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My thought is, under the proposed structure, more time and energy might spent keeping track of various votes and who's on or off or standing in the tidal pool, and buried somewhere in the sand are the actual interesting blog 'articles'. I'll add that it does seem rather like a popularity contest and not a means to put forth some interestingly pensive vanity threads. The mutual admiration society might get tiresome, and newer folks might be at a disadvantage.
I like blogs alot, but I'd rather just read the blogs than go thru all that survivor voting stuff (I really hate that show anyway).
Why not just create a "Blog Dept." so to speak...freeperblog, freeblog, freeper bloggers would be FReeBers...
Anyway, you could have perhaps a slightly different posting or thread mechanism, that would naturally push the more popular blogs to the top?
Or, one could "subscribe" to the blogs one liked, or have each FReeBer ping those that want to be notified etc.
If anyone is allowed to contribute, then those that are serious would stick with it, and others would fade, and naturally you'd end up with a core group, with and ebb and flow of peripheral contributions.
I dunno, I guess my point being I only have X amount of time to spend at FR, I don't want to spend it wading thru a bunch of superfluous stuff rather than reading. There's already a certain amount of hugh and series fluff here [not that there's anything wrong with that ;^], do we really need any more?