we really need a site like http://dellideastorm.com/ dedicated to blogging and to form a code of ethics out of it… that way we’re all on a level playing surface with the same rules

I’ll quite often review a site without payment and rarely will i attack any site or blogger without very good reason – it doesn’t benefit anyone only the site you’re blogging about unless of course it’s linkbait tactics designed to provoke a reaction… had you not posted about chris brogan, i would never have found his blog.

I agree with all his points bar 3 and 4. Regarding twitter/stumbling/digging etc… your own work i see nothing wrong with it provided you’re an active member there – active meaning you use the site on a daily basis.

I rely on twitter auto posts to read many blogs as my RSS reader is crammed full with stuff that gets burried. If i get a shout on digg i might check it out if i happen to be on the site… i don’t mind that… it’s not as if anyone is selling anything to me or begging.

Yeah there’s clowns who take it to the extreme, sign up with multiple accounts on different networks and just spam the hell out of everyone but they’re found out eventually. When they are, that’s what the unsubscribe or ‘x’ buttons are for.

gotta love the way you encourage debate and comments then try to chop them down with a one liner – the irish way of doing things

Found any fag butts on the street you can get an extra toke or two from?

But there’s a huge difference between that and leaving a comment on someone’s blog. Even if it is spam-type comment designed just to gain traffic, how does the owner know that? You can’t tell what someone is thinking when they write comment… for all you know this comment could be automated or i could have copied pasted it from another blog or something…

Does the owner just lock down comments all together?

Also, have to disagree on the whole ‘making money from a blog is evil’ thing. If a blogger writes solely for cash or gives up when they learn they can’t make money overnight – that’s a problem… that’s not good… that’s not a real blogger.

But if you have people who will blog regardless of whether they make money or not – you can’t put them in the same bracket.

Blogs are not all just personal diaries – those days are long dead. In some cases, they are full time jobs and successful businesses and it’s a bit like kids and footballers – they all want to be footballers because they see the glamour, hype and money flying about. 99% won’t make it – but you don’t tell them they’re shite or they’ll never make it or what they’re doing is stupid etc…

You could destroy the confidence and dreams of one gem of a kid who had the potential to make it big but because of bullying or people telling them they’d get nowhere they end up nowhere.

some people just have to accept their blog sucks (i have personally crossed that rubicon and am a happier blogger for it) or that it will only ever have a niche readership.

People (most of em’) are not morons and they know when they are being marketed too which kind of defeats a large portion of what blogging is about.

agree with MJ, people need edumacation

Look what I just had to look up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette just in cases Thought I would share the link with anyone else who cares to edumacate themselves.

*shakes ever so slightly in the corner in case she’s been getting anything wrong…*