How to mess with your readers

March 4th, 2007

Here are a few ideas on how bloggers can mess with their readers :) :

Bad animated feed icon
Somebody else’s animated feed icon.
good animated feed icon
My superior animated feed icon

Use an animated feed icon like this guy writes about. The idea is that the animation attracts visitor’s attention to your blog feed but I think it is distracting and annoying.

Observant readers will have noticed that I use an animated feed icon too. This is because my icon uses slow animation and fade effects which I think does not make it as distracting. If you disagree then its ok because I like to mess with my readers ;) .

If you want to add the icon on the right to your wordpress blog just copy and paste the following code into a sidebar text widget:

Another thing you can do to mess with your readers is to make sure your comment form asks users for their website address. Also make sure that that website address is never displayed in user’s comments :) . Users eager for backlinks will place comments on your blog only to find that they have been duped and their comments don’t include links to their sites :D . A similar tactic is widely used on wordpress blogs where links in comments do not pass page rank because the blog software automatically inserts no-follow attributes.

Write a post supporting censorship and make sure that you enable moderated comments. Enthusiastic users will write lengthy comments only to find that their comments disappear once they press the submit button :) . Some of them will even protest that their comments are not showing up without realising the bloody irony of the whole business :D .

23 Responses to “How to mess with your readers”

  1. Soham Das says:

    Hi,
    I would like to have that animated RSS icon.Can you please sendme its code. I would love to have it. Thanks

    Posted on 23 Aug 2007 Reply
    • Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq says:

      You can copy it from above. Just right click on it and select ‘save image’ or something to that effect. Then you can upload and use it on your own site. You are free to use it but I would appreciate a link back since it took some time creating it :) .

      Posted on 23 Aug 2007 Reply
      • Farooq says:

        Thanks for sharing!

        Posted on 02 Jan 2009 Reply
      • intan.airlina says:

        i use ur icon and put a link back to u, very useful icon. thanks….

        Posted on 14 Sep 2009 Reply
  2. e-zoomin says:

    hi, i’m a korean bloger~ thanx for nice feed icon :-)

    Posted on 04 Apr 2008 Reply
  3. Albert Antonini Mangia says:

    Thanks for sharing! I realized an animated RRS feed icon you can find it on my tumblog

    Posted on 01 May 2008 Reply
  4. Matt says:

    how can I use this? My blogs rss icon is a JPEG?
    Help please, and soon! I will come back to check your answer. Thank you!

    Posted on 05 Aug 2008 Reply
  5. p@r@noid says:

    dude i feel animated icon give new life to your blog, it make your blog attractive!!!

    and its not distracting rather people will think u r innovative

    Posted on 14 Nov 2008 Reply
  6. Xian says:

    I love your censorship idea, i might just do that :D

    Posted on 11 Mar 2009 Reply
  7. Psi says:

    Thx for sharing awesome rss icons :-)

    Posted on 29 Apr 2009 Reply
  8. elbi says:

    Very nice icon rss, thanks

    Posted on 30 Apr 2009 Reply
  9. adhinatalia says:

    Hi Das,
    That’s an awesome RSS Icon you have created, I would love 2 use it 4 my blog…if I copy it by right clicking, will it works with the Flash also? Or I only get the image?

    I love the Black RSS Icon like yours.

    Thanks 4 replying, how 2 make a link back? I’m subscribing your web, which is more good?

    Posted on 06 May 2009 Reply
    • adhinatalia says:

      Ups! Not to Das! But to Abdu….sorry!

      Posted on 06 May 2009 Reply
  10. Hailbis says:

    haha 不错

    Posted on 22 Aug 2009 Reply
  11. SEO Dude says:

    Great ideas! I love messing with people. I wrote an awesome post about geek pranks on my blog, but I guess your readers won’t get to read it because the link won’t work apparently.

    Posted on 25 Aug 2009 Reply
  12. Tony Jennings says:

    Yes, I agree with you about the fading as it does help to keep it from being too anoying. I’m going to use it on my friend’s Blog in which I’m just constructing a theme for her. Thanks – nice one!

    Posted on 27 Oct 2009 Reply
  13. limered says:

    Yeah…very cool idea…it was a litte annoyng to me first, but then i scaled it to 50% and tadaa…it works XD

    Posted on 24 Jan 2010 Reply
  14. lifemoto says:

    nice icon but it not animate in my blog. don’t know why :)

    Posted on 13 May 2010 Reply
  15. The TechBytes says:

    Hey nice post.Thanks for sharing good info.Subscribing your feeds.:)

    Posted on 16 Jan 2011 Reply
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