Most annoying thing you see on blogs?

[Nogamara]

Easy question, what bugs you the most?

Simple rule: No public disclosure of blogs, PM them if they are here.

I'm gonna start.

1. You are not stating if you play EU, US or anywhere else.
(This does not apply if you keep it a secret, but if you are "Foo of Arathor", I'm sick of having to armory you. If you're telling your name, include your Region.)

2. "This is a default Wordpress About Page but my author was too lazy to write it."
(While I don't like if you have no about page, I really dislike this one. If you keep it displayed at least write 2-3 sentences why you want to stay anonymous. Or make a huge post, I'll read it. Really.)

Maybe if there's some agreement on those, some people (most of all myself) could work to improve some stuff, if it's not changing a direction they deliberately chose. Like my two examples show only some oversight and or one-time-lazyness - both easily fixed.

[Tamarind]

I'm sorry to play Mr Grumpy (AGAIN) but I think perhaps this is a nuclear explosion waiting to happen.

I know you mean it lightly, and I know these are trivial things meant to raise a smile and a "yeah, oops, I don't do that" but bearing in mind that it takes time to set up a blog and a lot of time to get the hang of basic things like getting your layout sorted and getting your comments working ... I could see this being really disconcerting to a new blogger.

Hell, it's disconcerting to me, although to be honest I'm a pretty new blogger as well.

I think we're all open to suggestions for improvement and constructive criticism but I think this has the potential to make people genuinely anxious and insecure.... in a "does he mean me" kind of way.

Again, I'm really sorry to be the Blogging Grinch and everybody can throw potatoes at me if I'm being a total softie here but I genuinely don't want to be criticising other's blogs - even in a non-specific, humorous way. People work hard at their blogs, and I value that.

[rivs]

I just want to toss a potato at you!

[Jaedia]

I think honestly, if people want to know how to improve their blog, they will go to Blog Azeroth (or not) and ask for constructive criticism.

Though one thing I'd like to add: RSS feeds. I follow so many blogs that I have to do it in a reader, when people's RSS feeds don't update in my reader, I won't read the blog. Just makes me sad that I miss out on things more than anything

[Tamarind]

You are always welcome to a throw a potato at me, Rivs baby.

[jen]

Jaedia: I think all blogs have a built-in RSS feed. I never bother clicking the RSS icons, I just write the address of the blog in Google Reader and it finds the feed automatically. I can only remember one instance when this didn't work, and it was a newspaper's website, not a blog. Pretty sure all blog readers can do it.
(Also, for WP blogs it's usually blogname.extension/feed/rss)

[Nogamara]

That's interesting, I wouldn't have imagined anyone could even read so many things into a simple question.

Especially as I put this into the same category as: "You're a WoW player. What annoys you most about other wow players?"

Well, of course someone will feel guilty, but it's not even about showing names.
I find the "hilarious flagRSP descriptions" - including names - magnitudes more disruptive, but ok - let's close this topic then.

[windsoar]

Restokin did a self-censored rant against other bloggers and his readers were worried that it was their behavior. People he loved and that loved him! Some people take criticism, not directed at them very personally and I can surely understand Tam's pov on this one.

[Jaedia]

The hilarious FlagRSP descriptions is more aimed at jokey descriptions, nobody in this guild can really take that to heart.

jen: I do that, but sometimes the blog feed just won't update in my reader, and I'm too attached to Bloglines to switch to Google