't tell you they are dead always concern me a little. Makes you wonder what happened to the blogger to make them stop so suddenly :-(
By the way, I've been getting traffic from your site because I've been at the top of your random blogroll (thanks!) I've blogrolled you back, but you should know the link you have for me is old and is now just being forwarded to the new url.
Posted by: Nicky | March 2, 2006 04:04 AM
Sorry, but can't agree with 4.
I like to know how/why people find me. When they have - and come back again - that's nice.
But I don't know how it would benefit anyone else to know who's been visiting me? If they can see my stats, they're already on my site, so...?
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March 2, 2006 04:32 AM
Blogs that used to link to a certain other blog (Reader blogs) but no longer do for no apparent reason. Hint, hint.
Posted by: Butch | March 2, 2006 05:05 AM
Hmm. I didn't know #2 was so important. I guess I'll have to do something about that so that I can comply with the CRSB standard. :)
I agree with Mark B. I also hate it when people have so many embedded tracker thingies that their site takes two or three minutes to load.
Posted by: von | March 2, 2006 05:18 AM
I guess having the Ecosystem script is necessary for being a member of the OTA or I would dump it.
Posted by: Mark B. | March 2, 2006 05:27 AM
Re: no. 3. I don't know about others, but I blog there because they make it so easy. I do have the chat box thing so that people can leave comments there. And they do. Sometimes. I especially like the Anonymous ones.
Posted by: K | March 2, 2006 05:36 AM
Thank goodness I have a plain, Cindy Sheehanless blog.
Posted by: maidink | March 2, 2006 05:52 AM
Oops :-} nos. 6, 10 now rectrified, and then some. Rant on!
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March 2, 2006 06:43 AM
#8 just for Samantha. But with some "improvements" added. Yeah, it's been around a while, but it still cracks me up.
Posted by: Rooster Cashews | March 2, 2006 07:14 AM
http://roostercashews.blogspot.com/2006/03/for-samantha.html
The above should have this link. Sorry, no coffee yet.
Posted by: Rooster Cashews | March 2, 2006 07:15 AM
Butch, odd - I don't know why you weren't on that list. You should be back. Anyone else missing?
Posted by: MrBig | March 2, 2006 07:36 AM
Mark B - you don't need to have the ecosystem script to be on the ecosystem. I don't believe that is enforced.
Posted by: MrBig | March 2, 2006 07:38 AM
Hmmm....need to update my almost dead story blogs.
And I will be the first to admit that I have to much crap on my blog ;-)
Posted by: Ole Blue | March 2, 2006 07:47 AM
Thank you Mr Big!
Posted by: Butch | March 2, 2006 08:32 AM
I get lazy about #6.
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March 2, 2006 09:58 AM
Here's a good post about having the html code and the various add-ons therein come after the main content, to help with loading a blog.
http://basilsblog.net/?p=1992
Oh and thanks Samantha, I found your site due to some traffic coming in from my placement on you random blogroll, thanks and I've since placed you on mine as well. I also appreciate the OTA. When I can figure out a good way to get trackbacks to show up in post easily on blogger, I'll join as well.
Posted by: Mark | March 2, 2006 10:38 AM
Great list!! :)
Posted by: doll | March 2, 2006 11:57 AM
Hehe, I hate those blogs too. Particularly number one. That's so annoying. Pet peeve!
Posted by: From Slut To Serenity... (formerly "Illegally Blonde"!) | March 2, 2006 12:44 PM
Hey, those two pics I put up of ugly (and how!)"transgendered" people were because I had a point to make.
And just because you look good up on the top left, don't drive the ugly people from the net. They're such easy targets.
Posted by: Amigo | March 2, 2006 01:43 PM
Umm. I added that permalink thingy. But I'm not sure how these "trackback" things work. It may take a little more work for me to add those...
Posted by: von | March 2, 2006 08:25 PM
LOL! Sorry I didn't read this one earlier. Wow, bollocks are up in a twist! Guess I'm to blame on a load of those... I don't even post my own name on my blog.
Posted by: lesley | March 4, 2006 12:35 AM
That's a pretty good list, and I'm happy to say I have pretty good behavior for a blogger. I've only once violated rule 8, because I happened across a picture of Helen Thomas in which I thought she looked like Grima Wormtongue.
I also don't publicize my stats, because being a web developer makes me a bit paranoid. I don't want hackers inferring any more information about the internals of my website than necessary.
I did well on the others, though. I even got the "Bonus" question. ;-)
Posted by: Cynical Nation | March 6, 2006 09:39 AM
12. Excessive use of the term "blog"
13. People who use said term
14. Blog nazis
15. Blogdeath
16. Blogs on ice
17. Blogged by Blog
18. In Blog we Trust
19. For blog's sake
19. Blog you!
Posted by: Blogdeath | January 13, 2008 03:18 AM