Well apparently there is a new blogging quality standard that some of us just aren’t achieving.

As a non-professional writer I was unaware that my voluntary blogging efforts are subject to quality control. Reprimanding my blogging ability is like criticising Mother Theresa for not being better looking - a tad churlish. I can only work with what I have, if you don’t like my efforts fine, don’t read.

Constructive criticism in blog world is of course useful, but ‘shit-awful‘ is not constructive, it is just childish mud slinging at people who happen to have more popular blogs in a vain attempt to get yourself some attention.

I do regularly give feedback on blogs, generally when asked, but I do it privately. On the rare occasion I say something in a comment about another blogger I try to make it constructive as opposed to “a harsh fucking review“. Dragging someone else down to enhance your own standing serves no good and it certainly won’t result in mainstream media taking any of us more seriously. (To date I have had no issue with mainstream media e.g. Irish Times, 2FM, The Tribune, Dubliner, U etc )

Claiming that your post is ‘intended as a critique of the blogs themselves, and not of the bloggers‘ is highly disingenuous, unless some bloggers have a team of ghost writers, the blog is very much about the blogger. The hypocrisy of this becomes very clear when you refer to my blog like this:

‘epitomises (for me) all that I dislike about Dublin - it is to blogs what Café an Seine is to pubs?’

(struggling to understand if this is a bad thing)

‘I think it perpetuates an unhealthy and unhelpful stereotype.’

What stereotype am I perpetuating and why is it unhealthy and unhelpful? Is my blog inciting some type of racial hatred against single women who live in Dublin?

The most frustrating point is that the author called for open debate, but did not have the courage or courtesy to link to the blogs she slagged off (let’s not fool ourselves that it was criticism). Allow me to return the non-link favour.

So, when you say that you’re “a far cry from a flirtysomething?“. Trust me I don’t take it as a “slight” - it’s a compliment.
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PS- I assume you will withdraw from the TV3 documentary rather than risk being in my blog’s “company“?
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Comments closed as I think everything has been said on this topic by now.
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Thanks to all who helped with my technical issues this week - much appreciated.