For anyone who has been blogging for any length of time, there are certain occurrences which happen from time-to-time we find quite puzzling. There are no real explanations for these happenings - it is what it is. I will now refer to these phenomenons as Blog Physics.For example, Two-Steps Back. I stepped away from my blog on Friday to take care of registering my vehicle. (By the way, I did survive it.) It was only one day, but by the next day, somehow or another, I was actually two days behind when it came to making my rounds and commenting. How does this happen? I just don't get it.
Then there is the Time Zone Scoop. This has happened to me on more than one occasion. I'm already set to write my post only to discover someone (usually Dufus) has posted something on the same subject that same day. Arrrggghhh. Even though I have readjusted my sleep pattern to wake well before the crack of dawn, I am still faced with this problem. To me, nothing is more frustrating than having to regroup under the power of just one cup of coffee.
Finally, the Disappearing Follower is another weirdness I cannot explain. A couple of times my followers have dropped off by as many as 60. Where in this world did these people go? I know there are times when I can't please everyone, but 60? What, is there some kind of conspiracy where everyone gets together and un-follows me at the same time? But, as quickly as they left , they all seem to return the next day. Beats me.
I'm sure you all have had similar experiences, at least I hope you have. Please tell me I'm not the only one cursed with such happenings. I'm curious to hear about your unexplained experiences, the ones you can only chock up to Blog Physics.
I'm not sure, but am enclined to think that the "followers" that get disappear en-masse are really spam-bots or something, and are periodically rounded up and deleted (I know this is what happens on twitter, not as sure about blogger, where it would make less sense...)
ReplyDeleteTime Zone Scoop? Never happens to me!
ReplyDeleteFor every action there is an equal and opposite blog phenomenon. My blogroll doesn't always update with the latest posts from my favorite blogs. This might be blog physics, or it may be a bad plugin... Who knows? It's a strange and scary world in here.
ReplyDeleteTraffic dropped to a blog I have by 50% one month. As it happens it was the month I got married... and while I like to think it was all the gals at Brown University (with daddy issues) turning their attention elsewhere as they realized I was off the market I'm pretty sure it had something to do with a software update I applied to my server that changed the way visitors were tracked.
ReplyDelete(Still, before I did any checking I was a bit surprised. Had I gotten so boring, I wondered, that 50% of my readers took a hike all at the same time?)
I get comments on a poem I'd written 17 months previous only to find the person don't even have a blog
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Blog Physics will be a university course within 5 years, you mark my words.
ReplyDeleteThe case of the disappearing followers is always a perplexing one...
I'm experiencing a problem RIGHT NOW where I have to type in my password TWICE everytime I leave someone a comment.
ReplyDeleteThrough the years blogger has goofed up SEVERAL TIMES in several different ways.
I have posted posts, lost posts and have had changes in my template made without ever being notified first. I think I'm going crazy and then I forget what I was looking for in the first place and all is well.
ReplyDeleteAge isn't such a bad thing sometimes.
I always thought blog snakes were eating the followers.
ReplyDeleteBurp.
I think it's weird when one of my old posts keeps getting spam comments!
Are you kidding me? There are followers? I thought that was a myth...
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you should mention that, Me-Me. I have pictures and images of my followers not showing up... Right now, I'm seeing the same thing on your blog. I think Blogger is having a lot of troubles, lately.
ReplyDeleteAs for being behind and not realizing it, I know what ya mean. Falling behind is easy when REAL LIFE hijacks ya. :-) Heh heh. It kind of sneaks up on ya and grabs you on the butt like a crazy-assed rattlesnake.
All I have to do is go to work to get 2 days behind. I get home from work and sit down to catch up on everyone and I think you all write your posts while I'm at work. I've lost one or two followers at a time but never 60. Then again I don't have nearly as many as you do either.
ReplyDeleteI wish some followers of mine (not blog followers) would disappear. I failed blog physics..but chemistry I think I have down.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I actually called the community college and asked to register for Blog Physics last semester.
ReplyDeleteWe were mysteriously disconnected...
I have had the problem with losing followers and the next day they are back.
ReplyDeleteAll of that shit happens to me. Especially the losing of the followers lol
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that thing where someone comments exactly the same thing twice?
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that thing where someone comments exactly the same thing twice?
ReplyDeleteI have lost posts - annoying! i think I only lost one follower, of course, I don't have that many.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wacky world.
I post too infrequently to notice such things.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is because I'm lazy.
My blogging mystery for me is that blogs I follow in my reader don't come up when they do new posts. SO occasionally I will go and look and sure enough I find they did put up new posts. So why didn't they show up on my reader or dashboard?
ReplyDeleteMost of our issues have been with comments and then we try and try get frustrated and it works.. We always think it's us now I'm glad to hear it might be them.
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60 followers MIA? That's insane! As to your post, don't even look to see what others have written before you post that day. Then it won't matter! ;)
ReplyDeleteI understand none of it. And I'm too lazy to try to figure it out. It's all I can do to come up with something coherent to post a couple times a week. My brain cells can only handle so many tasks. Physics sounds like it may involve math. I don't do math. Ask my bank. They'll tell you: "She sucks at math."
ReplyDeleteNo, it's only you, Me Me. I never stop blogging because life gets in the way, I've written about something somebody else already wrote about, and I've never lost all of my two followers in one day only to have them return the next day. They just went away and stayed away.
ReplyDeleteI have such few followers that I just assume I'm writing to the empty airspace. But I did find out that I have lots of readers who aren't "followers" so I guess it evens out.
ReplyDeleteI'm cursed with a disappearing brain, which renders me unconscious while awake and spurs me to misplace things, like my brain. Hey wait! I just figured out the problem. Thanks. Blog therapy is so helpful. I'm off to take my meds.
ReplyDeleteSome days my twitter plugin works, sometimes it doesn't. And it just decides when it wants to.
ReplyDeleteImagine when I was away for 5 days how behind I was on commenting....I had 600 new posts in my reader! eeks! it does seem that ppl post more when I'm not there to comment!
The follower thing has happened to me but not 60!! My problem is I can't catch up and it is driving me Crazy!!
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