bonesiii

I've had it recommended to me and I've read about it, but never had time to actually get it and read it.

its not nice to trick people

you said it :angry:

Guys, calm down. Omi was trying to prove a point -- that an interesting title makes you think "What's this about?" and want to click it. He wasn't "tricking" you -- it was a joke. Once you read the entry, you see that, so how is he tricking you? And doesn't his point make sense?

Hey bones, don't look now, but I think they were kidding too.

Possibly. There is no indication of it in their posts.

Hi, Gakurak -- I just found your blog; read this entry, been skimming some others. You've got a lot of quality entries here; they deserve a lot more replies than they've gotten. (I may disagree with some of your points, lol, but that's beside the point.)

This entry was fascinating to me. I'm a brother of two siblings, one of whom wears glasses (not just for the computer; for vision in general), and another who has recently had eye trouble, and my mom wears glasses too. Yet I have always had perfect vision, and I've always wondered -- what is it like, exactly?

Your entry was written casually, but it was some of the best writing I've ever read (and I spend a lot of time lately in college workshops with quality writing from other students). You really showed what it is like, and I could almost imagine myself in your shoes. Are you into writing? If not, you should be, man. Good job.

Sorry I've got no advice on the glasses though.

I see you already made a decision on that -- but I wanted to say something anyways.

 

Just about all words mean something in some other language out there. Even a lot of standard English words mean things in other languages, some of them curse words. There's thousands of languages on this planet, but only a severely limited number of sounds the human mouth can make (which is what written language is based on). No matter what you choose, you can never be certain it is totally unique and doesn't mean anything else.

 

I think it's admirable to be careful not to offend people where it makes sense. But at some point, you have to be willing to stand up for yourself and be confident enough that if someone comes at you with an unreasonable accusation, you don't take it. All about whether it's reasonable or not.

 

Trust me; this is just one example really, but as a moderator I know how that goes. I get those kinds of accusations, though about very different things from what you are talking about. You gotta respect yourself first. Then you can deal with those who don't respect you. You can even show them what respect is by respecting them too, maybe even more than they respect themselves.

Cuz you're in Aussieland man. For most of us that's midnight.

use basic grammar

despite not getting what to them seems like no attention.

*double negative*

 

evil ninja's

*grimaces at Pural Apostrophe*

 

I'm just teasin'. Great entry:

 

 

I think some advice from one of my profs about fiction would help here:

 

Two universal rules of fiction blog entries:

1) Must be clear.

2) Must be interesting.

 

By "interesting", I would say "fun". Serious can be fun -- if it's interesting. If that makes any sense.

 

The other big thing I can give some advice on is content. If a each entry is about the same thing, it gets boring. Mix it up! Whether you want to have an insane blog or a more serious blog is your choice. Then there are the blogs that fall in the middle. I try to keep my blog somewhere in the middle, I have the crazy entries, I have the normal entries, and I have the serious entries.

That's how I look at it too. Content is always the major stumbling block -- and in my blog I have some serious entries, many very relevant to Bionicle, etc. and then I have comedy, whatnot. I also shy away from "My Boring Life" entries, because there's so many lives and readers can only take so much of it before they do "Dude, I don't care. Make me laugh."

 

So, for those of you out there who don't have popular blogs, don't give up. In time, your blog will gain popularity.

Yes, that's very important. My blog started out highly ranked and getting a lot of comments, so not sure if this is totally a great example -- but for a while I just sort of let it die, and it moved way down the rankings and I barely got comments. But as a reporter, I know that frequent updates are vital. For BZP news, we have a rule that unless absolutely impossible, there must be a news article posted every single day, if not more than one. Doesn't mean blogs need something every day, but it should at least be once a week.

 

That lets readers know your blog is worth keeping track of (or your news site), because something new is going to happen often.

its not nice to trick people

you said it :angry:

Guys, calm down. Omi was trying to prove a point -- that an interesting title makes you think "What's this about?" and want to click it. He wasn't "tricking" you -- it was a joke. Once you read the entry, you see that, so how is he tricking you? And doesn't his point make sense?

Yeah, this is always the biggest challenge to overcome (after getting an idea and having free time, at least) for blog entries. I always wonder if I would have got more readers if I'd named that entry something different. Even slightly diff.

When I lived in the dorms, I lived on the third floor. And you bet I used that elevator every single time.

 

Because part of my room and board money goes to servicing those elevators, and if I'm paying for them, I'm gonna use them, dang it.

 

But if I'm not paying for them, that's a different story...

In my college's case, my tuition money is quite obviously NOT going to service the elevators. XD

In all honesty, I pretty much said "Ehh, whatever" when I read the comic. I just think that they killed off the wrong character, because if the ending was supposed to be "emotional", I think it sorta failed.

 

I was sorta hoping that they killed off one of the Nuva.

 

 

~D

Well, that would depend on the fan and their preferences and how emotionally attached to the character they are. So where it might have failed for you, it would succeed for others, and it's impossible to generalize. Inside the storyline, that would be emotional to the other characters.

 

 

killed off

*grimaces*

What's funny is I always beat them on the stairs. It's like... it's not even worth it lol! Yarr.

 

Two floors or more, that's different. But one?

I'm saying we don't have to be too serious. But at the same time, we shouldn't be stumbling over ourselves trying to push it into everybody else's faces, especially those who haven't yet gotten the comic -- and that we shouldn't just dismiss it as a meaningless plot device or some such thing.

See, that is the role sports should play. Being played, not watched.

Niiiiice. Looks like it could be official, heh.

You can call me bones.

 

I guess I can edit the pic to add Marvel in there, heh.

 

Edit: Edited.

Lol, I wasn't sure how to classify Marvel universe, though. Not familiar enough with it -- what would you call it? Scifant? Scifi? Not fantasy, probably. I guess scifant would be the safe bet, but I wasn't sure.

 

 

Thanks for that, Aanchir.

Heroes? It's in there, unless you mean something other than the TV show?

Xenofiction is a highly obscure term, compared to something instantly understandable like "science fantasy." In addition, the only definition I can find of it doesn't even apply to the question of "genre". That's more of a "subgenre" than a genre and it could apply to scifi, fantasy, scifant, even even to fictional societies in the "real world".

 

I'm not familiar with Artemis Fowl, sorry.

The four fundamental forces? Hello? Mr. Physics?

Yikes.

Gakurak, it's in the settings in your profile, and in your blog.

Essays are Professorahks'/Teacherahks' ways to torture us. Or rather, attaching rediculous deadlines to them and other nonsensical rules is. My giant history research project has this lovely rule attached, for example:

 

"Any paper not using proper citations based on Chicago will recieve 0 points."

 

Yet they call it a "History Methods" class. Why not be honest and call it a "Chicago Manual of Style Torture" class? The best history paper in the class could get zero while another could get an A and be horrible. Yeesh.

How dare you.

There's no way to syncronize the comments length and the sidebar length, I'm afraid, as comment page length depends on how many comments there are and the length of the particular entry. I suppose it is mildly annoying, but the only solution I can see is to cut out all the sidebar content and IMO that would be boring.

 

It seems the answer about the blog title is to keep it. Cool, I was kinda hoping for that. Maybe I'll just change the subtitle periodically.

 

Edit: As in, spoilertag just the quotes? Hm. Maybe... seems... odd though. And it wouldn't come anywhere near solving the problem HtW mentioned as other blocks already go way past most comment page lengths.

But it'd be a lot easier to read it all and look at it. It's long enough as it is.

See, it would make it harder on my screen resolutions, because one side overlaps about half of all comments.

 

And what is hard about scrolling down? The length so far is not anywhere near as long as the length of front page of entries; that's been my basic guideline.