Something I’ve experienced lately is people following my blog and leaving a nice first comment while also saying something along the lines of “I’d love it if you followed my blog”. Then after I reciprocate they never comment on my blog again. Other times people leave the comments because they want to add you to their little blogging community, and I think that’s quite fun. But if they’re just trying to build up their follower number without any intention of talking to you again, that takes a lot of the fun out of it.

I think the problem is, those people don’t think at all! If they did, they might realize what they are doing isn’t beneficial to anyone 🙂
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You are right in that I try to post thought-provoking content. Sometimes it’s controversial (because, as you said – the point of that type of content is to provoke!), other times it’s just items I find interesting. When I first started blogging this wasn’t really my intent. I used blogging more as a personal outlet for my own thoughts. It wasn’t until conversations began to form between myself and readers that I realized that I – personally – thrived on that. And I think it’s the real lifeblood of this blog. It’s certainly what keeps me coming back to it and posting!

I want to encourage interaction with my readers, and hope that this continues to increase as the blog grows. I still feel like I don’t deserve the praise I have received from you and others, but I am grateful and humbled by it. It fuels my desire to continue making it an engaging one for you all!

I could go on, but just wanted to say thank you – again – for everything!
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I really do think that personal style bloggers have to deal with a lot more negativity than others. I understand why some of them go on the defensive when they have to deal with frequent attacks on their looks/styles/clothing. It’s much harder (in my opinion) to offend someone when you are attacking an opinion, verse attacking the way they look!

And some people definitely do it simply to be spiteful… and that I will never understand the purpose of.

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I have started seeing spam comments more and more as the blog grows, but so far it hasn’t been TOO bad. It is frustrating when you are really excited about something you wrote, and you are looking forward to feedback, when all you get is a “nice pics. Follow me!” comment. Really? Do you think that will work?

There are certain blogs, like yours and V’s, for example, where I ramble in my comments, because the posts are so engaging! I am thrilled whenever I hear someone feels the same way about mine.
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What gets me is the spammers who sometimes forget to change what they copy/paste. Someone the other day commented about how they found me on SUCH and SUCH website, and please follow them back. I looked, and there was no mention of me anywhere. Needless to say, they aren’t being followed back and the comment wasn’t approved.
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