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Disregarding Taste: A Weekly Blog About Blogs (Maybe...Who Knows)

So, taste is such a subjective thing. So when I ask for your support, trust and faith in me in this endeavor... I mean it.
 
I'm thinking that if you guys PM me your blogs, blogs which you feel convey your thoughts on a particular subject well and thougt out in a rational way (no typos), I could do a blog promoting them (as many as I see fit) and maybe so many of them wouldn't have to be linked to the forums (we'll see). 
 
It does not have to be about games, but make sure you feel that it is a good, solid blog or that it is your best work. Another idea, I've been tossing around in my head is that i'll have a weekly subject that you guys can blog about, along with a milieu of blogs on other topics like videogames (predominantly) along with music, movies, books, horseback riding, whatever. For instance, on the week of 9/9/09, I might ask you guys to blog about topics like what The Beatles have meant to you over the years or the Dreamcast (considering that it is the 10-year anniversary).
 
I aim to try and make it work, but then again I'm 90% sure it won't work (anybody remember Yesteryear? no?) without a ton of support. Can I rely on you guys or is this stupid?????

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So, taste is such a subjective thing. So when I ask for your support, trust and faith in me in this endeavor... I mean it.
 
I'm thinking that if you guys PM me your blogs, blogs which you feel convey your thoughts on a particular subject well and thougt out in a rational way (no typos), I could do a blog promoting them (as many as I see fit) and maybe so many of them wouldn't have to be linked to the forums (we'll see). 
 
It does not have to be about games, but make sure you feel that it is a good, solid blog or that it is your best work. Another idea, I've been tossing around in my head is that i'll have a weekly subject that you guys can blog about, along with a milieu of blogs on other topics like videogames (predominantly) along with music, movies, books, horseback riding, whatever. For instance, on the week of 9/9/09, I might ask you guys to blog about topics like what The Beatles have meant to you over the years or the Dreamcast (considering that it is the 10-year anniversary).
 
I aim to try and make it work, but then again I'm 90% sure it won't work (anybody remember Yesteryear? no?) without a ton of support. Can I rely on you guys or is this stupid?????

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If you don't like to see "so many" blogs on the forums, click on that little rainbow icon and turn blog view off.

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@MB said:
" If you don't like to see "so many" blogs on the forums, click on that little rainbow icon and turn blog view off. "
That's not the issue, I'm just saying that maybe it won't be necessary to continue to do so if somebody (maybe me) makes this work. I don't have a problem with them being attached. Seriously though, is this stupid? It's midnight, I've drunk two cups of coffee in the last three hours, music's blaring, and I'm going off on a crazy tangential idea like this (ask my family, I always do shit like this, a little bit of OCD maybe). I just wanna get your feedback, because it may not be feasible and it may not be my place to do so. What do you think??
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Attaching blogs to the forums is a feature that allows users to expose their blogs to more readers. Not doing so and only featuring them in your own blog (which presumably would be attached to the forums) would be counterproductive.
 
You can blog about others' blogs if you wish, but it should not be in lieu of them attaching their own stuff to the boards.

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OK, then forget that idea. That sentence was just something i added out of random. I'm asking you about the core idea of me doing a blog promoting blogs. You're a mod, shoot me down right now if it's stupid. I'm not entirely sure if it isn't, but I'm certainly hoping for the best.

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Will you have a feature for regular bloggers? And why am I reminded of the Book of the Month Club thing for video games that kinda fizzled a while back.

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@ververdan0226: 
 
My blogs are only entertaining BECAUSE they're so random. Why change a good thing?
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@Video_Game_King: I always go off on crazy ideas like this, I get attached to ideas in real life (or on the Internet) and usually pursue them in a vapid manner like this. It's part of my personality to get an idea in my head and go bat-shit crazy because that's just what I do. You're reminded of that thing becasue it was another one of my crazy, stupid and wishful ideas that fizzled out. I expect this will as well, but I'm trying. Fuck, I'll probably regret this in the morning when I'm not sleep-deprived or hyped-up on caffeine.
 
Now, regarding your question, what do you mean by a feature for regular bloggers??
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@ververdan0226: 
 
You know, people who regularly blog, like me or Dalai. It'd help if either of us had regular names for our blogs, but the point is a reward for people who spend a lot of time maintaining a decent quality blog.
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@Video_Game_King said:
" @ververdan0226:   You know, people who regularly blog, like me or Dalai. It'd help if either of us had regular names for our blogs, but the point is a reward for people who spend a lot of time maintaining a decent quality blog. "
Yes, along with good blogs of the week, the feature would (theoretically) contain a sub-header involving what's going on with our regular bloggers (by which I mean at least once-a-weekers). 
 
Help me out people! Read this post, I'm trying...
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@ververdan0226: 
 
I'd suggest one of my blogs, but I'm still postponing it by a day or two.
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@Video_Game_King: Just like my "Game of the Month Club" idea, I feel like I'm not gonna get enough people to read the post and commit. Spread the word (maybe by blog ironically!).
 
Please, spread the word. I really want to make this work. :)
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@ververdan0226: 
 
Eh, that'd feel kinda weird, but I will bump this thread if necessary, but only within reasonable limits.
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@ververdan0226: 
   
I am just going to come out and say it, You are talking about a Gamespot style Soapbox feature aren’t you, I like the Idea, (If done properly)
I do not frequent the site anymore, 1 out of principle and 2 Because my main reason for me being there has gone, (To here, and Harmonix) 
But I still get the weekly and daily Newsletters, With the little segment in the Bottom right hand corner devoted to The soapbox, If the Title interests me I click it because it is the community, I still remember when, Liquid Snake and also a few other Bloggers used to post Blogs and it showed up, It was a really neat feature,  
 
What could happen is, as well as friend blogs have a little dialogue box on the home page, Or on your user page,(wall) and call it, Something, But it would need someone who is not biased, Not Staff or Mods as they are busy but someone willing to put in a lot of time and effort into it, Also the community would have to get into it, Start chatting to the staff about it VVdan, and I will make a thread asking Yay, or Nay. 
 
I hope that, If this does go through, it wont fizzle out like Bomb Drop.    
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Shameless bump...