Disadvantages of leaving a blog for so long

As you know i left this blog without posting for a good two months or so because of personal problems. I came back to the blog last week, keep in mind that i’ve not logged in since the day i left it. I was quite shocked to see the results.

When i logged in i found around 800 spam comments, out of date plugins, out of date Wordpress and unanswered questions people left in the comments. I had to go through all of the 800 spam comments to see if any were actually legit comments. This took some time that i didn’t have time to upgrade all of my wordpress plugins and the platform itself.

Talk Playstation on the other hand is ran by a number of people now, it has a number of authors so they can take care of things when i’m not around. I need to update a few things on there such as the about page.

I’m going to try and take care of things this weekend because i’m going away again on Tuesday to Penrith with my girlfriend.

So yes, here’s the disadvantages of leaving a blog alone for a long period of time.

• Spam comments mount up (some spam comments are sometime legit).
• A lot of emails/comments from readers unanswered.
• Out of date plugins.
• Out of date platform.
• Takes time to put back right.
• Readers lose trust in you.
• Less visitors because of less content

Thats all i can think of for now. If you know of anymore let me know.