Good Gosh, I'm Reviewed

Okay, you have absolute permission to kick my big fat bottom. I registered for Carrie Stephen’s Top Digi Blogs thingee without realising what it all meant. I thought it was meant to be a ranking thing - but of course it doesn’t have a rank number on the little button.

Scroll down - the button is on the sidebar down there, if you’re wondering what the heck this irish maori is talking about. (Admittedly, sometimes I do too)

But turns out that the site allows reviews - and ranks in odd shaped blobby things (ovals?). And some people have reviewed me. Nice, thanks very much. Made me feel momentarily appreciate of the honesty that often gets me in trouble.

I got there by reading Gina Miller’s blog. She was going on about popularity and someone out there dissing her about it, from a digital designer viewpoint. I hadn’t noticed, but then I only hang around one or so boards. And then she goes on about the Top Digi Blog website and asking who gave her four out of five blobs? (Four out of five stars) And she asked all her readers to go there and rank her.

Not something I’d do - but I went along anyway, and found my own reviews. I’m currently number three on the list. That’s very nice, but I guess it’s something to do with views on pages per day or similar. I’m obviously not ever going to beat Gina however, who appears at the top all the time, I understand.

What is disheartening is to see that everyone else on the list has five blobs and I have four. It’s like some kind of big symbol on your head - look at the loser here, despite her listing. How ridiculous is that one? I never got huge amounts of gold stars as a child either (they didn’t do them in those times - they’d barely created the red pen). Although a "star" pupil constantly, my teachers saved the special little stars to encourage less proficient fellow classmates. Bs got stars. A++s didn’t. I went through my high school years in search of a little gold star. Perhaps that explains the fantasy life I divert to more and more readily as I grow older. Fairies have stars on their wands, right?

Anyway, digression over. I don’t really care about any of this. My ratings and rankings go all over the place, and it’s like riding a virtual wave. My honesty sometimes does me in (like the risk I took today in possibly insulting many Americans who might consider themselves Irish) and I sometimes allow my feelings to be hurt too easily. Blame it on the hormones - I always try to.

But really, as it gets late here tonight, I’ve just got to state how lucky and special I do feel in this world. I got four nice reviews on Carrie’s site, and to top it off tonight, Lauren Bavin sent me her Pacific Paradise kit, which I salivate over, as it’s so kiwi Pacific that I’m very very homesick. Even my hubbie on seeing it, said he felt now like returning to my home country. How lucky am I tonight - to get something from home to my new home, and to realise that someone has taken the time to think to add a comment on me at Top Digi Blogs. Thanks all of you.

Comments

[Kathryn]

Hi, Michelle. Interesting. I didn't know you do reviews on blogs over at top blog spot. Is a blob something like a letter grade, only the more "blobs" you get, the better?

[Jen_Jake'smom]

I'm pretty sure Carrie said she'd be taking off the blobs. They're annoying, I know. :o)

I was the reviewer with all the exclaimation points. LOL.

I think if nothing else, this is a good place to connect and find other digi-blogs -- it's a colorful, fun format. I could do without the popularity contest part of it, but that's life. :)

jen

[Kim]

I know Carrie is trying to get them off, but I admit they bother me too. I myself got a review that kind of hurt my feelings a bit. It is too bad that people are rating people lower or whatnot when these are blogs. y ramblings, my struggles, my opinions, and someone goes and rates it low. It does hurt. We all wish we were bigger than it all. But in reality we are all human. I love your blog!!! I read it all the time. And I think you are doing a great service in the community as well.

Kim Christensen

[Roberta D'Achille]

Hey Michelle, it's 6:23 AM EST here where I am and your blog is currently #! :)

[Michelle@Scrapability]

Roberta, what the heck are you doing up at that time of a Saturday morning!!

Thanks, anyway, for spotting my momentary no 1 listing, lol

[Carrie]

I really had intended for this Digiscrap blog site to be one more place of resource that people can go to OR that new potential digiscrappers can stumble upon and see how digi is growing. Just another way to spread the word.

It really makes me sick to know that people are getting hurt feelings because a few nasty people can't keep their mouths shut and have to hide behind the internet to bash others.

I had intended on putting actual numbers on all of the banners but after talking about it with a couple friends and my DH I realized that it was possible to do this without anyone having to display low numbers on their blogs. a blank rating is much better than having the last number because you dont happen to offer freebies on your blog.

Last night we worked on getting the ratings gone, it is a little bit more difficult than just deselecting an option, the code had to be modified and we are new at this... LOL SO far we got the ugly red blobs off of the front page! the ratings stay for now and i hope to continue to make it better for everyone.

i just wish everyone could play nice.. im pretty sure most of those negative reviews were written by someone with a very big green head.

Carrie