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Posted by Max Miroff
- This is a bulleted list, and no one likes it. It’s like numbered list’s ugly adopted brother.
- It tries to be funny but it isn’t. You see that attempted humour in the above bullet? Yeah. It wasn’t that funny, and that’s coming from the person that wrote it.
- This list isn’t new content. Seriously, top ten lists are everywhere – what makes this one different from all the others? It’s just the same old crap in different, shinier packaging.
- This list doesn’t have any images in it and thus looks pretty boring.
- It’s published on a fairly unknown site, and if it’s not a big-name blogger then why should you even bother reading this post?
- This list has a filler entry which really doesn’t contribute anything to the list except to add another entry.
- This list is built purely to get more traffic in social websites and doesn’t provide any real value to its readers.
- This list doesn’t elaborate on its points – it looks like it was put together in five minutes.
- This list only has nine reasons. Users of Digg and StumbleUpon hate this a lot and often leave comments telling this to the author.
When this list fails, I won’t be sad – I’ve predicted it! Monitor the unpopularity!
By BradBlogging.com - Increase Website Traffic With Easy To Follow Steps on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Epic Fail. Try Again.
By Max Miroff on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Luckily the post was created not to get traffic. I’m crafty, aren’t I?
By saying it was a fail, you mean it received traffic. Muahaha! Logic!
By Bob Younce on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
You’ve been stumbled
By bigman on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Stumbled again
By Shmoke on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
…and again
By Katie on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
stop failing!
http://katie.blogsite.org
By Tyler Menezes on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Yet another person stealing my idea.
By Flowercat on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
So if you fail, then you win, and if you win, you fail, thereby winning. Which results in failure. Which is a win.
Your logic has outsmarted the internet.
By Klaargemaak on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Um… seems familiar, poser!!!
http://www.tylerm.info/the-top-reasons-why-this-page-will-not-be-popular-on-stumbleupon.html
Stop stealing other peoples stuff, or atleast give them some credit!!
By Max Miroff on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
@bigman & Shmoke: Aww, you’re too kind.
@Katie: I’ll do my best
@Tyler: Huh? What’d I steal from you? I’ve never heard of you before.
@Flowercat: This is so.
@Klaargemaak: Oh, so THATS what I apparently “stole.” The fun thing is: I’ve never read that post before and none of my points are on his list. In fact, I would say that my list is 1308% gooder. This has been proven by SCIENCE (my magic eight ball)
By Max Miroff on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for commenting on my blog and assuming I’m some sort of horrible thief, btw. If you want to know where I got the idea, I was talking to Collin LaHay of Mixed Market Arts about his best posts and noticed one of his top ones was “Ten reasons this list will be popular on Digg.” Considering my blog is satire, I decided to parody it. It has nothing to do with your post.
By Mark on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
You ARENT stumbled! FAIL! HAHA!
Haha, im jus jokin, i love this post! Thankfully, im not one of those people who compain about what people post… because i appreciate that people actualy post stuff on the net for me to “stumbleupon” if it werent for people like you… what good would stumble upon be? An then how am i going to procrastinate? World of Warcraft? Dear god i hope not.
Whats more, those people who have “failed” and “epic failed” you probably have nothing to show for their own lives, an this shows in the fact they can only criticise others for doing what they fail to do in theirs!
So heres me officially, certifiably, and on behalf of this awesome post, “Epic Fail” all those who criticise anything they havent done better themselves =)
As some might say.. PWND! HA! (an i still dont really know what that means)
It also wont suprise me if someone fails this comment. Which is why, to my suprise, i have already predicted the future!
Nice post btw!
By Max Miroff on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
@Mark: Your comment most certainly is not anything close to fail. In fact, it is leaning towards win.
By Dave on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
“This list doesn’t elaborate on its points – it looks like it was put together in five minutes.”
Let me guess.. it was, wasn’t it?
Now if only my hosting company would get their act together so I could post a list of equally epic failings…
By Max Miroff on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
@Dave: How dare you! This list was put together in roughly seven minutes. Man, the nerve of some people…
By lounembr on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
HEY, THIS LIST HAS ONLY NINE REASONS!!!!!!
By Sly on Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
I was going to digg this, but it is just too much work. Hey, I’m a busy blogger- I can’t waste my time ‘digging’ stuff… I’ve got to slave away over this hot keyboard so that I can make my $0.07 today. Otherwise I can’t afford my Ramen noodles.
By Max Miroff on Mar 27, 2008 | Reply
@lou: Whoops, must’ve overlooked that. Wink wink.
@Sly: SEVEN CENTS?!?!?!? HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO DO IT?
By Tyler Menezes on Mar 27, 2008 | Reply
Sorry to accuse you. People keep stealing the page word-for-word, and a few have admitted to taking the idea from me.
By Max Miroff on Mar 27, 2008 | Reply
Aw, I was hoping you’d be one of those bloggers that would vehemently accuse me and try to crush my soul etc. etc.
Thank you, Tyler. Much love. I even Stumbled your post!
By luq on Apr 17, 2008 | Reply
i was looking at your quantcast stats and saw that HUGE spike in your stats and was looking which post it was,,and figured it was this one,keep bringing fresh ideas like this and you’ll see more spikes in your stats!
By gout on Oct 4, 2008 | Reply
I think very good posting and great idea
By Anonymous on Apr 19, 2009 | Reply
You’ve been stumbled again. Lucky you.
By redditor on Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
It would make the top ten on reddit if you said,
“fox news sucks”
Or Republicans are retarded.
They flock to that stuff.
By Stumbler on Oct 11, 2009 | Reply
stumbleuponed this.
By Amber on Oct 28, 2009 | Reply
I thought it was stupid, but that first comment (epic fail try again or some such) annoyed me so I thumbs up’d it or w/ever its called
By Hot Karl on Nov 3, 2009 | Reply
How many names did you make to back yourself up man? Reading this is like an Eddie Murphy movie about fail, which is double fail. Shame on you Max.
By eli on Dec 26, 2009 | Reply
still floating around stumbleupon,
still funny.
good work.
By wow on Aug 10, 2010 | Reply
And you are still stumbled.
By Rob on Sep 26, 2010 | Reply
Still a target for StumbleUpon. So, does this mean that you fail at failing?