Has Blog interest died completely?

I remember when every blog post (SL Blog) was followed to the max allowed by comments, many of them off topic, but still...

I have just taken a look at the last half dozen blog posts, and there is an average of about 4 responses.

Have we lost the ability to whine bitch and complain?

Is this a good thing?

or are we all dumbed down?

or is there nothing to complain about?

Asha

Those blog posts have no comments at all. The responses are ping-backs (I think that's that they are called) that contain links to personal blogs about the blog posts. Technically they are spam (fishing for readers) but LL is happy with them.

Asha,

The whole issue of blog comments was a nasty one - you didn't have to be a registered user to post (unlike here), so there were lots of "drive-bys" - anonymous people just stirring up trouble.

Then LL turned off comments on some blog posts, which caused the other posts to get spammed with people complaining about a different blog post and why Ll was disturbing their right to free speech.

So LL then changed policy to not allow any blog post comments, but instead to have discussion thread on this forum. Usually they are in the "Further Conversation" section in the "Linden Links" section of the blog - check it out there - still pretty vibrant discussion going on.

Well, the most common posters WERE members and active users of SL. The blogs were misused first by LL in that they were deliberately restricted in many cases. The primary problem with the blogs is that they were juxtapositioned with the status 'blog', which really is a big flashing sign to signal how uncommunicative LL is about problems on the grid.

The LL solution was to make it more difficult in some areas, easier by moving it to the forums in others and still have a hugely useless status blog still sitting on the blog page. And for what it is worth, I have been on the Internet since dial up, Compuserve and Prodigy (and earlier), and LL has the worst status reporting of any major service. Mainly, it lets you know about planned outages and tells you about problems after they are solved. Apparently, unlike every other ISP and service I work with, absolutely no one is tasked with taking one minute and even admitting to a problem. Most of the other ISPs, I get an email or notice BEFORE I usually know there is a problem. The last few evidently fairly serious to very serious inventory server problems were never mentioned, not on the splash page, not on the blog. I found out after the second lost transaction and (evidently) permanently lost inventory item and talked to people on this forum and elsewhere. That simply is not how it should be.