{"id":668,"date":"2010-07-07T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/?p=668"},"modified":"2026-10-24T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:40:29","slug":"top-17-worst-top-17-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/top-17-worst-top-17-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 17 Worst &#8220;Top 17&#8221; Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this list were worthy to be on itself, it'd just a be a list. But it takes laziness to be that bad, and I'm just not that lazy. Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p>You've seen 'em: \"54 great call to action buttons\", \"32 cool jQuery accordion menu scripts\", \"79 great header graphics for inspirtion\", \"15,327 free eCommerce icon sets\"...<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I'm not going to list 17 -- you get the idea. Webmasters wanting more traffic compile a list of a bunch of...something, and post it on their blog. They might include a screen shot and a quick blurb (often copied and pasted from the site they're linking to).<\/p>\n<p>But that's it. And that's the problem.<\/p>\n<p>All too often, these lists are nothing but compilations. With no comments. No rankings. No recommendations for which option is best for what purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, how many jQuery accordian menu scripts does anybody need? Sure, it's <i>possible<\/i> one might not work in every place you want to use one. But generally, you're only going to need one.<\/p>\n<p>So how useful is a list of jQuery accordian menu scripts that doesn't compare them or recommend a few of the best? About as useful as a Google search for \"jQuery accordian menu\". You might as well save yourself the trouble of compiling the list, and just post a link to the Google query.<\/p>\n<p>Except that wouldn't bring in much traffic, would it?<\/p>\n<p>So what's worse than posting a compilation to your blog? Tweeting about somebody else's useless compilation maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this list were worthy to be on itself, it'd just a be a list. But it takes laziness to be that bad, and I'm just not that lazy. Let me explain. You've seen 'em: \"54 great call to action buttons\", \"32 cool jQuery accordion menu scripts\", \"79 great header graphics for inspirtion\", \"15,327 free...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/top-17-worst-top-17-lists\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblogging","category-issuesproblems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}