Yep, no hyperbole. After seeing that my alternate blog housing more adult content consistently pulled more views and likes by far FOR A YEAR AND A HALF straight with 1/16th the subscribers and ABSOLUTELY NO posting on my part, I’m hanging it up here.
Any time I’m around the blog, I’ve spent 2 or more hours a day, trying to keep up with the numerous blogs I’ve followed (around 200). Look at the total count of deleted emails I have in my Outlook account… One that I use EXCLUSIVELY for notifications for this blog.
And yet people don’t understand why I bitch about the selfish nature of the bloggers here; caring NOTHING for genuine networking, only how many likes their own blogs can get. THAT, up there, that’s TRYING to network.
I’ve already recently unfollowed several people who post 5 or more times a day, but can’t be bothered with anyone else’s blog. ZERO give and take.
At this point, it’s not worth the aggravation anymore. 2+ hours a day trying to network. AT LEAST 1 hour a day for researching and writing a single blog post… For what? Zero views and 1 fake “Like” given via the WordPress Reader without actually opening the post? THAT is what I’m spending 1/8th of my day for?
THIS is what the WordPress “community” has been reduced to?
I’ll doubtless keep the account, so I can follow and comment on Joanne, Sheree and Candice… Avigail as well. Beyond that, I’ll be shutting the blog down completely once I’ve scraped it of content. I’ve done my research the last few days. I know where people have gone to and I know where I’m going.
The End.
Silk Chatters 
Sorry to see you sign off on this blog, but I understand your frustration. I haven’t viewed your other site yet. Guess it’s time to update my bookmarks.
Best of luck to you.
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Again good luck and think positive.
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I’ll miss yo.
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You’ll be missed. 🙁
Yes I also wonder about the bloggers who feel they are so important that everyone should read their blog posts, but would never sully themselves reading someone else’s blog… There’s quite a few of them around.
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I’ll still be around on my “adult” blog, and use this log-in to keep track of a few blogs like yours. 🙂
As for those self-important bloggers, I’ve had my fill there. People like that is why society is crumbling around us. I started blogging because I wanted to interact with others, discuss ideas and learn from other authors… NOT spend all my time responding to bloggers who care nothing about other people.
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🤔 Are you sure that want to put an end to this particular blog? You could sleep on the decision.
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The only thing I regret about shutting down the blog is that I let my redhead temper get the better of me when writing this post. It made the decision come off less emotionally mature than it should have.
The frustration IS real though. A blog of smut that I haven’t touched for nearly 2 years is garnering double, triple, occasionally even quadruple the number of views and likes of this one… EVERY day for a year and a half? It’s grown old, supporting so many other bloggers and never having them visit. Heck, you’ve seen the statistical inconsistencies in your own blog. You turn out quality informative posts and thoughtful opinion pieces with an even tone every day, and the percentage of people who reply or hit like vs your total followers is obscenely low.
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I’ll miss you, but I understand. Reciprocity and community is the heart and soul of blogging. Sometimes regular commenters ghost and we never know why. 😞🥹 It typically takes me three to four days or sometimes a week or two to compose one post…there is great deal of in-depth thought processing, interpretive techniques and translation from Hebrew texts involved in Jewish exegesis.
I’ve taken hiatuses from blogging when feeling lonely and disheartened out here in blogland. I have a very niche blog with exclusively Jewish content, as you know, which makes it more difficult to find an interactive community. I’m thankful when people give it a chance. I strive to make the messages in the posts relatable to people from every walk of life and every belief system.
We’ve been part of one another’s blogging community for quite some time. Adult blogs aren’t my cup of tea, but you know where to find me. Maybe you’ll feel motivated to post here again or at a new blog after taking a break. Don’t be a stranger. Sending many blessings your way. 🥰
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Adult blogs are not for quite a few people, lol. All the more reason that I can be absent for over a year and a half (repenting my wicked ways, lol) and every day of that time I’m pulling in far more views than this blog with 16 times more followers. I *will* still be around with this account just for following a few blogs like yours though (as already mentioned. 🙂 ).
The other blog is turning into the “new” blog, as I’ve paid for wordpress.org hosting (far more options). I’m still going to do adult content, BUT… 1) I’m going to focus on writing in general on THAT blog. No politics or current events, no personal drama. 2) The adult stuff is going to be compartmentalized in it’s own section. You’ll be welcome to take a look when and if I ever get the site finished. Zero pressure though.
YOUR blog; I love it, EXCEPT for your annoying habit of deleting a large portion of your posts after they go up. >_< I'd LIKE to believe I'm not that different in wanting to learn about other cultures, but I wonder anymore with all that's going on in the world. More to the point, you're never going to make everyone happy with what you post. Have the courage of your convictions, and post what you believe.
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Sex sells, as the old saying goes. 😄
I don’t do politics or drama either. Thank you for letting me know you love my blog content and your pet peeve. I have issues. LOL. As I said, I’m my own worst critic. If I don’t think my post was all that great or up to par, I will send it back to drafts. It’s true, we can’t please all of the people all of the time…I struggle just being pleased with myself. 😅
I’m guessing you’ll be posting the link to your other blog when it’s ready?
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Glad you understood what I meant when I talked about that year and a half of frequently more than 4x the views this blog got.
I’ll write more about your blog whenever you answer my contact email. 😀
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I lost the password to the email account but I saw your message in feedback. Things just don’t translate all that well from ancient Hebrew. Also Hebrew words have layers of meaning. Many English translations from either Greek or Hebrew are erroneous. For instance, the Ten Commandments are not called the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew text of the Torah. I just put the work out there and anyone that wants to learn from it, can. 😊
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I wonder how many other bloggers have had the experience of building a reciprocal commenting relationship with someone, then having them ghost, even though they’re still blogging. Was it something I posted? I never know why, but it’s sad because I felt we had a rapport. I would love to know the statistics on that or if others had the experience…I know we’re never alone in our experiences, even though it feels like we are. Just a thought.
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THAT has happened to me quite a few times. Most recently with Refarmer after I refused to off the deep end support her growing right wing extremism. The society wide narcissism means too many people get bent out of shape when they’re presented with an alternative POV.
Too be fair, others decide that topics no longer interest them, OR their schedule just doesn’t allow for following as many blogs as they once did, etc… That last factor was a large cause of stress for me. I spent 3 to 4 times what I did on my own blog, following others who rarely bothered to look at mine. Or did I already gripe about that? LOL.
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We live in a very polarized society where the divides are deeper and wider than I ever remember them being in the past. Now the divides seem insurmountable.
It can be difficult to find a healthy balance when we have a passion for blogging. I think it’s fair to stop following and commenting when it’s never reciprocal (a one-way street). Come on back to blogging anytime you feel the desire…even if it’s griping. 😄 I have a lot of gripes about all the changes WordPress has forced upon us.
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Welcome to my world on that last part. Trying to modernize my new, coming soon blog, I’m stuck using the Block Editor Site Builder. After spending several hours on YouTube tutorials, I’ve concluded it’s not quite the dumpster fire everyone says it is. BUT… It is completely unintuitive and and the exact opposite of the easy product that WP advertises it to be. Worse, you have to spend days studying third party videos to get it to work and know coding if you want true full functionality.
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These are my feelings on the new block editor 😡🤬😤I agree, there are a few (emphasis on few) things about it that I like, but it’s so unintuitive and frustrating as you said. It tends to discourage the art of blogging for the non-professional blogger, rather than encourage it. It seems to me they are gearing it toward monetized professional bloggers and websites.
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That’s EXACTLY what they’re doing. You have to pay for the $300 a year (giving you the) Business plan to get full WordPress functionality. By the same token, I spent $60 for a site hosting company, real domain name, and automated maintenance of the WordPress.ORG software for the same year. Fully functional on the same level as the Bad Business plan here, including the ability to use third party plugins to simplify almost any aspect of running the blog.
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Best wishes wherever life leads you.
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