Bloody Blogger blatently blackballs blog blurbs
I’ve noticed over the last few week or so, Blogger has modified their (never pleasant) comment system to disallow any non-Blogger users from leaving their website address when they post a comment. This means that I can’t comment on someone’s blog and leave a link to my blog. The options are to post anonymously, to use a ‘nickname’ (which with no web link is only a small step up from anonymous) or to use a Blogger ID.
I don’t want to use a Blogger ID. I have a perfectly fine, non-Blogger blog and I want to be able to tell people about that when I comment on something. Blogger, and their owners, Google, have most likely pissed off a pretty massive portion of the blogging public. Well, they’ve pissed off me. And the Gurrier. And, from doing an ironic Google search, lots more people.
I hate this proprietary shite. Sort it out Blogger. It’s not on.
What can you do?
If you’re a Blogger user and it annoys you that commenters aren’t free to include a link to their sites or if you’re a commenter and it annoys you that Blogger won’t let you include a link, do this:
Go to their Feedback Page and paste the following into the ‘Suggest New Feature’ field at the bottom:
Please restore the ability to include my (non-Blogger) URL when I post a comment on a Blogger site.
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Let’s go comrades…. Blindependent bloggers blast bloated Blogger blunder. I think I got away with that one.
How annnoying is this? I noticed it as well. I thought that maybe you could log on with a google address as well so I went to create a new google account in relation to the blog. But after a bottle of wine I couldn’t figure it out.
I might go “old skool” and stick pieces of paper on walls for people to read. Wloggers Unite, that will teach em’.
Comment by The Inky Thinker — Tuesday December 11, 2007 @ 20:39
You can log on with a Google account but that just points interested clickers at your Blogger/Google profile which, if your blog isn’t on Blogger/Google, is of limited use.
Wloggers is too hard to pronounce.
Comment by Trousers — Wednesday December 12, 2007 @ 9:00
All of it’s flaming annoying if you ask me. I was quite happy with my old skool blogger login and then I got forced, yes forced ladies and gentlemen into going into googleland and having to google myself in each time I want to post on Blogger. Pants arse and bollocks if you ask me?!
Comment by rockmother — Thursday December 13, 2007 @ 19:05
Pants, arse and bollocks. Top drawer, RM. I shall have to steal it and pass it off as my own.
Comment by Trousers — Thursday December 13, 2007 @ 23:40