Comments on: Thank you for your responses to Cassies post

By: Staris

Staris — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:50:11 +0000

As the Toasters say, “Don’t let the bastards grind ya down!”

Keep on writing Big Bear Butt. We outnumber the asshats!

/lurk

By: Tagrath

Tagrath — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:25:57 +0000

As long time reader and 1 time poster, I just would like to say keep up the good work BBB and Cassie. Don’t let the asshats get you down. Keep posting about bears, hunters, shadow priests, raiding with your friends, or whatever else you feel like.

By: Lissanna

Lissanna — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:59:31 +0000

I started my blog a couple months ago, out of the frustration of losing hours worth of theorycrafting work in the endless sea of Damage Dealing & Healing forum posts (the timing of my blog coming out right after the DD/Healing/tank forums went live is anything BUT a coincidence), and with how hard it was to organize & update the forum version of my leveling guide (so, now in my blog version, I can have more interactive links and such that clutter the WoW forum version).

What I’ve done from the start is to alternate between druid-related posts and non-druid related posts (that mostly still relate to WoW), since I’m putting up a blog post at least once a day (sometimes twice), I can’t spend 5 to 10 hours on a single post all in one sitting… We get pretty much zero money for anything we do, and I can’t imagine what it’s like to put in all that kind of work and then have people yell at you for going off-topic & posting what you want to post about. Sometimes, we just don’t have the 1 to 10 hours that it takes to do the types of posts that people really want – and when we’re not getting paid to do it, it’s really not something you CAN post all the time without having the burnout problems that some of the bloggers suffer from over time.

I’m glad that you decided to stick with it, and please don’t let the mean people of the world get you down.

By: TheRedDeath

TheRedDeath — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:39:52 +0000

Hi BBB. Long time reader, first time poster. :D
I believe you made valid points on all counts.
I enjoy your posts a lot, please keep it up.

By: Teri

Teri — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:07:35 +0000

Right on BBB.You are the best. Asshats=Epic fail
Keep up the good work my friend.

By: TJGypsy

TJGypsy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:34:23 +0000

I don’t post alot of comments because you have and avid and active readership, and generally anything I have to say has already been said, and usually better than I would have put it anyway. So I am among the silent majority that read, and move on. I also don’t post much because I’ve never seen the point of the “me too” or “I agree” posts that don’t contain anything more than that.

However, in this case, I feel compelled to offer my own two cents, and echo the sentiments of everyone that has posted before me. I enjoy reading your blog because, whatever the topic of the day may be, you almost always make me either laugh or think. I have (I believe) gone completely through the archive available on the site and read every single post you’ve got, from the druid stuff to the hunter stuff to the asshat stuff, and I’ve enjoyed all of them.

This blog is always my first stop when I’m logging on for the day, and out of desperate hope that something new may have appeared, usually my last stop before I leave for the night.

I won’t say you shouldn’t stop blogging, because there are lots of valid reasons for doing so, but please, please, don’t let the negative (but unfortunately vocal) minority of the people that stop by drive you away. You really are loved, appreciated and admired for what you do and what you bring into the lives of your readers, and I think we’d all feel a great sense of loss if you stopped.

Keep up the good work, guys!

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:28:04 +0000

Oh, and sorry for the double post, but this is exactly the sort of thing that prompts me to blog myself. I’m intensely interested in the nature and desgin of these MMO games, and the function (or dysfunction) of the community is a huge facet of that. WoW often succeeds in spite of itself, largely on the back of social inertia. Blizzard really could handle things better, and that they don’t is a curious case study. Sometimes I wonder if they really know what they are doing from a community management aspect. They do game design well enough (though I’ll find problems there, too, the game is still a lot of fun), but sometimes they seem a bit… flaky when it comes to dealing with the “soft” people skills.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:23:11 +0000

This sort of question, about the basic fundamental nature of an anonymous internet community, is one of the things that actually *does* keep me from playing WoW. The subscription is the biggest thing, but the people are the next biggest. More than once, I’ve wholeheartedly agreed with Chris F over at the ihaspc.com blog when he requests Private Servers with Blizzard’s blessing. If I could be assured that I’d only be playing with friends and family, and be able to use the Guild Wars business model, I might well be playing WoW fairly exclusively.

By: Stealhed

Stealhed — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:22:30 +0000

I read your blog for the Druid information you provide and how you provide it. I don’t care if your point of view match’s mine or even if its correct it is your point of view, it is your blog. That is the point of a good Blog, you write what you want when you want how you want. please keep up the good work and ignore the asshat’s. Thanks for the info and entertainment you provide.

By: Fimlys

Fimlys — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:54:07 +0000

Woot.. So, you gonna come harass us in the chat room for the round table tonight? http://www.twistednether.net/Live ..
Maerdred, Hydra, Runy, Anna, Lassira … Maybe we can get you on at the end.. :)