How to mess with your readers

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

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 .

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 .