I don’t see the point of criticizing others unless it’s done it jest or the person really deserves some grief, but there are a shitload of bloggers I can’t stand. Some of them are popular but most of the people on the list aren’t especially high traffic sites.
The Great Pretender
I have a lot of pet peeves and a lot of things annoy me. One of those things is when people pretend to be experts on things or talk about things as if they had a great deal of knowledge, experience or insight when in fact they’re completely off base or just plain wrong. I’m not talking about opinions, which are subjective, I’m talking about facts. There’s an old saying…A Chinaman can say anything about kung-fu and be believed, no matter how ridiculous. The same is true for the Internet.
The One Trick Pony
Yawn.
A Dollar Short
Some bloggers become obsessed with a post they write or a topic that amuses them. Temporarily. They then try and milk it for a week before they decide no one gives a shit but them. Shampoo, rinse, repeat. These people have more false starts than the 400 meter event at a school for the hearing impaired.
The Shockblogger
Self explanatory. This sleight of hand technique is used to misdirect you from the absence of actual writing.
The Tin Men
Here we go round the mulberry bush. Some people would shoot their mother for a hundred more hits a day. Trying too hard reeks of desperation and is terribly sad. I recommend a drive in the country or perhaps a good prescription drug.
I don’t think I need to point out that these are not mutually exclusive.
Feel free to add your own in the comments or take a shot at me. I’m thick skinned.
The one trick pony's do it for me. But this is a deep, dark barrel of shitty blogging. The one trick could be a style (poetry, always blogging about poetry, ugh); or it could be a topic (the lampshade blog, the horse blog, the blog for Great Lakes lighthouses), or it could even be a lens. By lens I mean, you read a few posts and discover that this person sees everything through one set of glasses. Like, everything that happens in their life boils back down to God, or their political opponent(s), or the fact that they contracted some strange disease that has shrunk their penis to the size of a peanut.
Never underestimate the horrible breadth of the spectrum of one trick pony blogging.
I don't even mind one topic blogs.
I have a problem with people that basically post the same post over and over, the only thing changing is the topic and word count.
The lensers do it for me. Especially the subverted ones who really don't know they're lensers. It can take weeks of reading one of those dedicants before you get that "oh, shit" moment and realize that every post somehow dealt with life after surviving teen acne.