Sale adverts in weblogs

This all has been very interesting to me. I personally spend NO time looking at blogs. If I want to chat with friends of mine I go to the chat room, but to each their own. As far as missing updates of peoples galleries, I know what shows I like and I type them into the search everytime I visit RS and I never miss new cels that have been added. Very simple. I don't need a blog entry to tell me that someone has updated their gallery.

This is the way I understand the blogs. They are supposed to be about YOURSELF. "I did this today." "I am interested in such and such other than cel collecting." It is for the other people of RS to get to know you better. It is your diary that you are letting all of us pick up and read. To that end post whatever you want us to know about yourself. If you have something to say about SOMEONE ELSE or their gallery or the fact that they "stole" an auction from you (it really was never "yours" in the first place, but that is another topic), send them gallery feedback or some other kind of private message. If they choose to reply that is up to them and only the parties dirrectly concerned need discuss the issue.

As far as sale notifications go, I say make the rule that no posts that only make "for sale" announcements are allowed in the blogs and immediately delete any that do. If a blog says, "So I went to the movies tonight, and oh yeah, I have this up for sale.", I say leave it. The entry did what the blogs where meant to do (in my understanding). The writter told us something about themselves, and invited a dialogue with anyone interested in what movie they saw, what they thought of it, etc. Like Brian said, big deal if they also drew some attention to a sale of theirs, at least the post did more than just create an advertisment.

That is the way I see it.

Question: Why are there no Moderator posts in this thread? I would have assumed they would have some "moderator wisdom" to share on this discussion.

I think most of the steam of frustration has been released already, so I won't say more than what people have posted in the previous 9 pages.

The blogs won't be up for awhile until Jason reworks the site a bit. I better crack my fingers and add a few more sentences in the 'rules' section concerning blogs.

Sorry, Mokman. No pearls of wisdom from me. I'm more of a playground supervisor.

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A troll post is a post meant to provoke. I didn't mean to provoke, but I did mean to say "look who's talking" by it.

Seems like this problem has cropped up again. Not only are sale adverts appearing in weblog headers, but site updates as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we already have a system that shows when a site has been recently updated on the front page? Now, before anyone bites my head off, I am not referring to those people mentioning sales or updates in their blogs. I just don't think it's cool to post them in the headers or make your entire blog about a sale or an update. Seems to me that blogs are for something else.

This has been covered a few different times.
http://www.rubberslug.com/board/showthread.asp?T=1415