On being "banned"

It has become very hip and trendy to ban or become banned from weblogs these days.

It is rather humorous to "lurk" around the blogosphere to witness some of the hypocrisy and weasling going on as netizens debate issues from technology policy to racial politics and gender issues in the modern world.

I have yet to be banned myself from a blog where I chose to participate in the dialogue and comment areas. Perhaps I am not spicing it up enough or my comments are too dull.

Some seem to be wearing their banned status as a badge of honor and continue to defend their positions on other affiliated weblogs. There is so much pseudo intellectual discourse being thrown around in the name of defending ones avatar image that I wonder what some of these banned types do when they are not frantically typing way defending or ridiculing one another in a medium that never resolves any disputes.

There is never a winner or a loser in these online debates as the discussion inevitably leads to the owner of the blog to start to delete "offensive" posts and ban those that chose to go against the editorial mission of the weglog owner.

Perhaps the next innovation in weblogs is to move into the video realm and conduct live debates that include much more in the way of skills to make your argument persuasive to a larger audience as well as to your newly hated enemy that gets you so steamed at their hypocrisy that you end up spilling vulgarity to make a point and inevitably getting yourself banned.