Man, I've been temporarily busy on BlogEvolve. Here are links to a few of my recent posts - and yes, I think you should read them, at least a little. Even better if you comment. If you comment, and it is not spam, then i will gladly comment back.
Proud Texans
Los Angeles wasting stimulus dollars
Michelle Obama Wants Out!
Insomnia
Showing posts with label BlogEvolve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BlogEvolve. Show all posts
Friday, September 17, 2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
The Frustrated Blogger
Recently Huttriver12 let it be known that he was checking out of the BlogEvolve community blog, after having been there for several years. Why would he do that?
If you take his words at face value, it is easy to explain. There are the good guys, Huttriver12 (himself) and Elly (she did more than anyone to make BlogEvolve successful). Everyone else, according to Huttriver12 fits into one of two categories: sploggers and Internet fools. I know that I am not a splogger, so ...
He used this classification system in at least three of his posts. I know the struggle with sploggers had gone on for some time (worthless site admin, for sure) so there are probably more chastising posts.
parting shot
shot over the bow
earlier shot over the bow
People blog for a number of reasons, and one of the reasons to blog on a community site is for the interaction with others. They read your posts, and you read theirs. This way writers feed off of each others ideas and also enjoy the fellowship along the way. With the continual stream of splogger posts, and the diminishing number of active bloggers, the sense of community is diminished and the benefits are less.
So, yes, we can understand the frustration that the hard-working Huttriver12 and Elly experienced and why they feel their time is better spent elsewhere. When I started on BlogEvolve, I was pretty new to the blogging scene and Elly was quite helpful. She must have posted on almost every post I made. And when I wasn't offending Huttriver12 with my 'definite political opinions fueled by frustration', he was also willing to read, comment regularly and even compliment on occasion.
Let me point out, though, it is a small, small world and we might just run into each other again. In the meantime, maybe you want to join BlogEvolve and see if you can make it a better place.
If you take his words at face value, it is easy to explain. There are the good guys, Huttriver12 (himself) and Elly (she did more than anyone to make BlogEvolve successful). Everyone else, according to Huttriver12 fits into one of two categories: sploggers and Internet fools. I know that I am not a splogger, so ...
He used this classification system in at least three of his posts. I know the struggle with sploggers had gone on for some time (worthless site admin, for sure) so there are probably more chastising posts.
parting shot
shot over the bow
earlier shot over the bow
People blog for a number of reasons, and one of the reasons to blog on a community site is for the interaction with others. They read your posts, and you read theirs. This way writers feed off of each others ideas and also enjoy the fellowship along the way. With the continual stream of splogger posts, and the diminishing number of active bloggers, the sense of community is diminished and the benefits are less.
So, yes, we can understand the frustration that the hard-working Huttriver12 and Elly experienced and why they feel their time is better spent elsewhere. When I started on BlogEvolve, I was pretty new to the blogging scene and Elly was quite helpful. She must have posted on almost every post I made. And when I wasn't offending Huttriver12 with my 'definite political opinions fueled by frustration', he was also willing to read, comment regularly and even compliment on occasion.
Let me point out, though, it is a small, small world and we might just run into each other again. In the meantime, maybe you want to join BlogEvolve and see if you can make it a better place.
Monday, September 06, 2010
What Happened to BlogEvolve?
BlogEvolve is a community blogging site that has been around for several years. In that time there has been some really good blogging and interaction on that site, but now it has pretty much been over-taken by the sploggers.
What is a splogger? That word is a combination of 'spam' and 'blogger'. Quite simply, a splogger is a person who continues to post garbage on a community blog. They only post to fool search engines into increasing their exposure. A splogger makes no effort to read what others post, or to interact with other bloggers.
BlogEvolve supposedly has an admin that should be doing something to control the splogging, but alas, the admin does not care enough to do anything, or even show up!
I have posted quite a bit on BlogEvolve, but in recent months, not so much. As BlogEvolve prepares to go to hospice, there are two primary bloggers left and they are both fed up.
First, there is user Elly. From the beginning, she has been the most faithful blogger and has written much. Secondly, user huttriver has been faithful to keep blogging, but upon reaching 10,000 points, he intends to stop.
Here are the links:
djbtol
Elly (australia)
Huttriver (New Zealand)
Even though others are leaving, and there is the issue of the sploggers, you still might consider getting on there and seeing what it is like.
What is a splogger? That word is a combination of 'spam' and 'blogger'. Quite simply, a splogger is a person who continues to post garbage on a community blog. They only post to fool search engines into increasing their exposure. A splogger makes no effort to read what others post, or to interact with other bloggers.
BlogEvolve supposedly has an admin that should be doing something to control the splogging, but alas, the admin does not care enough to do anything, or even show up!
I have posted quite a bit on BlogEvolve, but in recent months, not so much. As BlogEvolve prepares to go to hospice, there are two primary bloggers left and they are both fed up.
First, there is user Elly. From the beginning, she has been the most faithful blogger and has written much. Secondly, user huttriver has been faithful to keep blogging, but upon reaching 10,000 points, he intends to stop.
Here are the links:
djbtol
Elly (australia)
Huttriver (New Zealand)
Even though others are leaving, and there is the issue of the sploggers, you still might consider getting on there and seeing what it is like.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
From that other blog
Just for the fun of it, here are the last two things I posted on BlogEvolve, a community blog. The first is a sister to a post here, the second is unique.
sister post
unique
sister post
unique
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