Guest post by, Nolie.
I love reading your blogs and I love when you come visit mine. However we need to have a discussion. I am sure parts of this won’t be too pretty but if we can work together I am sure we will all be happier in the end. Please take note to the following grievances of mine.
- Turn your music off!
Pretty please with a cherry on top. I open the blogs I am going to read in multiple tabs. It is quite alarming to all of a sudden have music blaring at me and then I have to scramble to find out who it belongs to so I can turn it off. 9 times out of 10 I will just shut the tab and you have lost me. If you insist on having music then please leave it up to your reader to press play or to read in silence. - Turn off the captcha.
I know it’s your blog and spam sucks but captcha sucks even more. Either moderate your comments or open them up and take the time to delete spam. Captcha keeps me from commenting unless I got a really great comment. Even worse, if you insist on having it then please have it on the same window as where I leave my comment. Having captcha appear after I already submit my comment is even more annoying. Also I wonder how many comments one loses because people hit post then close the comment box. They didn’t see that captcha appeared and so now the comment is lost in cyberspace. - Nobody likes a mess.
Try to keep your blogs clean. The content should be easy to find and easy to read. There shouldn’t be too many distractions to the readers eyes. Also too many buttons/awards on a page can make it load very slow for people on dial up. Yes dial up does still exist I hear. - Comments make the world go round.
The blogging world that is. Comments give the poster the desire to keep posting. It lets them know people are actually reading their content and enjoying it. Bloggers, that also means take the time to reply to your comments. Let them know you appreciate their visit. However comments such as “Hi, Come visit me” and “Nice post, read mine” do not qualify as a good comment and IMO are a waste of cyberspace. Leave a comment that actually has to do with the post you are commenting on.
Two more things on commenting that Alyna from The Gift Detective mentioned when I posted a letter similar to this on my site.
- Don’t make your readers have to login to comment. Time is precious and quite frankly we all have enough passwords to remember we don’t need another.
- Get a gravatar. It takes 30 seconds and you don’t have to remember a password. It is assigned to your e-mail address that you have to enter when commenting in blog world. It helps to make your comment more personal and make us feel a little bit more connected to you.
I hope we can all still get along. I don’t mean to come across harsh. I just wanted to bring to your attention what annoys me as it may annoy others as well.
Yours Truly,
Sincere thanks to Nolie who, following her own advice, wrote TWO guest posts for the blog today. If you want to see the version of this post that she wrote on her own blog, click here. Click her button below to visit her most recent posts. Be sure to leave her a comment on the posts you love to show your appreciation! ~ Alyna
