Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:18:46 +0100, clipka wrote:

> > Well, I think Invisible can still claim to be our chief blogger

> Sure, but Warp used to give Invis a lot of grief for using these groups 
> for blogging - and even suggested Invis create a blog (which he did).  
> Warp doesn't (to my knowledge) have one, but continues to post blog-like 
> entries here.

> I couldn't resist poking a little fun at him for that. ;-)

  While I don't deny the "bloginess" of my post, I still think that there
are posts which are more "bloggish" than others. It's largely related to
how much the post is about your personal life vs. how much it is about hobbies
which may probably be shared by the community here. Or how much it's about
expressing an opinion vs. how much it's about just a piece of text more akin
to a diary entry.

  For example, if you make a post along the lines of "hey, check this cool
website I found", that's something which many people here might find
interesting because we can assume that most people here surf the internet
for cool websites as somewhat of a hobby of them. Likewise if you post an
opinion like "I hate websites that do thing X", it might start wandering
more towards "bloggishness", but could still start an interesting discussion
about the subject.

  Letting some steam off in a friendly environment is also ok (as long as
you don't do it too often).

  However, if you make a post along the lines of "so I was at work today and
saw a couple of women talking about blaa blaa blaa (continue for about 200
lines)", *that's* a blog post if any. More like a personal diary entry.

  If it's an interesting anecdote, then there's nothing wrong about it.
However, if it's just a personal diary entry which may be just midly
interesting to perhaps a few people, and you keep making such posts
regularly (or if I put it in harsher terms, if you start being outright
boring with your regular lengthy posts), then that's when, in my opinion,
you are going over the line.

  Just my opinion.

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                                                          - Warp

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