How to mess with your readers
March 4th, 2007Here are a few ideas on how bloggers can mess with their readers 
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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 
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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 
. 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 .
Hi,
I would like to have that animated RSS icon.Can you please sendme its code. I would love to have it. Thanks
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
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Thanks for sharing!
i use ur icon and put a link back to u, very useful icon. thanks….
hi, i’m a korean bloger~ thanx for nice feed icon
Thanks for sharing! I realized an animated RRS feed icon
you can find it on my tumblog
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!
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
I love your censorship idea, i might just do that
Thx for sharing awesome rss icons
Very nice icon rss, thanks
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?
Ups! Not to Das! But to Abdu….sorry!
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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.
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!
Yeah…very cool idea…it was a litte annoyng to me first, but then i scaled it to 50% and tadaa…it works XD
nice icon but it not animate in my blog. don’t know why
Hey nice post.Thanks for sharing good info.Subscribing your feeds.:)
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