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To be fair though, I’ve never really thought much about it

It makes it feel much more like a community when Tobold posts something and Larisa, Klepsacovic, Rohan and Gevlon all put up a related post discussing it later in the week.

Most of the blogs I read I discovered from blogrolls.

I started with Honor’s Code, then found Blessing of Kings on his blogroll. From there I moved out, and now read Klepsacovic, Larisa, Spinks, Tobold, MMO Gamer Chick, Rhidach, Antigen, and a few others who I can’t remember off the top of my head because I don’t have my bookmarks list on hand.

If there weren’t such great blogrolls, particularly on a few of the above blogs, I’d never have anything to read on my lunch breaks.

However I do get people who are only interested in, say, Eve coming when I write about Eve. They will find a few Eve gems but most of the blogs won’t interest them (but will be obviously not about Eve).

The thought that you could somehow try impress on others by your blogroll never crossed my mind. It sounds a bit strange to me. After all – linkage isn’t something you expect to be reciprocal. (At least I don’t expect that. I link to a lot of blogs that don’t link back to me and I’m perfectly fine with that. And there are blogs linking to me that I don’t link to and I don’t think twice about that either.)

So how could it impress someone that I choose throw in a ton of blog links on my own blog? It escapes my comprehension. (But then admittedly I’m not the most talented or knowledgable person when it comes to social networking.)

It would be more impressive if let’s say for instance Tobold started to have a blogroll, linking to just three blogs of his liking, and one of those would be mine. But that isn’t something you can affect really. It just happens.

I’m really glad that my greeting meant something to you. I try to do those things every now and then, although it’s quite impossible to greet everyone, since there are just too many WoW blogs popping up every day to keep up. But when I spot a newcomer, especially one that has the “something” I’m looking for in a bloger, I try to be nice and encouraging. I still remember how much it meant when Aurik from /hug and Softtistle were the first bloggers from the English speaking blogsphere to greet me as I started to blog in English after first doing it in Swedish for a couple of months (which turned out to be too lonely in the end.) And when Matticus linked to one of my posts after a couple of months, saying that he spotted “something”. It was a short post inspired by my onion chopping. But oh, how much that link love meant, the encouragement!
That’s why I try to pay forward whenever I get the opportunity.

Mind you, back then, a blog/ weblog was mostly people posting links they had found and liked so that they could share them.