Thumblogger Sucks

[T Pat]

I de sploged my aggregater and noticed the majority of really shity blogs had one thing in common, Thumbloger.
I won’t list any more free hosted blogs (yes it’s that bad).

[twn]

It is your choice

But there certainly are good blogs on thumblogger and you miss these. The only thing is that the definition of good a bad blogs is undefined.

A blog with only pictures can be a good blog for example babelogs.

A blog with a picture and 1 sentence can be a good blog in a network of blogs that don't depend on search engines (which is a wise thing to be not to depended of search engines).

A blog feeded from multiple rss feeds can be good if you feed it with traffic from other sources like link list or freesites. One can say good blogs are blogs with a lot text, but that is only true when you target certain targets.

But of course what your site wants is a lot of text, cause a aggregator copies text from someone else blog post and copies it on their own site.

In addition the thumblogger rss feeds are shrinked down because of aggregators like your site borrowing blog post (without permission of the orginal blog owner?).

[Useless]

It is what it is. It's a free service and it has it's place. You can't expect them to filter out splogs or establish quality guidelines to fit our needs while ignoring the needs of others. It's not the service that makes the blogs it hosts suck - it's the bloggers who created them.

[T Pat]

Here’s my take on free blog hosting.
It’s just like Free Hosting, a good thing until the creeps came in and screwed it up.
My Momma used to tell me things like “birds of a feather flock together” and “your judged by the company you keep” and it still holds true, are there good Thumblogger blogs, you bet (I still have a couple hundred listed) but how many people are going to sift through all the crap to find the pearls.
As far as what a good blog is I guess the Walrus has turned me into a blog purest, I read his blogs and am entertained and often wonder how the hell he comes up with half the stuff.
BTW, I figure it’s got two be one of two things, he did less drugs than me in his youth or he’s still doing drugs

[walrus]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Here’s my take on free blog hosting.
It’s just like Free Hosting, a good thing until the creeps came in and screwed it up.
My Momma used to tell me things like “birds of a feather flock together” and “your judged by the company you keep” and it still holds true, are there good Thumblogger blogs, you bet (I still have a couple hundred listed) but how many people are going to sift through all the crap to find the pearls.
As far as what a good blog is I guess the Walrus has turned me into a blog purest, I read his blogs and am entertained and often wonder how the hell he comes up with half the stuff.
BTW, I figure it’s got two be one of two things, he did less drugs than me in his youth or he’s still doing drugs

Thats one hell of a compliment....not sure what to say except thanks.

As far as how I come up with the shit I do...I think it has something to do with the fact that my mother went to the bathroom to pass gas and passed me instead....although the combination of drugs and alcohol while still an impressionable youth may have also contributed.

[webpimp]

I don't like it when my thumblogger blogs are lumped together with every other blog on thumblogger. I feel so discriminated against when people will not even consider my blog for a link trade just because it is free hosted. I write all my own posts (not quite walrus-grade but still), and have put a lot of work into building PR. I demand justice dammit! Or a cheeseburger will do. Just judge a blog on its own merits, forget who hosts it - that's what I say.

[webpimp]

By the way T Pat, I have noticed that I am still getting traffic from your aggregator so thank you for not throwing out the baby with the bath water!

[T Pat]

Hey webpimp I deleted over a thousand blogs, I only have a little over five hundred blogs listed now
You must be one of the guys that can write a sentence or more

[BadWolf]

I only submit mt Thumblogger blogs to Twan these days anyways.