R.I.B. Reduction in Blog

I have come to a conclusion about the many blogs I have created. I created too many of them expecting feedback. By that I mean writing them in the form of a blog. Blogs are intended so that there is a very easy way for readers to add comments or ask questions of the author. My readers (all two of them 🙂 ) evidently don’t like to talk back.

The only replies my blog posts create are from the spammers. Literally thousands of them. I show the spam filter here on my Ramblin’ Dan site and you see it is well over 5,000. The real replies I can probably count just with two hands.

I like the format of a blog. For me it has become a diary of my activities rather than an exchange of ideas. I could just as well leave the comment feature turned off and not need to filter out the high volume of spammers.

I think most of my genuine readers don’t want to make public comments. They want to remain private. Instead I receive emails with specific questions. That’s OK.

I have created blogs that had specific topic areas. My thinking was there may be an interest pool of people who would visit just because it was a limited topic blog. I don’t see any evidence of that, so I think that is not the case. What it does do is fragment my attention to any one topic.

I just shut down the ModelBoatBlog. I liked the format but why do I maintain a separate blog? I’ll add a section here or The Hobbyist Workshop and just make posts when I have something to say about my model boat projects. If I get no comments about its disappearance I’ll know I am correct. My old BBS, TEDEX is effectively off line because of a high volume of spammers and lack of participation by real people.

So in the future I’ll not start a new blog or website until a topic takes off on its own. I can find better things to do with my time. 🙂

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