Your Blogger’s Quirk
We’re building up an interesting profile of the Canadian blogging community in various oblique ways. We’ve found out a little about where you’ve worked, and about the kind of persona you suggest to your fellow bloggers.
Here’s a simple one. What is your Blogger’s Quirk? Have you got a blogging behaviour, as a writer or commenter, that others might find odd?
An example of what I’m talking about: I will not bookmark a blog whose content I disagree with. I’ll google them ten times a day for weeks if I’m following or participating in an argument, but I don’t want them sharing space on my favourites or links.
Another: I post before I proofread, then obsessively and stealthily sneak back and correct spelling, punctuation and phrasing for hours.
And you?
I only comment on sites operated by my family members or close friends. Anywhere else, I feel like an interloper.
Whooee! Well, I don’t reckon I’m too quirky.
I spend a lotta time readin’ news articles from my various aggregators and I make mental notes to post something on a few. I end up posting on only about 1 in 20 that I intend to. Like Grannie always said, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I reckon I’m headed fer an eternal hotspot.
Off topic, the new look here is cool and grooby but there’s no ID of the author of the entry. Who wrote this quirk thing? I’m guessin’ Balbu, but it could be SL or Treehugger.
JB
We’re actually all the same person. That’s another quirk. What we blog about – content, tone, degree of radical, quality of spelling – is determined by a random number generator. At this point, it has me in the balbulican persona, though.
I like my brackets (when I could use commas).
I am too slow to scoop. Scoops, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention. I’m just no good at it, temperamentally unsuited to going fast or being first or something. Even so, I had to talk myself out of the urge to scoop, and sometimes still do. It is a powerful urge.
“Scoop”, as in, be first with a story?
“Scoop”, as in, be first with a story?
Aye. I am a very slow blogger. That is probably my distinguishing characteristic. Slow. Very slow. Like, you wouldn’t believe how slow. I’m just … slow.
Okay, I’ll see your slow and raise you a sloppy. I habitually misuse semicolons. In regular writing I’m fine, but on blogs, for some reason, I just never get it right.
I can’t seem to remain happy with a theme for any more than about 12 months. I find something I almost like, spend too much time tweaking it to where I think I like it, use it for a bit, become dissatisfied, look for another theme, find one that I almost like………
I have 801 posts published but also 224 draft posts never published and likely never will be. I will start and find something else more interesting and decide to switch focus.
The other day for the 2nd or 3rd time (in two+ years) I accidentally published a draft with one word link in it and but this time I had a two hour nap after. I woke up to find my post with “one word” through the aggregators so I fixed it fast adding the other text/links to it. Mouse/brain must have slipped. I hate it when I do that stuff.
I love blogging to procrastinate…usually when it comes to school work….like right now.
Can totally relate to this as I am also doing that right now Throbbin : ))
I am sure it is one of the main reasons I blog. Does that mean I won’t blog anymore when I am done?
Habitually misusing semicolons is a sign of brilliance.
Do I detect in that observation the echo of another serial semicolon abuser?
Do I have a quirk or quirks?
Wrong question entirely. I am a quirk.
I have a massively different tone between blogs. on the Western Standard I have a researched, newsy tone – on my political blog, I aim for a yobbish nerdy tone, on the university blog I go for what I`d call the ‘cool pastor’ tone, and on my own business blog I ape Seth Godin (pbuh).
I’m not sure it’s a “quirk”, exactly, but in line with Robert’s observation, I can’t resist the urge to adopt an almost lethally patronizing tone on the most URQ blogs – drives ‘em nuts. Probably doesn’t contribute much to the quality of the dialogue.