Fellow bloggers - lose the unstoppable background music plz

from JoeUser Forums
You know what gets my goat, or whatever the words are that a cranky old curmudgeon like Andy Rooney might say?!?

Blog traffic exchange members that include music on their sites without giving visitors a way to TURN THAT CRAP OFF.

If you want my clicks and visits, and want to benefit the most from being a member of a blog traffic exchange service, then keep your tastes in music to yourself, or at least make sure the defaults for visitors isn't 'start playing music as soon as my web page is open'.

Seriously, I've got no issue at all with someone sharing their tastes in music. Heck, it's actually pretty cool to get to see what others are listening to, but DO NOT FORCE IT UPON ME and maybe leave me hating the wait for the countdown timer (or worse for you, make me just click on through to the next site, or even worse for you, make me mark your site as one I will exclude or block for future visits).

I don't want to be a blog snob, and I hate to think I might miss some interesting content that would be on a site I'm skipping by or have blocked, but I am quite serious in suggesting that if you want to benefit from the traffic exchange sites, you should make sure you are NOT annoying potential visitors or making them make use of options that will exclude your site from more members of the surfing community.
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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm so glad somebody said it!


Now if a few people pay attention to what it says { big thumbs up! }
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
YES! totally agree with you, what an annoyance to click on a site only to get blasted with music and I have to either click onto the back button or forward!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
You could turn off your speakers or hit "mute."
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
If you're using the same blogexchange sites I am, terp, I can only assume you're BEYOND tired of hearing Jars of Clay by now!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
AngelaMarie said:
You could turn off your speakers or hit "mute."


Except, as noted by little-whip:
A sane and sensible solution. Unless, of course, you are trying to listen to your own music at the time!


... or, if you hit (the lottery of browsing sites and hit) two or three such sites all at the same stinkin' time and all three start to take control of your sound card functions and then crash your browsers.

Either way, it's rude to force your music upon visitors to your site.



Gideon MacLeish said:
If you're using the same blogexchange sites I am, terp, I can only assume you're BEYOND tired of hearing Jars of Clay by now!


I haven't heard that one too much, but there's a Christian music lover that likes to make sure I get to sample the music she's currently featuring. Again, I don't necessarily dislike the music, but I don't need it to automatically start.

With that said, most blog exchanges feature the option for their members to disable sites with sounds. I'm fully aware of that feature, and fully capable of using it, but that narrows the sites I would catch in the rotations, and in effect wastes the blog-clicking or blog-madding (or blog-exploding) that others are doing when they visit my site, as they'll never get any visits in return for their efforts (at least they won't get visits from me).

Again, I would say (and have said above) that people that participate in these traffic exchanges should be cognizant of their visitors and should try to keep things more simplistic. Default the music playing to "NO" and make your visitors click to start playing the content, rather than chasing them away right away.

Of course, I could be wrong (but will right that by just clicking right on past your site) and you can just go without ever having credit for my visit (or the visits of others that feel like I do).
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Talk about hitting the nail in the head. I would rather surf a quiet internet where I can chose to listen to sometheng only when I want to. Maybe someone should make a IE or FireFox pluging that can fix that. There's an idea.