… and I wonder: how many bloggers are still waiting for their moment of fame? When I go now at blogging to fame I am lost. They’ve changed everything in a matter of days. Now you don’t see first the hottest bloggers on the block, but the recently famed ones. And I wonder what’s the point?

To stop people from faming the already famous ones? To give bloggers even chances? Guess what: there are no even chances! Not when the voting system is based on a “scratch my back” principle. And not when the scratcher doesn’t really need to see my back to scratch it.

Blogging to fame brings me no traffic. Zip. Nada. But when I look at my blogging to fame stats I see that more than 100 other bloggers voted my profile, and almost 100 (as I write) voted for my blog.

And how can you actually vote for something you don’t even bother to visit? Today I made an experiment: I kind of “bulk voted” all the profiles in the first 10 pages of the “most recent famed.” I simply opened each profile in a new window and clicked on the FAME ME button. It worked fast, like playing a computer game. I didn’t click on any link, I didn’t visit any blog.

The purpose of the experiment? Well, to get an answer: is blogging to fame really ethical? Are the bloggers on the leading places really that good? How did they win their rankings when no one bothers to visit their blogs? And then it hit me: it’s a “scratch my back and I’ll fame yours” principle. We do not need to see the blogs to fame them.

Heck! Even paid to click traffic programs are better. People need to be at least 3 seconds on your site to make their vote count.

At blogging to fame you could just become famous without anyone having to actually visit your blog and see what you are doing.

I remember my first weeks: reading all the blogs I could find, voting the ones I really liked, and then voting for the people.

I remember comments like: I see you famed my profile, but not my blog. Why?

I remember refusing to fame (and even to visit) blogs in languages I couldn’t understand (like Russian and Indian) but now I’ve got it: I could simply go there, vote for everything, scratch bloggers’ backs and I’ll definitely get my blog scratched too! And for what? For the false fame? I mean… common!

Look at me: pissed off and rambling when the main purpose of today’s entry was to bring you gems from blogging to fame. I was among the first promoting this contest. I was all excited about it and right now I’m getting all negative about it because… well because the system is not fair.

You already know my style. You know I can get really harsh at times. But the thing is… I do not want to get harsh about a thing I used to believe in. But I have to! I’ll never go against my principles, no matter how hard the pain. And yes, I have no words to describe the pain and disappointment.

I tend to ignore spammy comments like: I famed you, fame me back. Then I feel guilty and I “go fame” after I read the blog and actually “meet” the blogger I have to fame.

I find comments like “hola belezza” sweet, because I know they come from the heart, because I know the Latin spirit (Romanians are Latin) and I also know that the author has actually been visiting my blog, because he even left some valuable comments there – in his language, which I do understand. And I have to thank Manuel for the kindness and for the sunshine.

Don’t get me wrong, there are still great reasons to be a part of the competition. Like meeting Pearl and other wonderful people. But right now… I am bitter and I’ve decided to stop being active in the competition. At least till I see a message like: you have to visit the blogger’s blog to vote for his/her profile.