Game DameAs Mysteriously as it Appeared…
…my WoW graphics problem on the PC is now gone.
Don’t ask me why. I got nuthin’.
Things About Bloggers That Piss Me Off
(1) Censored comments. I want to say for the record that if you are a blogger and you bother to allow comments on your site, but you feel the need to moderate (or rather, censor) every single non-spam comment on your blog then you should just disable comments altogether. Don’t even pretend to have a conversation, just go ahead and preach to your readers. It would be more honest than selectively allowing some points of view but not others.
(2) People who don’t participate in a process and yet feel they are justified in criticizing whatever they opted out of being a part of. If you don’t vote in an election, keep your pie-hole shut about the outcome of it. If you don’t add your ideas or your leadership to a situation, shut the **** up about how it’s being run.
(3) Calling someone a troll because they don’t bow down to your point of view. Throwing around the world troll is the internet version of calling someone a Nazi. Yes, trolls do exist, but witch-hunting on your comments and branding everyone who doesn’t agree with you a “troll” does not, in fact, make that person a troll. (See #1 above.)
(4) Internet flame wars. Why is everything on the internet reduced to name-calling? Why can’t we have a civil, intelligent conversation and if no one is persuaded by the other, we shake hands with respect and move on?
(5) People who think that pretending to have an intelligent conversation (using good grammar, of course) can cover up their passive-aggressive, self-centered, neurotic personalities. Yes, there are a ton of idiots out there using internet slang and improperly swapping it’s for its and their for they’re. But just because you paid attention in 7-grade English class does not mean that you are an evolved human being. You can still be a jerk. To conjugate for you: you have been a jerk, will be a jerk, will have been a jerk.
(6) People who want their readers to donate via PayPal to their personal blogs. I may care about what you say. I may want to keep up with your life. But why in heavens name would I pay for that content? Hell, I don’t even pay to read the New York Times content! It’s like asking your gramma to pay for the letters you write to her. And let’s be honest: I wouldn’t even pay to read my own content. Get over yourselves and face this fact: none of us are going to make a living blogging. We’re not even going to make chump-change blogging, okay?
If you read yourself into any of the points above, enjoy!
Oh, and comment.
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((People who want their readers to donate via PayPal to their personal blogs.))
Cause I’m a poor jobless student who’s apparently not good enough to get a part time job anywhere.
I run on beer. ^^
“(5) People who think that pretending to have an intelligent conversation (using good grammar, of course) can cover up their passive-aggressive, self-centered, neurotic personalities. “—
I know I have a very bad passive-aggressive nature, and I am self-centered a lot of the time, I try to keep my online persona relatively honest to my real personality, but sometimes I have to “pretend” to be kind of nice…I totally get what you are saying and I have to agree with you on everything…especially the donate to my blog deal…yeah right…heh
Agree with just about everything above. I am of the belief that, while I’m happy to let any comments *through* on my blog, I reserve the right to delete ones that are inflammatory or contribute nothing to the discussion. I haven’t had to do that yet, but just as I reserve the right to protect my readers from gold spam, I also have the right to protect them from asshabberdashery.
Also, self-hosting a blog costs $130 a year. While I’m not a poor college student like Matticus, I don’t see any problem with letting people help cover to the hosting costs — if they want to!
Obviously someone else is having problems with the BA forums because I haven’t moderated anyone’s comments.
Re: Moderation on BA forums
The only thing that’s been deleted from BA has been a post mistaken to be selling gold, and the author received an apology.
@Phaelia: I hope you didn’t misunderstand. I wasn’t talking about censorship on the BA forums. I was talking about posting a comment to a regular blog (the graphic linked in the post). And yes, if someone’s just being an ass on purpose, I would delete them too. I’m talking more about some other sites I’ve seen — for example, seeing a person get ridden out of town on a rail because when the poster asked the question “Am I being callous?” a commenter said, “Actually, you are.” Discussion on the topic was deleted, the commenter was denounced as a troll, and the poster even went so far as to edit their post to defend themselves for being callous. (All happened outside the Azeroth blogosphere.) As for self-hosting, I have to disagree with you there. People who self-host opt to do so willingly, knowing how much it costs.
@Behemoth-Dan: Yes you did: mine.
@sean: Very funny reply and bonus points for being self-aware! (Note that my comment wasn’t directed at you, though. It’s all good.)
Every comment that has been made has been published. If there was a delay, its because it was turned on by mistake. Feel free to post all you want. Go check your comment. It’s been there since a couple hours after you posted it when I noticed Moderation was turned on. So perhaps you might want to double-check before you make allegations like that. I have no need or reason to stop people from posting whatever they want.
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you are right, nice article. sadly, the WoW official forums are a place of flame, offtopic comments and spam. i would like to get 1$ for every post that said only “gg! nice1″, “gief cookies” or “i like pie”. i also hate on the internet the people that write comments with curse words and insults when they don`t even know the person, i got 2 or 3 of those on my blog and deleted them and wondered what the hell do people think when they do this.
Unfortunately, many people who don’t know the difference between it’s and its feel that people who do know the difference are effete, passive-aggressive, self-centered neurotics. It’s not that hard to communicate clearly. And, given that there are approximately four billion WoW blogs, it’s easy to stop visiting those that can’t be bothered to spell.
As to #1, I do moderate comments on my blog on law office technology: lawtech.wordpress.com. This is not only to keep out spam, but to keep down on comments that do not offer fact or opinion that would be of interest to my readership (whether those facts or opinions agree with mine or not), but merely give vent to the commenter. I disapproved one that was nothing more than a rant against Microsoft, while another was just a blatant attempt to drive traffic to his site through a link. As a lawyer, I also have to be careful about information posted on my site, as I could be held liable in certain instances.
I have approved comments that have completely deconstructed my opinions. One went through and pointed out all the “fatal flaws” in my post; another said he disagreed and posted a link to a post on his blog that systematically took apart my post. I think you can moderate comments fairly and still provide an open forum for discussion in the blogosphere. Many commenters to my blog posts have made good points, and I try to admit when I am wrong.
I also agree with you on #3; not everyone that disagrees with you is a troll; I find that that term fits best those that vehemently disagree with any comment contrary to their opinion and argue it beyond logic and reason.
That said, do you think you will go back to playing WoW on your PC, or keep to the high def graphics of your Mac?
@Steven: I will probably stay with the Mac. Having to share that computer with my husband keeps me from letting WoW overrun my life. Plus, I guess I just don’t trust what’s going on with the PC. I have a feeling it will burn out my card eventually.
My wife and I are in the opposite position. We have our own computers, each with a WoW account, so I know what you mean about WoW overrunning our lives.
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