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Now, I’m normally not one for huge, sweeping generalizations but that is what I will be doing today. This is not directed at anyone in particular, so if you write ladder blogs, don’t hate me too much. Odds are I haven’t read yours in particular anyway. But as anyone who reads the blog section of TL as much as myself will know, there is a major pandemic of these atrocities that one must sift through to find the high-points of the section. Undoubtedly, I will get some hate and oh-so-feared one star ratings, especially from the writers of said blogs and, as usual, people who look like this:
![[image loading]](http://www.ohdearism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/troll.jpg) May or may not accurately represent amount of clothes typically worn.
Image stolen from some site called ohdearism.com . It’s not an advertisement, you just always gotta cite your sources yO.
Still, it is something that needs to be discussed.
1) You’re Bad at Sc2
This may be a tad hypocritical coming from a simple, pathetic NA Masters player, but I feel like the point still stands. For some reason, most of these people that write ladder blogs seems to be in the bronze to gold range, where rough gameplans are a luxury and antelope cannons run wild and free. As such, most of your games are terrible and it’s nearly impossibly to even feign interest in them. There’s nothing to learn from them, they’re either you rushing and winning in 6 minutes or you getting rushed and losing in 6 minutes, or, at best, they’re a long “epic” game that is actually two people sitting on their ass for 40 minutes and then a-moving at each other.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/EUsgT.png) That number above your minimap is not directly correlated with “epicness.”
Source: 40 Goddamn minutes of my life.
Is that to say that people in lower leagues cant have truly interesting and spectacular games? Hell no. It happens all the time (perhaps most often when two people rush each other poorly). But as a general rule, people will be hard pressed to give less shits about that game you just played.
2) You’re Either A Shitty Writer, or You’re Just Uninteresting
So you just want to share your progress as a player. Innocent enough, right? But you can’t just upload a bunch of replays from that “sick practice session with your bro who’s totally in platinum, man” and expect anyone with the capacity to change to page not to. If you played a great game in particular, write a battle report or something. If you dont know, all that means is taking screenshots from the game and using (interesting) comments to tell the story of the game. Hell, even if the game isn’t great, you can make it great.
Perhaps one of the best known battle reports is the story of Proberto, which you can find here. It’s BW, which some of you may not be too familiar with, but go ahead and read it anyway. I’ll wait.
Great. See how unspectacular that game was? But Chef is an amazing writer, so he made the game great. That’s what you, Mr. Ladder Blogger, need to do. I’ve done it myself several times, all shameless linked here. If I, a person without an ounce of funny inside my entire being, can write battle reports about mediocre, low level games and have them be well received, you can do. Just stop being lazy and do it.
While I’m at it, I gotta shout out Gheed for perhaps exemplifying this point best. The f**ker just sits there and worker rushes people. Doesn’t exactly make for the most interesting games in the universe. But Gheed is funny as hell and he makes it work. Find a sample of his adventures here.
3) I Just Contradicted the Shit Out of Myself, but Screw You Anyway
Okay that heading is a bit over the top. I don’t actually hate you, fictitious ladder blogger. But yeah, see if you can spot the contradiction between points one and two.
Give up? Or you got it? Here you go anyway:
If you want to really improve and get super good to the point that people actually care about your games, you need to practice. You can’t be sitting around typing out elaborate accounts of your games. And to be frank, even your mediocre ladder blogs you’ve been doing so far cut into the time you could have spent getting closer to your goal of that elusive top 8 gold icon. And if you don’t necessarily care about your rank and your improvement 1) Why are you even blogging about your ladder escapades; and 2) you might as well make them interesting if you’re going to cut into your practice time anyway.
“But Bibbit, I Just Do it to Track My Own Progress!”
Great! That is 100%, absolutely fine and is a perfectly dandy thing to do (though you could have said it less whining-ly, fictitious author). But if that’s what you’re doing, just don’t be sad if nobody reads or comments on it. If you don’t write to make people want to read, you can’t complain when people don’t want to read. Simple as that really.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a real rant before, but I think this is one. It had to be done.
Bibbit is cave-dweller who only surfaces to occasionally make ill-conceived, unfunny jokes. You can follow the tweets he never makes or has never made @ www.twitter.com/Bibbit_Mack
Edit: I found a cool game you can play reading through the comments on this thread. Basically all you gotta do is read a post and guess from the post whether or not the poster has a ladder blog. Its shockingly easy !
 
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I think people should just put effort into their threads in general. Gotta agree with what you wrote here. If you are not going to put the effort in to make an interesting blog, people are not going to read it.
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A bad blog about bad blogs ..
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liked it =D but dont be so whiny about not having a funny bone in you =D
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On November 24 2011 13:47 d9mmdi wrote:
liked it =D but dont be so whiny about not having a funny bone in you =D
Ehh even metablogs can't possibly be complete without a solid dose of whining.
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the worse type of ladder blogs are the ones where the writer says "i'm going pro" or "bronze - masters in 2 weeks"
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wow lol very well written, you bring up some good and very true points that we see here often 
Also I agree with shawster lol, I don't believe many of them actually accomplish those goals? 
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I love the I'm bronze and got promoted to silver EZ
What you think about me going pro?
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On November 24 2011 13:46 aimaimaim wrote:
A bad blog about bad blogs ..
A disagree.
Great blog, I don't mind reading most aldder blogs, those that just status updates are sort of bland.
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not gonna lie, i lol'd pretty hard at this blog
great blog :}
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While your blog may discourage "fictitious ladder bloggers", I think the more likely outcome is about 50 blogs from prospective ladder bloggers starting their own blog alternatively "sticking it to the cynical, mean, and destructive Bibbit" and "I am a good writer, I am high platinum and not bronze, therefore you must care about that sick game I played today".
But thanks, we do need more blogs about how other blogs are bad. As long as those blogs are entertaining.
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I don't think I've ever read a ladder blog. I'm kind of surprised there aren't more Starcraft 2 blogs or at the very least e-Sports blogs/zines. The type of blogs that report coverage, news, interview players, interview sponsors or showcase popular VODs.
I guess the show casts kind of do that already, but I do love myself some well written articles!
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Completely agree, I've almost entirely stopped reading the TL blog section because of this
Still, somehow I doubt any of the ladder bloggers read anyone else's blogs; the chances any of them will see this is... yeah >.>
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When will you be releasing your blog about Women?
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I completely ignore ladder blogs. I would however read someone who plays 2-3 hours of practice with one matchup, one map, and the same person who are both roughly equal in skill.
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Should be spotlighted
Nowadays I see alot of these sc2 ladder blogs by low level players which makes ugh...why isnt there any much real blogs nowadays...
And don't get me started on those !@##$%^&*(() blogs of Wood/Bronze/Gold/Platinum players wanna go pro~
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Agreed yO. They're just boring. Blah blah.
Oh yeah, might need some help in writing a BR. Sick game today, you'd be proud of me.
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The 1 base SG pic is funny because even 50 minutes into the game the guy hasn't mined out his main!
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I agree. It's not even that they're written by people bronze-gold. It's just that they're zero content, not interesting. Even if the author was a pro, I wouldn't care if all they wrote was about how they played 30 games today and they're sick of <that cheese/situation>. No one but the most hard-core fan would ever care. Girl blogs (which I generally don't read) are better than someone using Blogs as their sc2 game dear diary.
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lol. HILARIOUS i love the i just contradicted myself but screw you anyways
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Was a good read and had great points.
I personally if people are going to do ladder blogs, they should be posted no sooner then at least 2 weeks and had plenty of ti,e being written, which you did cover. It's annoying to see a constant supply of them and seeing the posts of a low level player stating to go pro or something can be annoying if posted to often.
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Good, now work on your macro.
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I don't agree.
Blogs are more personal than threads in other sections. I can post without proper etiquetes and stuff. If you don't like what you are reading then don't read.
And yes I have a total of 2 blogs with just 1 response and 1 of them got closed for too poor content.
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On November 24 2011 18:17 Steveling wrote:
I don't agree.
Blogs are more personal than threads in other sections. I can post without proper etiquetes and stuff. If you don't like what you are reading then don't read.
And yes I have a total of 2 blogs with just 1 response and 1 of them got closed for too poor content.
Yeah well, tl isn't your diary. If you're going to post, make it slightly bearable for the rest of us. If you really have nothing to say, don't hit post.
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Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment.
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1. threads about how people are going to become masters, or GM, or do "korean style training" are 99% horrible. only exception i have seen is attero. nobody cares but the op, and i have never seen an actual success story. people should spend more time actually playing instead of writing about how they are going to play.
2. stream threads for low level players. nobody is going to watch your games because they dont care to watch bad players. why would i choose joe blow plat/diamond/masters/even low GM when i can watch koreans, high level foreigners, or the fifteen million tournaments that are out there?
3. people ranting about other people's threads (i.e., this post). why do you give a shit? why do i give a shit? why did i just waste my time writing this useless post. =(
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Very nice! And the best part of it is that if u would just randomly bash on a bad blog u might get warned, but if you write a one page long rant about how bad those blogs are in general you get spotlighted!
Cheers, 5stars
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I find it sad whenever some poor silver leaguer makes a ladder blog You're entirely right, bibbit, but nevertheless I just feel bad for the poor guy(s) that write those blogs.
Basically, they're the Blog-equivalent of the pokemon theme song, except nobody likes it, nobody sings along and nobody cares.
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On November 24 2011 19:32 marttorn wrote:I find it sad whenever some poor silver leaguer makes a ladder blog You're entirely right, bibbit, but nevertheless I just feel bad for the poor guy(s) that write those blogs. Basically, they're the Blog-equivalent of the pokemon theme song, except nobody likes it, nobody sings along and nobody cares.
you couldve replaced pokemon theme song with any song and the analogy would still stand lol
edit: great OP, agree 100%. Would like to read some interesting stuff about other TL members in the blog section
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Im pretty sure that op didnt see raceilantr's(i think i spelled correct) blogs
if he reads them,he will definitely look forward to all ladder blogs for sure
edit:actually it was racenilatr and a link to his amazing blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/Race
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I agree,TL needs more girl blogs instead.
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I'm someone who fully supports putting effort and personality into something for the sake of making it interesting and a cut above mediocrity when it comes to doing ANYTHING creative, let it be art, music, writing, or simply writing ladder blogs. That said, I support this 100%.
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When a blog is written in the forest, but nobody around reads it, is there a blog?
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On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment.
Don't hate the meta-player, hate the metagame.
+ Show Spoiler +This may or may not be a quote originally uttered by someone who is not me.
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This makes me sad, I hope the ladder blogs continue. What's the cost of clicking a link and scimming through it anyway? like 30 seconds at most? Let the people have their hopes and dreams and aspirations, even if they are poorly thought out and most likely wont be realised.
Just seems like a real dick move to say "you're worthless, what you're doing is worthless, stop doing it." regardless of what the person is actually doing. It's not like they are breaking rules and/or being offensive.
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On November 24 2011 21:24 skipgamer wrote:
This makes me sad, I hope the ladder blogs continue. What's the cost of clicking a link and scimming through it anyway? like 30 seconds at most? Let the people have their hopes and dreams and aspirations, even if they are poorly thought out and most likely wont be realised.
Just seems like a real dick move to say "you're worthless, what you're doing is worthless, stop doing it." regardless of what the person is actually doing. It's not like they are breaking rules and/or being offensive.
It's just frustrating seeing quality content pushed down by lengthy updates of how some random guy did on the ladder today. If you did this daily on facebook most of your 'friends' would block you from their feed, so why should strangers give a flying fuck? People need to realise they are just one person among many thousands. If they want to share they should at least put some effort into making there blogs readworthy rather than info-dumping.
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On November 24 2011 21:32 Scarecrow wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2011 21:24 skipgamer wrote:
This makes me sad, I hope the ladder blogs continue. What's the cost of clicking a link and scimming through it anyway? like 30 seconds at most? Let the people have their hopes and dreams and aspirations, even if they are poorly thought out and most likely wont be realised.
Just seems like a real dick move to say "you're worthless, what you're doing is worthless, stop doing it." regardless of what the person is actually doing. It's not like they are breaking rules and/or being offensive. It's just frustrating seeing quality content pushed down by lengthy updates of how some random guy did on the ladder today. If you did this daily on facebook most of your 'friends' would block you from their feed, so why should strangers give a flying fuck? People need to realise they are just one person among many thousands. If they want to share they should at least put some effort into making there blogs readworthy rather than info-dumping.
That's a fair call, I guess I can support telling them to put more time in to making their posts more interesting. I dunno, the OP just seems really harsh in it's criticism.
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On November 24 2011 13:41 Bibbit wrote:
“But Bibbit, I Just Do it to Track My Own Progress!”
I forgot your alias and thought that your average ladder blogger was a frog telling people to do a barrel roll.
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ladder blogs = overly dramatic 200% of the time.
On November 24 2011 20:25 TheKefka wrote:
I agree,TL needs more girl blogs instead.
blogs that get attention because there's a girl or blogs that frustrates everyone because the OP won't follow any of the advice (to man up)?
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I follow you on twitter because of this awesome post.
And the fact that you don't post no tweets so I get no new spam on me twitter.
YAY!
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On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment.
I love that you are the #1 spotlighter even though you said you were gonna quit TL.
Great post, great spotlight. I love this feature!
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On November 24 2011 22:55 Skeggaba wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment. I love that you are the #1 spotlighter even though you said you were gonna quit TL. Great post, great spotlight. I love this feature!
And I love how he freakin' spotlighted me ! <3 Manifesto, even if he did it mostly to spite Chill. : )
Also much thanks to the people who like this. And those who dont, well screw you anyway thats fine. 
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Somehow, this blog made me want to write battle reports for my crappy ladder games..
Enjoyable read!
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While we're here, talking about bad blogs, I'm sick of blogs titled "Road to ___". Most commonly "Road to [LEAGUE]"
They're incredibly common, and not limited to blogs, and I don't even have a sensible reason to hate them, but whenever I see one of them in the blogs section of TL, I pause for a moment and shake my head while biting my lip in disbelieving anger.
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Just to spite Bibbit Im going to make a road to Gold blog next week. Watch for it.
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On November 24 2011 20:28 Felo wrote:
When a blog is written in the forest, but nobody around reads it, is there a blog?
I see what you did there :D
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On November 24 2011 22:55 Skeggaba wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment. I love that you are the #1 spotlighter even though you said you were gonna quit TL. Great post, great spotlight. I love this feature!
Mani cannot stay away from the blog section.
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You should have written this one year ago.
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I would rather read 10 ladder blogs instead of one more "omg im so nervous i cant play sc2 ladder, what do I do gaiz?"
Luckily those seem to have died off. Hopefully it stays that way.
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Well there is one good thing about ladder blogs, they don't get highlighted unless they are somewhat interesting/insightfull
This blog however .. : (
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Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. 
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Nice read, got me to laugh quite a few times Very much of what you say is true though.
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On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though.
Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^
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One word comes to mind, Eureka!
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hahahahah love it!! ..... btw I think I wanna go pro?!
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As a (mostly) ex-ladder-blogger myself I'd venture to suggest another reason for lower-level players to kick the habit:
Nothing turns subjective impression into cold, hard fact quicker than sharing it with others.
I dodged this particular bullet a few weeks ago, when I started a blog post about my laddering experience this season. I was struggling greatly in ZvT and ZvP: it felt like my opponents always had a free choice of strategy and those strategies - regardless of how extreme or one-dimensional they might be - always had to be countered exactly and precisely just to prolong the game. The idea of actually going into a game with a plan seemed absurd. And because there were so many T/P strategies, and it seemed the range of Zerg counters to each was so narrow and predictable, I was only ever going to get a tiny amount of practice countering and following up compared to the practice my opponents were getting executing and following up.
I had this big, whiny post almost finished when, by chance, I was forced to set it aside over the weekend. When I returned to it on the Monday and read it through, it struck me as - not reasonable and sensible, as it had at the time, but biased and narrow-minded. Sure, some early aggression does mandate a very specific response, but the task of detecting and responding is not all that arduous, and deflection often pushes the odds of an eventual win far above 50%. Why was I not thinking, instead: "All I need to do to win 90% of those cannon rushes or proxy gates is send a drone around the edge of my base? Bargain!"
Only in a small subset of these builds is it genuinely tricky to come out ahead, but in my post I had generalised the worst case, the better to win sympathy from my readers. Nor is it even the case that every T/P strategy must be dealt with uniquely. The later the focus of their strategy, the more opportunities there are to impose myself upon the game. Again I was generalising the worst case, ignoring nuance and opportunities, casting myself as the perpetual victim.
Aside: Nor do I believe I am alone in this. Maybe the world is not a Zerg's oyster at the 0 minute mark in the same way it is for a Terran, but I think a lot of Zergs have allowed the claustrophobic early-game to colour their perception of the game as a whole.
What surprised me most, however, was how influential a post contrived to convince readers can be upon the writer during the process of creation. I almost bought into my own hyperbole, almost made it part of my online persona - and while I've trained myself not to invest too much ego in being right on the internet, attaching oneself to erroneous public proclamations is at best a desperately unproductive pastime.
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congrats on the spotlight, your blogs tend to be good
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On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^
I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/
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On November 25 2011 03:16 nRoot wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^ I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/
I said you were "upset", which you pretty clearly are. Maybe not about the content but for it being "spotlighted for no reasons" and that you "wasted your time." That's absolutely fine, you're free to hate whatever the hell you damn-well please. But dont lie to me and yourself about not being upset. T_T
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There are so many blogs posted on TL, does anyone read them all? I think that most ladder blogs are just about sharing what you've been doing and getting it onto the internet (and TL blogs section is a great platform for that). Because once you've shared something online, it becomes a million times harder to go back on your word, even if no one read it.
If you don't like reading ladder blogs then that's perfectly fine and I'm sure you're in the majority. But the blogs section on TL is something pretty unique in that anyone can post there and it can be seen by a massive community of Starcraft players. No one is forcing you to read incredibly boring blogs, so if you don't like them then just stop reading them. But don't shit on the players writing these blogs because they're just taking advantage of a useful platform for venting about the game they love.
If people are shoving their ladder blog down your throat, or posting blogs with no content then that's a separate issue which holds true for all posts on Team Liquid.
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On November 25 2011 03:27 Bibbit wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 03:16 nRoot wrote:On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^ I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/ I said you were "upset", which you pretty clearly are. Maybe not about the content but for it being "spotlighted for no reasons" and that you "wasted your time." That's absolutely fine, you're free to hate whatever the hell you damn-well please. But dont lie to me and yourself about not being upset. T_T
Well RogerX posted you (that is you in this case) made a lot of people upset, then for whatever reason you start talking about my post but I'm not even upset about your blog, only about it beeing spotlighted which you have nothing to do with directly (i guess .. ?)
This was all I'm getting at you see? You did nothing wrong, I don't hate on your blog or anything
Please don't try to lure me into something I never said anything about, thanks
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I found 2 typos, you say do instead of too at the end of the second to last paragraph in 2) and it is "it's" at the end of the edit. (edit that edit!)
I really enjoyed the proberto story.
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Dear nRoot. You wouldnt have been upset over it getting spotlighted if it wasnt so terrible, unfunny, badly written, and a waste of your time, right?
But again, you're free to be upset all you want. I still love you nRoot.
Edit: Thank Zirith, but I'll bet you could find more if you tried harder ! I dont usually even put apostrophes at all in contractions.
Other edit: nRoot, if you want to yell at me some more, please take it to PM.
And Zirith: Had you read Proberto before? : )
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thedeadhaji
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Thank you thank you thank you
If you don’t write to make people want to read, you can’t complain when people don’t want to read.
OMG thank you.
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Ladder blog? I agree, that is a good idea. Time to go write one.
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On November 24 2011 20:25 TheKefka wrote:
I agree,TL needs more girl blogs instead.
Listen to this man.
We should make it mandatory for every ladder blogs to include a minimum-100 word girl/boy problem so that we will read at least some of the blog.
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Haha this was a great read and maddd funny. As of late I have been reading a lot of the blogs on TL and for sure see all your points on them .Way to have the balls to write this for people <3
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On November 25 2011 00:45 Enki wrote:
I would rather read 10 ladder blogs instead of one more "omg im so nervous i cant play sc2 ladder, what do I do gaiz?"
Luckily those seem to have died off. Hopefully it stays that way.
But even those threads actually invite readers to respond in some way.. most ladder blogs you skim and you're like okay.... am I supposed to say something?
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You can do that, just don't complain about no reads/comments or 0 stars out of 5 rankings (lol). The bad ones, the ranty ones, the ones I write frequently, they'll get the TLDR reaction and that's fine. If the only reason you ladder to practice is because you said you would on your blog, keep it up. I'm serious. Be inspired to put some more effort into battle-reporting it with screenshots instead of linking a replay and whining, but still blog.
I found 2 typos, you say do instead of too at the end of the second to last paragraph in 2) and it is "it's" at the end of the edit. (edit that edit!)
Writer is also comma-averse for introductory phrases, and comma-splurgy when a semicolon or second sentence is needed. Two run-on sentences. Two examples of subject-verb disagreement. One use of adjective "impossibly" instead of the noun, impossible. Whiningly is actually a word, and does not require hyphenation. One us of "I," instead of "I'm" or "I am." Several contraction errors are present, as previously mentioned. One count of a space between the last word of a sentence and its punctuation. All these previous mentions do not even begin to interrupt readability, so I don't know why you're pointing out typos. Here's a smiley face: =).
We're not saying  , we're saying don't make us :z
May or may not represent my hairstyle after a weekend wake-up-and-ladder, too. Not hair color, hair style. And no 1.5-inch plastic brush will fix it.
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Heh, nice Danglars. Some time in the future, after you've forgotten all about that post, I'm just gonna send you a PM asking you to edit an essay or some shit. And you will wtf.
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Maybe you should've put that video you commented with in the main blog :p
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What I don't get is who this particular blog, if anyone or group in particular, is targeted at?
Are there actually people who write these terrible blogs who get shitty when people don't read or respond to them? How do you know this? Do they actually post again in their blog something along the lines of "Come on guys why the fuck aren't you responding to my thread about my epic 45 minute, silver league, I-got-an-expo-and-10-carriers-to-fight-his-9-BCs-and-crushed-him game?" ?
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I'm scared to start blogging :o
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Great blog.
And thankyou for referring "Proberto". That one is genius
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The fact that i wouldn't have seen this if it wasn't spotlighted demonstrates exactly why the blog's main point is correct.
5/5
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I suspect Bibbit wrote this ladder blog just to get rid of people from the blog ladder, the only ladder that truly manners.
SirJolt unleashed a monster when he introduced meta-ladder-gaming to this world.
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couldn't agree more haha. such a sick post. reminds me of maddox a bit if u've heard of his website ha.
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3/5, I agree with points but I don't agree with spotlight, consider me jelly.
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On November 25 2011 04:19 OpticalShot wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2011 20:25 TheKefka wrote:
I agree,TL needs more girl blogs instead. Listen to this man. We should make it mandatory for every ladder blogs to include a minimum-100 word girl/boy problem so that we will read at least some of the blog.
this would solve some problems but Chill would be having terrible terrible days ahead of him. I agree on most ladder blogs being boring as hell though
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On November 25 2011 06:48 Kamais_Ookin wrote:
3/5, I agree with points but I don't agree with spotlight, consider me jelly.
Rate the blog for the blog, not the spotlight, right?
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On November 25 2011 06:55 OmniEulogy wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 04:19 OpticalShot wrote:On November 24 2011 20:25 TheKefka wrote:
I agree,TL needs more girl blogs instead. Listen to this man. We should make it mandatory for every ladder blogs to include a minimum-100 word girl/boy problem so that we will read at least some of the blog. this would solve some problems but Chill would be having terrible terrible days ahead of him. I agree on most ladder blogs being boring as hell though
LOL funny enough I wrote a thing a bunch of months ago (partially) about forcing Chill to read girl blogs.
And Dalguno, thanks for having my back, but dont worry about it. I kinda expected this blog to get shat on pretty hard, and its already went over way better than I thought it would. Thanks to Manifesto of course. : )
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I might just have to link this in the comments whenever I read a blog that this applies too.
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On November 25 2011 07:45 puppykiller wrote:
I might just have to link this in the comments whenever I read a blog that this applies too.
Ya I feel this will be linked to many many blogs lol...
nice blog, well played xD
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how can you complain about low level play and then include a screenshot of the recent adelscott vs merz game from dreamhack?
ARF ARF ARF
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Absolutely the best 1-star blog I have ever read.
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Worth reading, just because you reminded me of Proberto.
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Someone had to say it, i agree with you
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On November 25 2011 03:27 Bibbit wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 03:16 nRoot wrote:On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^ I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/ I said you were "upset", which you pretty clearly are. Maybe not about the content but for it being "spotlighted for no reasons" and that you "wasted your time." That's absolutely fine, you're free to hate whatever the hell you damn-well please. But dont lie to me and yourself about not being upset. T_T
You're clearly upset enough to rant about bad players bad bloggers bad comedians. Because aside from the terrible writing,. where is the comic relief?
And as far as metablogging...
People just throw around terms like meta, and bonjwa, best foreigner, best korean, best of the best of the best meta gamer meta blogger. But no one seems to understand where these terms originated from or where they belong or in your case don't belong in thread/posts.
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are u making gundams in that picture?
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On November 25 2011 09:00 inamorato wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 03:27 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 03:16 nRoot wrote:On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^ I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/ I said you were "upset", which you pretty clearly are. Maybe not about the content but for it being "spotlighted for no reasons" and that you "wasted your time." That's absolutely fine, you're free to hate whatever the hell you damn-well please. But dont lie to me and yourself about not being upset. T_T You're clearly upset enough to rant about bad players bad bloggers bad comedians. Because aside from the terrible writing,. where is the comic relief? And as far as metablogging... People just throw around terms like meta, and bonjwa, best foreigner, best korean, best of the best of the best meta gamer meta blogger. But no one seems to understand where these terms originated from or where they belong or in your case don't belong in thread/posts.
ya man u rly got me good there
I really don't know how to even respond to this one. And I've decided I'm not going to. I started to write about how you're dumb for taking this as seriously as you did, but I dont think it's worth it.
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On November 25 2011 06:29 Primadog wrote:I suspect Bibbit wrote this ladder blog just to get rid of people from the blog ladder, the only ladder that truly manners. SirJolt unleashed a monster when he introduced meta-ladder-gaming to this world.
Wierd. I'm nowhere to be found there, even though I used to be. Is there a level of "currentness" you need to be on the leaderboard.
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On November 25 2011 09:08 Bibbit wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 09:00 inamorato wrote:On November 25 2011 03:27 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 03:16 nRoot wrote:On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^ I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/ I said you were "upset", which you pretty clearly are. Maybe not about the content but for it being "spotlighted for no reasons" and that you "wasted your time." That's absolutely fine, you're free to hate whatever the hell you damn-well please. But dont lie to me and yourself about not being upset. T_T You're clearly upset enough to rant about bad players bad bloggers bad comedians. Because aside from the terrible writing,. where is the comic relief? And as far as metablogging... People just throw around terms like meta, and bonjwa, best foreigner, best korean, best of the best of the best meta gamer meta blogger. But no one seems to understand where these terms originated from or where they belong or in your case don't belong in thread/posts. ya man u rly got me good there I really don't know how to even respond to this one. And I've decided I'm not going to. I started to write about how you're dumb for taking this as seriously as you did, but I dont think it's worth it.
I like how your taking contradictory pot shots :p, "I will ignore and no longer respond to you now, btw your an idiot and this is why."
Thats cheating. I dont read to many blogs, guess you highlighted why. Personally if a blog isnt contributing to the community I dont like the idea personally, even if it is a personal blog it should contribute.
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On November 25 2011 10:09 Rebs wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 09:08 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 09:00 inamorato wrote:On November 25 2011 03:27 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 03:16 nRoot wrote:On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though. Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^ I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/ I said you were "upset", which you pretty clearly are. Maybe not about the content but for it being "spotlighted for no reasons" and that you "wasted your time." That's absolutely fine, you're free to hate whatever the hell you damn-well please. But dont lie to me and yourself about not being upset. T_T You're clearly upset enough to rant about bad players bad bloggers bad comedians. Because aside from the terrible writing,. where is the comic relief? And as far as metablogging... People just throw around terms like meta, and bonjwa, best foreigner, best korean, best of the best of the best meta gamer meta blogger. But no one seems to understand where these terms originated from or where they belong or in your case don't belong in thread/posts. ya man u rly got me good there I really don't know how to even respond to this one. And I've decided I'm not going to. I started to write about how you're dumb for taking this as seriously as you did, but I dont think it's worth it. I like how your taking contradictory pot shots :p, "I will ignore and no longer respond to you now, btw your an idiot and this is why." Thats cheating. I dont read to many blogs, guess you highlighted why. Personally if a blog isnt contributing to the community I dont like the idea personally, even if it is a personal blog it should contribute.
You've just got to learn the humor.
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You should have added the blogs about "look how this guy rages after i raped him ahhaahahha".. Seriously does anyone give a shit about some guy raging?
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it was ok, but i think you tried way to hard to be funny in this instead of just letting it happen naturally
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Now, I’m normally not one for huge, sweeping generalizations but that is what I will be doing today. This is not directed at anyone in particular, so if you write ladder blogs, don’t hate me too much. Odds are I haven’t read yours in particular anyway. But as anyone who reads the blog section of TL as much as myself will know, there is a major pandemic of these atrocities that one must sift through to find the high-points of the section. Undoubtedly, I will get some hate and oh-so-feared one star ratings, especially from the writers of said blogs and, as usual, people who look like this:
You read TL blogs and are shocked at the quality of the writing? That's precious.
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While what you say is true you're just another elitist. If you want people to accept what you say as true you'd have to be fine with a Korean grandmaster making a mockery of your NA Masters play.
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On November 25 2011 11:45 alks wrote:
While what you say is true you're just another elitist. If you want people to accept what you say as true you'd have to be fine with a Korean grandmaster making a mockery of your NA Masters play.
How did you manage to pick out that I'm a NA Masters player without reading the sentence that says it? I'm well aware that I'm bad at this game and certainly wouldn't mind some guy telling me that.
I get food capped all the time and botch the simplest of build orders every once in a while. Shit, I've forge expanded and blocked my bloody nexus with the forge ! But me also being bad doesn't make silver people any more or less bad, does it? Why can't I say it? You, your other friends in gold league, or the Korean grandmaster player are free to call me bad as much as you damn-well please and it will be true no matter who's mouth it comes out of.
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I am genetically compelled to point out that the OP needs to add an apostrophe to the "its" at the end of his article.
Grammar police!
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First time I have given a 1 star in a while. Was hoping for it to not be another rant blog or ladder blog turns out it was a rant blog and not an interesting read at all.
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After this blog being posted, I dont see anymore of them ladder/going pro blogs, lol~
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On November 25 2011 14:39 Black[CAT] wrote:
After this blog being posted, I dont see anymore of them ladder/going pro blogs, lol~
tl blog section 2.0 :p
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On November 25 2011 14:39 Black[CAT] wrote:
After this blog being posted, I dont see anymore of them ladder/going pro blogs, lol~
Yup. Actions speak louder than words.
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On November 25 2011 14:46 Alejandrisha wrote:Show nested quote +On November 25 2011 14:39 Black[CAT] wrote:
After this blog being posted, I dont see anymore of them ladder/going pro blogs, lol~ tl blog section 2.0 :p
So it is better or worse 
Ever since battlenet anything 2.0 I immediately assume is a downgrade
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It's only been a day since this came out so we cant know whether the ladder bloggers have subsided (though I doubt they will). Still, if we do in fact see a decrease in ladder blogs, I'm gonna start wearing a cape while I browse TL. B)
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huh, Captain Bibbit.
Pwning nooby ladder blogs! Cleanser of the blogs section. Defender of the...
Maybe Captain Sarcasm is better. Mmm I wonder what colour says "Make a crappy ladder blog and die"?
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Meh, this post seems structured backwards. That is, stuff should have been presented in reverse order: "Bloggers, decide whether you want to write about your SC2 play for yourself or for others. If you're writing for your own benefit, have low expectations. If it's for others, offer what others want: great skills, good games, interesting situations, good writing, etc.."
Structuring it this way is a bit presumptuous, since many of the blogs probably really were started for the writer's own benefit, even if the writer doesn't realize it. So it just invites all the defensiveness and flaming (as the OP anticipates). A missed opportunity.
[edit] clarify/reword
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I like everything about your blog except for the part where you single out the lower leagues. Honestly nobody gives a damn about master level players either, since compared to real pro's their games are still shit so i'd say unless you are grandmaster fighting with with the best you really need to add some gosu writing to make it bearable even if you are masters!
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Undoubtedly, I will get some hate and oh-so-feared one star ratings i am very tempted to treat this as a request for a one-star; TL mod style
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Free protips, the world should thank you Sir Bibbit :D
Good job
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Whaaaaat in the world is this...okay I'm gonna keep my mouth shut.
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Great blog, blog section used to be really good, especially sifting through the crap to find a gem but it just got to tedious with the influx of these ladder blogs. Good expression of how I feel, thanks a bunch Bibbit.
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God damn you, Bibbit!
I've decided to not play till the next expansion was out, but this blog and the links in it, especially the Gheed story made me wanna dust off my account, download the crapload of SC2 of patches and play again. I maybe even get to *GASP* gold league this time!
5 stars for you, sir!
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On November 24 2011 13:41 Bibbit wrote:
If you don’t write to make people want to read, you can’t complain when people don’t want to read. Simple as that really.
If you just want to make a diary to yourself about Starcraft II, accept that if you don't put effort into making it interesting/unique then you are just a spammer in the blog forum and will be treated as such.
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haha Nice rant. Also the links to the other content were great like Proberto so thanks for the post.
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The 50 minute game picture just shows everything that you could do wrong in a game. Bravo for capturing that, even I couldn't think of that many pitholes a persons play could have.
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So somebody just linked this to a ladder blogger and he seems really pissed. : (
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On November 26 2011 12:31 Bibbit wrote:
So somebody just linked this to a ladder blogger and he seems really pissed. : (
This was your creation, Doctor Frankenstein.
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This was fucking hilarious. Made my day.
5/5 for sure.
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Holy christ its working. The guy I just said got linked my blog when he made a ladder blog turned around and actually made a battle report of one of his games.
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Been quite busy but as always you never fail to provide me with laughter Bibbit. Thanks in addition to the links of other funny blogs that I hadn't found or read yet.
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On November 26 2011 12:31 Bibbit wrote:
So somebody just linked this to a ladder blogger and he seems really pissed. : (
Nope. You got it all wrong. Can people not take constructive counter-criticism about ladder blog bashing? Especially when somebody just mindlessly linked your post in an attempt to bash me.
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It seems like blogs is becoming more and more like a strategy forum for people that are too lazy to make a proper strategy post.
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5/5, now please male one about people going pro!
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This blog is offensive I love reading about plat players and their intentions on quitting school to go pro!
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On November 27 2011 04:18 Hawk wrote:
5/5, now please male one about people going pro!
I second this, there's like one of these every two weeks or so and they never work out.
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This makes me want to start a series of some purposely bad ladder blogs.
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I agree with you but I fnd a certain few if those posts quite interesting (not the bronze to gold ones;)). I think some of these people only want to release these blogs so they can get a bit of a confidence boost from supporters .
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This is just...incorrect. I just had someone accuse me of writing a bad ladder blog when I clearly didn't and now I'm annoyed at whoever posted this.
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lol this is so true. Glad someone called it out.
5/5
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On November 27 2011 04:18 Hawk wrote:
5/5, now please male one about people going pro!
Yes, please!
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agree completely i have yet to read a very interesting blog on teamliquid other then the humourus worker rush one
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Waste of time ! You MR. state everything thats obvious for middly educated person, 80 % humanoids on this forum knows excactly the same without wasting 10 mins to read it !. It's just life they will be trolls, there will be morons in bronze, silver leagues who will think that every man finishes his ladder adventure in fame and glory :D Lets just simply dont worry about it let them be cuz they make post stats, we get to reply to get more posts, they get some , we get some , TL has shit to read to ban people, and most important we can make fun of them for being Gigantic DOUCHES ! XOXO tinky winky !
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Yep, I gave him a 5 too :D
XOXO tinky winky !
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