Techwire asks ‘Are Irish blogs just crap?’.

The answer is no, but the Irish blogging scene is crap. To me it all just feels a little dead at the moment.

There’s not enough conflict. And by that I don’t mean fighting, although those are always good, but there seems to be a unformity of opinion on matters social, political, moral and everything else.

How can you stimulate debate and argument when everybody’s too fucking busy telling everyone else how great they are?

It’s as boring as fuck and while I fully understand the community aspects of it, or at least people’s desires to make a community out of it, there’s no rule which says you can’t disagree with somebody about something. I’m sure everyone has friends whose views differ from theirs. It might be something as simple as supporting a rival football team or something religious or social, such as anti-abortion or pro-choice. You can argue with them, can’t you? It doesn’t mean you hate them.

There are those that try and debate but I’ve seen them dismissed or banned from leaving more comments on certain blogs, simply because they’ve challenged what has been written. Yet censorship of that kind elsewhere would be derided with gusto, and rightly so.

So why won’t people argue on Irish blogs anymore? There was a time when you could find a good scrap every day of the week, now people are meeting up and having pints and posting photos of themselves having pints.

Which is all well and good and lovely in real life but it’s crap for blogging.