BLOGGING: AN IFGW TRADITION CONTINUED

Hey all. First of all, thanks to everybody for helping us hit the 5K mark! It's very exciting to have grown this fast, but that being said, with the influx of people we've had, it's time to do a little housekeeping. Since we're starting to build up on the number of posts on every topic, we decided it was time to go ahead and release a general guideline of positive blogging vs annoying blogging. This also comes in the wake of IF announcing they are tentatively allowing blogging again. We want to make it very clear that blogging is very much allowed and will continued to be allowed in the future. It is an integral part of IFGW culture. Going forward we just want to better define what positive blogging vs annoying blogging is as we have never done so and it seems that it is time. I want to make it clear you will not be banned for poor blogging, but you will be subject to the whimsies of the board. These standards are not to be as rigidly considered where discussion posts are concerned. On those, your wealth of personal experience will be much more enjoyed.

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POSITIVE BLOGGING:

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NO ONE UPPING: None of us want to hear it. Seriously. And anybody who does can ask for details about it in personal messages. This is an internet board. We are not interested in pissing matches. If you find yourself needing to compare for the sake of highlighting just how bad you have it, you are doing it wrong. This is not a competition. We are all on the same side.

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KEEP THE INTIMATE PERSONAL DETAILS TO YOURSELF: This is not a support board. We are here to discuss munchies and their various oddities, not you. If your personal experience gives you special insight onto a situation, keep it vague. Instead of saying, "I went to the ER for pain and even though I was at a 9 they did not give me any medication even though I was screaming and crying because they said it was a chronic condition and they don't manage them at the ER. It was total medical abuse. The doctors put that I was drug seeking in my chart even though I have never ever asked for pain pills in my life before." Try something more along the lines of, "If you go to the ER to try and manage your chronic condition, you're going to be dismissed without medication and with drug seeker in your chart." Yes, you can use "I." We encourage it -- within reason.

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KEEP IT BRIEF AND IN CONTEXT: If the topic de jour is Amanda's fake IV she tried to pull off eight months ago, keep it on topic. We don't need to hear about your diabetes, or when your friend faked a heart attack, or does somebody have that link of Amanda singing My Immortal? Keep your comment to the subject at hand and don't go on long tangents about things that can be easily said in one sentence. Just like we don't want your intimate details, we don't want the wildly random and irrelevant ones either.

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DON'T STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT: We are here to spotlight the munchies, not you. Feel free to use "I" as much as you please, but if your post is turning into "I, I, I," maybe it's time to do some editing. Much as most people like to be in the spotlight, this is not the place. If you feel the need to talk about yourself at length, find an appropriate discussion post, or, even better, find yourself a subreddit where that is both catered to and celebrated. r/disability, r/venting, and r/AmItheAsshole are all much more appropriate places to rant and talk about yourself at length on whatever subject matter you so desire.

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ANNOYING BLOGGING:

Annoying blogging is all the things good blogging is not. It is random, it is long, it is off topic. It contains details which makes it possible for somebody to doxx you in under two minutes. We have noticed an uptick of posts of these nature as our subreddit has grown. This is understandable. When we started we were much smaller and able to let downvotes and upvotes mostly take care of it. At this point we want to set down some sort of guidelines so that people *know* what positive blogging looks like and therefore have much less of an excuse for these faux paus. We understand that some of you just can't help yourself, but expect to be met with mixed, or even negative, reception. You will not be banned, just so that is explicitly clear. (However you can still be banned for being a dick or for blocking moderators if you decide blocking them is the way to solve a disagreement.) This is the sort of atmosphere we'd like to more guide the subreddit towards in the future. We still very much encourage blogging, but we would appreciate if perhaps ya'll kept it to a reasonable length and didn't have to overshare to the point where the sight of your very name brings eye rolls. Thank you guys for making it an amazing ride and an enjoyable modding experience.