Bad trends in content? Spelling is the worst by far.
Anyone unable to differentiate between “their,” “there” and “they’re,” “its” and “it’s,” or “then” and “than,” has no business running a weblog.
I would rank grammar as a second. It amazes me when someone purchases a domain name and spends sickening time on a layout just to say, “well i got up today and went to school and did shit then someone told a joke and i loled and went home to eat sum food.”
Proper use of punctuation seems to plague a pretty preposterous quantity of weblogs too.
A third annoyance returns to spelling — specifically of foreign words. Not that I would ever expect to see intelligent content coming from people who “blog” about cartoons, but they tend to mutilate languages they lust after. A favorite example would be “otakus,” which is just wrong — “otaku” itself already is a plural form.
As far as design, nothing annoys me more than people transforming all menu text to lower case. This probably ties back into the grammar gripe, but it should be “Bob Smith,” not “bob smith.”
