BlogExplosion
I like BlogExplosion, I really do. Until they came along, there was not a good site for generating traffic to your blog while also getting to discover lots of other cool blogs at the same time. They have done some amazing things over at BE. And that’s why I wasn’t sure if I should post this or not. I don’t want to come across as if I’m really angry, it’s not a huge deal. It’s more like a pet peeve right now…
But it’s the Battle of the Blogs. It used to be fun. It used to be cool. I miss those days. I know they have a lot of changes lined up for it, but they can’t come soon enough for me. I had heard people talking about how the battles had become unfair. People weren’t reading the content, they were just voting based on whose template was prettier. Or people were voting for their friends. Or whatever. I thought that was just a bunch of hot air until I recently lost my battle to a blank page. That’s right. A blank page. My competitor’s server was down the entire battle, yet somehow she won. There’s just something fishy about that. I think some people over there have gotten together and have decided to just vote for each other. So wrong.
It’s not really BE’s fault. It’s the fault of whoever these folks are that have decided that they will vote for their friends no matter what. (That’s the accused ringleader linked there. Guilty ’till proven innocent, it seems.) It’s not that we’re THAT UPSET over losing a silly little game. It’s that we’ve lost the simple fun that came from playing. We lost having a fair shot at it. We lost the ability to enjoy it. When people cheat, it just takes the fun away, you know?
So, when I heard that there’s a new blog site about to launch, I knew I would have to check it out. It’s called BlogMad and you can sign up now.
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I think your post pretty much summarizes the whole spectacle about BotB.
I don’t think it was ever about winning or just losing - at least it wasn’t for me - but rather losing a fixed battle, just like in your case. Whether or not BotB was fixed altogether, it definitely looked like one!
However, I think this whole issue made it (BotB) even more fun? At least for a while… well, along the way my blog got rated a “crafts” blog with lowest possible rating by a member that doesn’t exist… go figure! Take care.
The BlogMad link doesn’t work :D, other good traffic exchanges are BA and BlogAZoo
Fixed it, thanks!
Clique is what BlogExplosion is all about. It’s not only BOTB, it permeates BE. Read the comments of the more popular blogs and you will the same people commented over and over,
BlogMad will take a long time to get off the ground. I like BlogAdvance, but it needs more blogs.
So how are you getting on with BlogMad? Got any useful traffic from it?
The value of BE to me is purely in finding other blogs, which I can read and post on in order to try to add something to those blogs which I find interesting. Hopefully, if the blogs I post to share something in common with my blog, then people might be curious enough to click through.
BotB is just a way to lose credits… but some of my best comments have come from people I have battled against, and that is the only win I get from battles.
-Fruey