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June 27, 2005

A Tip For Bloggers

Recently I’ve decided to moderate the comments posted to my blog for first-time commentors. While I understand that this confuses and annoys a couple of people, I’ve found that it’s really the best way to go. Don’t believe me? Well, check out this little gem then someone attempted to post last night about my review of Maburaho:

“Manuraho is do fucking hot every time that i see her my dick goes realy hard and i have to fuck my grilfriend you should do an episode were some one fucks maburaho, and if you do send the episode to my mail.”

Now, at first I would write that off as a practical joke, because I do get fake comments like that sometimes. But I really believe that this guy is serious. He came to my site through a google search for Sexy Maburaho, which surprisingly has me as the top result. He also left a legitimate email address for me to send him an episode of Maburaho having sex. Gee, I wasn’t even aware that there was a title character in the series! Maybe I should re-watch the whole thing. :-P

So here’s a helpful tip for all of you new and budding bloggers. You might run a very smart and sophisticated site, but chances are that you’re going to have a lot of very stupid people stumble upon it. So if you give them a chance to add something to your site, please be sure that you have some kind of control over what shows up and what does not. Commenting is a great feature, but these vulgarities can really bring down the content quality of your blog. So don’t be afraid to say no to them. It’s your blog, you can do whatever you want with it.

I also want to take this time to announce that I’m back to a regular update schedule now. Sorry for the people that check my site regularly only to discover that I haven’t added anything new for over a week. But now that I have broadband installed in my house, I’ll be able to have enough access to make the kind of posts that I used to make. I’m planning of setting 4-day deadlines for every post. That means that you all can come back on July 1st for my next post, then July 5 for the next, then the 9th… you get the picture. If my schedule gets too hectic over the summer, I might change it to 5 or 6 days each, but I’ll allows tell you when my next post is. I’ll keep the next date posted in my right toolbar under the hit counter. I’m expecting that when school starts again, and I have a lot of free time to myself in my dorm room, my updates will be daily or bi-daily.

So what can you expect on Friday? Well, how about a little something about a show that another blogger really seems to like? :-P

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