That said, what the hell is Atrios's problem? This is just absolute crap. Here's the entirety of his post:
Things Which Make Me Want To Shoot People In The Face [That's the post title; Atrios has been making in-jokes about shooting people in the face ever since Dick Cheney shot that guy in the face. -Me.]
People who bitch about other peoples' blogrolls who don't even have a blogroll on their main page, but just a link to one.
Gee -- I do the same thing. I have a link to my main blogroll. Who the hell said that a blogroll has to be on the main page of a blog to be taken seriously? Note that I do the same thing: a while back I decided that my blogroll was taking up too much space in my sidebar, and further, that editing the actual blog template every time I wanted to edit the blogroll (which almost always either means adding a new blog, or deleting one that has fallen silent) was a pain-in-the-ass of editing the entire blog template. So I decided to move the blogroll to its own post in the archives. There it's nicely out-of-the-way, and editing it is a snap, as I simply edit it as I do any post. And the link is right there, reasonably close to the top of my sidebar, and I even made the link in bigger letters.
A surprising amount of testiness, it seems, coming from a person who can't even be bothered to alphabetize his blogroll, in order to make it an actually-useful resource.
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I can count on one hand the number of times I have used one blog's blogroll to navigate to another blog. Do people really do that? I think the importance of being on some perceived A-list blogger's blogroll is way overplayed.
Well, on another blog, Randy Paul has indicated that being delinked has cost him more than 200 hits per day. Now, that's less of a big deal if he was previously getting something like 100,000 hits a day, but it does have a traffic effect, especially as it influences PageRank.
Since my blogroll became a mess, courtsey of New Blogger, I suspect the only person who really uses it is me. I'll fix it. Eventually.
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