Spam is part my daily life. Honestly, on a really rough day I almost love opening my inbox to “Congratulations! You won!” or “Your prayers have been answered!” and what if Azi REALLY wants to share his millions with me because he heard so many great things about me? It’s about time my awesomeness has reached Nigeria!
I have this voice in my head that keeps screaming not to write about this, but obviously it’s not loud enough…. so let’s talk about comments on the blog, shall we? It is hard to write into this vast space and not hear anything back. Getting a comment on your blog can easily make your day. Make it 10 comments and you don’t need your daily shot of battery liquid to add that extra spring to your step. I truly enjoy reading your comments, emails and questions (on a side note- you can now Ask Me Anything anonymously (or not) over here). It keeps me going, it makes me smile, laugh out loud, think… but then there are those few comments that just make me want to step on a kitten. So to prevent animal cruelty here is the list of comments you should avoid leaving on my blog:
1. Thanks for stopping by! or Thanks for commenting on my blog!… – Thank-you notes are for your wedding guests – please don’t feel obligated to leave a comment JUST because I liked your post – it wasn’t a guilt-trip.
2. Hi! LOVE your blog! Come check out mine! – no.
3. You are such a great writer! - under my picture-only post… signed – WorkFromHomeClickHere – delete.
4. Love it here! You have an award at my blog – come check it out! – which basically leads to a blog meme that usually reads something along the lines of “you guys, so and so totally just gave me this awesome award and now I have to pick 50 other blogs to give this award to and then post 5 things about myself!” which is followed by a laundry list of random blogs with yours truly and according to the instructions all I have to do to claim my awesome-awesome award is to make a post about their blog and list 50 others…. It could be totally flattering, because after all they say they picked your blog because they really totally liked it… even though they have never visited you before, they read only one of your posts (thank you, statcounter.com), your blog is not on their blogroll and they will never come back again… mostly because instead of posting their link I wrote this post instead. Ok, I have nothing against blog awards, but I really don’t like memes – a bit too much of self-promotion for my taste.
5. I just subscribed to your blog – can you subscribe to mine? – how about dinner and a movie first?
I think I will stop here, but feel free to add more, that is if you are not afraid to comment after this rant… no seriously, I love you. And I really mean it this time.
hehehe, so true! That is classic!
Well, I do keep up to date wity your blog, but I guess I don’t often leave notes because I’m on Blogger, not wordpress.
Anyway, thats it from me today!
P.s Your little pork chop is adorable
Pork chop – I love it
I can honestly say I look foward to your posts in my inbox. I love your honesty about motherhood and life in general. Please keep making me laugh!
I LOVE your blog, you’re such a good writer, now come read mine!
Sorry, just had to be a smart ass on this one
Seriously though, good stuff here. I esp. love your Because posts. Bald chubby babies make me smile
Haha! Thanks, Melissa!
Preach it, girl! Number 1 is my all-time pet peeve!
I love your blog and I think you should be rated up there with the best of them, my friend.
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha
P.S. I hate the “your blog is so pretty” comment. Really? If my blog was ugly would you tell me that too?
Another Hug and Another Mocha,
Stesha
Ha! I just got one of those stupid blog awards and I know the girl reads my blog, but I hate them so much I’m trying to find a polite way of saying, um, NO!
The worst comments are the ones I get on my professional articles. We are supposed to delete any that have a web address buried in them, which is all of them, “Hi! I rlly like ur blog. This article is so helpful. You can find more info here: http://www.blahblahblahspamcakes.com”
I feel like I spend my day deleting comments from over there. Ugh.
But yeah, a good comment on a personal blog? Totally rocks!
Oh, come on, who said that writing blogs was about your readers. All of the blog writers do it only for themselves (as well as FB, My Space, Twitter, etc….) A club of Narcissists. Your current post absolutely proves it.
Awww… “Labas!” and thanks, Anonymous! Please come again and I hope you subscribe!
Labas. Have no idea why I was named “Anonymous…” Only your friend Jurgita (a.k.a. Brashke) could have written something like that…
Well you haven’t lost this reader yet, in spite of your rampant narcissism. I find it hard to understand people promoting themselves in comments. Don’t they know how it sounds? Do they do it in public too? “Hi, I’m so-and-so, your dress is really pretty, what do you think of mine? Could you compliment me please, preferably within earshot of everyone else?”
But then I feel a little bad saying that, because sometimes they really are nice people. Just the wee tiniest bit socially inept. Not socially ept like you and I obviously are.
haha. You make me laugh. Brutal honesty man, somebody’s gotta say it. Right?
Haha! Love it! Especially the “dinner & a movie first” comment.
Who is that anonymous baby at the top of your blog though? Bring back your little cutie pie! 
The cutie pie will be back soon – I am transitioning this blog to self-hosting and working on a new design and a header…you know because I have so much extra time and all…
I love you, I love your blog, and I don’t have a blog, so you’ll never have to worry about me.
That said, I just told a woman I’ve never met that I love her. Talk about needing dinner and a movie first, LOL. Regardless, it’s true! YOU help keep me going, and I’m so glad I stumbled upon your awesome blog. There are times I’ve thought about commenting, “What’s up lady! More posts please! I don’t care about your stinking free time…you need to be entertaining me!” So get on that. 
Hugs from NJ,
Blogless Abby
Love right back at you, Abby! My husband and I are officially referring to you as my blog therapist.
Well, you’ll have to forgive me, because I think I ended my first comment here with your number one pet peeve. That one doesn’t bother me, obviously, I guess because it feels more genuine than some of the other self-serving ones.
What I don’t like is fawning–these are mostly comments I read on other people’s blogs, I don’t get them, happily… the ones that say “OMG, we are exactly alike, are we long lost twins?” Really, how many long lost twins can Dooce have?
The other ones that bother me a little, which is hard to describe– are the “false sense of reciprocity” comments. The ones where you can tell they didn’t even really read your post, or they just looked at the pic… they just want you to think they come to your blog so that you’ll feel like there is some kind of communion there and keep going to theirs.
I don’t care if I only have one reader, as long as it is someone who reads it because they want to.
No apology needed – it wasn’t THE ONLY thing that you wrote and I don’t have a problem with that.
Also, I would like to officially add #6 to my list as the “false sense of reciprocity” – I know exactly what you are talking about.
Wait, there are blog awards? People subscribe to blogs? How come nobody invited me to the party? (I’m glad you linked what a “meme” is, btw. It saved me having to google it myself.)
I only read about 3 blogs regularly – yours and finslippy and my dad’s. If you would just have accepted even just a few of these blogging awards, Daiva, I wouldn’t be so many pages behind the rest of the blogging world.
However, at least you’ve brought me up to speed with this post.
Looking forward to seeing the renovations to your site. And I agree with a previous poster: you need to get Leila back into your header.
- Robyn (womanoutnumbered)
Awards and memes are sweet… for about a year of blogging. Then you begin to understand what they REALLY are and honestly? I don’t care anymore. I don’t read posts about awards and I don’t post about awards. SOME memes are pretty freaking funny but do NOT ask me to do it. You can ask me to copy, if I feel so inclined, but I usually forget anyway.
BTW, that picture above is ADORABLE. I love sun hats. The bigger and floppier, the better.
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LOL and a big thumbs up from me on this one!
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