blogging = social ?
I got this great question asked to me Saturday.
“if you are against socials, why do you blog? since blogging is sociall?”
Now this is true blogging, or at least blogging for your readers = social. But there is more to blogging, or at least my blogging.
There is a quite simple explanation that is important enough for me to write about:
If I blog, and I have about 1000 readers a day. (250 over feed, 750 visiting the site) that are a possible 1000 people that will shed from the social and leeching life. with every post I write, I have a chance to make the group of sheep (M&S) smaller. which that I’m actually not paying for them anymore.
To make my ramble a bit clear, I blog to stop the social, sheepish and M&S movement. I blog so “Goblins” can make gold over the sheep’s back. I blog in the hope that somebody, anybody, sees the error in their non-employed life. etc etc.
Seth, leeching the sheeps since 1988.
Don’t let the Sheep cost you, make money on them! Shed your sheepskin and join the Wolfpack of Goblins, read One-copper.com!
omg… I’m really going to stop here, Fever ain’t good for writing.
grtz
Seth
A fortune starts with one copper!
Why is “social” so unacceptable? People are social, we play a game that requires socialising (although the degree is up to the individual). Gevlon seems to have started a trend of sneering at those he perceives to be lesser beings and much of the gold-making community is following suit. I have to ask who are the sheep here!
My WoW ain’t social, yes I raid but that’s not a social thing. I do the raid in a group because we NEED each other to be able to do it. We act professional, yes laughs are there, but in the end when the sh1t matters… We act and are professional.
The “goldmaking game” is pure solo, you can’t split markets, if you try somebody will lose… that’s why “social” is unacceptable…
I understand that gold-making isn’t a social activity, what I don’t understand is the attitude of being “against socials” that seems to pervade the gold-making community. People play WoW for a myriad of different reasons, they pay the same fee that you do; just because their goals are different to yours why is that somehow inferior? Occasionally their mode of play will impinge on yours and vice versa but mostly people accomodate each other. Isn’t that what buying and selling is all about? Coming to an arrangement that both parties find beneficial.
My attitude “against socials” rests mainly on the subject you can find in the WAR posts. same reasons, diffrent world.
The socials in WoW are tbh nothing more then people with an average IQ of 80 and below. I mean seriously buying a ice cold milk for 100gold? please…. dpsing with healer gear? Tanking in cat form?… people like that are the reason this economy crashed, and why I need to py 40% taxes on my paycheck each month. (unemployed/lazy/plain dumb)
of course, that is my humble opinion, and you have the right to think otherwise, even more I’m glad that you think otherwise since it’s the proof that you think and are not an M&S. Your opinion is appreciated but I’m sorry I cannot follow it.
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Pingback by Labels – Hulan the Holy — November 30, 2009 @ 15:46Blogging is social.
Spin the words all you want, but it’s social.
Next look up the word “sycophant”
Seth,
I have a great question!!!
Are you against the rampant welfare system in WoW?
Cheers!
CK
I suppose I take the view that just because most of the stupid people playing WoW are social it doesn’t mean that all the social people are stupid
As for the problems with the RL economy, from where I’m standing a lot of that was caused by the Greedy Goblins of the financial world, with the emphasis definitely on the GREEDY!
I’m with Hulan. I’m not an anti-social individual. I’m not part of the M&S that will pay 100g for milk in game because I don’t know where to buy it. (On the contrary, I probably know too much about what I can get and where from vendors very cheaply, versus the AH at mark ups.)
Your example of “socials” in your comment isn’t… “socials”. Those are idiots. Period.
Turning the word “social” into a bad word that equals “stupid” ranks right up there with the kiddies who turned “gay” into an insult.
Blogging about a computer game is far dumber and makes less sense than playing the game just to dress up the characters in cool clothes. Chances are you are just as mediocre as Gevlon of Greedy Gob.
Forgot to add – while the people you call morons probably make a lot in real life and just play wow to kill an hour or two, you waste your time on pixel money aka WoW gold. Get out much?
With so many blogs refering to goblins, M&S , socials.. Im wondering who the actual “sheep” are these days. How about some original thinking in the Wow gold making blogging community? Or a topic not rehashed over and again. Would be a breath of fresh air. Im not trying to tell anyone how to run their blogs, and really not trying to be rude.Yes you get a lot of comments, but I see most of these are not agreeing with the “goblin attitude”
Anyway.. Im in total agreement with above on using the term “socials” to describe lazy, non thinking individuals. Although I dont agree with every type of person Mr. GG calls Morons and slackers.. it does appear to be the more correct term for the types of person you seem to be referring to.
Periluna
All those “I blog so there will be less M&S” are just excuses. Blogging is social, you share your thoughts and you seek acceptance (number of subscribers) by a social group (gold-making minded persons). Show me any active blog without any readers. There are none, because no one can accept that nobody is intersted in him and his thoughts.
And people who buy Milk for 100g are morons and arn’t necessarily socials.
Neroli,
beneath this blog (a map down in the ftp I mean)
there is a daily blog WITHOUT any readers. purely for myself. I have just shown you a blog without any readers that’s updated daily! I even know anumber of people that will only open their blog to others that are invited and some that have a blog pure for themselves.
It doesn’t mean that if you have never heard off a cat that a cat is not existing
Then it’s a diary, not a blog. The whole purpose of blogging is sharing, which is social thing to do. You can’t write down your thoughts in notepad, save the file on your desktop and then call yourself a blogger.