Blog Snobbery 101
If your blog has even one regular reader, you too can be a blog snob. A blog snob is a super-important blogger who knows it and makes sure the rest of the world does too. A blog snob doesn’t come out and say “Hey, look at me! I’m super-important!” No, blog snobs simply exude importance through their actions.
In the past you had to start a movement, invent a useful web-tool, come up with a catchy web-cliché or be published in order to achieve blog snobbery. Well not anymore! The following are tried and true methods that will guarantee blog snobbery to anyone who puts them into practice.
1. Communication
Be inaccessible. No silly, this doesn’t mean writing inaccessible markup, it means being literally inaccessible as a person. If you can’t be reached, you must be important, and that’s what this is all about–driving home your importance.
Fan mail
Contact forms exist for one reason and one reason only. They are for fan mail. This is how it works, fans come to your site seeking to shower you with their love and praise. You, as a successful blog snob must make sure that this process goes off without a hitch. In order to do this, the following is the proper way to set up a “contact form”:
- Make sure everyone visiting your blog can easily see the link to your contact form
- Remember that including the sender’s e-mail address is optional
- Hard code the subject line of your contact form to read “Fan Mail”
- Direct all incoming mail from your contact form to the e-mail account you check most frequently (work or personal it doesn’t matter as long as you get it as soon as it comes in)
- Be sure your stats software can track this page so that you can correlate the number of e-mails you’ve received with the number of visitors to the page. You may want to adjust the form to encourage 100% conversion
In the event that you receive an overwhelming amount of fan-mail (and you will) don’t panic. Just remember these simple rules:
- It’s fan-mail, you’re not supposed to reply to fan mail, feel free to delete them once you’ve read them
- Rather than delete them, you may want to keep them in a folder marked “fan mail” so that you can go back and read them over and over again–an ego can’t be stroked enough you know
- Should you decide to save them, you may also print them out and use them as either wallpaper or toilet paper (whatever your preference)
The bottom line is, it’s fan mail and purely for your edification. Whether the sender is asking for a reply or not, it really doesn’t matter. Everyone knows that the only purpose of a contact form is to stroke your ego. If they don’t, they’ll learn.
The requisite delay
In the off chance you decide to actually respond to a piece of fan-mail just remember: hitting that reply button inside of a week is a big no-no. You must wait at least a week, preferably a month before replying. The longer you keep’em waiting (and guessing, because some of your fans actually want a reply–go figure), the more it adds to your aura of importance. After all, you’re so busy you couldn’t possibly have time for the people who read your blog (and make you the important person that you are) so go ahead, make’em wait!
Keep it short and impersonal
When replying to fan-mail always remember to keep your responses short and impersonal. You don’t want to create any lasting relationships with any of these freaks… uhm, people. Short, impersonal replies get the point across that you’re incredibly busy (and incredibly important). It also communicates that even a short response is a privilege reserved for a select few of your choosing.
Also remember that there’s no such thing as a back-and-forth e-mail conversation. Your initial response is where it ends. Should the fan not get the point from the tone of your reply and try to keep some sort of conversation going, nothing works better than to simply ignore them.
(Going through the trouble of stating on your contact form that you’re busy and can’t reply to all of your mail, setting up an FAQ, or simply turning off your contact form altogether are a waste of time. Likewise, replying in a courteous manner explaining that though you think the subject at hand is quite intriguing, you aren’t able to spend much time on it is also a waste of your time. Groupies don’t deserve that kind of respect.)
Are you as important as me?
An e-mail from you is a gift and gifts aren’t free. Don’t reply to anyone who isn’t going to add to your notoriety or your aura of importance in some way. Thus when considering e-mail, the following rule should apply: only reply to people whose names rhyme with eldman, olzschlag, eyer, elik or ottke. In other words, people who are as important or more important than you.
Once a year, around the holidays. If you’re really feeling generous, reply to a nobody. It’ll make you feel good about yourself and who doesn’t like that?
Comments
Everything in moderation
Moderate your comments and arbitrarily approve and delete them as you see fit. It’s your blog and only what you have to say really matters so go nuts with the comments! It’s open season! This gives you an incredible sense of power and sends the message home to your devotees that they’re unimportant and can easily be crushed like bugs. In fact, only your friends’ comments are worthy of a response. Everyone else is just there to give you praise (and add to your blog’s importance by contributing to your comment count).
Nothing’s for free
You know how when a groupie enters a comment they’re asked for a web address so that their name can be linked to their site? Be sure to modify your template so as to include the rel="nofollow" attribute in those links. Just because they leave a comment doesn’t mean you have to contribute to their pagerank. Freeloaders.
The sound of silence
Of course that’s if you decide to allow any comments on your posts to begin with. Why would you want to sully your pristine pages with the mindless drivel you’ll end up getting anyway? That, and it’s so much easier to speak your mind and not have to deal with countering points of view when you can easily shut everyone up by unchecking the “allow comments” box.
2. The all important clique
Name dropping
There’s nothing like a little name dropping to remind people of your importance. It’s really easy to do. At any given moment in any given blog post just randomly say something like “I was just chatting with [insert name of web celebrity] about …” or “I’m sitting here at the airport with [insert name of web celebrity]” or “My close personal friend [insert name of web celebrity]” or “I’ve been corresponding with [insert name of web celebrity]” (this last one is even more effective if you never reply to your fan-mail). This sort of thing will not only boost your aura of importance but it will also send a message to all of your peon blog-fans that you’re important and they’re not.
Secret handshakes
In the spirit of name dropping, form an exclusionary club, group, network or any combination, derivation or variation thereof. Preferably with close personal friends or better yet blog celebrities that none of your readers could ever possibly hope to correspond with. Your groupies will be in sheer awe of your ability to rub shoulders with the “upper crust” of their blogroll. To enforce this, proof read each others’ books and beta test each others’ pet projects, all the while blogging about it so that your fans get the picture of how cool you are and how much they aren’t.
Then, after you’ve rubbed your super-secret, ultra awesome “my friends got a beta invite and you didn’t” project in everyone’s face for a while, launch it and expect your neglected fanbase to drop everything and flock to it like the mindless lemmings that they are. After all, that’s what they’re there for right?
3. Your voice to their adoring ears
Re-invent the wheel
Come up with some brand-spanking-new name for something that’s been around since the early 90s. Then build an entire universe around it by going on and on about how revolutionary your idea is. Believe me, people will buy into it. (The dot com bubble should be proof enough of people’s unchecked gullibility.) And the more you yammer, the more they’ll flock to you. You may even get some VC money out of it! The beauty is that nowhere in this entire process are you actually required to do any real work. Just ranting on and on about it gives the illusion that you must know what you’re talking about.
When you’ve achieved critical mass and the real professionals start to weigh in, just come up with more nonsensical terminology you can pepper your rants with. This will add to the confusion and keep them spinning their wheels long enough for you to solidify your fan-base. (Simply ignoring them works too.) Once that’s done, just declare the market for your genius idea saturated and “invent” something else.
Snobby knows best
Now that you have a following, preach it brother! Branch out! It isn’t just about technology anymore. No sir, it’s time to preach your entire ethos. Don’t be afraid about going against the grain either. This will make you cool and “on the bleeding edge”. For example, if you only believe in working five minutes out of every hour, preach it! If you don’t believe in code review, preach it! If you hold low-level languages and the planning process in contempt, preach it! If your rantings are radical enough then the odds are that most people won’t have a decent enough point of reference to argue with you and they’ll just give up and get rolled into your ever growing fan base. Either that or they’ll know something’s up and they’ll oppose you. That’s when you label them “haters” and make them pariahs, effectively taking away their web-importance. Good on you!
(Remember: People’s willingness to oppose you is inversely proportional to your web-importance. The more important you are, the less opposition you’ll get.)
Conclusion
If you’ve read this and thought “hey, I do some of that” then you’re already well on your way to being a blog snob. Good for you!
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May 22nd, 2006 at 10:42 am
One thing I find really helps with the requisite delay is setting the delivery time for your response to a week hence. That way, you can write the response immediately and get it out of the way, but still look busy and important since your mail program won’t actually send it until a week has gone by. It’s the best of Blog Snobbery and Getting To Done!
Great article, by the way. Now if only there were a way to time-delay blog comments…
May 22nd, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Or, you could write a lengthy and detailed post on how to be a snob. That way all your underlings will flock to your amazing post that’s just brimming with never-before-published “secrets.”
;) Just kidding! I love this kind of satire!
May 22nd, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Oh, but you forgot the most important blog snobbery method:
Those cute little “post to [insert name of the latest social web 2.0 web app that will bring you loads of traffic because we all know the fanboys and groupies will approve of anything a blog snob writes] buttons”
A Blog Snob’s blog post is worthy of at least 100k of visits a day, much less there’s even a chance that that blog post could cure cancer! It can not be left in the dark!
And we all know that the Blog Snob’s fanbase will vote it to the front page. Once you reach Blog Snob status, you can just randomly type characters in your blog post and expect 100k of pageviews in one day!
May 22nd, 2006 at 10:36 pm
ric: sounds like it’s time for a WordPress plugin! :-)
Hans: You know, I had considered adding that to the post (really!) but since I’m such a snob myself… ;-)
Chris: You mean [digg this post] like the buttons I have up there? Yeah, I could see [digg this post] how that could be snobbish. Though I never said I was [digg this post] perfect. :-)
Hey, here’s an idea… digg this post! ;-) hehehe
May 23rd, 2006 at 1:51 am
And we can’t forget feedburner subscription counter!
That’s like wearing your yearly gross income on your forehead.
“Hey, I make 150k a year [have 300 readers]. I’m better than you.
Haha, ok enough picking on you ;)
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:47 am
I think these will work ! I’m going to go with a snobbery !
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:48 am
Dear Arapehlivanian,
I try to do most of the above but still there´s no fanclub. What do I do wrong?
btw, great post!
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:01 am
Dear Mr Ara
Can I please have your autograph…? I am realy impressed that I am able to write on your site, it makes me feel special and that you care what I say.
Thanks
A Fan
May 23rd, 2006 at 6:26 am
A Fan: autographs cost money… how much you got? ;-)
May 23rd, 2006 at 8:28 am
The obvious question to that would have to be how much you want?
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:45 am
A Fan: Well, every comment this post gets contributes to the ever increasing size of my ego and self-importance thus driving up the cost. Also I’d rather you made an offer, so make an offer quick ;-)
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:52 am
My soul perhaps… ? Maybe a car? You let me write on your site man, name your price!
Either that or some pills to sort out ego-bloat… a rather common yet not untreatable illness found in the blogsphere…
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:57 am
All right, all right, quit your groveling, I’ll give it to you! ;-) Consider it my one act of charity this year.
(I’m so kidding… you realize that don’t you? :-)
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:02 am
haha… likewise… errr, just to be clear that I ain’t no stalker ;-)
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:05 am
On the other side of the coin, there is snobbery by not leaving a comment, because it only encourages and makes the author look simply cooler - it is a cut-throat world out there, and I would imagine one would ideally like to receive comments then to write them.
Although the commenter gains a little bit of link love, the trade of a back link versus a comment (acknowledging the existence and importance of an article) demonstrates the importance of the author. Of course, rest of the visitors view the amount of comments as a good indicator for this.
Therefore, I would like to create a pseudo-paradox by not leaving this comment.
(Now, where is that preview button?)
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:28 am
Ara, I’ve noticed that you’re responding to these comments way too quickly. Not very snobbish of you.
I’d have to agree about a lot of the things you’ve talked about. The worst are blogs that don’t even allow comments. I thought that sparking discussion was kind of the point of a blog…
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May 23rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Heh… Getting a link to this article, from the Inman himself, should be enough to fuel anyones ego for a while, eh..? =P
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Chris & Lakshan: ;-)
6ft5: You’re telling me!
Sarven: I choose not to respond to your non-existant comment.
Ian: I can’t ignore my Pehli-fan-ians after ripping into everyone else about it. ;-) [Note: I ended up cleaning up my replies, so "touché!" :-)] Discussions are definitely what blogging should spark (IMO). I wonder if I shouldn’t hook up a forum to my blog… hmmm….
John: You bet! The only thing is, I now owe him a kidney…
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May 24th, 2006 at 12:30 am
I liked that. I’m suprised I haven’t done any of those, though.
Yeah, you’re pretty win.
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May 24th, 2006 at 10:05 am
You could always write an ‘open letter’ or two… Nothing says “blog snob” quite like an open letter :)
May 24th, 2006 at 10:13 am
j2: Well, you can always start, that’s what this post is for after all, to turn people into blog snobs! ;-P
Jonic: Are you referring to my open letter to spammers? Hey, I never said I was perfect! ;-)
May 24th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Blogging has made a lot of nerds who really don’t know jack into quite poular hipster deupheses (sp?). I never knew why or how they accomplished this but your article has shed light on their technique.
How to Exposing Blog Snob/Posers:
Look at their portfolio client list… I just redesigned Gino’s Variety Store… I mean “Re-aligned”
May 24th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Ara: I wasn’t actually… The first thing I ever saw about this blog was this article… I plan to keep reading though, you’re obviously a president of blog snobs :oP
May 25th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Funny stuff. A true snob would talk about stuff they’ve read on other sites, but never include a link back to the original content. Why would a groupie need to click through anyway? The snob explains it all for them right there.
May 25th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Mak: heh, well, even Gino needs a re-align every once in a while :-)
Jonic: President? Hmm, has a nice ring to it… ;-P
Ed: Good one. Obviously I didn’t think of everything. :)
May 27th, 2006 at 12:20 am
I really hate those 9 Rulers.They are the snobbiest snobs of them all and most of them are boring to boot.
May 27th, 2006 at 4:27 am
http://www.robertnyman.com/2006/04/27/false-gods/
says it all
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May 27th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Josie: Indeed. We’re all quite boring. I’m putting myself to sleep just writing this comment.
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May 27th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
And the requisite page long sidebar of subsribe buttons for “My Google, My Yahoo, etc”, mandatory CSSReboot participation at least once a year and lots of low contrast text. *chuckle*
May 27th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
@Josie: I think you’re maybe being a little unfair there…
I’m a b5media blogger, so I’m fully qualified to hate 9rules… The truth is I don’t, because 9rules is focused on sourcing quality content to push forward for the purposes of getting said content to the masses…
True, there are certain members who are snobbish, but out of 140+ blogs they have I don’t think anyone could say that they are all snobbish…
That’s 140 individual human beings with their own attitudes, ideas and opinions…
You’ve just tarred them all with the same brush…
I think it’s more snobby to say that everyone who writes for 9rules is a snob than it would have been for you to just not say anything at all…
Just my opinion…
I apologise if I sound terse… The dipsomania creeps across me like a sticky disease…
May 28th, 2006 at 7:41 am
Josie: I don’t know, some of them are kinda cool. Mind you I don’t follow all their blogs.
Johan: Great find!
WD Millner: So what you’re saying is that my entire feeds page is snobbery heaven? Not to mention my “tags” and “related posts” low contrast text blocks? ;-)
May 28th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
@ARA: not at all. It’s got it’s own section and it discrete. An interesting way to rpesent them by the way. I was refering to some sites I have seen that had a column of subscription icons almost 600px high on the fornt page - often presenting a distracting draw from the main content. I mean making it accessible and convenient to your viewers is one thing but there is an extreme where it becomes coutnerproductive, in my opinion anyway. As the old cliche goes “each to their own tastes said the farmer’s wife . . . as she kissed the cow”.
I noticed at least one popular weblog has dumped most of its list of “Subscribe me to …” icons since I posted that addendum to your article. Then again it might be coincidence … ;-)
BTW, the code area in the Buzzwords section of the Feeds page overflows the greenbordering container (at least for me).
Keep up the good work making people think.
May 28th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I was called a blog snob once. Chuh. As if. I shall run back to my blog to implement them all. /smartass comment.
This is a great list of rules! *laugh*
May 29th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Dear Mr. Blog Snob,
I am yur bigest fan. I got my mom to by me a offishul Blog Snob lunch box an backpak an now I am the kulest kid at skool. I was wondering if you could send me a offishul decodur ring becuz they were all soled out everywhere. I promise not to sell it on Ebay.
You rok!
Your frend giornalista (age 25, er, I mean 7)
p.s. please give a shout out to my pal at the other end of the sandbox, Rita
May 30th, 2006 at 3:40 am
I haven’t read your post, far too busy, far too important and who are you anyway?
Either way I was sure you’d feel super happy to have a blogger as well known as me in your comments.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:56 am
WD Milner: Really? You think this is having an impact? Hmmm…
Kentucky Girl: Tried and true!
giornalista: Shoutouts to Rita! And yes, yes I do rock… ;-)
John Oxton: Wow! John Oxton! Wow! I thought you were retired. I’m so re-subscribing to your feed! Hehe thanks for gracing my blog with your presence. :-)
May 30th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Awesome list. I think I’ve got all of these nailed. Can you come up with another list so that I can be more snobbish? Man….I wish I was as cool as John Oxton. Well, I’ve got one thing nailed. I think I ripped his jungly leaves design….at least he’ll probably say that.
Ara, lets start a group….lets call it …hmmmm….37rules. That is genius! Unless, you too are a blog snob in which case, this comment will never be replied to. :(
May 30th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Rogie: So you’re a full on blog snob. Good on ya!
All: I don’t want this to get out of hand. Let me just clear things up: I have nothing against John Oxton at all and this whole thing is meant to be humorous. Just in case anyone thinks otherwise.
May 31st, 2006 at 10:06 am
Hahaha. Of course its supposed to be funny….
June 4th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Very funny and so very true,a blog is supposed to be for exchanges of ideas and thoughts,but some people just dont get it,inflated self importance I guess.
June 4th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Heck, I haen’t updated my website in three years! How important is that?
I’m not a fan, but I did read your blog once.
;-D
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No difference to what the mainstream media has been shoveling for the past 60 years. Dan Rather comes quickly to mind but all are the same. Giant ego’s no sense.
At least now we have a choice whether to view or not.
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June 4th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
This was great. Very funny.
June 4th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
I’m only posting a comment so that people will click my name and visit my blog!
(is this snobby too?)
P.S. I really do love it. Nice job.
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June 10th, 2006 at 12:24 am
That is the best ‘how to blog’ article evarz ;)
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I thought your article was both brilliantly written and full of “meat” so I posted the link to it on the wordpress.com forum. Keep on keeping on. I’ll be visiting your blog again real soon.
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September 23rd, 2006 at 7:43 am
After reading this, I think every blogger is a snobber. So haven’t you thought the way out : how not-to-be a snobber?
Then I think that would be most difficult stuff to do. Some tips for it :
1) Deactivate all social bookmarking buttons on your blog.
2) Don’t give your RSS
3) Reply to every comments and even spammers
Ahh I forgot, don’t use things like Akismet. Let everybody come and make you feel you’re not a snobber : Spammers. Make sure to reply to them.
4) Display your email in big bright colour somewhere on the frontpage and next to it : I’m going to reply to every of your mails even you spammers who you send me lots of links.
what more for not being a snobber? That really needs some deep thoughtful thinking ;)
Too funny that post, really great.
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January 2nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
LOL…brilliant post!
I stumbled across this in a mission to find something that gently puts the
finger on blog-snobbery, my current pet peeve. I know this is meant to
be tongue-in-cheek, but I have to admit it’s pretty close to what I’ve actually seen and experienced.
Sarven also makes a good point about the passive-agressive approach
that some readers sometimes take…refusing to leave a comment, and so making the author feel like a complete goon. (The bizarre thing about this,
is it’s often close friends and family that do this in my experience.)
Thanks for making me laugh! :)
January 11th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I was a little worried until I read “A blog snob doesn’t come out and say “Hey, look at me! I’m super-important!”” Whew! I am obviously no blog snob, thank god: I say that ALL THE TIME!
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May 24th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
This was a great read! Although my co-workers may think I’ve completely lost it as I’m sitting in my cube laughing at the code I’m supposedly working on, it’s well worth it! ;-)
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