fracas

I’ve noticed something as I visit blogs around the interweave.

Some bloggers are cheaters and liars.

GASP.

It’s true.

I’m not talking about those blog scraper people who steal our content and re-post it at their sites where they’re trying to make money by running ads and well, if they had to spend their own time writing actual real content, that would cut into their stealing time.

No, I’m talking about regular old bloggers, the kind we might have on our blogrolls, or the kind we might find on the blogrolls of our friends and click on to visit and read.

Them. Those bloggers.

We visit them to read in good faith…

…and then we find in their sidebar, this little widget, made popular by Dane Carlson, at his Business Opportunities Weblog. He created this widget and many of us faithfully go, plug in our urls and see how we rate. We copy the code provided, and ‘impress’ our own readers with our clout.

Or we change the code to read something witty. Like I just did.

However, there’s a whole genre of bloggers who obtain their code and then instead of changing it to read something witty, change it to display a false (usually higher) number than would originally display.

You who do that. I’m talking to you.

You do know that just as we all can go there and run our own urls through his little checker, we can also run yours, don’t you? You do know that sometimes when some of us are bored, we actually do that, don’t you?

And then we know you’re a blog cheater.

So wouldn’t it just be easier to change that total to say something witty?

And then we wouldn’t have to think you’re an ass for trying to make people think your blog is more popular than it is? Because you know what? You aren’t really fooling anyone.

And I’d hate to have to get the syrup…