I agree with Ophelie, I try to keep my mentions of my guild positive and am respectful of my guildies. So far I haven’t mentioned them much and I’m still gun shy about using people’s names so I stick to class references. If I did have something negative to say, I’d try to keep it constructive and take any serious issues I have to an officer. My blog is not a place to air dirty laundry.

I’ve never heard that expression before (I’m an English noob), but I like it! It fits. Stirring up drama is something I really try to avoid too. I take so much pride in saying that I’ve rarely encountered significant drama in wow, I don’t want to have to change that (and be responsible).

The apologies to the feedreader people were actually because I couldn’t cut on the feedreader. I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s scrolling finger with my epically long personal post.

I used to have a livejournal, but for whatever reason, I don’t feel the need for it anymore. I guess I don’t have time to think about my emotions, it’s always gogogogogo. But back when I had an LJ, I wrote all sorts of stuff in there. I was careful to keep the negative stuff “friends only” and the really bad stuff private, just in case my parents or brothers or teachers or employers would come across it. I have no problems with being a wreck, but I don’t want the people I have to live around to know!

My blog ends up being a form of therapy too, although I guess it’s more personal growth type therapy. I do learn a lot about myself through writing and it’s great exercise for my problem solving skills.

It seems like you sometimes have the problem I had with my old guild, where you just can’t talk to them because they don’t listen. I just ended up moving to a guild where I would be happy. But to me, having a good relationship with the guild I’m in is a top priority. I can’t play the game if I’m not crazy about the people I hang out with on vent most nights.

There are a lot of similarities between blogging and emailing in term of putting all your thoughts out into words. I do personally enjoy letters when speaking about certain difficult topics since you have the time to think about what you write. It’s much easier to be efficient in writing than in speaking.

The difference is that emails are personalized and intended to be private, blogs are general and usually public. The feeling you get when you read an email directed at you is different from the one you get when you read about yourself in a blog post.

That said, other than a few legal points, there’s no real “rights” or “wrongs” when it comes to blogging, it’s really up to your own sense of ethics and what kind of consequences you’re willing to face for your writing.

An excellent post. I’ve been through a lot of guild drama in the past, but even when somebody or something really gets under my skin, I’m very careful what I write about it, if I write about it at all, because aside from offending people involved, whether they deserve it or not, it can stir up more drama. It is definitely a stepping on thin glass topic (did I get the phrase right? I’m sleepy for some reason).

It’s a little known fact that I have a livejournal. I guess it’s a blog. But for me, in all reality, it’s a dumping ground for everything. I don’t really write about WoW related things there… More about my emotional instability, to gain some ground and see my issues in black and white in front of me; yes, a form of therapy.

I think no one reads it… at least no one who knows me does.