doesn’t matter

in the past few months i have joined a half-dozen “share your writing” websites. and left five. they seem to thrive on this “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” philosophy, which is all well and good, but i’m beginning to see the real message is “you scratch my back”. there is no offer of reciprocity, just an expectation of “hey – i visited your page once, you owe me”. and i don’t function that way. yeah, sure, i visit lots of pages in hopes to build a “fan base” or “following” or whatever you want to call it – like-minded people to share writing with. but i often visit pages who’s authors don’t visit in return. their loss. some i visit repeatedly – if the author is good, i read their stuff.
i’m not speaking of here, at wordpress, either. this is somehow different. for some reason, blogs…