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Today's Wordle says it for me - only the solution does not count:
This was my last year participating - at least the last year signing up. I like very much to force myself to blog almost every day for a whole month, I've found a hopefully entertaining and fun, but still easy to do challenge with the day's Wordle and some telling. I really find participating in the A-Z Challenge to be a fun thing to do.
Why then do I stop? I stop, because I find the downsides to be too many. Bear with me for some ranting.
The trouble with the master list:
When the sign-up had ended, I made my own copy of the spreadsheet. After a quick visit to most of the blogs, I had found double or triple signups, non-participants, broken links, and a blog or two where you had to sign up ... leaving me with 125 of the original 144 on the list. A bit worse than last year actually.
I still find that a wee bit of policing from The Crew would wastly improve the fun to be had from this challenge. But it's not that bad, I could totally live with it ... if the rest was fun.
The not-for-fun-any-more in Blogland.
As said more times already I find the challenge in itself fun, but the social media hype and the assertive and truculent challengers not so much. There's plain too many in it just to promote something, and too few in it just to tell a story, to goof around, or for plain fun.
Not taking into account the blogs I follow regularly, during the challenge in former years I've always found some blogs I looked forward to visiting every day.
This year ... I found a couple that was really fun, and a few more that had me reading every day, but of the rest I felt that too many were promoting something, be it themselves, their books, thier products generally taken, or some spiritual well-being stuff.
And if not, the subjects did not catch me, or the graphics were so messy that I could no read it. These two last are of course on me.
I might just have grown old, disillusioned, bored, and bitter,
It might also be a clash of cultures. I do not know.
All I know is that I'm not going to sign up again next year
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I'm sorry to hear you're not going to particpate next year but it's understandable. People aren't doing fun things like they use to. I do find very few themes and blogs that interested me this year. But there is still some fun. I'll probably particpate again next year because I really like the challenge.
SvarSletHave a lovely day.
I hope you're going to draw alternate badges. because I might very well DO the challenge again -. only not signing up ;) As I wrote, I really like the challenge itself.
SletThank you.
I went through the Master List from the top. If I couldn't find the A to Z post, or link, easily, I didn't go back. If they required me to make an account, I didn't go back. If they were behind a letter by a day or two, I didn't go back, figuring they quit. If it was a 26 part story, I would leave a comment, as best I could, on the one post I read, and then didn't go back. I don't have time to go back and read from A if they are on M. If I was uninterested (religion or personal genealogy for instance) I would leave a comment once, and not go back. Too many have their Wordpress comments to strict and I was unable to comment at all.
SvarSletMaybe I'm not being fair. It sounds rather unfair of me to be so hard on others!
I did enjoy the Wordles though! I think using your first words for the posts was very clever.
It seems we did very much the same, only I returned once for the ones that got behind.
SletAnd yes, the WordPress vs. Blogger "cold war" is a major reason that I did not comment on quite many blogs. This and the Gremlins. They were bad this year: Closing down my browser, just letting my comments disappear, or even making the current go missing the second I was about to click Publish on a comment.
If you're not fair,m then neither am I.
Thanks for commenting!
I think it's a great idea, participate but not sign up. Thus, no pressure, just fun.
SvarSletI think fun is something we need more of in Blogland ;)
SletSorry it wasn't fun for you.
SvarSletI mentioned you as a favorite in my reflection post. Hopefully that won't offend you. I know my graphics weren't great. I'm using a really old Photoshop because I don't want to use the new AI stuff. And I'm not a graphic artist. My blog doesn't make any money, I don't make money, so I didn't spend anything on graphics. Sorry if I contributed to you not enjoying the challenge. I was just trying to make fun posts.
Dear Jamie, You're actually one of the few I mention in my first reflection post as one I would have liked to visit, but where my time and stupid eyes just would not let me - it was not your graphics putting me off, they do not move, oscillate or flicker so no problem there. I'm impressed you can draw in Photoshop at all, I have tried, and it looks like something any three years-old could do better ;)
SletFar from offending me with your mentioning, you made me happy. Thanks.
Earning money on blogging is not for ordinary bloggers like you and me.
Your blog posts were fun. If more of your kind participated in this Challenge, I would gladly participate again next year.