Blogs are, by their very nature, niche. One person, or a group of like-minded people, write stuff that generally espouses one point of view.\u00a0 Dissenting opinions are usually always welcome, but even those with opposing opinions like those blogs for whatever reason and become regulars.<\/p>\n
Then we have the people who stumble across a blog whose agenda doesn\u2019t coincide with their own, and they do a hit\u2018n\u2019run. I did this once (that I remember) and I was very embarrassed with myself. I had no reason to haul off on that guy. I went back and apologized, but the damage was done and I can\u2019t take that back.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s a study:<\/p>\n
One message board where I lurk is an active, established community of self-publishers, and a certain couple of traditionally published authors swoop in from time to time to berate them how deluded they are. Um, okay. Thanks? If you don\u2019t like what those people are doing\/saying, don\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n
On a blog where I lurk, a post hit a hot button of mine, but I almost never post there and I didn\u2019t want to do like I\u2019ve done before and swoop in to tell them all to shove it, because, well \u2026 I\u2019m not an active participant otherwise. Why would I do that? All I have to do is not go there.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s taken me nearly 40 years to learn that keeping my mouth shut gets me in a lot less trouble than opening it.<\/p>\n
But sometimes \u2026 it\u2019s a fight to keep from saying something.<\/p>\n
I lost this round. *sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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