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This is delusi0nal from the SpiffingBroadcast (youtube) Or you know, my channel Phoelinaeen (my friends and I) that is a part of the SpiffingBroadcast.
Anyways I'm here to discuss the topic of...
Good blogs are becoming extinct!!!
Instead of full out PANIC I will list some reasons below:
1. Generalization
People that don't blog recieve negative infomation from the community that blogging is just about rants and rage.
And they refuse to believe otherwise. (Mostly because most of the blog section is, in fact, rage.)
2. Uncreativity
I know you guys are saying that:
"OMG but u r doing it right now!"
Or for the more mature:
"I must ask, but aren't you doing what you say is 'uncreativity'?"
I must explain before the needless rage/troll is going to flood my notification bar.
When I mean uncreativity is when you either copied someones blog entirely or you reworded it slightly.
Also when you put no effort at all into the topic.
Like for example you make a blog about teen skins and you put down in it:
"Teen skins suck bra!! Remove that ****"
compared to:
"I believe that teen skins are overused and should be not as an important goal in skinning.
Through basic research I have seen that over____% people make teen skins over other skins.. This shows that at least ___% of skinners in this community are creating teen skins. What's more horrifying is that some of these skinners are people who go onto other sites to steal the skin and post it on here for exp farms. I humbly believe that any skinners reading this that make teen skins should switch to other topics as teen skins are now just a source of rage. But as I say, that's just my opinion. Do what you think is best."
You can tell which one will be accepted more, ya?
(And the one that has more effort and thought put into it.
When you see a well put out blog that has large amount of effort on it throw a diamond at it's creator.
3. Lack of support
Ever since the new era of skinning and other magigs on the PlanetMinecraft forums, less and less people see the need to go to blogs as a source to level up. There for many of the talented bloggers have left to do other things besides blogging. 'hence the fact that we don't have as many blogging contests then building/skinning contests'.
Sometimes I strike lucky with my blogs, but to no avail it is only a fraction of what most popular skinners get.
Don't even forget that because of that less of a swarm of people going to blogs is also meaning creators usually get less support.
Not to mention you only need 3 diamonds and some views to get into the pop reel. (in a short time)
I encourage you rare talented bloggers to make more blogs on tutorials on how to blog.
(In which I will link some for the non-bloggers out there)
http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/mgbs-guide-to-blogging/
4. No quality (or rarely)
Another problem in the blogging community on PlanetMinecraft is that people who blog usually have no care for quality.
I may have some grammar mistakes on here that I don't realize right now, but when I mean bad... I MEAN BAD!
This ties into the 'lack of support' topic above about how bloggers are getting less and less support. Since people view that there are less to gain, people are putting less effort. Worse of all, people just put down the daily rage just so people that are angry also will erupt. (And diamond it)
It's like throwing diamonds in lava.
It's not worth it unless your being a show off or you think throwing diamonds in lava is worth it.
I'm not kidding.
I'm toats serious.
Don't do it.
Anyways, if you have even more reasons that I have not seen too, please inform me in the comments below.
Also I drew that thumbnail yesterday.
Yay.
Anyways I'm here to discuss the topic of...
Good blogs are becoming extinct!!!
Instead of full out PANIC I will list some reasons below:
1. Generalization
People that don't blog recieve negative infomation from the community that blogging is just about rants and rage.
And they refuse to believe otherwise. (Mostly because most of the blog section is, in fact, rage.)
2. Uncreativity
I know you guys are saying that:
"OMG but u r doing it right now!"
Or for the more mature:
"I must ask, but aren't you doing what you say is 'uncreativity'?"
I must explain before the needless rage/troll is going to flood my notification bar.
When I mean uncreativity is when you either copied someones blog entirely or you reworded it slightly.
Also when you put no effort at all into the topic.
Like for example you make a blog about teen skins and you put down in it:
"Teen skins suck bra!! Remove that ****"
compared to:
"I believe that teen skins are overused and should be not as an important goal in skinning.
Through basic research I have seen that over____% people make teen skins over other skins.. This shows that at least ___% of skinners in this community are creating teen skins. What's more horrifying is that some of these skinners are people who go onto other sites to steal the skin and post it on here for exp farms. I humbly believe that any skinners reading this that make teen skins should switch to other topics as teen skins are now just a source of rage. But as I say, that's just my opinion. Do what you think is best."
You can tell which one will be accepted more, ya?
(And the one that has more effort and thought put into it.
When you see a well put out blog that has large amount of effort on it throw a diamond at it's creator.
3. Lack of support
Ever since the new era of skinning and other magigs on the PlanetMinecraft forums, less and less people see the need to go to blogs as a source to level up. There for many of the talented bloggers have left to do other things besides blogging. 'hence the fact that we don't have as many blogging contests then building/skinning contests'.
Sometimes I strike lucky with my blogs, but to no avail it is only a fraction of what most popular skinners get.
Don't even forget that because of that less of a swarm of people going to blogs is also meaning creators usually get less support.
Not to mention you only need 3 diamonds and some views to get into the pop reel. (in a short time)
I encourage you rare talented bloggers to make more blogs on tutorials on how to blog.
(In which I will link some for the non-bloggers out there)
http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/mgbs-guide-to-blogging/
4. No quality (or rarely)
Another problem in the blogging community on PlanetMinecraft is that people who blog usually have no care for quality.
I may have some grammar mistakes on here that I don't realize right now, but when I mean bad... I MEAN BAD!
This ties into the 'lack of support' topic above about how bloggers are getting less and less support. Since people view that there are less to gain, people are putting less effort. Worse of all, people just put down the daily rage just so people that are angry also will erupt. (And diamond it)
It's like throwing diamonds in lava.
It's not worth it unless your being a show off or you think throwing diamonds in lava is worth it.
I'm not kidding.
I'm toats serious.
Don't do it.
Anyways, if you have even more reasons that I have not seen too, please inform me in the comments below.
Also I drew that thumbnail yesterday.
Yay.
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There will always be more bad bloggers than good because a good blog takes more time. It's fast, cheap, & easy to produce something that isn't very good.
Right now, there are" no good blogs" simply because there is a blogging contest and the site is flooded with stories. The "good" bloggers are likely entering, so they have no time to blog outside of that, or they are waiting until the "storm" is over so that they can actually post something and it will get on the popreel for more than thirty seconds before being drowned out by a picture of Steve.
With regards to this post in general, I think that it fails to realize that it is making the mistakes it critiques--and that cuts down on its credibility. Even if you say, "I'm not a good blogger, but I still have an opinion on blogging and what makes it bad..." you are devaluing your argument because then you cannot point the finger at fellow bad bloggers. You have to point it at yourself and do something about your own bad blogging habits first.
Some signs that this blog could be improved:
-The formatting is random/inconsistent and it's hard to follow the post overall.
-There are a lot of typos in grammar and spelling.
-The post overgeneralizes to say that there is some "crisis" we must band together to stop (a clickbait tactic used by weaker bloggers), but only gives a few reasons that aren't sketched into greater depth.
-A lot of the comments are longer than the post itself, disagree with the post, and often come with the author telling people off for having an opinion.
I don't mean to insult.
Your voice is strong and you definitely thought about this topic and put effort into it. However, these things that I have mentioned are signs that this article still needs a lot of work. Listen to what everyone says about it before you try to defensively tell them off and then learn nothing from what they've said. Remember that you are not your blog post and that everyone writes good and bad stuff. Feedback--especially the feedback we don't want to hear--is often what we need to improve.
I used to be a moderator for something else--but not anymore. I'm glad that you think I contribute positively to the community.