how to kill a blog
April 27, 2009
1. moderate every comment and take half a day approve the most menial comments like ” thanks that was interesting” or ” I agree”
2. incessantly criticise those who are not from your stable
3. be suspicious of everything and everybody from North America
4. patronizingly affirm a position, throw in a big BUT, then warn of the great dangers if we stand on this slippery slope, then defend the slippery slope arguments against those who think its maybe not so slippery or slopey, before reaffirming the great danger if we take this any further
5. write essays that you think your favorite lecturer is marking rather than publish news worthy snippets and opinion.
6. defend , defend, defend.
7. leave no room for an alternate view other than Satan’s
8. thank a person, put in a :) than use logic like a meat mallet to smash and flatten stupid questions or personal opinions
9. ride that hobby horse till you feel the splinters
10. say nothing other than what they said
11. please men
12. ?
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1. Anthony Rochester | April 28, 2009 at 1:28 am
“thanks that was interesting”
2. Michael Jensen | April 28, 2009 at 4:05 am
which blogs are you thinking of?
3. Ben | April 28, 2009 at 6:21 am
“which blogs are you thinking of?”
Exactly. Unleash the fury, Shane.
4. Nathan | April 28, 2009 at 7:49 am
I reckon “post once a month or less”.
and “Don’t read or comment on anybody else’s blogs” and possibly “never acknowledge the source of your ideas or material”… those are more breaches of blog etiquette though – so possibly that’s an overarching instruction.
5. Martin Kemp | April 28, 2009 at 8:14 am
Ha ha! I think we know which blog these comments refer to…
But lest we point out the splinter despite our (b)log, as if we haven’t been guilty of some of these.
6. Martin Kemp | April 28, 2009 at 8:18 am
But of course, we all love to hate reading the blogs which do this, so they’re not really dead, are they?
7. Shane Rogerson | April 28, 2009 at 8:33 am
@ Anthony – very funny
@ Michael – not yours
@ Ben – no fury here though I think I was weary my grumpy pants last night
@ Martin – yes guilty sir
to be honest apart from one or two pointy bits, most of the blogs I have in mind are no longer on my reader – and most of them are from the UK and US .
feel free to remove me for the same incursions.
8. Geoff Broughton | April 28, 2009 at 8:35 am
along these lines I remember reading on a blog somewhere, something like the following about Christian blogs:
“the longer the thread for a particular post becomes, the probability of someone questioning the author of the original post’s faith approaches one”
9. Haydn | April 28, 2009 at 10:51 am
Hahaha! This is really funny Shane and well said.
10. Justin Moffatt | April 28, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Its my blog, isn’t it?
No, wait.
Jensen’s?
11. Haydn | April 28, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Shane, on your point about being anti everything North American, I’m actually surprised at how ignorant Sydney Anglican Christians generally are about worldwide Christian trends and organisations. Here in South Korea, where local Christianity is heavily influenced by US Christianity, it’s hard to avoid the influence. Time and again my ignorance has been exposed… The Sydney Hillsongs brand here and in the US is highly regarded: Brian Houston is aired and translated into Korean here and Hillsongs music is everywhere. Most of my FB friends are American and they absolutely LOVE Hillsongs and local American talent like Brian Houston.
I think Sydney Anglicans can learn a lot from Hillsongs, because HS is a portal to global Christianity as it’s emanating from the US.