30 April, 2006

Are we there yet ?

Hi all,

Most of the posts I've seen here are either links to news articles and other interesting bits and pieces, or links to our own blogs/posts, interspered with self-promotional posts, and some that can only be considered advertisements.

Are we turning into a newspaper ?
(I guess not. Ad-sense is not installed yet.)

Are individual bloggers becoming too fixated on attracting visitors to their blog ?
(We have to draw a line somewhere.)

What kind of content is interesting and what can we call spam ?
(We are our own censors)

The original blogging guidelines for the UAE Community Blog can be found here.

What's your opinion ? Are we there yet or are we closing in ?
Posted by Ahsan Ali at 6:08 pm

7 comments:

archer14 said...

No problems whatsoever dude, live and let live. It might be self promotion, but hey - it's upto you if you wanna click the link or not. I haven't seen spam here I supppose.

30 April, 2006 19:02
nzm said...

Other than the reasons for the blog as in the link posted by Secret Dubai, I'd like to see the posts kept to subjects that are either:
- blogger related
- UAE related

and not just blatant attempts to get blog traffic.

30 April, 2006 22:38
secretdubai said...

A lot of people work quite hard at their blogs but don't get so much exposure as others, so I don't mind them jumping up and down waving (so to speak) every so often.

Any blatant spam gets deleted, if it has no relevance to the community: eg if someone posted about a special offer for DSS.

In fact, perhaps this place should be declared a Modhesh-free zone... I loathe that vile yellow gimp nearly as much as the plastic paedo clown thing on a bench outside McCrap.

30 April, 2006 23:43
nzm said...

Oooh - clowns and Modhesh - now there's a scary union!

J's kids don't like Modhesh either, and I hated clowns long before I read Stephen King's "It"!

01 May, 2006 00:04
nzm said...

Just to get back on topic, I think that we all need to evaluate why we write our blogs.

Because if it's just to increase the traffic or get noticed, if it's not working other than to jump up and down waving, then something needs to be fixed!

01 May, 2006 00:09
Anonymous said...

modhesh: lightbulb for a head & abody that looks like 1 of those crinkly french fries!

01 May, 2006 08:39
nzm said...

bandicoot - just concentrate on one blog and see how it evolves!

And you know that yellow and purple don't mix! :-)

01 May, 2006 11:33

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