I was a little backed up on my comment emails and figured I’d get a start on those tonight. I managed to get through the last months worth of emails, rather quickly. There’s valid reason behind this though, PEOPLE ANNOY ME.
I came across one blog that wasn’t even worth attempting to read. The font was microscopic, they – very obviously – only coded the site for MSIE and they really enjoyed using “Lyke…WOAH!” every three-four statements.
A few people haven’t updated since early November, one was pushing on 10 months (to the date). I thought the point of running comment sites was to help ACTIVE BLOGGERS find other ACTIVE BLOGGERS for some serious PR help. What’s the point if you aren’t even going to maintain it?
Despair is down, Exentrique has quite a few dead-links so that didn’t go over well, and xposure isn’t even worth the effort anymore. I’m seriously considering writing my own comment site and having at least 10 staff members to check links on a weekly basis.
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Hey. I know what you mean. I was once a member of Provance (the site is still up but the service is dead)… but that was in 2003, when I was very active with my site. I tell you I think blogging is dying in general… people just aren’t often ‘every day posters’ anymore. :/ I used to be and when I was in ’03 heaps of others were too.. it was easy to make friends and feel like you could get to know people. People had amazing layouts, now everything is more standardised as WordPress provides the sort of predictable shape of blogs. *sigh*
If you ever do want to get this idea off the ground and you want someone to help moderate or whichever… email me and let me know.
What’s MSIE?
Oh man do I know what you mean. It’s even better when you open e-mails only to click on links that are dead.
DO IT!! That would be awesome.
I so know what you mean!!! I have given up on all three comment sites. I seem to always get boring blogs that I really did not want to read – people could at least make their blogs enjoyable! DAMNIT
Hope you and your boy are doing good 🙂
Bryan -MSIE simply is MS Internet Explorer 😀