OK - So sometimes I get downright cranky about Pagan websites. Here is my latest set of pet peeves for your perusal.

Pages with all bells & whistles and no content.

Copying information from other books into their own book of shadows/webpage. So you are reading and then you notice that it is all from some book. Can we say "copyright infringement" folks?

Copying stuff into their own book of shadows/webpage and not citing the source - especially taken word for word from another book! Can we say "absolutely and completely unethical" AND "copyright infringment"?

Going through a million splash pages before you find content. That is, IF you find content.

People who put manipulative love spells on-line.

Store sites that lure you there by pretending there is actually worthwhile content on the site, but all they are trying to do is sell you stuff. (And many times you don't even know that it is a store site until you get there.)

Sites with multiple money-making ad banners - and non-Pagan ones at that.

"Coven" sites which consist of a teenager and her best friend. Maybe there is a third friend involved. Sorry, but watching The Craft, dressing in black and wearing a pentacle does not qualify you as a coven. Neither does putting a webpage stating that you are one make you one. (Hmm...I guess I shouldn't just single out teenagers on this one, but they seem to be a bit more predominant.)

"Recipe" spells that don't explain visualization and energy techniques.

People who think that working cyber is as good, if not better, than working in a group in real life. Obviously they haven't done face-to-face magick in a group. I'm sorry - but working over the phone/computer is NOT more powerful than working in person.

People who obviously lie about their tradition's origins. My favorite is the on-line coven which claims to be a direct line from 3A.D. Ha! Who are they trying to fool? And even more scary is, who really believes them?

Pages with tons of graphics or non-compressed graphics so they take forever to load.

Pages with the same graphics that everyone else uses. (If you've done much surfing, you have to know what I mean! I bet you could even describe the graphics!)

Pages with so many moving graphics that you feel nauseous and/or seasick.

The fact that many folks seems to quote the Wicca Spellbook by Gerina Dunwich (What? Can't anybody do any other research besides just one or two books?)

People who mispell common words like Goddess or Wiccan on their advert banners. Do we have to look like uneducated morons to the rest of the internet public?