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I have noticed the following appearing in the comment feed below some of the blogs I follow;
‘Don´t forget we also have a blog, if you dont vote us we wouldnt follow you..’
They seem to be saying – ‘you must come read, and like us/our blog, or we won’t carry on following you’ – or something along those lines, which is rude at best, and to my mind a strategy almost guaranteed to lose some readers, and guilt trip those left into ‘liking’ their posts. If you don’t even follow them in the first place…they are spamming, and fishing with a long fake line, presumably aiming try and hook folks into visiting their blog, possibly for numbers, possibly in order to get one to read the content, be interested, and then follow them. I do not like such behaviour – to my mind it is spamming, and anyone who only follows your words purely because you follow theirs, gives not one shiny poo for the time and effort put into your penning.
They always add their blog address at the end of the comment – I have left it off, they can drum up their ‘interest’ elsewhere, ideally hand in hand, with a course on the fundamentals of English grammar.
(Just to clarify, this is not a blog I follow, for I am not as mad as a bag of psychotic frogs. As I said, I saw the comment in the feed below other people’s posts, people who I do follow.)
Esme's Cloud 
Where do you find these weird blogs, Sonmi? No, I don’t want directions thank you, merely a puzzle. And why would you follow them if they leave such silly statements? Or even loosely veiled threats. Most odd. I would remove my cloud to elsewhere in the sphere.
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I don’t follow them. I saw their comments left under posts on people’s blogs that I do follow.
That’s what I was saying. Presumably not that clearly.
s.u.t.C
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No. I’ve just not had my siesta today.
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nods People underestimate the power of an afternoon nap. I don’t even hover near a land where I could claim to have a legitimate siesta, yet still, it makes a world feel like a brighter place.
s.u.t.Cloud
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Bravo and well said sonmi. I’m of the opinion, ‘joke ’em if they can’t take a fuck!’
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Or throw cabbages. I’m easy on the details. laughs
s.u.t.Cloud
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Very true words. The curse of the reciprocal ‘likers’; the curse of blogging and the reason I like a break from it from time to time…that plus the inane remarks. Still most I know blogwise (a new word?) are good souls, some very fine writers indeed…by the way if you don’t thoroughly read, comment and like every paragraph I write then you are, as Danny Soz might say, ‘Off me list’!!!!
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Hahahaha, blimey. I know, it all has such a greasy feel to it. Fraudulent.
I often miss people’s posts, and have no doubt the same works back. Quality, not quantity!
I like the idea of ‘blog-unwise’ to ad to your word. nods.
s.u.t.Cloud
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The worse ones are those who think they are God’s gift to writing yet have no conception that that is not so…at least I make no claim that my toot is anything but the ramblings of an old fool.
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Well, beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder when it comes to readers. For example, I think you often write as though playing a fiddle with a razor, whilst doing a highland jig with no pants on, and winking at every lady in the audience at the same time. In as much as, I think it is very good, whilst you think it’s the ramblings of an old fool. There’s no pleasing everyone eh?! Hahahahaha.
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I don’t belittle ‘ramblings’ I hope for everyone and anyone is capable of freeing up the mind and having a go…the strangest things happen and a little method acting in words also. A therapeutic approach open to all who care to try it out!
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That is naff, unquestionably, and yet some people blog as a means of socialising, and so are interested in engagement, in mutuality, and this is not unreasonable I feel. It is a slightly separate issue, though quite frankly, I would turn to some other medium myself if no-one read my articles, nor commented on them, for what would be the purpose in publicising them? I always make a point of thanking commenters for their presence, and will almost always reciprocate if I possibly can. I know a lovely aged man in America who writes lucid, informed, and meticulously crafted articles and yet whose secondary motivation is to procure some alleviation for his loneliness. For him, blogging is about forging links, and this means reciprocity in comments, in discussion. Then we have those you point to for whom blogging is treated as if some affirmation of their very existence, a sort of bargaining tool to reach those ends, they being about as desperate as this:
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Yes, but I’m, talking about the ones who just like to get one back. They don’t necessarily even open your posts, or read them. I know a ‘click’ can be of some comfort to the lonely, help a feeling of being liked themselves and having perhaps interested people out there, but I don’t think the lonely are leaving vaguely threatening, (as Roughseas put it so well), comments, like some kind of slimy, blogosphere debt collectors.
A clip, (and a fine choice), from one of my favoutite (top fifteen) films. Thank you H smiles.
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Interesting opinion, sonmi and one Tubularsock shares. Tubularsock loved your, “…gives not one shiny poo” and “. . .for I am not as mad as a bag of psychotic frogs.”
Both made Tubularsock ponder, then visualize, then laugh. Thanks.
Tubularsock has always attempted to be egalitarian about his dislikes and just hate everyone equally.
Tube in the bunker …….
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laughing – I’m pleased to hear it. One of my superpowers is the ability to force folks to visualise poo and frogs, in a manner that can only make them laugh. Or cry. Up to now it has only been laugh thankfully.
‘Tube in the bunker’ – an excellent name for a punk band, or a film about dark deeds. nods
Thanks for the comment Tubular.
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There are a bunch of bloggers who think they must live their blog address in the comments. One wonders if they don’t think their avatar is sufficient for such purposes? Or do they feel they have no content that they must force people to click on that link. Anyone who does that on my blog, I don’t bother checking.
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And I’ll tell you something else. Some people even sign their names at the end of the comment!! As though people won’t already know who they are! Damn fools. Attention seekers to a cloud. Ahem.
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Maybe they feel by the time you finish reading their comments, you would have forgotten who they were
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Insecure eh? I’ll have words with the Cloud, and indeed may, just may have made a small rod for my own back with all the signature business. Still, everything tends to pan out eventually. nods.
Have a fine day mak smiles.
s.u.t……er……..nevermind.
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It’s evening in this old country.
Have a pleasant time my friend
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Oooh same here, so far away, yet the sun sets upon us both smiles.
she who sits upon a Cloud
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she who sits upon the clouds can follow the sun wherever it goes, I think. Hope you have been well this far
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In honesty, there have been some dreich days and nights, and the sun often moves faster than the Cloud can travel, but on the whole…yes, much better than the forecast predicted I’d say. Thank you for asking mak smiles.
she who wears the Cloud as a onesie
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