Blogging pet peeves pt2

written on June 7, 2010 in Blogging

Off topic, but thank you all so much for the encouragements and comments to my first video I was very tempted to do another video review on my NYX products (which I love btw), but I do want to alternate between topics, so without further ado, here’s the part 2 to my blogging pet peeves:

• replying to MY comments on THEIR entries on MY site

  If you want to reply to my comments on your entries, please do so on your OWN site. And if you’re going to reply to it on my site, at least have the courtesy to comment on my entry as well? My comment form is not your personal guestbook or whatnot, so please don’t treat it like so. I don’t really care if you don’t reply to my comments, but when you reply to them on my blog, I get confused and I’m just like “wtf is this??”

• using comment forms as contact forms

  I have a contact form for a reason: it’s so you can contact me. I have a comment form for another reason: it’s so you can comment on the said blog post. All I’m asking for is that you use the forms for the appropriate purpose. Is that really too much to ask? Are you really that lazy?

• writing your entry like a college essay

  This isn’t so much a pet peeve as the rest of the ones on the list, but damn are these entries tedious to read. Maybe it’s just me, but I prefer blogs to be enjoyable and easy reads, as in, they’re NOT filled with SAT words. I guess my reading level is just not awesome like that, but seriously, why so serious?

• not hiding your sponsored posts

  As in, I don’t want them to show up on my Google Reader or when I visit your blog. Well, I’m sure most people feel the same, and the truth is, you can hide sponsored posts without breaking the rules. There are over 200 sponsored posts in my blog, but I bet you had no idea, huh?

• blogs left for dead without warning

  This makes me more sad than peeved, especially if it seemed to be an interesting/insightful blog. I either find these babies months or years after they’ve been neglected or they just suddenly disappear on me without warning. No tweets, no nothing. It’s just gone, and it’s never coming back

Please don’t take any of the above peeves personally, even if you have done one or more. I have nothing against anyone as a person, only the actions.Error processing request

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