Building the Blogrolls

A reader inquired recently about the criteria that I use to select (or not select) blogs for inclusion in our MBS blogrolls. This post is based upon my response.

I grapple with this question often. The blog lists I curate contain links to sites about consensual adult spankings. I strive to select sites that will be of interest to my readers. I've discussed my standards from time to time here on the blog - no non-consent, no children, no mutilation, no exploitation, no denigration, no abuse, no spam, no hate, no blood, no scat, and so forth.

These lines seem clear enough until we dive into actual blogs. I look for blogs that are primarily about spanking, but they need not be exclusively so. I am not offended by a few photos with nudity or sex as long as they otherwise comply with the standards above. But what if there are as many sex photos as spanking photos? And what if a few of these photos are extreme? Do I link or should I withhold the link? I have done both in various situations. I have dropped a link because of one picture or sentence. I have also judged a blog's content to be so strong overall that I chose to overlook a few questionable elements.

To make the task more challenging, all 993 linked sites are moving targets. A blog that looked fine when I reviewed it can quickly swerve into a whole different genre. It could be porn or torture or furries or even entirely vanilla! Until I wander back there or someone tells me, the link persists. It's tough enough to find and trim all of the stale and dead blogs, let alone those that have gone bizarre.

So what's the solution you may ask. I do the best I can to present appealing options for your browsing enjoyment. Not everything appeals to everyone. That is a given. At the same time, I genuinely seek to avoid freaking out or grossing out my loyal readers. In the end, I must decide which blogs deserve a link. I hope I'm fair and apply my criteria in a reasonably consistent manner.

Should you encounter a site in my blogroll that you believe is objectionable and inconsistent with the tone of MBS, I invite you to write me. Chances are, if it's worth mentioning, I probably won't like it either. And if there is a spanking-related blog that should be linked and isn't, I always want to hear about those!