I'm involved in an online community that's maintained by a software publisher. The TOS permit virtually any subject in their blog section, which is okay by me. The publisher is paying the bills, so they set the rules.
The problem is that many of the bloggers there are, in addition to their interest in art, dedicated to a particular world view. Some are able to discuss controversial topics, others very rapidly begin slinging a sort of expletive/slogan hash, with comments like "[expletive deleted] your god]" - hardly the sort of thing I like to wade through.
And wade I must, because the bloggers there aren't the best in the world at writing meaningful blog titles.
The point of this (rant?) is: I think that blogs that are part of 'online communities' can benefit from concentrating on common interests, rather than one-sided flame wars. Or any sort of flame war.
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