The sphere around us
I consider myself to be lucky to belong to the World of Warcraft blogging community. Why? Because, for the most part, we are a reasonably accepting group. After all, there are even people who read my mad ravings.
If you look at blogging in general, excluding the personal update things general found as part of the livejournal/facebook set, bloggers tend towards the exclusionary and even reactionary. Some groups are worse than others, true…If you want to see vile hatred spouted, read Redstate or Daily Kos. Political bloggers are almost always the worst (kind of like political talk radio hosts). Heck, there are even food bloggers get in on the exclusionary act with their “if you don’t eat what I like, you are wrong and beneath notice”. And you’d think there would be nothing so inclusive as eating.
When you get right down to it, WoW bloggers are pretty accepting. Yeah, we each have our focus (well, I don’t have a focus, but I have 10 characters…it’s kind of hard to be focused when you are like that;)). But I can only think of one or two WoW bloggers who are just outright exclusionary in the gobs of us that are out there.
So, stand up and be proud, WoW Bloggers. You’re doing a good job of forming a community amongst the whole, which is something that seems to be difficult to do in the anonymous world of the internet.
