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February 04, 2026

60 Reasons why I'm a bad blogger & 500th Post

I was not going to do a post about reaching 500 posts on this blog but then decided I should make a note because it really is a new accomplishment. You may not know but I moved to new blogs a lot so most of my blogs reached over 100 posts but rarely near 500. At least, not that I can remember. It's not that I abandoned blogs but more like I move to a new place like you would a home to find the best one. And the best one right now is this blog. 
      In a previous post I said, Blogging is not my life but it's part of my life. And it's still true now. Without blogging, I would probably procrastinate more, have more listless days and basically put off almost everything. Having a blog is something to keep my mind active enough to do other things. If that makes any sense. So I'll keep on blogging away.
I'm serious about blogging...
I don't think I'm a bad blogger but sometimes I am a bit too lazy to blog. So here's 60 reasons why I'm a bad blogger. This list is edited from a previous list (that had 59 reasons) which also came from a previous list and that list is also from a previous list so I did some alterations to sort of freshen it up. (Also, because I'm lazy, I'm using the same art - mouseover to see a changed expression.)

60 Reasons why I'm a bad blogger:

01 - Late at commenting
02 - Late at replying to comments on my blog
03 - Have a vivid avoidance to social media
04 - Refuse to use hashtags in my post titles
05 - Refuse to use hashtags in my post labels
06 - Spend too much time worrying why people don't visit my blog and doing nothing about it
07 - Write posts that may be way too long
08 - Change my blog's header often 
09 - Sometimes move to new urls for no reason
10 - Have short attention span
11 - Keep saying a blog is a form of social media so that I don't have to do social media
12 - Do not blog on Mondays. And Sundays. And sometimes not even Tuesdays or Fridays. Or even the coveted Wednesday.
13 - Sometimes avoid blogs that are a bit too challenging for the eyes (light color text on black or dark background is still very daunting)
14 - Refuse to blog after 8 p.m.
15 - Waste a lot of time trying to perfect the look of my blog but ends up putting it back exactly as before
16 - Do not have an email subscription service for my blog
17 - Sometimes refuse to accept that bloggers can also do social media
18 - Do not have any type of blogging schedule
19 - While blogging, wonder too often why I'm not doing something else
20 - Awkwardly but not too often, tell people there's something wrong with their blog
21 - While reading blogs, sometimes skim long posts if there are no indents or line breaks
22 - Do not often get along with bloggers who leave one comment and never come back again
23 - Join a lot of memes/challenges/blog events so I don't have to think up things to post
24 - Refuse to have a sidebar
25 - Sometimes have no understanding of time
26 - Post erratically or not at all
27 - Post a lot list posts
28 - Do not have a blog niche or any sense what my blog is about
29 - Take too long to update anything on my blog
30 - Waste time stalking old blogs that are not being updated
31 - Do not leave comments for blogs using disqus
32 - Do not leave comments for Wordpress blogs that requires signing only into Wordpress/Twitter/Facebook
33 - Do not have a Wordpress account
34 - Edit/correct/change posts long after they are posted, sometimes even years after
35 - Do a lot of over thinking before hitting the Publish button
36 - Do not know how to spell procrastinate but practice it all the time when blogging
37 - Often feel bad about not commenting enough but does nothing about it
38 - Does not read blogs through feeds or readers or email subscriptions
39 - Recycle posts ideas
40 - Spend too much time worrying about what I have said in my comments on other people's blogs
41 - Post a lot of rants and ramblings that may or may not be too negative
42 - Have short thinking span
43 - Post things nobody cares about or have any interest in
44 - Is often a bit too honest and then regret what I post or comment
45 - Make a lot of last moment decisions when it comes to what to post
46 - Ask a lot of dumb questions when commenting
47 - Only blog when I'm in the mood
48 - Really don't like to leave a comment just to leave a comment
49 - Very bad at checking for replies on blogs I leave comments on even when I ask a question that I'm interested in getting an answer
50 - Write a lot of post drafts but don't post about 99% of them
51 - Have a habit of reverting posts to drafts
52 - Takes a lot of unannounced blog vacations (where I just don't post)
53 - Do a lot of regretting for some posts that I had posted
54 - Repeat myself a lot but often doesn't realize it until later
55 - Always making excuses not to blog
56 - Mostly don't care to be up to date on anything related to blogging
57 - Do a lot of drive-by-hopping where I read blogs and don't leave comments
58 - Sometimes forget I have a blog
59 - Still don't know why I'm still blogging
60 - Still don't know if copying a previous post from a previous post which came from a previous post is considered a bad way to blog

Do you have any reason to believe you're a bad blogger?

2 comments:

  1. If you're a bad blogger, I'm a hopeless one. I don't think it actually matters if your comment/reply late, as blog posts stay up permanently. And I never watch replies either; I think you should comment on the original post and then leave it.

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  2. None of these qualify you as a bad blogger in my eyes ... or I just might be one as well. You decide.

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