Another thing that makes me close the page as soon as I can press CTRl-W is anime avatars, and if the blog is built like a back and forth discussion between two cartoon characters.
100% with you on the latter point. It's a shame because, so far, where I've seen those, the author does actuallly seem to have some deep knowledge or something insightful to share. But man it's so hard to look past that awful delivery.
Wait can you give an example? I don't think I've seen that format before