As I’ve said before, I like debate. I want to encourage dissent. Without those kinds of things, life gets boring(one of my favorite authors even made this point in his book A Call ToArms when the main character was engaging with a newspaper editor, and the editor said, “I like editors and writers who disagree with me. Keeps things lively. I don’t know that I’d care for a homogenized world.”). Take a look at the blogroll to the right, and you’ll see a mish-mash of varying points of view, from Sarah Hoyt to Hugh Howey. I don’t drop any of them because they may express a point of view I don’t always care for.
That said, I’ve dropped blogs in the past for the way
they’ve treated others. Alternate points
of view are fine – and, in fact, welcomed – but don’t get abusive. A blog I used to enjoy a while back took
umbrage at another writer and directed his followers to spam on over and loudly
make their displeasure known. The blog
directed against wasn’t even one I was familiar with, but apparently they made
an un-PC point, and the blog I used to have on my page thought unleashing the
mob would be a good idea. So yeah, I
dropped them like a bad habit.
I’m always on the lookout for good blogs to add to my
blogroll, but I’ve also found I have to be careful since so many folks can get
abusive quickly in today’s polarized climate.
Encourage discussions; don’t encourage self-righteous mobbings.
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