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Blog blasphemy! (site poll, sorta)

March 3rd 2003, 01:56 PM
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WC
Peasant He/Him United States
Destroying noobs since 1999. 
Looking at the blogs* there seems to be alot of crap in these blogs* and aren't used for what they are supposed to be for. But looking there seems to be quite a few that prove to be absolutly worthless. Even though the blogs* are not touched by staff (unless something is seriously wrong with it), should there be some type of administration on them? Now, I like the web logs quite a bit, and granted that only about 5% of them are trash (and mostly from the same people over and over again), but are they even useful? Should they be trashed? Make a statement if you have a opinion.

*Blogs - Web Logs for all dink network registered member in which the members can write on topic of their choice (person development, or off-topic). WebLogs are no monitored by the dink network staff and are considered personal property. Weblogs will only be modified by the staff if they break any major rules or compromise the integrity of the site.
March 3rd 2003, 02:19 PM
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Well, if they really are weblogs, and you offer the option for them to be off topic and personal, I don't see why they can't be random crap people type. I think a better solution than moderating them would be to give each person *a* weblog that they can update... kind of like a livejournal dealy where it's just one page, not a bunch of different pages. And maybe give them two, one for personal/off-topic and one for development. I don't know how clear that was, but yeah.
March 3rd 2003, 02:34 PM
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They should be trashed immediately. (or put aside)

But than again : there will be dudes who like those 'wasted' blogs, dudes who look at them all evening, stare at them all day and those dudes can finally conclude, they are not the only ones, living a useless life...
whatever, those dudes are sick,

trash those blogs, save the community !
March 3rd 2003, 03:01 PM
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I don't think they're really damaging the community... The Dink Network isn't gonna go under because a couple people say "I get to go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight!"

And as long as it's categorized as "off-topic" or "personal", then there shouldn't really be an issue at all. Eh. See previous post. I'm not typing all that again.
March 3rd 2003, 03:02 PM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Something like that will be done in the near future.
March 3rd 2003, 03:58 PM
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Procedure:

1. Trash the crap blogs.
2. An all of the blogs.
3. And then this message.
4. And then all of the messages.
5. And then we'll all get trashed.

Dear GOD life would be good if it were as simple and methodical as that. Like 2nd grade arithmitic. In order to simplify it, delete all the blogs, or change it as part of the board or something. All I see in blogs are things you type up like a message board post that nobody else can respond to. As if you want everybody to know about you, but want to opinions on it. Or you do it to burn up some spare time on your hands, perhaps. But my opinion is flawed though, as I seem to be the only person(yes a hypocritic person) who doesn't get it. Okay, that's my opinion. Kill me now.
March 3rd 2003, 05:55 PM
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Chrispy
Peasant He/Him Canada
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to.I guess. 
Gladly.
March 4th 2003, 04:27 AM
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Noa
Peasant They/Them
 
Well, I have a hard time getting the general idea of blogs either... but what Alli here said seems like a good idea, one blog page for each.
Maybe dinkers will even start refering to it as a journal and start writing some tearful, heart breaking entries