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Lists should be posted in Lists; Pictures posted in Pictures Category.
posted by
scriber
on August 15, 2004 at 6:35 PM
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I never read lists
They bore me to tears, and I'm usually not on them making me want to bring others to tears.
posted by
qwertyui
on August 15, 2004 at 5:09 PM
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Quirky,
I believe that a post's title should reflect what the post is about. If a person says, "The world is going end today" then the post is about the end of their payment period so here is their dist list, I want to smack them for being fooling me. Instead I just don't read them anymore. I hope you have better luck getting this fixed then the rest of us did.
- you're leaving?
posted by
Kay-Ren
on August 15, 2004 at 2:02 PM
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markd, YES, I was trying to make a point with that headline,
but obviously not everyone "got it." Can't please all the people all the time, or even some of the people most of the time, now can I?
posted by
Julia.
on August 15, 2004 at 1:12 PM
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Well, personally, I'll stick to my trucking journal and my poetry, everyone else can have the clicks and 1 second fame, ect. But, there is some gravity about seeing a title for one particular subject and find out you have been duped into a entirely different subject mattet. And anyway, I'm allowing my subscription to expire in a few days. (1) money (2) nerves. Enough said. shadow
posted by
Keshet
on August 15, 2004 at 11:34 AM
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Quirky
Deceiving headlines, eh? You mean, like this post?
posted by
chris2303
on August 15, 2004 at 10:27 AM
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I KNEW this wasn't a list, because I saw your comment on the community page
LOL. I had a feeling that you would follow up here. Good observation, I wonder if this post will make a difference.
posted by
Tremac
on August 15, 2004 at 8:34 AM
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thank you for not posting a list
It pisses me off when i go to a blog and it's a list of someone's laundry or shopping list!! I always read your blog because it's full of good info and you have a good sense of humour. ~Love,, Vib
posted by
Vibrance
on August 15, 2004 at 6:52 AM
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I totally agree, T99
I was just playing Devil's Advocate! There's no, I believe, 'write' or wrong answer to this, just personal opinions.
posted by
markd
on August 15, 2004 at 2:22 AM
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Regarding categories........only a couple of my blogs remain true to their
categories, and true to the descriptive initial intent of those blogs. I keep wanting to update these things, but with multiple personalities...that would be of futile task, because some of these personalities just want to post and they pick the title of the blog they like the best and just type away.
I am sorry about the non-adherence to my categories, but at least I try to make sure they write in the subject line a header that lets you know what you might be getting into!!!!!!
Whammie
posted by
WHAMENATOR
on August 15, 2004 at 1:38 AM
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As was I, Mark - one marketing tool is no different than another. There will always be "lesser" ways of getting noticed, getting attention, getting clicks and getting paid, and while we would all like this to be a perfect world where only good quality writing gets read, the world we live in is the one that supports both the Weekly World News and the National Geographic.
I don't see any reason to get highbrow about one or the other. Not everyone *wants* to write a Pulitizer Prize winning novel. Some people just want to write a gossip column. Somebody has to write the Obits. Somebody has to write the dry text on the label of an aspirin bottle, and while it may not be the dream you had in mind when you were five, it *is* a paying gig and it *is* a valid writing job.
Headlines sell papers, one liners sell magazines and sound bites sell everything from movies to the Presidency. As long as people are buying it, people are going to sell it - it's reality TV. It's the world we live in.
--T99
posted by
Tamara99
on August 15, 2004 at 1:14 AM
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I just think "dist lists" should be posted under
Lists and Information categories. Now, Jimmy68, who has been a long time member, if that is posted under "about blogging" or whatever (I'm not sure which) but his long-term running blog every Saturday night, he clearly states in every blog that it is his weekly reading list. Others, I'm not so sure. There are many newbies especially, that are posting B.S., misleading blog titles that are plainly using trickery to get clicks. As I have said in a previous blog of mine, it is not right. If a blogger chooses to post their reading lists, fine, but don't use trickery to get clicks....Some newbies (and a few older members still do, too) in which I shall not name who have a habit of posting DAILY lists (Lord only knows WHY; we can only assume they have nothing else of significance to post) and use that trickery to lure bloggers to click in hopes they think it's a real blog when not "posted" in the proper category.
posted by
SpitFire70
on August 15, 2004 at 1:13 AM
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Tamara99... oh yes! Well said!
Although maybe Quirkyalone was trying to make a point...
posted by
markd
on August 15, 2004 at 12:51 AM
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I saw your comment in the community section too.
I just felt I ought to clarify something, in case my Bad Dad Monologues post of yesterday was one of the posts that caused your little rant...
I agree that Distribution Lists, when that is all the post contains, should be posted under the Lists & Information category, especially if that is all that the blog ever contains; however, I post my distribution list infrequently and couldn't be bothered to set up another blog just for an infrequent post. If the blogger occasionally posts their distribution list in a blog they normally write other content too, either to help inflate their rankings slightly or just let other bloggers know they are reading them, then I don't think that's such a heinous thing. I did once have my own distribution list blog that was categorised under the Lists & Information section, but I deleted it when I got fed up with my lists out-performing what I was writing in other blogs; now I post my distribution list maybe once a month, at the end of my pay cycle, and usually as part of other content in one post; but even then I sometimes don't do it every month.
I have long mentioned that I would be happy for distribution lists to be categorised in a non-ranking location on Blogit so that they don't affect the rankings or earnings of geniune posts, but I doubt that this will ever happen as it would require an awful lot of policing. If, however, you have been reading my posts hopefully you will have noticed that I was deliberately trying to see if I could affect my rankings by means other than a distribution list... and failed, proving that vanity blogging is indeed incredibly popular as a method to promote your blogs and regardless of your feelings on it, it's gonna be here for some time. I was also blatantly open about what I was doing.
But don't get me wrong, whatever you might have thought of recent tactics employed to inflate my blog's rankings, I'm actually on your side!
posted by
markd
on August 15, 2004 at 12:50 AM
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And how is that any different than THIS post which uses a click trick headline? At least a distribution list delivers something.
posted by
Tamara99
on August 15, 2004 at 12:06 AM
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Distribution lists are cool, and they don't necessarily need to be in ...
the lists and information category. Not if they are identified as lists or used to pad out other commentary...I like reading them myself though I don't spend much time on it. What about this offends you so much? I post one every Saturday as one of my Blog Notes. Actually they would fit into either opinion...if used as a springboard for praise or critique, or On Blogging...which is where I post mine, along with posts inspired by the blogs of others.
I just don't like the trick headline thing...no matter what follows it, and I stop reading bloggers who overuse this technique. I simply vote with my clicks.
posted by
jimmy68
on August 14, 2004 at 11:35 PM
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No you are not the only one. I have blogged ad nauseum about it
posted by
beachbelle
on August 14, 2004 at 11:29 PM
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