You know when sometimes people say that you need to fall or fail to learn something? Well, today that is exactly what happened. Yesterday I was complaining about the immaturity of the comments ForeverGeek is getting and today I’m enlightened as for the reason of that happening.
Even though I love blogging and writting, someone with more experience, said things exactly as they were. His words were neither inspiring nor motivational. They were the plain truth, and I still had much to learn from blogging before my “mentors” sold it off.
Basically I think I was just given too much responsability too quickly. I am currently hired to write at least two articles per-day.
You guys both started out posting opinionated stuff that started flamewars right off. (…) Now, well, your news is a week later than most places, there’s never anything particularly original, mostly just clips from other sites, and it’s mostly stuff that panders to the sort of people you’re complaining about receiving comments from.
Even though some might find those words offensive. I find them enlightening, and what I thought would be solutions for ForeverGeek, such as: Fixing the Submissions script, fixing some errors in the design and general pages, opening the forums to gather a good community once again. I was way off to what the real solution is, the problem isn’t the readers, it’s myself, and the articles I write.
A good friend once taught me a valuable lesson in life with six toothpics. He basically told me to make four triangles out of them with breaking or crossing them. After a few minutes and attempts I gave up, and he built a triangular piramid and told me:
“Sometimes, when we can’t resolve an issue the best thing to do is to look at the problem from a third person’s perspective and not from our own.”
And even though he taught me this a long time ago and I remember it, I forgot about it completely when it came to blogging.
Lesson learned.
And that is when you beat him with the toothpicks right?
I think FG is doing great. I find that we are not getting the quality feedback that we used to get, and comments overall seem to be down. People complain about this, that, and the next thing, but overall I think we try to hard to bring them the news we think they will find interesting, rather than talking about the news we would find interesting.
I, as one of the writers, will work harder on creating interesting content, but some days it is very hard as I can’t do something like Hackaday, I don’t have access to the latest gadgets from any country, and so most of the things I find are all second hand information.
Blogging is a cruel mistress, but we will do the best with it as we can, and build our pyramid.
Haha! No, I didn’t beat him with the toothpicks, I was pretty much feeling stupid for not thinking about it myself and when he said those words after I was pretty much speechless, or in the 1337 terms I hate, I was pwnd.
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Maybe we could introduce dowper as a technical term.
“YOU’RE FUCKING RECORD SHOPPING, WHILE I’M BLEEDING YOUR DEAD FUCKING BABY THAT I JUST KILLED ALL OVER MY BEST PERIOD PANTIES IN THE BACK OF THIS FUCKING VAN?!?”
So check it out, then check me out In The Flesh.
“So you’ve never written any copy for catalogs or emails or web?” he asks.