State of Blogging

[anasporn]

Originally Posted by Boogie

But, will they get 'real' hard link exchanges? Not if people are smart.

Aye, and there's the rub "...if people are smart..." I am glad to see a lot of directory owners starting to refuse to list splogs. It must get damn boring to see the same sponsor text spiel (usually only 1-2 sentences long, with a sentence fragment tacked on for good measure) and the same promo thumbs over and over...you know it's bad when *I* can look at a splog and know exactly which site tour page the 2 sentences that make up a post are from.

Will they build readership, like I have, or the walrus has? Will people comment on their blogs and read it daily? no.

and they really don't give a rat's ass about having a loyal regular readership either...they just want chumps to pull out the CCs as they leave. Always going for the quick buck, and shooting themselves in the foot in the long run...

But hey, Walrus is so much better at doing a rant than I am...and buddy, don't let it take the wind out of your sails...you can always try to be politically correct again LOL Even if it doesn't cheer you up, it will make me laugh!

[walrus]

Originally Posted by anasporn

and shooting themselves in the foot in the long run...

I could give 2 shits about what they do to their foot, its that shit like this spatters onto my feet as well. I'd hate to see some of the more mainstream traffic sources dry up just because they get tired of shit coming out of the adult blog world.

With sponsors starting to provide hosted blogs, hosted blog feeds and other feeds, it's good for us, the directory owners and the aggregators but it also makes it pretty easy to develop good "looking" splogs that, on initial appearance, appear pretty legit.

It just pisses me the fuck off that we (a blogging community) are just beginning to realize that the fucking lessons learned in the early days of TGP's and freesites really do still apply and all the rules that seem so fucking silly are there for absolutely all the right reasons. Oh and it's pissing me the fuck off having this freehost asswipe coming around spamming his bull-shit. It's idiots like him that make me even fucking think about this shit.

Originally Posted by anasporn

But hey, Walrus is so much better at doing a rant than I am...and buddy, don't let it take the wind out of your sails...you can always try to be politically correct again LOL Even if it doesn't cheer you up, it will make me laugh!

LOL, but honestly, even if The Walrus didn't make a dime off The Walrus Blog he'd still be doing it. He needs that venue to release all the pent up frustrations from simply being a genius in his day to day life.

[anasporn]

Originally Posted by walrus

I could give 2 shits about what they do to their foot, its that shit like this spatters onto my feet as well. I'd hate to see some of the more mainstream traffic sources dry up just because they get tired of shit coming out of the adult blog world.

Right, they use the sawed-off 12 gauge approach when they should be using the .50 cal sniper rifle approach LOL But as long as people make money off the quantity splog approach, it will still be around.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by anasporn

Right, they use the sawed-off 12 gauge approach when they should be using the .50 cal sniper rifle approach LOL

Now if they'd just turn the gun around....