I'm Your Private Dancer

For those of you who aren't familiar with BlogExplosion, it's a site that helps you to promote your blog, as well as discover new blogs by surfing. There's a point system in place that issues 'credits,' which you receive for surfing other people's blog. As of May 27th, you can win credits for participating in their newest features: Blog Rocket and Battle of the Blogs. You can then use these credits to either battle some more or to rotate self-promotional banners for your blog. Their latest feature, Battle of the Blogs is the focus of today's post.

A quick explanation of how Battle of the Blogs works, courtesy of BlogExplosion: Members set up a challenge then wait until another BlogExplosion member accepts their challenge. A 'challenge' consists of a member wagering anywhere from 10-100 credits.

Once a challenge has been accepted 9 other members vote for both blogs. The person with the most votes wins the challenge and gets 75% of the total credits wagered. The 9 members who have voted on who is the best blog split the remaining 25% of the total credits wagered.

Apparently a few people who can't handle the high adrenaline world of blog battling are all up in arms over people (yours truly, among others) who solicit votes in the BlogExplosion chat room (AKA the "Shout Box"). Anyway some of the "bloggers" who lost the BOTB are gettin' all bajiggity about their loss and blogging about how soliciting votes is "cheating." Lol! There are even screen captures to show my malicious, soliciting ways. I won't be hyping them or their blogs with hyperlinks here, but if you feel the compulsion to read them, I can e-mail you the links. Oh, and if you check out yesterday's post, you can read a comment left by one of The Sour Grapes Bunch.

The irony of it all is that the ones who are complaining about it the most, have only been blogging for a few months anyway. So why get all worked up over something that you'll most likely end up abandoning anyway (trust me, I've seen it happen all too often)? Maybe if they'd focus those short attention spans on actual content, instead of bemoaning the fact that they lost some goofy credits that don't even have any monetary value to begin with, maybe they'd do a lot more winning and a lot less whining. Somehow though, I still have my doubts.

So, in closing, if you want to experience the drama for yourself, get ye over to BlogExplosion ASAP! The cast of Falcon Crest is waiting. Or should I say the cast of Degrassi Junior High? Whatever the case, I think someone needs a nap and a refill on their sippy cup.

P.s. I just won a battle and I didn't even solicit votes this time. It just goes to show you...I am a svengali. Deal with it.