I'm loving that there's a randomizer....but just how random is it? I know that's a silly question, lol, but in less than 3 dozen clicks through, I had 7 of the same blogs come up....and I know there are *hundreds* of bloggers who are signed up for this. Do that many people really not have the website listed on their profile or was this just a coincidence that I keep hitting the same blogs?
*Edit* I updated the numbers, but uh, one of the blogs I've seen 5 times now and another 3 times. :S I'm sure the blogs are loving the click throughs, but I wanted something different, lol. Hopefully more people update their profiles so there is a larger variety for the randomizer to choose from.
*Edit again* After seeing several of the same blogs repeatedly now, I've lost interest. I'll check back tomorrow to see if there's any improvement of people including their blogs to be chosen from.
Well I did 10 hits and got 10 different blogs, too, lol. It was when I hit the 20-25 mark where they really started repeating and then by the time I'd gotten through maybe 50, I'd had several repeats to the point where I had seen some of them numerous times. And none of them were mine that I hit, by the way, either.....and yes, if I kept going, I'd get the occasional new one. My point was that I was getting some of them several times and way more than I expected.
I think a rating system would be really hard to implement. Either people would have to rate their own sites, or there could be a "report adult content" button on the randomizer, but then we would need segregated randomizers and that would be kind of a pain. I think also that people's perceptions of "G-rated" vary, depending on a lot of things, which would make the issue even more challenging. It would be nice to have a button to report spam blogs though (I haven't seen any, but I imagine some might sneak in).
The randomizer's not working for me today. When I click on the link it either takes me to a page that says no one has added any pages or I get a random blog but the bar at the top is white and says "Not Found" and there's no link to click to the next blog.
Yeah, I get the "Not Found" and then if I wait a few seconds a blog shows up, then I have to refresh my browser to get another random page. I will ask Bryce if she knows what's up, she is the genius behind it.
