Why i wont beg for your votes

There are so many awards up all the time and so often i see loads of bloggers shamelessly grovelling that their readers vote for them so they can win the bestest blogger ever award and get some self satisfaction that they are achieving all their blogging dreams and feel worthy that all those posts are worth it.

However i find all these awards and back slapping to be not about who is actually writing and presenting a great blog but a popularity contest on how many bloggers can convert readers to votes which seems a total false.

I see a constant flow of dull posts, such as i mixed a can of tune with a tin of tomatoes and plonked it on some pasta or i chucked some sweets on a cake or i bought this from Primark as a post (Seriously!!!), or something as equally hum drum filling up the bloggersphere from bloggers that not only have 40 comments after them (WHAT how did you manage that !!!).  (See wot no comments as to why ) They also are the ones getting all the votes, just because they are constantly verbally vomiting their voices with these above mentioned posts and managed to get readership, have loads of mates or are shaking down the right people at the top.

Seriously these are not ground braking inspiring posts worthy of awards but lazy.  I read many beautiful blog with wonderful writing and gorgeous photography, inspired stories and recipes that just seem left in the ditch, ignored with no one handing out a pixel badge saying how fab they are.  There really are quite a few out there where the writer has taken their time to create something that really looks like it belongs in a magazine.

So why is it that the creators of these pixel awards are not delivering and handing out what they propose on the tin instead of choosing from the pool of the well connect bloggers at the top, most of which you see year in and year out winning.  yer yer they have the new blogger category but most of the time its the same old faces.

Now i am not saying my blog is great, boy it really isn't, just that i wont play the stupid games,  my feelings go to all those that enter that do have nice blogs and don't get picked as they just were not popular enough, or the big boys at the top just wont step aside to let new fresh voices through. This must be very demotivating to bloggers of talent trying to make a go of it.  Perhaps if you win one year you cant enter the next just to give a bit of space for others,  Afterall those at the top stay at the top, they have been their for years, all know each other, all vote for each other, massaging each others egos and lots of back slapping.  which is naturally tipping the scales of voting a askew. They say the work place is like an old boys club, were woman find it hard to break through as the men hold fast their positions of power.  i think us woman are doing the same thing here.  Is it fair?

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