In all honesty

March 12th 2010 at 00:04 // 24 comments

... I'm gonna make a entry with some updates, since I havent done that for a while - I simply havent had the time. First of all I've been high on the recruitments I've been doing, we in Envy was lucky to get 5 people from Conspiracy, who sadly faced a disband a few weeks ago. Most happy I was when Fav applied, a hunter I played with back in Celebrity a guy I appreciate a lot, both as player but also as person. My interview with Sco turned out to be better then I expected, so I'm already working on my 3th - I'll ofc not tell you with who!

It's not a secret to anyone, that I've been more and more inactive here on Dingblog, and I'll gladly tell you why. I love the new version of the site, I really do. The features are amazing, it amazing to write and edit your blogs compared to v2. But when thats sayd, I'll have to say I've been a little uncomprehending about the concept. If you look at the top of the site, it says; Gamers' Blog Engine - but when you're checking around most of them doesnt have anything to do with gaming, what so ever. I think writing about IRL makes a blog personal, same goes for pictures, videos etc. But is it just me, or is it hard to find the line where you're combining those 2 things, or am I just being a bitch (which I like to be, by the way) right now? It just changed SO much. Getting many hits means you have to either post pictures of yourself or write about sex, yay we love the internet! When thats sayd, I've actually been really happy, proud and grateful when I first saw what my dear warlock-fellow Manbane and now also my absolut FAVORIT writer - Dappercad, wrote about me; Thats the readers I'm aiming for having, rather have a few but then knowing that they actually read my blog, and that they actually like it for what it is.

"Stina is... was dingblog's blogger of the week last week, getting this almost embarrassingly gushing review from Manbane. Of course you might think it's just dingblog pimping dingblogers which would make it easy to dismiss. Ra Ra, aren't our bloggers awesome. Easy to dismiss if it wasn't for the fact that Stina's blog is so damn good. The thing that makes the blog good is that it's well written, contains a great deal of variety and is simply a fun place to go for a few minutes once in a while. Mixing humour with honesty, nights out on the town with boss progress Stina's writing paints a picture of a gamer with a sense of perspective and a hardcore attitude to raiding. "

I've always sayd; Write whatever you want, so I guess thats what I just did! And same goes to you - who's now feeling offended. Knock yourself out, do what makes you happy, fuck what other people says - inc. me!

/S

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Relent
March 12th 2010 at 00:13 - Quote - Report
I can just say that yours is the only WOW-related blog I actually read, or at least enjoy reading, despite it being about WOW. :)
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Maylin
March 12th 2010 at 00:23 - Quote - Report
I really like to read your blog. It's always very interesting and funny, even though it's about WoW ;-) I quit that game and so there's nothing to blog about games and quitting blogging, well that's really no fun ;-)
Keep blogging about WoW and I hope it stays as interesting as it is right now =)
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Ninquelen
March 12th 2010 at 02:25 - Quote - Report
Stina...
There might be a lot of people writing IRL stuff but the only one on this blogsite doing this: "post pictures of yourself or write about sex," is me. Penguin also writes about sex, but since he doesn't post pics of himself it is kind of easy to do the rest of the math.

So I did take that a bit personal, but as you said I won't get offended or make fuzz about it. I don't like too much to go bitching around either. On the other hand I do react a bit since you felt the need of dissing other people that are actually contributing to the DB community in a public post when you can easily talk to them and give feedback in other ways. But ofc, some of us likes to be a bitch, so I guess the difference lies there.


Another thing is that if you are unactive because all of us don't find it interesting to write about guild recruitment and wow related stuff it seems like you actually care about what other people do. In the end you are writing "for yourself" and if that is the case it shouldn't matter what other people around here wants to post.

When you are a featured blogger on top of that, it's a quite silly excuse not to help everyone else around here keep the site active. But that's just my opinion.

I usually love to read your posts.
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Stina
March 12th 2010 at 09:22 - Quote - Report
Ninq: We could easily go into some sort of discussion about it, but I can't see any reason for that, and I did not just write about you, so I'm sorry if you took it personaly. I'm doing all I can to read and comment on the blogs that I actually enjoy reading, and I love to read about other games as well, since I only play World of Warcraft, it helps to give other perspectives. I don't "care" what other people writes about, but you can't in any way force me into spam comments on blogs I dont enjoy reading, that's my point.

As I wrote in the end of my entry, blog whatever you feel for, and yes I'm featured blogger here, but why would I be active on posts that have absolutely nothing to do about gaming, when that's what is what the site was suppose to? But then again, if I can write this, you can go ahead and write what you want and we're back to same old.
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Marilyn
March 12th 2010 at 09:55 - Quote - Report
Hm. This made me abit angry which is good. All feelings created in your readers mind means that you have done your job as a blogger, whether it might be SEX, GAMING or any given topic you have written about.

The important thing here is to know that Dingblog is what you want it too be. People that sit back, write their stuff and wait for people to find their blog are deeply mistaken on the concept.

It's seems you actually blame DB for your lack of activity. It makes no sense...
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Manbane
March 12th 2010 at 12:29 - Quote - Report
I really dont see the issue here. DB as a gaming portal/engine in all honor. But the gamers dont just play game. There are so much more than gaming in a gamers life and it all mixes up to what the gaming person is. Like any other cultural identification you dont have to pound your identity on paper/text to justify it all the time. I do agree that I would like to see more gaming blogging around here and I do encourage ppl to blog about their ingame activity small or big events. But one make its blog as they wish to and the result should follow. My blog has fewer and fewer readers over the past time and I guess its because Im not that good at making posts atm as I used to be. Or others standard are so much better. Or I have lost abit of the gaming feeling lately.. who knows? But the motivation to blog must come from yourself and the tools for it is the portal itself. I find DB as a blogging tool totally awesome and it has attracted the right readers and that is what I believe makes it a great gaming portal.
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Awinee
March 12th 2010 at 13:43 - Quote - Report
I don't game! I swear. I totaly don't play 16 hours a day! IT's all a lie :(
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Teferi
March 12th 2010 at 14:10 - Quote - Report
Well said by Stina i guess, seeing the comment response so far...theres actually a comment discussion going on!
But when Marilyn said
" All feelings created in your readers mind means that you have done your job as a blogger, whether it might be SEX, GAMING or any given topic you have written about."
i realised that the strongest feeling created was when i read Ninquelen's comment and pictured a catfight with her and Stina... is that wrong? :/
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Anz
March 12th 2010 at 14:33 - Quote - Report
I usually dont make any comments, but I got to say that I actually agree with Stina, and I don't think you guys understand her point. I read it as her pointing out that people tend to use the site for getting the attention they dont get in real life, instead of the actual concept, which is the same reason why I don't read many blogs here anymore..

Its fun to read about random stuff sometimes, specialy Ninq's sex-blog, but it just get too much in the long run. So well pointed out!

^anz
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Ninquelen
March 12th 2010 at 15:00 - Quote - Report
You are wrong yes =) I'm not that into catfights.

I just felt slightly hit by the content (intentional or not) And I also reacted because of what seems to me as some sort of elitist attitude. My readers and comments, and the readers of everyone that arent able to "find the line where you're combining those 2 things"(wow and RL) aren't worth as much as Stina's readers because we write occational blogs about sex and post pictures of ourselves??

Lines like; "Thats the readers I'm aiming for having...etc." is quite offending to everyone here. Most of us do read and comment on a lot of different blogs that have nothing to do with wow. And that means that none of us "actually read the blogs and like them"?



Maybe it wasn't meant that way at all, but I felt like Stina presented herself as if she was writing some sort of award-winning blog with REAL content just because she has chosen her own style and "manages" to balance RL and wow. (I'm not saying that her blog isn't good, because it is GOOD)

So to answer Teferi: I'm absolutely not interested in any type of catfight, because I respect Stina as a player and a blogger. I do, however, feel like I have to say something when someone are expressing an attitude that I find condescending towards the work of other people that are writing blogs just as good or even better than hers. She might not like the topics, but that doesn't mean that she sits on the recipe for how a blog should be.

That for sure is a riddiculous reason for not being active and contributing on the site. And by that I don't mean (as Stina misunderstood me in the last comment) that you HAVE TO comment on everything. But blaming the boring topics of others for the lack of your own activity just doesn't make sense to me. At least not when she's contradicting herself by saying that we should be writing because we want to and not because others want to.

Sorry for an awfully long comment. Maybe I just misunderstood the whole thing and that Stina didn't mean things to be taken that way at all. I just want to explain why I understood things the way I did and got provoked.



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Echenor
March 12th 2010 at 15:45 - Quote - Report
I'm trying to blog both about irl and gaming (well not trying to - it has just got that way and in my opinion well balanced between the two). But the few comments I have got on my entries have mostly been in irl entries. And I think I know why. If you play Wow, you are interested in entries telling something new, right now that would mostly be Icecrown hardmodes. They don't want to read about how my guild just beat Dreamwalker encounter in ICC 10 normal mode because they have either done it themselves two months before me or don't care because it's nothing new. My first entries were about my Wow history. They were quite long, only comments in them are from my long-time Wow friend and Marilyn telling me to write shorter entries. No one wants to read really long entries about something as usual as raiding Karazhan and Mount Hyjal in TBC or rerolling a belf paladin in the beginning of TBC from someone they don't know yet.

So my point is: If you are known, your gaming entries will be read and enjoyed even if they are about doing a daily heroic (I'm mostly talking referencing my points in Wow, bare with me). If a nobody like me posts the same entry, no one will bother because it's nothing extraordinary. So real life entries might be a better way to get followers and after they know your style and nature, they will read those entries too they would have skipped before for finding them uninteresting. If your gaming topics are above the average, then they will be read even if it's your first entry.
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Stina
March 12th 2010 at 17:01 - Quote - Report
Ninq, "I love you" and just don't take what I'm saying so god damn serious! And I agree with most of you, maybe I was a little too harsh, but I wrote what was on my mind - and specialy this "headline" is something that I've been thinking A LOT about, which is the reason why I wrote about it, thats the idea about writing down stuff, right?

I - of all, knows about being "hanged" out, and I'm serious when I'm saying that I've seen and tried so many things over the last 5 years, that I hardly can come up with something that would make me really mad, and if it happens I also know how to deal with it, so I might just have been thinking like that - like me, without thinking about how you, or Marilyn (come on, what the fuck are you on about, btw), or a 3th person would feel, I hope you see what I mean.

And Tef, about that catfight, I still have blue knees from last weekend, so I might pass, even though its with Ninq!
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Teferi
March 12th 2010 at 19:29 - Quote - Report
You two girls misunderstood me completely.... that catfight wasnt a violent scene in my head, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.. ;)
But hey, stina went into the right direction with "Ninq, "I love you"" so keep the debate alive girls, youre doing great!
Now would be a perfect time for Ninq to tell Stina she loves her too, then its Kiss and make up -> http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1153/ghng1.jpg
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Echenor
March 12th 2010 at 19:38 - Quote - Report
Teferi: And then Marie accidentally walks into the room...?
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Ninquelen
March 12th 2010 at 20:00 - Quote - Report

Teferi: And then Marie accidentally walks into the room...?

Commented by Echenor on March 12th 2010 at 19:38

Nah, I don't make out with minors ;)
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Teferi
March 12th 2010 at 20:02 - Quote - Report
Oh cmon... do it for the audience...
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Dappercad
March 12th 2010 at 20:18 - Quote - Report
Online communities grow and change but in order to remain a community surely they need to share common interests? My own passion is gaming so personally :::personally::: I tend to stop reading the blogs that consistently don't contain stuff about games. I'm interested in who games and why and how and what, I'm also interested in the lives of people that game because they are people like me.

To be honest though I'm not sure it's something which is even possible to control. "Thou shalt blog about gaming" would likely be the quickest way to a dead dingblog. Perhaps dingblog will become something different over time, perhaps it must, perhaps there are too few gamers who want to blog. But, for me, that would be when I would stop visiting.
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Fav
March 13th 2010 at 03:11 - Quote - Report
I had thought about making a great post but then realised that it would not be to objective. Finally a decent debate on dingblog tho.
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Dappercad
March 13th 2010 at 05:05 - Quote - Report
Wait? What? Stina? Ninq? Kissing? Ass hat to gaming more of that.
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Penguin
March 14th 2010 at 16:39 - Quote - Report
Hmm i dont even feel its my place to write anything here... its a rather delicate issue and i feel more or less like an outsider but ill give a point of view in the matter.... i like all ur blogs, keep up the good work and may god bless you all with health and children in the future. May you be blessed so that when lying in ur dying beds many years from now, you can at least look back at the glorious times of Dingblog and think 'yes i accomplished something'.
May your names echo in eternity and your followers grow by the second in this holy crusade, may your footsteps carve in to the EARTH itself so that others may yet to follow when you have long passed. May his divine light shine upon you and forever grant you entrance in his garden of life.
I hereby declare this day as THE FREE DINGBLOGGERS DAY!

By the way i wish this to be considered as my 'blog of the week' since it was a rather long comment *Marilyn* =P
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Sofia
March 14th 2010 at 17:04 - Quote - Report
Might be a tad late of a reply, but anyway.

I happily see myself as one of the stalkers here on Dingblog. I have a hard time coming up with what to write, since most of the stuff I do IRL is simply too weird and boring to write about.

I have no idea about the views my own blog or other peoples blogs get, and I'm not the person really caring either.

However, if I'm gonna complain a little bit here too, I too, see that the amount of fun content on here is going a little bit downwards. Marilyn, I know you're busy with your other projects (I loved BellaTyrashow btw, keep the good work up!), but don't forget about Dingblog. The fun community contests, events and happenings going on here, made by both you and the most active and featured bloggers, what happened to them? It doesn't feel like the general idea of putting your heart and soul into this to make content that's new and not massproduced has slightly faded away. It feels like more and more of the bloggers are writing about too specific content, or something massproduced and extremely general (sex, drugs and parties). Some bloggers seem to be just massively attentionwhoring, you may count me into one of these when I actually write because most of me entries are shit and I don't game anymore.

BUT - I'd like to see the community of GAMERS coming back to dingblog, writing about their adventures in the GAMES they play, events they're going to and so on. Stina's wowblogging rules, Loda's dotablogging rules, Mudjai's aionblogging ruled. That and more community events to make the site feel less "forgotten" is something I'd like to see.


Sorry about the terrible amount of whine in this post, I know I'm not the rigiht person to blurt out stuff like this, but I figured I might aswell share it!

Take care ya'll!

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Alakina
March 14th 2010 at 17:41 - Quote - Report
Ohh i love your blog and i think its great people have opinions, I write about everything in my blogg, i dont have time for two bloggs so everything ends up on my dingblog instead, i have asked me if i should stop write about myself and only write about my gametime, but that wouldnt be me. I love to share very much with other pesons.
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Bennett
March 29th 2010 at 23:15 - Quote - Report
Love the argueing buwahah! love the blog stina. Bennett
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Vecz
April 7th 2010 at 12:13 - Quote - Report
nice work on the blog CH and by the looks of it you guys are doing a great job ingame aswell. keep going strong :P

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