Hi to everybody, hope you're either feeling better today or have had a good morning. I received today a response to my blog on Top Blogs from the BCUK team and I'm putting it up for you to read and my response back for your perusal...First is my response back to their answer below... so I suggest you read that one first then the top one....
Hi,
Thank you for this response, but a lot of people don't agree with your criteria for the most popular blogs....for a start, the same ones appear nearly all the time, and, in some cases, the same person has two blogs up at the same time, and that doesn't seem right at all...I guess you're going to continue as before as I read your response so, as per usual, any attempt to try something different is dismissed as unworkable...all you need to do to resolve the random blog problem is remove anybody who hasn't blogged in the last two weeks or even less...then, even if you got the occasional nearly blank blog, at least we'd know that these people had tried BCUK and, had either moved on, or didn't like it here...we could try communicating with them to see if they are all right and show we do care here...with the current set up, only the most ambitious or mercenary get to the top, which is rather unpleasant...If this did happen, you could end up profiting as shy or reluctant bloggers are drawn back to participate more fully, and may even go pro...now wouldn't that be helpful to you.
Cheers,
Jenny
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> Dear jennifer hunter,
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> thank you for your request.
>
> We don't mean for the Top Blogs to be a competition, it is there so that
> people can easily find and read the consistently most popular blogs. We could
> have it that completely random blogs are displayed on the homepage, however
> that would more often than not result in empty or unused blogs appearing. We
> feel that it is in the community's best interests to have the more popular
> blogs easily accessible.
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> As for the criteria in deciding the featured blogs, it is a complex algorithm
> based upon pageviews, comments, links from other blogs and other external
> sites, as well as a number of other factors.
>
> Kind regards
>
> blog.co.uk Customer Support
Looks like everything is going to remain the same...oh, well, maybe my response will keep the pot boiling for a little longer, but, if we do want change, why not write to the BCUK team yourself, and see if more than one request for a change works better than a single one...
Have a great day, and I send you big hugs...
for now...
ajnspencer
Pro 
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Ahh, the top blogs argument...
This one little thing has caused more infighting, sniping and egotrips than possibly any other subject in my (just over) two year stay on this site...
If I hear "I deserve to be on there" one more time...
By the way, just to clarify I'm not saying you're doing it because of that, just pointing out the experiences I've had with certain other bloggers.
Your points are valid about opening up more avenues for bloggers to meet each other, that's been my biggest gripe about the new MyBlog page, the way it hides all blog posts under your friends ones.
Not sure the blog team have the time to check on everyone who stopped blogging though