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How long between blog posts until you are no longer a blogger but just a sad loser who clings to the title?
Posted by offendedblogger • 10/11/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: losers, offendedblogger, real bloggers
Also, shouldn't there be some sort of governmental oversight committee dedicated to tracking down these non-posting so-called bloggers to make them pay?
Or post?
Or something?
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A couple of weeks..-
Sounds like a fair amount of time.
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If you're still checking comments and planning posts, you're a blogger. I have one blog that has fallen by the wayside, but I try to post every six weeks or so (or whenever something strikes me) and I moderate the comments, clearing links from the spammier ones and deleting some altogether. I still love it, I just don't have as much to say about the topic as I did.
I don't think there's necessarily a time limit, although measuring the time since the last post in years should be a pretty good indication of abandonment, and I certainly don't think the government should get involved. I can't afford to get fined and I'd hate to see the dreck that would get posted in a forced-writing scenario!-
Hmm, a socialized system of blogging might be dull, indeed.
However... something has to be done. This place is full of non-bloggers! Visit the directory.
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Perhaps the BC folks could clean house a bit - set some sort of arbitrary time between posts that would result in a warning of listing deletion (it would have to be arbitrary, as there's no objective way to pick one). Say, one year without a new post showing on your blog listing here would result in an e-mail suggesting that you check your feed if you have been posting and that the failure of a post to appear there within the next 45 days will result in your blog's removal from the directory. The people who don't care will get booted, the people who actually blog will bet better rankings, and the abandoned blogs might get a little renewed attention!
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Surely they can do this with their 12th level master coding skills. At humorbloggers.com we only list those who have logged in within the last 2 weeks, but that is my rule because I am mean that way.
Why have a blog directory full of dead blogs, though? Or, worse, dead bloggers. Ewww. -
Well, the stench of the corpses does keep the spamming down to manageable levels...
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Why did dang humor blogger reject me?...I'm funny...right? right? Crickets
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I think after a month of no activity a blog ought to be taken off the web, and the blogger should have to sit in the corner all day holding a sign that says I AM A BAD BLOGGER! Unless they're dead.-
I think they should, regardless of whether or not they still have a pulse. Except for me. If I have to sit in the corner holding a sign with both hands, how can I blog?
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GMTA! Except the males ones I would castrate and make stand outside my temple, their eternal shame carved into their demasculated expressions.
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I've never understood why anyone cares whether or not someone else keeps up his/her blog. Of course, I say this as someone who often goes several weeks or even a few months between posts, so obviously my perspective is a little different But I can't see how that's hurting anyone else. And I have blogs/sites that haven't been touched in months that are still getting hundreds of visits a day to old posts and fresh links and comments, so I definitely can't see what the value would be in removing those posts just because they're not changing regularly. Isn't that a little bit like going into the library and pulling all the books that are more than a year old? -
Well I really don't care if they aren't blogging but when a directory (such as this one) has blogs listed which have thumbshots that show the generic Go Daddy page because they've long been abandoned, that can be a bit ugly.
Not to mention visitors coming here to find MY blog end up leaving frustrated after finding 27 other ones that haven't been updated since Clinton left office. -
@offended
That's a really good point (about BC search results.)
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What's the obsession with whether or not someone can properly be labeled a blogger? This has been going on for decades over the word "writer" and it's always been silly, but at least there we have two warring definitions, since "one who writes" and "one who makes a living writing" are both accepted definitions of "writer". I don't get what we're getting at here.
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Because I have OCD, OK?
Sheesh, do you have to make me say it outloud?
Now I'll obsess over this. Hmph.
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I agree 100% with every MadameX said above. The less rules and regulations, the better. Dead blogs don't bother me; like dead people they're easy to ignore. Better to get on with one's own blogging than concern yourself with anyone else's. I only post once a month, but I'm very active in visiting other blogs and leaving comments as well as participating in discussions. With my kind of writing it would be hard to post more often.-
as far as "dead" blogs goes, I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said that the oldest book extant is hot off the presses to the man who's never read it. Seems to me the same thing would apply to old blogs as well. -
Look, don't bring reasonableness into this argument!
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well are you going to bring booze, instead? I'd be willing to trade reasonableness for a stiff drink
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Booze trumps reason anytime! Hooyah!
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I dunno if your example actually works... if the dead people were laying around in the street it could get kind of weird.
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From a recent issue of Harper's:
"Estimated percentage of all existing blogs that have not been updated in four months: 94."-
So what you are saying is that only 6% of us are not on Facebook poking each other right now while our blogs languish???
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What if a blogger has several blogs out of which one or two dies out? Are they still allowed to continue blogging on the other sites or are blogs supposed to be treated like animals in terms of blog abandonment and blog abuse -laws?
Hmm... Blog abuse sounds funny. Blogabuseblogabuseblogabuse... Would that make a decent name for a blog...? -
When I don't make an entry in a few days it's like I have a little annoying spider monkey poking me saying "C'mon, c'mon...there's people that read your nonsense...go write some shit" And then I realize they are only using me for my vids and probably skip over my writing.
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I must confess that I have allowed my "Adventures of Lady Laura," to fall by the wayside. Last year many things happened that we have had to handle and so life interrupted my blogging on my Regency Novel.
I still think about the story line, and know it is high time to resurrect the poor young lady, but life happens. I am very busy writing, but I do agree that I need to make her active once again. She really is delightful and bound to get into some upcoming sleuthing troubles. Oh yes ... there is a mystery afoot, too.
I will commence writing on Sundays. One post a week will be doable with everything else I balance.
Glad you brought this up because it will make me accountable.
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I know with my blog I'll go through periods of posting nearly every day or maybe even twice in one day and other periods where I may well barely post for a month. Plus I travel a lot, and the way I travel sometimes posting becomes difficult - especially since internet access is not always a possibillity! -
I don't look upon the topic as you do. I wait for the right thoughts and for the moments I can spare in my leisure to write my posts
I dont say: Shame on me calling myself a blogger - I haven't posted in many days
Maybe that works for you, I dont know.. but applying your rules on others is a bit on the crazy side -
Actually, it was funny .. before I consolidated my health blogs March 1, 2009 - I actually stopped posting July 5, 2008 on one of them - and my traffic kept rising more and more and peaked in January 2009. My biggest earnings from that blog was in November 2008. Go Figure.
The old saying "you're only as good as your last post" isn't really true, because if you have some good posts in your archives .. you're still good! -
I made a bad mistake with the name of my blog.... -
I make a single post almost every day, all original content. -
I've certainly taken some breaks both scheduled and announced and spontaneous and longer than expected. But I have two and a half years worth of posts and Some of those posts draw in 100--150 uniques a day, all from search and they view 300--500 pages. The thing is there is No Telling which posts will end up being popular with search visitors. But if you keep banging out the content you definitely have a much more substantial web site.
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THE GUYS post around three times a week. Some people post every day. Some people post once a month. As long as it's a regular schedule I think it's fine.
I also think if a blogger only posts once in a while but is active in discussions, forums or leaving comments then that should count for something. -
I blog in spurts. At times I post a dozen images/words in a couple of days. Then I'll got 2 or 3 weeks - and zilch. Mood swings. Sometimes the need. Sometimes what's the point? Back and forth. Up and down. It has been my life as an artist. Stumbling forward. Do it still.-
At least you're stumbling forward.
That's a good thing.
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The longest I've taken off was a month for my main blog -- but I explained I was taking a vacation and left a reading list of favorite posts -- and about 8 months for my recipe blog. My perspective on the recipe blog is that there are some types of content that readers can search and find what they're looking for without there being the need for constant updating.
Since my recipe blog was started as a central place to keep our family recipes, I only add to it if I'm making something and realize that I haven't entered it. Or if something I'm making becomes a new family classic.
One of the things I like about blogging, though, is that the same method doesn't work for everybody. It's a medium of self-expression, so to each his (or her) own, right?
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