Today I removed a popular and very useful and appreciated marketing blog from its former place as my default browser opening page. I was so totally turned off and repulsed by a guest post on the blog and the photo that accompanied it that I can't bear to visit the site again until that post is far down or, preferably, completely off the front page.
The post was off topic, personal, repulsive, and only marginally connected in any way to the supposed subject of the blog. The photo was a distorted close-up of the guest author, looking very much like the heartless perpetrator of the physically abusive subject of the post.
I'm not going to say whose blog it is, because I've never seen anything as rank on there before and I like the person who owns it. They have always been gracious, generous, and considerate since I started reading it. But, when the owner was away, or taken with a fit of complete idiocy, a way, way, way inappropriate post found its way there, by a guest author.
The Maid's advice:
1. Do not allow posts on your blog that you haven't seen or do not fit your style and standards.
2. And, if by some surprising occurrence of bad taste in a regular and trusted guest author, an inappropriate post does get there, get it off, pronto.
Yuk. Changed my impression of the site and owner, made me re-think the whole site's value to me.
