Why I left Blogcatalog
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Blogcatalog is a very big time blog network.
Spam Comments
Most bloggers on blognetwork want money, or they want traffic (or both?) the problem is they really don’t care about quality. Some of them also spam you to death.
In my Shoutbox (like a wall on facebook, or a comment section) the five most recent messages left were this:
Hello,…. Happy Days 4U +++ HAPPY NEW YEAR +++
Yeah, obviously not an English speaker, and if they are then they should seriously consider putting away the text messages and learning how to use sentences.
Hi, how are you? just added you , hope to add me too and feel free to visit my site you might find something of interest. God bless…
Ha! Not a chance in hell I would add or visit. This person has ELEVEN blogs, all using the same template and obviously created for keywords and Page Rank. There was absolutely no hiding the fact that this person just wanted to make money with their blog(s) and nothing else. The writing was inane, all the blogs looked the same and sounded the same and this person obviously just did not care
i added u. Add me back. thanks!
Thanks for adding me. Now her blogs actually weren’t that bad, but they were mommy blogs and “I had a sandwich for lunch today” blogs. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what she had for lunch or what her kid did. She offered me nothing and obviously didn’t even read my blogs (a career blog and a feminism blog) or else she would have known that I was unlikely to give a crap about her blog. Plus, the English was broken, which frustrates me beyond all things. Blog in your native language if you have to! Then leave me alone.
Hello, I have added you to my friend list.can you add me too? Thanks.,
Are we beginning to see a pattern emerge? Thanks for adding me, but I’m not adding you.
hello my friend, i’m newbie here. pls visit my blog and pls add me to be your friend. thank you very much……..
Yet another blogger who’s first language wasn’t English, was looking for a quick buck on the internet by doing paid posting and was spamming for friends to attract visitors.
Why have I not added a single one of these people? Well, because they’re insincere. They came to my blog because they want me to go to theirs… IF they even came to my blog in the first place… and once I do that, they’ll have no more need for me. That to me is a shallow e-connection. Not worth my time, not worth my effort and certainly not the kind of blog I would want my name on, even if it’s only in the comments section.
I also hate spam comments. The olden days of “I commented! Now commented back pls, k thnx bye!” are done. People are tired of it. Why do people still do it? Because apparently it’s working to some extent, and I, for one, would like some quality control on the blogosphere. There are blogs obviously made for page rank, SEO and money purposes. They flat out suck. Unfortunately, they fester in networks like blogcatalog, so I hope that they sink the way Myspace did.
What makes good bloggers, what makes good blogs
My blogs are new, they’re small, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t tell a good blog and a bad blog when I see it.
The common factor between the blogs of quality and the blogs of… not… is the blogger. Does the blogger have pride in their work? Do they have an intrinsic need to continuously improve? Or do they just slap together whatever they can so they can generate traffic that day?
Making money, networking, promoting is great! I think all successful blogs need a certain amount of those, but taking short cuts by just leaving spam comments isn’t the way to go. It also says a little bit about the blogger – their comments are probably a reflection of their blog. Based on that, would you have looked at any of the bloggers I mentioned above?
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I don’t visit spam commenters simply bcoz I don’t know what to say about the stuff they write.
Some of them just write stuff I deem as rubbish, just so that they can take paid blogging (sumthing about fulfilling the requirements of intervals between paid post and nonpaying posts.)
You can tell from the quality of their blogs… paid post will be somewhat well-written and the nonpaying ones will be something like “Today I should go work out. So don’t have time to write much. I’ll post pics up later”. Then followed by another “well-written” post.
I don’t mind if ppl do that (heck I do that too), but bloggers need to have more integrity in the stuff they put out.
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ahhh I feel you. That’s one of the reason why I stop frequenting socialspark too. Every time I login, those were the same exact messages I receive either on my wall or in my inbox. I stop responding to anyone of them cause I felt that they are just lame and insincere. I don’t care if they don’t visit my blog anymore because they are not the reason why I started writing…
anyway this is a wonderful blog you have here. Keep it up! I should thank Perky for leading me here :p
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Wow, what a hard ass… You should have posted this one in “Tough Girl…” Rock ‘em Sock ‘em!
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