Your blog was closed because it was one of the following: - Mistaken as your diary (ie no one else cares) - Not funny when intended to be - A copy / paste that isn't extremely funny - Going to generate zero discussion / helps no one - A request that was missing the majority of information to let people help you
All the above follow a common theme: they have zero thought put in. Stop posting everything that crosses your mind into a blog. Please!
extremely arbitrary and lame purge imo, i think your efforts could be put to better use than trying to tightly moderate a feature of TL that exists to be loosely moderated. take this purge crap to general, which has always been the shittiest and most uninteresting forum
A blog is mostly used for spilling your thoughts about stuff and that could definitely be things that happened to you. Blogs over at liquidpoker are almost always about how their day at poker went and it's definitely interesting for others to read while it is kind of diary-style.
"Going to generate zero discussion / helps no one"
Who cares, it's their blog. As far as I know when people don't care they don't read it/don't comment on it so whateverrr.
As much as I HATE blogs and wish they had never been implemented (what the hell are blogs doing on a starcraft site) I think this is impossible to moderate. You can't just lock blogs because you dislike them.
Edit: Seriously though, someone explain to me why blogs were added. I hear they were originally for blizzcon/etc but come on, what does hearing about someone's relationship problems add to the site? Is that why you come to teamliquid, to read this shit?
i agree with chill. these blogs suck. blogs should be moderated for the quality of their content. the great freedom of blogs concerns the topics that they can cover, not the effort allowed.
one of these guys with a closed blog post would make this blog for mani:
hi there was a big sale today. when big sales happen i guess people go crazy and they get violent and stuff. i had it all planned out so i just ran in and got my stuff and ran out cuz im awesome. i saved like 12 bucks. share your shopping stories in this blog!
there are many examples of how you can make any topic amazing or any topic horrible. i dont see what's wrong with having moderators get rid of the horrible. as a reader, i appreciate it
as a blogger, if you feel the topic isn't important enough to spend time putting effort into the blog, then don't blog. if it's worth the effort, then give it the effort. if you're posting something inherently low effort, like a copy/paste, you better know your audience damn well. low post count users doing that shit have a very low success rate.
I have to agree with Twisted and company. I don't blog, but if I did I probably wouldn't do it to impress people and I wouldn't have an obligation to make anybody laugh. If I blogged I would probably post stuff that needed to be said but nobody ever says it. e.g. Michelle Rodriguez is a terrible actress and is always typecast as a stuck up tough girl, or nectarines should be more popular than peaches because they taste similar and don't have fuzz on them. From my understanding, for a lot of people blogging is supposed to be some kind of escape or release after a day of work or school, it's not supposed to be homework. This is probably the most heavily moderated site I know of. People need at least some space to express their thoughts without having everything they say scrutinized.
stick with the original mandate of the blog section, so what meat wrote in that quote. the whole reason blogs were created and separated from the general forum is so that people can write random shit and not have to worry about getting their shit closed or getting temp banned for 2 days (wtf?)
It needs some form of moderation. Too many retards posting several blogs a day/week about the same bullshit. That's annoying as hell. And fucking emo shit about girls, jeeeeeesus
if blogs are going to be moderated even close to the extent that the OP mentions then theres no point of having a blog section and you might as well shut down it down and have everyone to post in general instead
the difference between general and blogs is that blogs is for personal things or things directly related to your life and general is impersonal. there are a few exceptions here and there, but that's the gist of it. this whole "blogs is for bad posts" is ridiculous. it's understandable if there is one section of the forum that is basically unmoderated, and that happens to blogs, but that's unrelated to the purpose of a blog section.
as usual, my philosophy always leans toward the purpose of a forum being user-generated content, not a place for users to screw around. and thus the purpose of moderation is to guide the user-generated content in the right direction. pruning bullshit horrible posts is a fundamental part of that. it's understandable if they set aside blogs as unmoderated, but if chill is volunteering to mod it, because he sees the potential in great blogs (and how can you not if you've read tl.net's good blogs), then it's silly to stop him
On September 10 2008 01:59 NonY[rC] wrote: the difference between general and blogs is that blogs is for personal things or things directly related to your life and general is impersonal. there are a few exceptions here and there, but that's the gist of it. this whole "blogs is for bad posts" is ridiculous. it's understandable if there is one section of the forum that is basically unmoderated, and that happens to blogs, but that's unrelated to the purpose of a blog section.
as usual, my philosophy always leans toward the purpose of a forum being user-generated content, not a place for users to screw around. and thus the purpose of moderation is to guide the user-generated content in the right direction. pruning bullshit horrible posts is a fundamental part of that. it's understandable if they set aside blogs as unmoderated, but if chill is volunteering to mod it, because he sees the potential in great blogs (and how can you not if you've read tl.net's good blogs), then it's silly to stop him
On September 10 2008 01:59 NonY[rC] wrote: the difference between general and blogs is that blogs is for personal things or things directly related to your life and general is impersonal. there are a few exceptions here and there, but that's the gist of it. this whole "blogs is for bad posts" is ridiculous. it's understandable if there is one section of the forum that is basically unmoderated, and that happens to blogs, but that's unrelated to the purpose of a blog section.
as usual, my philosophy always leans toward the purpose of a forum being user-generated content, not a place for users to screw around. and thus the purpose of moderation is to guide the user-generated content in the right direction. pruning bullshit horrible posts is a fundamental part of that. it's understandable if they set aside blogs as unmoderated, but if chill is volunteering to mod it, because he sees the potential in great blogs (and how can you not if you've read tl.net's good blogs), then it's silly to stop him
Mainly agreeing with this.
Seconded, when do we bring out the pitchforks and torches?
On September 10 2008 05:53 CharlieMurphy wrote: imo Blogs should only be a resource for static informations. No random crap here and there, that is what general is for.
If the person puts a personal effort into the blog who gives a shit if no one reads it? I agree 2 line spills that are personally useless to the blogger should be closed.
The unmoderated blog section is really interesting. All the retarded entries, the stupid shit, the girl threads, and the occasional good ones put together almost seems like a really weird artform. If some large statue of a super saiyan blowing his load everywhere can pass as art, the teamliquid blog section should also be considered as such and be protected.
I mean it's hard to find where to draw the line. What's stupid shit to one person could be very entertaining, or maybe even informative to someone else. But if you start taking out all the 'bad' blogs, people won't really know if they should post anymore. The people that make good blogs will continue regardless of whether there are shitty ones around them or not.
Blogs shouldn't be only for the occasional 'i love teamliquid moment' like the rayolacrayola blog or the rpf facebook thing. You can't expect every blog to be either a good one like manifesto's or one of the funny retarded ones. And if they were, we'd get tired of them. We definetly appreciate them more with all the crappier ones around.
So if you want to moderate the blog section heavilly, try to do it with style or some kind of humor. And don't put the closed blogs at that alternate universe where noone can see them, let the trophies gather in the closed section.
it required little effort to find and post the picture, yet it could generate a fair amount of discussion and debate. why articulate something when a picture (thousand words, etc) can do the same for you?
On September 13 2008 12:32 micronesia wrote: Pick someone you hate and give them powers in the blogs section and tell them they have to do a good job moderating or else.
There are other strategies for cleaning up the blogs section that will be more effective in the long run, but they require more effort.
You'd also have to give some form of incentive as well for doing an amazing job. But it could be done, look at how well the sc2 forum and strat have been cleared compared to what they used to be like
Give me blog moderation powers and I'll turn it into a gentleman like in that movie or something that got parodied by a million things like the simpsons where lisa teaches groundskeeper willy to be super sophisticated.
I've never seen that episode what else is it parodied in can you tell me anyways you really need to use some commas or something but back to my main point that sounds like a kickass movie and a gentleman forum would be cool we could be just like that movie with sean connory not indiana jones but the other one
It's also in that episode of familly guy where stewie bets with brian that he can teach the english girl how to talk correctly and there's that scene where he's trying to make her say a tongue twister and she keeps failling then she gets it and they burst into a cheesy lame song.
So yeah I'll do that with the blog section, with the song and everything.