Hi MyBlogLog!

Part of what makes me so special is my ability to automatically add you to communities in which you have shown a repeated interest. I have just added you to the following communities:

1) Garbage Bin

http://go2/dev/null

Bonus -- The "Hot in My Garbage Bing" box on your My Home page will keep getting worse and worse with each community I delete my account from.

Rock on,

Me voting with my feet

Obviously, I'm pissed off about MyBlogLog, and anyone who has seen their emails similar to the above can guess why. The reason is quite simple: it's a mediocre service (at best) with a horrible interface and stupidly horrendous default behavior. As a webmaster, what I get out of it is rubbish analytics and an awkward way of building a community. As a user, I keep getting added (by default) to communities that I don't want to join necessarily. See, this assumption that by default I'd like to join any given community, wrapped in a self-gloating email ("Part of what makes MyBlogLog so special is our ability") is just plain wrong. I never turned on that feature and I never wanted to join that feature.

On the flip side, If I choose to manually join a community that means a lot more to the community's webmaster than me being added automatically to beef up their community head count. This works for the communities I run too: I don't want to just rack up avatar but I want a genuine community. Granted it's slower to build a community like that, but it will be by the members' choices not some automated "special" "ability". Please, get over yourselves.

So without futher wasting further time fixing stupid default behavior in return for little, I've closed my MyBlogLog account.