Wow. Look what I started.

Sorry for not posting this sooner. I wanted the blog banner to cycle through so my gamer pic only appeared once...  OH! SNAP! (And Cri, sorry for pushing you off, buddy. I now how important that blog traffic is to you...)

So yesterday I made multiple blog posts in a short span of time. It was really my first time to use the 2o2p blogging tool (Seriously. Check my post history. I think I've made five since joining in February.), and I was unfamiliar with how the blog banner worked. Call me stupid. Call me naive. Call me a noob. Whatever. So three of the seven gamer pics at the top of your screen were mine. And this caught some people's attention. Actually, I noticed what had happened. But by then I had already received a PM--a very nice message, mind you--from J-Cat, explaining how things work and that some users were less than pleased at my rookie mistake. So my apologies to those folks if I bumped your icon off the banner. Now that I know how it works, it won't happen again.

In my reply to J-Cat I mentioned that I'll be relocating my gaming-related blogging to another site. I consume a LOT of gaming news and information every day. And as my clanmates can attest, I like to share a lot of that information. So I need a blogging tool that can accomodate the cascade that spews forth every day--hell, every hour in some cases. When that new site is up and running, I'll post the URL here in case anyone is interested.

My opinion is that content should drive traffic, rather than simply promoting whichever blog has the most recent post. If a blogger is producing quality content, users will instinctively visit his or her blog regularly or even bookmark it, making the notification system that is the current blog banner unnecessary. As just one user out of many, I'd like to see the current blog banner replaced with a kind of rating system, dependent upon which blog posts have received the most looks in a 24-hour period or something. That way the people who really put a lot of effort into creating unique, valuable, useful content might--but not necessarily--be rewarded. But hey, if more people want to read about the color of your kitty cat's hairball that morning rather than my review of inFAMOUS, so be it... Again, this is just my opinion.

I wrote J-Cat a response PM--which I notice is still languishing in my Outbox for some reason--thanking her and the entire admin crew here at 2o2p for their work. I think it's a great service, and without this site I would not have such great friends to play games with. And that's the truth. But I do think some things need to be tweaked.

And finally, a big thanks to my clan homies. This whole business got started because I guessed they were tired of reading all the crap I posted on our clan message board. Who knew they actually read and enjoyed that stuff. You guys rock. Thanks for the support.

-Nerd