Keep your politics to yourself..
October 29, 2008 by Morninglark
I am a very political person. I will not talk about that here. Period. End of Story.
I don’t think political statements should be part of any website that is related to gaming. We play games to get away from real life for an hour or two. I don’t want to go look up a quest, and have political ads and banners all over the page. I don’t want to read a gaming forum, and have to scroll through pages of “Vote for —insert names –”. I go to a technical support forum to find out if anyone else is having problems gating home. I really don’t care who you are voting for. I don’t know what makes you think I do.
I especially do not want to visit a gaming blog, and see nothing but political ads and commentary.
I have a political blog of my own, and I also have a list of favorite political blogs that I read. If I want to comment about politics I will do it there!
All I ask of my fellow gamers…is go start a political blog if you are really political like I am, but please keep your political beliefs to yourselves on the fansites for games.
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Well said! These days because of the impending election in the USA, I’m growing very weary of having to read political opinions on MMO and gaming blogs. I visit MMO sites because I want to read about MMOs. Besides, political opinions can be very divisive and can potentially alienate your readers — not a good thing.
It would be like going to a restaurant and instead of seeing a menu for the cuisine instead you get a sales pitch for life insurance. I think the restaurant patrons would not come back if that ever happened.
So it is with blogs. We have certain expectations when we visit our favorite blogs i.e that the blog will be about MMOs etc. I think it comes down to a matter of having respect for your readers and having the good sense to focus on a particular subject matter for your blog.
By the way, great to see you back Morninglark!
Thanks Wolfshead! It is nice to be back!