I posted this originally on AboutBlogging, but I thought I’d post it here too for those of you Bitter Readers who don’t go to both, because I want you to know that I’ve added a couple of things to make commenting here just that much more rewarding!

#1 … I’ve installed Lucia’s Linky Love on both this blog and the AboutBlogging blog. It’s a dofollow wordpress plugin that will enable commenters to get linkbacks to their own sites. (Currently, if you leave a comment on a blog, you do not get link “juice” for it in Google/Technorati with relation to their rankings. This plugin fixes that.) However, to prevent “human comment spammers leaving insipid, irrelevant comments just to get link-juice”, I’m setting this plugin to reward only users who comment 3 times. This way if you’re a regular participant, you get some linky love!

Another thing I’ve added is what I decided to call “Be A Community Builder”. It’s just a way of letting new commenters know that you will show them some love!

Here’s the “pledge”:

…for every new person who leaves a comment on my blog for the first time. I will:

1) Visit your blog or website
2) Visit Several Pages
3) Leave a comment on a post if have something to say
4) If I like your articles/posts, I will bookmark them in Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, or other appropriate Social Network.
5) If you tell me that you have subscribed to my RSS feed then I will subscribe to yours as well.

If you’re willing to take the Community Builder pledge(ish), saying that you’re willing to make an effort to do these things for your readers, then why not make a post or put up an icon saying so?

I created some icons which you can see here, and if you email me (my address is on my About page), I will also send you the png files with the layers if you want to edit them yourself to match your website or background a little better. Also, if you comment either here or over at AboutBlogging on the appropriate posts saying that you want to join up, I’ll add your website link to that post on AboutBlogging.

Which I think it’s just pretty darned cool. Thanks Fish!

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WARNING: If you are a man, a mommyblogger, and/or of delicate nature, you may wish to avert your eyes now. In fact, I’m even going to add a “more” tag to this, because I’d hate to think you got blindsided with details that might upset the balance of your life. I swore I’d never post about ooky things, like diapers and diarrhea, and as far as I’m concered, menstruation falls in the category of things we really don’t need to discuss, however after stumbling across a Mommyblog this weekend, I feel a serious rant burning a hole in my brain, so I’m breaking the rules. By the way, if you want to write me something hateful which I will most definitely ignore, please write to bitterwomen [at] bloggerbingo [dot] com.

DISCLAIMER: I’m sure there are a hecka-lotta intelligent mommybloggers out there. I have met a few, including AnEnglishMum , among others. If you are one and know some others, you could form a “I’m a Mommyblogger But Don’t Have My Head Up My Ass” club. If such a club already exists, please let me know, and I’ll give them a link.

So… click below if you want to read on from here….

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Just a short post today, everyone!

Mike Thomas from BlogInterviewer.com wrote to me and asked me to submit an interview for Bitter Women. So you can read more facts about us if you like, although I have to warn you, I did try to play it straight a bit, since … well… since I’m basically a coward about being outrageous in public. :))

You can read the interview and even vote for our blog (either thumbs up or thumbs down kind of voting). He gives out some kind of prizes for the most popular blogs, but I’m not really holding out, since I have tried these types of competitions before, and I usually end up having to nominate myself , and I never get any votes. Haha… oh well.

However, I’m posting about this one because I’ve actually found some cool blogs featured over there, so you never know.. you might stumble across someone great in the pages of his blog.

P.S. I was going to post a rant today about Mommybloggers, but since I don’t want to offend half my 29-member readerbase, I am going to sleep on it. If good judgement doesn’t overcome me, watch this space for some first-class ranting tomorrow.

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Heather at The Wishful Writer tagged us with a meme, and considering how badly I flubbed it last time this happened (I didn’t know what they were :)) ) I’ve decided to do this one!

It involves listing 8 random facts about me.  After all, I know you guys can’t get enough me, right? 8-}

1. I make shit up.  All the time.  Like… I’m even making this up.
2. I sleep with a stuffed rabbit ( and a stuffed Scotsman. — and by this I mean he’s full of fraudulent votes.)
3. My son is smarter than I am.  But I’m sneakier than he is.
4. I have this PSP game that tests your brain age, and mine apparantly is 24, 13 years younger than my real age.  They say that younger is better, meaning you’re spry or some shit, but the side effect seems to be that I use the word “like” indiscriminately.  (See #1)
5. I don’t understand people who enjoy reality shows.  (But I wish I enjoyed reality shows, because I always feel like I’m missing something because of how enraptured other people get with them.)
6. I am a bad speller.  But I own a dictionary, so I can hide the shameful fact from the world.
7. I’ve been shocked and amazed by how many truly brilliant women there are out there blogging every day.  Before this, my experience of the internet was mostly of YouTube teens and netspeak nonsense.  Plus a bunch of crazy internet people that seem to find me wherever I land on the net.  Either that or there are millions of them.
8. I’m not really very bitter.  I just have a hard candy shell.

I’m supposed to tag other people, but for some reason hesitate to do so.  But I’d love to see what other people have to say about themselves, so please please if you’re a BFBW reader and you want to do this, please consider yourself tagged!

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Blogging for Bitter Women has received it’s very first Bloggie-type award, and we got it from KeMari at Phatitudes.  Thank you so much!  It warms my bitter heart to know there are folks out there who enjoy my ravings.  :-X

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