Comments on: MyBlogLog – Antisocial Behaviour?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:48:34 +0000

I delete posts on my MBL page that request I visit their site. I can’t stand that kind of Spam. If your site is good I assume I will eventually come across it. Also, If I leave a comment on someones page, it is because I actually took a look at their site and had something good to say.

When someone shows up in my “Admirers” section I check to see if they actually visited my site or are just being “friend-whores” as you so nicely put it. If they did visit then I add them out of courtesy as well as give their page a view. If the page is cool then I will join their community.

I also noticed that your community membership is WAY over the number listed above. I guess that’s what happens when you comment on a post from January. :-)

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By: Antman

Antman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:59:12 +0000

Sorry for the double post, a screw up. To add a bit more, I caught on a little late with the contacts. But now that I “get it” my admirers section is getting bigger than my contacts. I just refuse to add people that never read my blog, didn’t read it, and never had a conversation with. Makes no sense. My thought though, expect it to get worse as it gets bigger.

By: Antman

Antman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:55:47 +0000

Spot on Post! I posted on this as well. It drives me crazy the methods people use. If people were to put as much time into the content, as they do the gimmicks and effort to get people to the site, they might have more readers. The point is, you market what you have and the rest will take care of itself. Nice job.

By: Antman

Antman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:54:56 +0000

Spot on Post! I posted as well. It drives me crazy the methods people use. If people were to put as much time into the content, as they do the gimmicks and effort to get people to the site, they might have more readers. The point is, you market what you have and the rest will take care of itself. Nice job.

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MyBlogLog Plutoed? - Andy Beard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:43:58 +0000

[...] Recently Andy Beal decided to issue a free Zune MP3 player to a member of his MyBlogLog community. I actually thought this was a good idea to encourage people to use the service, as Andy has a high readership. Thus I did link through to him in my post “MyBlogLog – Antisocial Behaviour?”. [...]

By: Paul OFlaherty

Paul OFlaherty — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:32:00 +0000

I wasn’t really making the point that 5000+ contacts is or isn’t spam. I was just saying that when intelligent users see that many contacts on a profile they tend to ignore them.

It’s like the guy in the pub who knows everybody, but end up drinking on his own because nobody wants to talk to him.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:18:42 +0000

Well Shoe is up to 8000+ contact requests now. If he was smart he out-sourced it.

I have email notification “yes”, I can’t remember if that was default.

I don’t think Paul was saying whether 5000+ contact exchanges was spam or not, as that is a conversation on another blog.

By: David Temple

David Temple — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:59:32 +0000

Andy, I agree with Paul I don’t see adding as many contacts as you can as spamming. Those contacts are basically useless as you both point out.

The real goal is to develop a community. I read your blog, you read my blog and we communicate.

To me the spammers are ones that leave comments on your community page like this; Can you help me get traffic and customers to my website i have the mind of a millionaire i’m just broke right now and in school http:/ / www. cashcards. net/ rep/ 240677

In addition I do not receive an email when someone adds me as a contact so I don’t know how you have things setup. Bottom line a strong community is way better than a large community.

By: Paul OFlaherty

Paul OFlaherty — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:13:19 +0000

The thing with having 1000′s of members on your MyBlogLOg profile is that it just screams “contact whore”. While everyone may be on your list, no-one really pays any attention to you.

You may generate a lot of “one off” traffic but little in the way repeat traffic which is far more valuable.