I just removed my Exentrique and Despair links. I tried to remove my site from both listings, but what do you know Despair is down.

I am no longer participating in these web sites or any other comment exchanges. Not because I don’t think it’s a good concept. I believe it really is, it is just a shame that it is overflowing with crap. I stopped leaving my assigned comments when I realized that all of the comments I was receiving were normally the result of someone coming to my blog, reading a line or two, and making up some bullshit and clicking submit. This was only the case most of the time and isn’t necessarily fair to say for everyone. And I am also willing to admit that every now and then I’d stumble upon a jewel of a site, but lets face it, Internet, that was rare.

Honestly, I left bullshit comments as well. I would pull up some lame-o blog and think, “Do I seriously have to put myself through this?” and the answer is no, no I do not. I don’t need Exentrique or Despair to gain visitors, especially not ones who are forced to participate in my site and pretend they like it. Most of which did a terrible job. I will just go back to getting little to no comments, but at least I know people will leave them because they want to and not because they have to.