I respect Jen and I like LW.
That doesn't mean I'm always nice to them. My respect for people based on their ability.
But I have to say, I overwhelmingly agree with this blog. Jen's blogs are very much the kind of thing that I had hoped for on JU. A user who blogs several times per day about whatever they want.
MOST blogs out there that are active have dozens of new posts on them per day. That's what a blog is.
I have begun nullifying (i.e. they become hidden effectively) blogs that are just nasty and against other JUers. I'm not quite at the point where I'm going to just outright forbid them but as I find them, I make them effectively disappear from the site's distribution system.
The concept that one person trying to succeed as somehow harming someone else seems very unlike LW.
I have always felt a certain level of sadness towards those who accuse others of being "after points" because they are active.
Look at the top 10 blogs on JU by points:
#1 MINE. 95,461 points.
#2 HC's (not sure what that' sabout -checking into it): 23,504
Look at the point difference. Anything under 50,000 points is effectively noise. That means, all it would take to pop into the top 10 is to have a single very popular article.
Comments and posts are worth trivial amounts of points. The best and easiest way to become popular is READERS.
My Rush blasts Instapundit article has 10,354 points all by itself. Do some of the people who are obsessed with points get that? That article, by itself, would make my blog 15th on JU. ONE blog article.
Jen's articles are about the things she wants to write about. Good for her I say! And to anyone who thinks her motivation is to be in the top 10 list, I say to them: Get a life. And get an idea of just how ridiculously easy it is to get into the top 10.
To go on a rant, it's the same sort of frustration I have with poor people thinking how "hard" it is to get rich or to at least not be poor. It's not hard. It just takes some sense. Look at what the people who succeed do and understand how they do it.
Similarly, look at how the top blog sites got popular. My top blogs have NOTHING To do with me owning the blog (other than the GalCiv related ones which are a small %). This article has 129,000 points (only a small % of it is in the past 30 days).