Some very good schemes - now a new one

The divisiveness in the Blogpowersphere does not appear, to me, to be one of Left and Right or extreme and moderate. It appears to be that of mature and immature.

There's a level on which my co-administrators plus people like Tom Paine, Thunderdragon and others are operating. Look down the posts. It involves testimonials, schemes to improve ourselves and an idea Tin Drummer and I discussed which I'd like to put forward below.

Positive.

Then there is the level of the squabbling, the girls' blouses or whatever, of ultimatums like 'if he doesn't do this then I'll do that' or 'oh yeah, well you're just ...' etc. etc. Personally speaking, this latter level leaves me cold but everyone to his or her own, I suppose.

I think the criterion for posting or even commenting here, [naturally we're not trying to enforce it], should be:

'Is it positive? Does it advance our collective interests?'

If it doesn't advance our collective interests but only our own personal interest, then best not to post it. We're never going to convince anyone through negativity but we've every chance of influencing others through positiveness. I'm no saint but it just seems to me the way to go. I try to keep my negativity for my own site.

So, we have a number of schemes currently going:

a] The various blogroll options, including the new scrollable, which I really like;

b] The ongoing testimonials which I urge you to get into please, people;

c] The Technorati wheeze which is also wonderful and the Truth Laid Bear which, sadly, my site cannot enter for technical blocking reasons;

d] A new one which Tin Drummer and I were discussing. Here's how I see this working:

1] E-mail nominations are accepted by yours truly [keep it to one administrator] in the week prior to each Sunday for a site you'd like to see promoted during the following week.

2] From these, we'll choose 5 blogs to be promoted and I'll publish these on Sunday evening, at 18:00;

3] Members will, during the next week:

[i] Hit these sites 3 to 5 times a day, even if we don't stay in there. We don't even need to leave comments unless we want. You know we have little time to spare, so it can be done quickly. It's purely for hits. This, of course, does not alter in any way what we usually do.

[ii] Link at least once in the week, in one of our posts, to these 5 sites.

That's it. By my calculations, if 25 of us hit these guys 3 times in a day, there're 75 hits for the blog, each day! For the medium bloggers, that's a drop in the ocean but for the little people, it can make a huge difference and raise his or her standing.

I really believe we should be using our combined strength to assist each other. This is why I'm so dismissive of all this negative claptrap.

Will we try these schemes?