REWARDS FOR GOOD BLOG POST.

I don't know if this has been addressed yet. I would like to hear feedback about it in general. I think it would be cool to reward users (somehow) for writing interesting, relevant to game design, pictures, diagrams, sketches, etc. You know, real interesting stuff regarding their projects. You go on the front page and just see rows of "brb wow" "i am eating" "vote 4 favorite dadchar" and the list goes on.

I mean, I've poked fun at the whole one liner blogs myself, because I thought it was kind of funny at first. I realize that the blog feature is open to anyone to post anything about their game. WIP has said many times he wants people to have a level of freedom with blogs. That's great too. But, it's sort of tainting the main page with all this useless "gibba jabba".

I don't know, maybe it's because I see really interesting blogs kicked off by a row of "brb dorito run" and so on and so forth. Maybe it's just me who feels like interesting with real meat in them blog posts deserve some kind of reward.

I am not trying to be rude, so I'm sorry if this post sounds that way! I apologize for being concerned with your interwebs!

Well, I understand that too. But unfortunately, the forum and main page are disconnected, despite what people think. I myself would rather post relevant things about game design in a blog vs the forum because not only do I get to promote my project I can generate discussion at the same time.

I don't think it's totally useless. Makerscore gives you more locker space for files. Which could be kind of important! Ciel suggested some kind of voting system where you can vote up relevant blogs to keep them circulating for a while.

I realize it's a slippery slope, but I just hope people aren't discouraged from writing very detailed entries because it is being kicked off by 5 blogs titles "i am on grampsfan.com"

I just tell myself WWMD what-would-mog-do