Blog Rage. Is it Really All The Rage?

We at Bloggers Anonymous would like to call attention to a very unfortunate yet very real phenomenon happening across the blogosphere known as Blog Rage perpetrated by Blog Raging Bloggers (BRB).  It’s a serious problem with deadly consequences.  In order to underscore this issue, we would like to reference “recovered” Blog Ragaholic J.D. Matthews.  J.D. Has long since overcome his problem by starting a blog about music.  After all—they say that music soothes the savage beast.  He’s put together a list of signs that might indicate you have a problem.  Since it’s coming from someone who knows about the devastations of this disorder, we urge you to take this to heart.

Top 10 Signs that you might be a Blog Ragaholic:

10:  You own a voodoo doll that says "Die, Seth Godin, die!"

9:  You post a YouTube of you kickboxing it out with a cardboard cut-out of Robert Scoble

8:  You sold the email address of everyone on your blog roll to Nigerian
Advance Fee Fraud Emailers

7:  Your last post was the lyrics to Drowning Pools' "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor."

6:  Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Knight, and Tom Cruise all left you a comment and told you to chill out.

5:  You do “drive by” commenting—leaving malicious comments and leaving the chaos for other to clean up.

4:  Within the course of one day your IP is banned by Wordpress, Typepad, Myspace, Blogger, Facebook, Friendster, and your own ISP.

3:  Ann Handley and Mack Collier refuse to let you into their community.

2:  You read Bloggers Anonymous and want to hurt the first person you see.

1:  You are forced to frequent obscure blogs such as “fungusfetish.com” because they are desperate for comments.  Even angry ones.

Note: J.D. "pursuaded" several BA staffers to post this, and after seeing his last comment—we thought it would be a good idea to just do as he said.

Comments

[Joe from NOMEWK.blogspot.com]

Hey, noob here. Just looking up some images for my new blog about blog blogs, i entitled, The Blog about Blog Blogs.

It's the image of three interlocking blog circles resulting in a central overlap of capital BLOG. Anyway, can I use this image on my new Blog about Blog Blogs?

Also, I think I would like to highlight this blog, not as a blog about blog blogs, but just as a blog about blogs, which is similar, but not exactly the same.

11. You conjugate all of your expletives with BLOG: "Dude, BLUCK those BLUCKERS!"

[champagne]

This book reassembles the selection liked better images of Michel , realized
between 1984 and 1999 in Champaign.
Natural landscapes, villages and vineyard table-centre, lights and seized
writings, those clichés assemble two and two , for best to describe the
variety and the beauty of champagne horizons.

This book is assigned to all that who love to depart discovering of France,
of his regions and of his products.
Securities who is then to cross-roads of numerous rubrics :
journeys, gastronomy, enology, culture, tourism, regions, vines, vineyards and
wines.

[starcycle]

In this situation, the runner posts(shows) an impertinent physical condition, while the others sink into the effort. At the conclusion of the journey(running) this runner shows an exceptional state of coolness, as if he had crossed(gone through) only some kilometres.

[Ada]

While I think this post is humourous in some ways I find the part about Nigerian advance fee fraud e-mailers slightly less funny. A few dishonest people (few considering there are at least 130 million of us) have given the rest of us a bad name. The vast majority of us work hard every day against odds that some would find hard to imagine to make an honest living and we are succeeding. Sorry if that was not taken in the humourous vein you intended. And yes, I am a Nigerian and very proud of it.
But then I'm sure you've heard comments like that before. Have a good day.

[Denny]

Even though your “Top 10 Signs that you might be a Blog Ragaholic” was meant to be funny (kind of like Letterman’s top 10 ten lists), believe it or not, there really seems to be a dependency called “blog addiction.” And due to “blog rage,” the term “Blog Ragaholic” has come into existence.

I have recently started to compile a list of the different “addictions” I have been reading about on some of the blogs. So far I have encountered the following dependencies: drugs, alcohol, sex, porn, oil (as in petroleum), gambling, food, exercise, love, video games, comment addiction (i.e., checking the comments on one’s blog), window shopping, thrill seeking, yarn addiction (not a misprint!), Internet addiction, Technorati addiction, addiction to online gaming, information addiction, addiction to technology, MySpace addiction, blog addiction, knitting addiction (no joke!), and now people who are Blog Ragaholics.

This inventory is obviously not an official list gathered from the medical or psychological literature. It is interesting to note, however, that people themselves are the ones labeling their behavior and the behavior of others as “addictive.”

I’m just adding my 2 cents to this interesting phenomenon :-)

DenMan7
http://www.alcoholics-info.com

[Bunyamin Najmi]

You check your Tecnorati rank every minutes...

[sourfou]

Good god! I can name at least 50 bloggers that might be suffering right as we speak...

[Patricia Skinner]

Oh God, you have me worried about myself now. Do I need therapy you think?

[thebizofknowledge]

I stumbled across your blog while I was in the process of doing some online research. Well, the only thing I can offer to this discussion is the sincere hope that there is a 12 step recovery group for these unfortunate souls!

[Adam C]

You start yet another bloody blog called bloggers anonymous.

[cj]

I have never thought of a "comment drive by" but now that you mention it it does sound kind of fun! :P

[Josh Kenzer]

11. You verbally yell at other bloggers through your computer monitor

[J.D.]

Somebody comment or somebody dies!