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Josh Dorkin has posted a great list of the top 77 mistakes that new bloggers make.

Several of the things he listed are major pet peeves of mine, including:

#6. Using Background Music
- I like my own music that I’m playing, thank you very much. Also, I don’t need everyone in the office/room with me to know that I’m checking out your website. If you must have music, allow the user to CHOOSE to turn it on.

#15. Forcing visitors to register to leave a comment
- By the time I register, wait for the email that confirms my registration and sends me a password, log in, change the password, enter some information about myself (like a link back to my own site) I have forgotten what I was going to say and just click away.

#20. Not responding to comments left for them
- The whole point in adding a comment is to further the conversation. If you don’t respond to your comments, the conversation stops. That’s not much fun. Blogs are like interactive books. I took the time to leave a comment for you, the least you could do is acknowledge me.

#76. Posting a partial blog feed instead of the full contents
- I will unsubscribe from your feed if you only publish partial content. I read over 100 sites everyday, and will only click over to your site if I want to leave a comment or view the video or hear the associated audio. Otherwise, your title has to be VERY compelling to keep me from skipping your post altogether.

One item that he didn’t include that I would add goes along with #15 above… using an image verification process to submit a comment. They often are confusing, unclear, or simply don’t work. I can’t tell you the number of times I have lost the comment that I was attempting to post because the word verification was malfunctioning. There are too many other ways to combat comment spam to use a faulty system.

Click over and peruse his post to see the rest of the list. Are there any other tips he missed?