The Lifespan of Spanking Sites
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:25 pm
Has anyone else noticed that a good portion of spanking sites (especially blogs) don't seem to last very long? I was thinking about this recently when I remembered that CSR is about to turn 8 years old some time in April (I don't remember the exact date). There are some sites that have been around longer than that, but a lot of others have come and gone in that time. Honestly, there aren't too many spanking blogs that I follow, especially ones without visual content, but it seems to me there's a real lack of staying power overall. Why is it that My Bottom Smarts and Cherry Red Report are refreshed each week while Drawing Her OTK and Aunty Agony just sit there slowly rusting year after year like automobiles left out behind the barn? It seems especially true of blogs started by some of the flakier spanking actresses (no, I won't name them).
Blogging is free, so it can't be a question of them not making enough money. I can certainly understand the feeling of "burnout", since I wrote about it recently on this forum with respect to spanking parties, but I have to wonder what these bloggers' expectations going into it were? Fame, money, new friends - none of which ever materialized? Did they become discouraged because there were too many lurkers and not enough readers who would take the time to comment? This is something Dan and others here have discussed many times. Maybe the problem is related to the sheer number of spanking-themed blogs - maybe they're dividing a finite audience so many ways that no one can get a large number of regular readers.
I've spoken once or twice about the feeling of "playing to an empty house" - you write an article or post an unusually-good web page, and no one seems to care. I'm happy to say I don't have that feeling too often here at CSR - we have members on this forum who usually have something to say about the weekly updates, and even before I added the forum I always felt that someone was out there watching. But even when I do feel I've got the theatre to myself, I'm not discouraged about doing CSR - maybe I'll say a little more about this in an anniversary post.
Blogging is free, so it can't be a question of them not making enough money. I can certainly understand the feeling of "burnout", since I wrote about it recently on this forum with respect to spanking parties, but I have to wonder what these bloggers' expectations going into it were? Fame, money, new friends - none of which ever materialized? Did they become discouraged because there were too many lurkers and not enough readers who would take the time to comment? This is something Dan and others here have discussed many times. Maybe the problem is related to the sheer number of spanking-themed blogs - maybe they're dividing a finite audience so many ways that no one can get a large number of regular readers.
I've spoken once or twice about the feeling of "playing to an empty house" - you write an article or post an unusually-good web page, and no one seems to care. I'm happy to say I don't have that feeling too often here at CSR - we have members on this forum who usually have something to say about the weekly updates, and even before I added the forum I always felt that someone was out there watching. But even when I do feel I've got the theatre to myself, I'm not discouraged about doing CSR - maybe I'll say a little more about this in an anniversary post.