I've noticed in the past week or so through statcounter that several new people (well, new to me anyway) have added me to their blogrolls and that I've had visitors from their blogs as a result of that.
This is very gratifying, and thank you kindly to all those who have so added me.
However, please don't be offended if I don't add you all back straight away.
I have a pretty strict policy concerning who does or does not get onto my blogroll, and it is in some ways (disgustingly so, some might say) Darwinian in nature. Or maybe, since we're in the world of memetic transfer rather than genetic transfer, "Dawkinsian".
The policy is this: I will only add the blogs that I find myself reading regularly. A less strict element is that I tend to want a blog that I add on this blogroll to be one that in some way identifies as feminist. This becomes "I only add those blogs that I would feel comfortable personally recommending to those who visit my site".
Maybe this isn't the way all these social-networking things are supposed to work, but it suits my natural-introvert mentality to approach it this way and I'm not going to change it (the extrovert part of my nature is very happy with spouting out opinions left, extreme left and left-of-centre, regardless of whether anyone actually reads them or not...!)
So, to all those who have added me recently, or whom I have recently discovered have added me, to their blogrolls - I have bookmarked your blogs and if you write scintillating stuff regularly over the next few weeks I may decide that your blog qualifies for my blogroll and add you, but it won't happen yet. It doesn't mean I don't like you, and I'm not meaning to be rude, if I don't add you now! (If I don't add you at all, it's also not meant to be rude but it does suggest that I don't personally get a lot out of what you write, which I feel bad about saying but there's no "nice" way of saying it, really.)
Sunday, 23 August 2009
3 things wot people said:
Comments Moderation Policy
This blog is intended to be a place where I can develop my thoughts freely and get free and honest responses. Essentially, it is my safe space, and for that reason I have elected to maintain this blog as a moderated space. However, I am opposed in general to censorship and believe that usually the best way to kill a bad idea is with a better one, so very few comments will be rejected. Comments designed to cause offence for the sake of it (e.g. abusive or inflammatory remarks with no other content), or else those that I feel cross a boundary of human decency, are most likely to be rejected.
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That policy actually makes sense. I link to blogs that I find have good information about the things I care about. That way (I hope) I'm making it easier to find good stuff on line.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I'd be interested to know if anyone actually gets to your blog via mine. :P
Ditto the above.
ReplyDeleteEarlier comment lost, sigh... Well... just go here. :)TRUST me. :)
Bob (and indeed, any other visitors here): the link you posted resulted in a malware warning from my browser and navigated me away from it. I almost removed the comment as spam until I checked out your blogger profile and saw you are in fact genuine.
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