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United States24810 Posts
On April 26 2012 09:53 RoboBob wrote:
Yes, I've been very disappointed by this "featured blog" section. TL should restrict new posts in this section to pro players, pro casters/hosts, and pro tourney organizers, imo. I like to see the likes of Nony, QXC, djWheat, Totalbiscuit, and lilsusie in here. I would rather not see TLNet staff in this section like Plexa, Rich, and Waxangel, although I can tolerate it. But there's a lot of random bloggers (like this SirJolt guy, wtf! =) ) who write good posts, but have no role in community except for the posts that they make on TL. And I think those types of posts are more appropiately put in the "normal" blog section.
Also, it bugs the crap out of me that blogs in this section are sorted by rating, instead of by last post date. It's really annoying to need to resort every time I go back to that page.
Although I have no problem with your view that priority should be given to notable community members when selecting things like featured bloggers, I think it's important to make a distinction between sc2 community members and TL.NET community members (the latter having a great if not equally strong bearing on blogs here)
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On April 26 2012 10:56 Mr. Wiggles wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2012 09:01 SonuvBob wrote:On April 26 2012 08:51 Primadog wrote:On April 26 2012 08:49 1Eris1 wrote:On April 26 2012 08:26 neoghaleon55 wrote:
I think featured blogs should be the same as featured threads instead of sorted by ratings.
Some users get high ratings regardless of their content just because they're long time TeamLiquid veterans.
Rating Inflation is a problem. I'll rate your blog a 5 if you rate mine a 5.  Actually, I just realized I don't have a blog. Need to get on that. Hopefully I can go straight from bronze to GM with my first entry. MATCHFIXING IN PRO BLOGGING SCANDAL READ MORE ON RAKAKA Translated from a Korean article: "Mr. B" told "Mr. J" to make an intentionally controversial blog post to amass 1's, all while betting against "Mr. J"'s ratings on a popular problogbetting site. On April 26 2012 08:57 FuDDx wrote:
I'm still reeling from my last blog rating fail hahaha. This just in: Also implicated in the scandal is a "Mr. F", whose last blog was clearly thrown. Woah, woah, woah, stop right there, Mister. These accusations are clearly fabricated and completely unwarranted. I have received information from my own secret sources that SonuvBob has been paid off by a third party to make these accusations as a way of undermining the integrity of BLOGSPORTS and to do damage to the scene.
My lawyer has advised me to inform you that you are a big dummy and could not never ever be wronger.
..I think I need a new lawyer.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51710 Posts
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On April 26 2012 12:00 Mr. Wiggles wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2012 11:50 babylon wrote:
I read the title and thought I would be reading a blog about TDL's blogs.
I'm not sure why that was the first thing to come to mind. @__@ Is Torte secretly an Elephant? This blog has lots of juicy gossip in it.
Well Elephants are my favourite animal.
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can't we just blog for the fun of it ?  that's what I do . . .
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United States4796 Posts
Jolt, you're hysterical. Lots of love.
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the amount of meta in this was hilarious.
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Staff icons are imbalanced in blogsports. People need to stop abusing them, post straight up, and earn their rankings fairly.
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Why why why why why are you reminding us of that thread? Let's all try to forget it, and the like 8 months of dead horse beating that ensued....
On a serious note: I checked out the Featured Blog section once, and haven't really gone back. Half the highest rated bloggers haven't updated in like a year, and the other half aren't that great IMO. Blogs are like a box of chocolates; there are good ones, really really good ones, and some that are just nasty (like the maple goo ones, bleh). But if you never eat the nasty ones, you never know just how tasty the good ones really are. If all we ate were caramel chocolate dealies, after a while we'd be sick of them. (maybe)
So bring on the stupid girl blogs. They just make Newbistic's food look tastier and 1000 pictures of RBD look even more awesome.
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Oh, look at me, i'm uber cool and uber meta. I also understand the movie inception. Makes me one cool dude, dude.
Though seriously...featured blogs is a bit "lol" to seperate them like that in the first place.
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Estonia4644 Posts
On April 26 2012 12:14 sutoraiku wrote:
@fusefuse, I like your profile picture, haven't seen that one before =o
not a lot of people have, since I haven't written any intriguing enough blogs, thanks :D!
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As an aspirant to membership of a pro-blogging team I have to be very selective with my words here.
Poop.
Featured blogs should be based on the merits of the individual blog, not on the blogging history of the poster. At any rate, because a problogger's posts are likely to be of higher quality they would be featured regardless. The system as it exists now might encourage some spectacular falls from grace.
Last week it seemed that the blog section consisted of nothing BUT girl blogs, now I count NONE on the first page. What explains this emphatic change? Perhaps it has something to do with a kind of collective TL MENstrual cycle, that every once in a while (perhaps 28 days) all the bloggers go a little bit nuts and and seek catharsis. You know how women's cycles synchronise if they spent a good deal of time together? Either that or it's tidal.
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I think rather than a featured / unfeatured blogs section, we should just have a normal blogs section and a blogs-about-sc2 section. 
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I actually really love the blogs section here. I posted a couple blogs about my experience with job interviews with Microsoft and Google, and one of them got featured on the front page. Amazing feeling.
This featured blog thing might be enough to bring me out of hiding to write a blog about my college experience that I've been itching to write.
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On April 26 2012 16:51 synapse wrote:I think rather than a featured / unfeatured blogs section, we should just have a normal blogs section and a blogs-about-sc2 section.
I second this idea.
Sounds great.
Often times, I just want to read starcraft related blogs but get hampered by girl blogs and stuff about absolutely nothing.
I am actually very glad SirJolt brought this issue up.
Like, I don't understand why this one is under featured
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=330196
yea, it's a nice blog, but there's nothing that sets it apart from regular blogs.
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I think that we should have everything back the way it was around 6-8 months ago and don't ever change anything in the layout ever again.
Ever.
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Estonia4644 Posts
On April 26 2012 16:11 ohsea.toc wrote:
As an aspirant to membership of a pro-blogging team I have to be very selective with my words here.
Poop.
Featured blogs should be based on the merits of the individual blog, not on the blogging history of the poster. At any rate, because a problogger's posts are likely to be of higher quality they would be featured regardless. The system as it exists now might encourage some spectacular falls from grace.
So your words of wisdom for the aspiring plobogger is that cheesing their way to the top of the TL GM BL with a one-blog-wonder is okay and it doesn't matter how shit you post afterwards, you've already proven your skill? D:
Maybe I'm just extrapolating and interpreting your post wrong
The new system just makes it easier for the coasters to stay GM & harder for novice probloggers to get into the rankings
But effort will be rewarded even better now, I guess. Because getting up there is going to be one mean feat.
Myeah
Lets see what season 1 of TLGMBL brings.
I HOPE THEY PATCH IT, I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS BLOG MMR SYSTEM
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On April 26 2012 12:53 Torte de Lini wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2012 12:00 Mr. Wiggles wrote:On April 26 2012 11:50 babylon wrote:
I read the title and thought I would be reading a blog about TDL's blogs.
I'm not sure why that was the first thing to come to mind. @__@ Is Torte secretly an Elephant? This blog has lots of juicy gossip in it. Well Elephants are my favourite animal.
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Blogs are awesome. There needs to be more blogs on TL everyday - about rage, love (girl blogs!!!), triumph, epic fail, Kpop, and whatever else life throws at us.
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Where is the awesome signature Jolt?
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