I recently joined a social network called MYBLOGLOG and I have spent a great deal of time sorting through blogs and narrowing the field down to the other bloggers who I have found some common ground with. These blogs are now on my read and comment list and it sure feels good to make new friends.
Shortly after my profile was posted I also noticed that the most typical visitors to my profile page were sploggers, spammers and flesh peddlars. As the pay per click crowd prospers by enticing legitimate bloggers and as there is no way to sort the wheat from the chaff I faithfully followed up those leaving me messages inviting me to visit their blogs and join their communities. In most cases my response was: I think not. Well, apparently my experience has not been unique because MYBLOGLOG has acted .
The way that it works is to put a cap on the number of messages a user can send per day. The caveat here is that if that user receives a message back, which of course denotes conversation, the person’s daily limit will increase. For us, this seems a worthy method to try.
The limit will be 20 initially, and if we see that it is just not enough then we’ll increase it.
Predictably those squealing like stuck pigs against the limitations are the very parasites that I want to be shed of. So if you want a good belly laugh then take a look at the comments they left on the post in question.
In response to the butchers and moaners Robyn Tippin clarified the MYBLOGLOG position stating:
First, this message limit is not applicable to communities. This is only for member-to-member communication.
Second, if you send a message and get a response, that message does not count against your 20 daily limit. So, my hope is that it will not limit conversation greatly.
Third, if the number of messages is too low, then we are open to moving them up to some other number.
Kudos to the Administrators of MYBLOGLOG who have dealt with this important issue swiftly and sensibly.
Excellent post, Timethief and I completely agree. I’ve been a member of MBL for a while now, but have only lately looked into it a bit more and started joining communities, so it’s all still a bit new and confusing for me.
In the short time I’ve been there, I’ve received a fair bit of spam messages for blogs that I never bother clicking, yet it is very inconvenient having to delete the messages.
Their limit of 20 messages a day [excluding if a reply is received] is a brilliant idea.
MBL is really growing on me. they have a lot of solid community features, and this is no exception.
Hello you two,
MBL is really growing on me too. In the first few days I did a lot of clicking and deleting. But the best part is that I’ve also found some really super bloggers to communicate with. I’ve been busy posting comments and chatting with them by email.
I have a really strong feeling that MBL is going to become a cool blog centered network that I’ll really enjoy being a part of.
I made the suggestion that I thought blogs should be organized by categories and I have had some bloggers writing to say they agree with that idea too. I think if we categorize our blogs it will help use narrow down the field of potential new friends we can make.
I already made a “technical” error (can I hear Adam chuckling). I didn’t really look closely at the selections for contacts so I believe I marked every one with “I’m a fan of”. I have no idea how to edit this but I suppose it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, does it?
If you take a close look at my “About Me ” you will see that I added in a short list describing blogs I’m not interested in. Suddenly my message board popularity plummeted to zero … lol …
Onward and upward. Thanks for commenting. Take good care and I hope we’ll be chatting again soon.
I haven’t used it as much as I should, but it’s quite a thrill to click on and see who’s been on the blog and where they’ve come from. But yeah, the people with 3588 communities and 889 contacts? Not interested.
I made my stand on sploggers and spammers and it had an effect. I asked for blogs to be listed by categories as well and I believe we will see that happening soon.
That is one thing that is definitely missing at the the moment. It all seems a bit unorganised at the moment.
I suppose I’ll just need to spend more time on it.
Have you noticed as well that among the “things people are reading” list all blogger blogs show up only as “www.Blogger2.com 123 comments,” etc? The actual name of the blog doesn’t show at all, which is a HUGE Blogger disadvantage. Wonder why they did that?
No I hadn’t noticed this and have no idea why they did that.