I Only Comment When It Benefits Me

Whew! It has been a rough couple of days. I haven’t even watched television in, oh, THREE DAYS! How is that possible? The flu has struck our house and I was suffering like you would not believe! Yesterday I didn’t even get off the couch. The house was a wreck, but that’s life. I needed a really long nap. I’m feeling much better today, though. Thanks.

I have to turn my attention to BloggingZoom. Before Ye Ole Flubug hit, I became a little addicted. Yes, I know I was a little put off by all the money-making blogs (honestly, who doesn’t want to make money?), but then people started submitting articles that were more interesting and pretty soon I was sucked in. I just started following links, reading stories, getting tons of useful information, and before you know it Saturday was gone. Considering that a lot of blogs that I’ve been visiting lately seem to be sans blogroll, this is a really good way to find new blogs to fall in love with. Of course, there’s also some fodder for "What are they thinking?" file. Gotta say, the best posts to blog about are the ones that make you squint your eyes and cuss at the monitor. Ya know?

While I was stumblin’ around (or zooming? Hmm) I fell upon a blog post I found mildly interesting. In this post there was some talk about commenting on other blogs. I thought maybe this was going to be another rant about commenters leaving "PlayVegasAllNight.com" as their name or something. I love posts like that. Every time I see one I think "Kindred spirit!" I was a little disappointed.

Turns out that this particular blogger is one of the "blog snobs" that I try to avoid. By that, I don’t mean that she is necessarily a bad person. But she is very calculating about where she’s going to comment, who should comment on her post, where she’s going to link, etc- all that mattered was SERPs in the end. So, community and meeting other people were almost (but not quite) unimportant in the grand scheme of things. The blogger says that she will only comment on blogs with that are part of the Do Follow movement and then only if she can get in as one of the first commenters and a couple of very strategic reasons. That’s fine, I suppose. I can get that some people are only in this for the money. It’s sad, but I get it. So, I get to the bottom of the post, to the comments, and what do I see? Nofollowed comments!

A little explanation. I have Search Status enabled on my toolbar. It’s a Firefox plugin that prompts the browser to highlight all nofollows found on the page. I can tell right away if someone is part of the Do Follow community or blowing smoke. It’s got a couple other features, but I’ve jumped around enough.

I don’t care that the comments were nofollowed. My thing was that this person made such a big deal about commenting only on blogs with Do Follow- so she can get backlinks – but she’s not doing the same thing for her commenters.

Not only that, but I followed her from a post where she commented about another blog (which was mentioned in that particular post) but hadn’t commented on the blog she was discussing. Why? That blog’s comments were nofollowed. Huh? You honestly have a compliment for a blogger because he’s doing something you admire, but you won’t comment on his blog because…?

I just don’t get. I do not get it. When did the blogosphere become such a cold, ugly place?

*sigh*

Well, luckily my PR stinks like butt, so I don’t expect this particular person to ever grace my low-down, no good blog. That’s a good thing.

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