EPTDoes anyone else share the same views as me?
Poll: Would you like blogs to be removed?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
no more blogs
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himurakenshin
Canada1845 Posts
Does anyone else share the same views as me? Poll: Would you like blogs to be removed? (Vote): Yes (Vote): No | ||
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MaZza[KIS]
Australia2110 Posts
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AngryLlama
United States1227 Posts
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Excalibur_Z
United States12235 Posts
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
On June 07 2007 17:32 himurakenshin wrote: ...is ruining the General section of Teamliquid... That's an impressive feat. | ||
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geometryb
United States1249 Posts
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Wizard
Poland5055 Posts
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DeadVessel
United States6269 Posts
http://teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=54556 read and be enlightened | ||
vGl-CoW
Belgium8305 Posts
besides checking the blogs isn't that big of a hassle just check out the top rated blogs | ||
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Superiorwolf
United States5509 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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a-game
Canada5085 Posts
p.s. i think the good outweighs the bad so it's a non-issue | ||
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22254 Posts
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Chosi
Germany1302 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Short for weblog. A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life. Consists of such riveting entries as "homework sucks" and "I slept until noon today." or a place where people bitch about their daily activities which nobody is interested in. topics like why they argue with boyfriend and how they end up together at last, daily aneroxic activities like drinking blended organic fruits and vegetable for breakfast, lunch and dinner, talking about cutting themselves with a razor blade and how good they felt, bitch about their shopping activities and what they got. just another way to seek attention and sympathy from other people. I don't like the Blogs here either, imho it does not work well with the concept of a forum & news page. | ||
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geometryb
United States1249 Posts
On June 07 2007 18:04 a-game wrote: most blogs suck, some are good. it would be nice to have a process to eventually ban/delete bad blogs (by ban i just mean remove blog privelege) but even still you just avoid the crap ones and check out the reputable ones p.s. i think the good outweighs the bad so it's a non-issue you can avoid the poorly rated ones. | ||
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Folca
2235 Posts
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Purind
Canada3562 Posts
On June 07 2007 18:06 EvilTeletubby wrote: You should've written this in your blog But then we wouldn't be having this amazing discussion. If he posted this on his blog, would he have anyone telling him to post this on his blog? NO | ||
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DeadVessel
United States6269 Posts
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
Blogs are just glorified forums threads i.e. a collection of forum threads based on subforum - if you treat them as threads and have access to them as a list of new date-entry threads, which tl.net offers, it only adds to the site and takes nothing away from it. If your mind can't adapt to such a small change just treat blogs as threads and simply use the page listing them according to date entry and not author entry. The distinction between standard forums (forum plus PM system) and modern forum (i.e a second generation forum with blog functionality - or simply put - a forum with an optional personal thread-gathering subforum that can be viewed publicly - means that the latter only adds functionality to the forum. You are not forced to used the extra functionality - it is up to you, just like you are not forced to used the PM system, the profile entries, the poll funtion etc.. More functionality generally promotes all those things a good forums strive for: more content, recruitment, experience and idea sharing i.e. community building. People often instead of thinking just repeat cliche's ad naseum; if they simply stopped to think about the issue a few minutes they would realize how pointless are comments criticizing blog functionality as something negative or that it takes away from the general forum. It doesn't at all, in fact it promotes participation, it expands the general-forum-type content and definitively makes sorting out the value stuff from the crap even easier. I personally like blog functionality since it helps create community, strengthening it, plus it does battle against trolls and smurfs. | ||
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ShabZzoY!
Great Britain760 Posts
Bear in mind that this opinion is a reflection of the section on this site; in principle i hate the idea and the 'word' makes me cringe, but if used right its just a collection of funny posts or an easy way to group some sort of project I suppose im accepting them easily because I enjoyed some of the ones over on LP before the feature came here and the first few to be posted here were pretty entertaining | ||
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Ruins
141 Posts
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish | ||
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
Number of stories (from above) that are good: 3 Keeps the riff-raff off the General forums; not a bad thing. Also, blogs here are new. By next year, itll feel like just another subforum (for those who wish to use it), with a more personal feel to it. | ||
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L!MP
Australia2067 Posts
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
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AmorVincitOmnia
Kenya3846 Posts
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himurakenshin
Canada1845 Posts
On June 07 2007 19:03 useless wrote: Number of stories that would normally flow into General forum: 1000 Number of stories (from above) that are good: 3 Keeps the riff-raff off the General forums; not a bad thing. Also, blogs here are new. By next year, itll feel like just another subforum (for those who wish to use it), with a more personal feel to it. Teamliquid's General Forum is special from other forums is because of all the funny random personal funny stories that gets posted here. Stuff like "I am making sex without condom and I doubt my dog is using condom" would not be as popular if it was posted in someone's blog. I enjoy coming to TL because of the unique funny shit that gets posted in the general forums (apart from starcraft). I don't want to say "I like coming to TL to read people's blogs". edit: For example, i can't remember who, but somebody is having some girl problem thread where he is going to ask out a girl etc etc, but he is posting it in his blog. wtfwtfwtf these girl problem threads with updates were a key element in the TLgeneral greatness. Blogs are ruining teamliquid. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
However, the blog section could use a different interface instead: only being able to see the last five posts (or twenty with a little more effort) is a bit crippling. Having a list of posts ordered by date like for the forums would be nice--in essence, making it more like another General Forum in terms of browsing it, except with a different style. | ||
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
On June 07 2007 21:00 Myrmidon wrote: However, the blog section could use a different interface instead: only being able to see the last five posts (or twenty with a little more effort) is a bit crippling. Having a list of posts ordered by date like for the forums would be nice--in essence, making it more like another General Forum in terms of browsing it, except with a different style. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=54655 show your support or suggest changes to that! | ||
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
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RowdierBob
Australia13007 Posts
What was the point of this post? Who knows. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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pyogenes
Brazil1401 Posts
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Rekrul
Korea (South)17174 Posts
i thought that happened a year ago | ||
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Bruceling
United States392 Posts
but then again, so was communism. you win some ya lose some. :/ gg blogs | ||
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Kassios
France1424 Posts
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DeadVessel
United States6269 Posts
i post to much random stuff in it that i can't post in general. they stay or i will kidnap someone. (Kassios) | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5281 Posts
i rarely read blogs anyway | ||
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NoName
United States1558 Posts
blogs have their place too .. maybe add an option to link blog posts to forum. so you get both worlds | ||
semioldguy
United States7488 Posts
On June 08 2007 01:30 NoName wrote: maybe add an option to link blog posts to forum. so you get both worlds Please no. | ||
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{ToT}Strafe
Thailand7026 Posts
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brian
United States9619 Posts
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vGl-CoW
Belgium8305 Posts
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36375 Posts
On June 08 2007 04:00 Gene wrote: he's saying they do have a negative effect by taking away quality would be threads from the general forum i don't see why its so hard to just read good content on the blog then | ||
Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
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{ToT}Strafe
Thailand7026 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On June 08 2007 00:31 Rekrul wrote: ruin the general forum? i thought that happened a year ago | ||
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
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useLess
United States4781 Posts
Now see, whats the deal with this? Some complain about blogs drawing away topics from the general forum, and others complain about bringing blogged topics into the forum. If you guys are gonna be pricks about it, at least have some real shit to back it up with. | ||
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himurakenshin
Canada1845 Posts
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ManaBlue
Canada10458 Posts
On June 11 2007 19:22 himurakenshin wrote: no staff feedback on this? If you insist.  Personally I don't like writing or reading blogs, which is why I haven't involved myself in blogging here at TL except a test post when the feature was being implemented. However, I'm not going to rag on the people who happen to like reading them or writing them...or those who get an immediate hard on when they even read the word blog. AKA physician But more importantly, I don't think this "general forum ruining" arguement has any merit. Firstly, I see no change in the general forum quality, be that a good or bad thing, personally. Secondly, the crappy "this happened to me today", "give me advice", "why don't girls like me", anecdotal threads that used to be posted all the time read like blogs anyway. So now, they are in the blog section, making it even easier for me to ignore their lameness. In my eyes, it's an improvement for everyone. For those that like that thing, it's put into a proper blog format which makes more sense for story telling/musings anyway. And for those that dislike it, it's now separated from the forum somewhat. | ||
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ManaBlue
Canada10458 Posts
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semioldguy
United States7488 Posts
On June 08 2007 11:27 useless wrote: Now see, whats the deal with this? Some complain about blogs drawing away topics from the general forum, and others complain about bringing blogged topics into the forum. If you guys are gonna be pricks about it, at least have some real shit to back it up with. It was backed up by others previously in the thread, or some other thread, because who knows how many threads about the blogs there have been. There are a lot of shitty blogs that have no place being in the general forum and would just as soon get closed because of their retardedness. A lot of blog entries are pretty crappy, and we don't need to flood the general forum with these useless entires when someone decides to go on a blogging spree. | ||
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semioldguy
United States7488 Posts
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mdb
Bulgaria4059 Posts
The thing that makes this site so great is the forums and the discussions in them. Blogs take away from tha a lot. | ||
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36375 Posts
when the blog links are fixed and there's a way to track discussion on them it'll be easier to discuss stories and anecdotes on the person's blog Positives. 1. Is a dumping ground for all annoying threads complaining about people's lives that usually clutter up the General Forum. 2. Provides an outlet for people wishing to write who ordinarily wouldn't start a thread. #2 is a big deal imo. there are a lot of people writing things that they normally wouldn't if the blog feature did not exist. if you're not sure whether to make a thread and just want to write for 15 minutes and have a place to record it, blogs are great. they don't force anyone to read them. Negatives - Possible "taking away" of good threads from General. I just really don't think this happens. If a blog post is good enough the creator or a reader can just make a thread in the GF about it. there really are basically no negatives to blogs. to all those people saying they "take away discussion" from the GF, if blogs weren't there, the users wouldn't have created the threads anyway. so it's not really taking away anything, only adding another outlet for users to write. | ||
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mdb
Bulgaria4059 Posts
I didnt counted them all, but there are probably about 60-70 blogs made. Of them maybe 80% are made by regular poster, who wouldnt be afraid to start a thread. Besides the poll shows that majority of the users here dont like the blogs. | ||
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Cpt Obvious
Germany3073 Posts
As it is it is somewhat a side track and not really part of the page :/ | ||
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DeadVessel
United States6269 Posts
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thedeadhaji
39489 Posts
But overall, having the blogs section has undoubtedly been a strong motivator for many people to produce some quality entries that otherwise wouldn't have happened  | ||
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