The Struggling Blogger

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I thought that I can brush it off. Unfortunately I have to read it again… and then again… and then some more. I’m talking about bloggers who look down on fellow bloggers. I read it on forums, some even blog about it.

Does being in a free-hosted blog makes me less of a blogger? Are self-hosted blogger better bloggers? Maybe they meant well, saying that it is a must that a blogger must have his own domain, a self-hosted blog, even if he is just starting to blog. Because, as they continues, a free-hosted blog gives an impression that it contains crap. And this coming from a supposed to be respectable blogger.

I, for one have seen free-hosted blogs who contains useful information, a far cry from the crap being referred to by the above-mentioned self-hosted blogger. And have seen too, self-hosted blogs who contains crap, if not altogether trash. Yet, I do not bash on them.

Maybe they are spending on their blogs and we don’t. Maybe they earn better and we don’t. Still, that doesn’t give them the right to look down on us.

Someday, when I can pay for my own domain, including it’s maintenance, I hope to have a self-hosted blog. But if and when that happens, I will not look down on fellow bloggers - even if they are on a self-hosted blog!