The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Biggest Blogging Pet Peeve
Yeah, I got one.
I love 20SB, but I hate how people will write on your wall and say,
"love your blog, check out mine at ...."
Um. No. You don't love my blog. You love YOUR blog and are trying to get me to click
your link.
If I tell you I like your blog, that's because I actually read it. I'm not on some desperate quest to get as many followers as possible.
What's yours?
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Permalink Reply by Rolfe Norman on -
I agree with you. I know for a fact that someone who left a similar comment like that did not actually check out my blog, but oh well. lol I normally only check out people's blogs who I see in the forums. I also look at people when they leave comments on my actual blog. Everyone wants to pimp their blog out, some people just do it more annoyingly! lol
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Permalink Reply by Jena Marie Carper on -
Totally agree. I will look at yours, if you leave me a comment. But I"m not gonna lie to you just so you come on over to my blog. :)
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Permalink Reply by Amy on -
I agree. Don't say "I'm loving your blog" if you haven't even opened my link.
I send out welcome messages, but I don't say I've read your blog unless I've actually read it. I don't expect every person to follow me, I want them to follow me because they relate to me, like what I have to say, or appreciate my content. If I say I've read your blog, I've read it.
I read a lot of blogs, and always try to comment, but I would never expect someone to come back to my blog out of comment courtesy. I want readers that read my blog because they actually like it, not because I whored out and said "nice post".
My big blogging annoyances are horrible background colours that hurt my eyes, or a lengthy scroll down to get to the first post. Sometimes I feel like I've scrolled to the bottom before you hit the last post. Yes I realize I could read through google reader (or other feeds), but I think the design says a lot about the reader too.
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Permalink Reply by Samar Babar on -
Hehe, I agree, there are a lot of blog whores here. Sometimes it's a more elaborate msg than ""love your blog, check out mine at ...."" and it might take a while to figure it out until you see that they leave the same type of msgs elsewhere. Think of it this way it's insincere so really they aren't going to get too many more ACTUAL followers by such tactics. Though I may click on a blog out of curiosity from such msgs I probably won't come back after the first visit unless it's something I found really engaging.
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Permalink Reply by Jena Marie Carper on
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Same here. I usually leave a comment, because I just like to let people know who all is reading their stuff. But I won't return or follow it unless i REALLY want to. I hope my followers are following me because they LIKE my blog, not because they want me to reciprocate.
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Permalink Reply by Danaconda on -
It's = It is
You're = You are
They're = They are
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Look, sometimes things slip through the cracks - it's also difficult to edit oneself - but let's at least try to learn contractions. I'm not going to stop reading a blog because of it, but it doesn't help. Okay I might.
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Permalink Reply by Samar Babar on
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The you're vs. your things bugs me to no end. I see that mistake rampant on FB.
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Permalink Reply by Rolfe Norman on
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This bugs me too! I'm not the best at being grammatically correct, but I always try and put effort into it.
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Permalink Reply by Jena Marie Carper on
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I love to EDIT.
It's what I want to do with my life post-graduation.
Grammar is great, but I have found mistakes in my blog before that made me blush at how retarded I was not to re-read my own words. Ha ha.
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Permalink Reply by Tarah on -
I've re-read some of my post and had to edit them. Some of them were just awful! How will anyone take me serious when every 15thhsa a grammar mistake. I'm currently trying to improve my writing skills by searching online for errors I've made. I've always been more of a math and science person, but it never hurts to improve something about yourself.
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Permalink Reply by Citizenerased on -
I to am prone to editing sone of my older posts, but try to limit it. Wanting to improve your writing skill is obviously a good thing, and I find my older posts a good way to measure how (if) I have improved. Some of my previous posts may be of a lower standard than I would like, but any readers will hopefully see the improvement in later entries.
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Permalink Reply by Amanda @ stlstateofmind on -
I try not to edit my posts at all. Not because I'm lazy or illiterate, but mainly because I'd end up changing the entire post, and not just the errors.
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