A lot of people have been complaining about the decline in the quality of PPS pings lately and, as much as I would like to deny it, the fact is that I am a part of the community, as Edrei so nicely puts it.
Being a part of the community means that complaining about the (bad) quality of recent PPS pings is akin to complaining about the (equally bad) quality of my OWN blog. It is akin to washing our dirty linens in public. Whatever.
I do not know how good PPS pings used to be before I knew what PPS was. Which means, I really am NOT in a position to say whether the quality of our blog posts are on the decline or otherwise, though I would assume that the majority is right about it 
So I guess the only thing that I can do on MY part is to cut down on the unnecessary pings, especially on those entries that nobody, except myself, would like to read. If you like to read pelf-ism is contagious, I know you would be back, regardless of whether I am pinging PPS or not, right? Right? Otherwise, my suggestion is to get Bloglines and subscribe to my feed *winks* <– This is NOT marketing, OK?! Muahhahah 
If you think this post might benefit other bloggers:
LoL, that’s what I did already. Only ping the posts that has “public interest”. Personally, I’m not too sure about the decline in quality…just that there has been an increase in the blogs no one wants to really read, and maybe that just makes the good blogs seem less.
And muahaha, thanks to Bloglines, it’s easier to stalk people without going to PPS all the time.
pelf: Yea, posts that are of public interest.. But when these “famous bloggers” blog about the decline in the quality of the pings and all, we the “nobody bloggers” feel that it’s targeted at us, no? I felt it though..
oo.. I might be contributing to the bad ping problem. As for subscribing to your blog on bloglines, done! In fact, I never thanked you for telling me about bloglines. Now I’m hooked on adding new blogs every week x_X
pelf: It’s never too late to thank me, you know, with cards and flowers and a little gift that shines, or something to that effect.. *winks* Ouh, I forgot to warn that Bloglines could be addictive, but I have already passed that phase
Pelf, Merv, I consider you two to be QUALITY pings. But honestly, I think that the term “quality” is subjective, and depends on personal preferences. Everyone likes different stuff, depending on their personality. So don’t worry about it and keep pinging PPS.
I don’t think that ST’s post is targetted at you at all. I’d say it’s aimed at the lalala kind of posts, as well as the blgos that just ping unoriginal stuff to gain traffic.
pelf: Whether or not those comments were targeted at me, I still think exercising a bit of caution will go a long way
It wouldn’t harm me a bit to ping less if it could “raise the quality a bit”.. But then again, you are right, the term “quality” is really subjective..
Sorry for flooding your comments section, haha. But those “famous bloggers” have been complaining about a lack of quality pings for several months already anyway. PPS kinda went downhill after The Star article…
pelf: Err.. I think I need to get hold of the article in The Star that you mentioned.. Anybody has one?
i must admit that i’m one of them…sorry! hehe. but its true that nowadays people are just blogging coz its the IN thing which is not a good reason to start off with. but i guess there’s nothing much we can do. If its a fad, it’ll die off.
pelf: Because it’s the IN thing? It really is? I thought the Spirit of Melaka is the IN thing?! *winks*
Wahlau, why everyone thinks they’re not quality bloggers?? Ivan, your blog nice also wad…
pelf: Muahahaha.. Sometimes bloggers also have what we call the inferiority complex
The Star article?Well I think blogs whose writers/owners actually write stuff would pass as quality to me la rather than reposting jokes etc or some empty promo of some brand/item
pelf: Or maybe it should be made illegal to ping PPS for contents that are NOT original..
char, i don’t think its that good. But i keep at it just to improve. So do bear with it
sorry pelf, not spamming here am i? hehe
pelf: Hhahaa, Spam Karma didn’t catch it, right? BTW, I don’t know what Spam Karma 2 does.. But I have it installed though.. Muahah..
hmm… i don’t believe in sweeping generalisations made by so-called big name bloggers, but here’s my opinion - i thought PPS is a public blogtal and there’s nothing mentioned in its policy about “quality” pings…
What’s a so-called “quality” ping anyway? Who’s to say what is interesting to some and what isn’t to others?
Nobody is compelled to read every single ping on PPS anyway - you just scroll for whatever interests you…
That’s just my 2 cents.
pelf: Makes perfect sense to me *nods head* BTW, whatever happened to the meme I tagged you?!
Maybe it’s time we non-famous bloggers branch out and start a an aggregator of our own haha. Just joking. I rarely check up PPS now a days. I’m hooked on SARAWho. Less blogs but good blogs.
pelf: erm.. I can do the cards bit but the rest would get lost in the mail hehe. And yes… BLOGLINES IS SOOO ADDICTIVE! GAH!
char: Woo.. I’m a quality ping? Yay!
pelf: I have heard of SARA but don’t exactly know its functions, looks like PPS to me though..
Oh Oh, I idi*t liao, don’t know much abt pinging, RSS, blog lines and stuff, though I’ve visited PPS before. So, Pelf, can be my Si Fu, ah?
I am interested getting this shared blog project, puisi-poesy pinged, but will have to discuss with the other members first.
pelf: Can! Can! I can teach you how! *whoa* Sounds like very terror.. *winks*
sighz…guess i’m also considered no-quality ping by your standards then, lol.
but if you’re unsure about how to use SARA, pls read this link:
http://boringest.blogasian.com/sara/
pelf: I have read it. In fact, I have seen my own post in SARA but I did not register or do anything - so I was wondering what exactly SARA is
Could you educate me a bit and tell me how different it is from PPS? (I know, I am ignorant..)
ping politics? but if people only ping issues of “public interest”, it’d get awfully boring
pelf: Aiyah.. I guess either way there will be people who complain la.. So the best way is to avoid getting entangled in these webs of complaints. Hehhee..
I still want my dose of terrapins though, quality or no quality. =p
pelf: OI! What you mean quality or no quality?! All my posts on the terrapins are of very high quality.. Muahaha
Hehehe, not your kind of posts la. It is those people who ping ping ping about this video, that video taken from somewhere and somemore belagak how much he earns from there. And it is not like one ping but three times ping. Like we all kena leeched likedat lah. There are also some who post the same ping at different times over and over again.
Those personal entries coming from the heart, that is what I am interested to read. So keep the terrapin coming ‘cos I still have yet to learn which is penyu, kura-kura and whatever.
pelf: OK! OK! You are my motivator!
well, for SARA, you don’t ping but submit your feeds (RSS/ATOM) to me, so everytime you update, it’ll appear on SARA automagically.
So no accidental multiple ping, no repinging, and all posts are kept for 1 week. Occasionally, I’ll add those blogs which are nice to read to SARA so we get a bigger picture of the Southeast Asian blog community so probably that’s how your blog ended up there.
pelf: OK! Now I understand *winks*
yeah give us more terrapins posts!!! we love turtles
pelf: OK, our wish is my command, badman
Okloh, I won’t ping my post anymore loh.
pelf: Err.. I didn’t say anything about your blog wor.. *winks*