Introducing Brickpicker Community Blogs

Ed and I are going to do a trial run at allowing any Brickpicker members to create their very own blog here on the site. This will be a chance for people to post their own opinions, share their LEGO investing stories (good or bad), create their own editorials, etc. Instead of building your own blog and trying to get traffic to it so people can read the masterpiece you just spent so much time on, you will be able to sound off on an established site and allow people to share their thoughts on your thoughts.

I personally will be using this space to talk about the site including new features, changes and anything else related to the site. Any important announcements will be posted here and of course I will share any great LEGO hunt stories that I have.

Here are a few simple guidelines:

• Must be LEGO related
• Hopefully has some substance to it, not just a two words like"Hello World!"
• We are not looking to turn this into a place to spam advertisements about your sales. It depends on what it is, but we hope its not the only type of posts you do. But we encourage you to talk about your business. This is something we will try to find a happy mix to make it worthwhile for everyone.
• Please be respectful to your peers
• Create meaningful titles that truly relate to your posts.
• Don't copy the blog news stories from the other blog sites. If the content is relevant and you have your own spin on the story, then that is great. But no plagiarism!

Posts will be approved by Admins and Mods, especially here at the start so that we can begin to see how the whole thing unfolds. You have the ability to create categories for your personal blog to organize your posts. If you write an outstanding editorial on your own and we feel it can be a main Brickpicker blog, we will feature it and you will get bonus brickpoints. Speaking of Brickpoints, we will give you 250 Brickpoints for starting your community blog. We will also award 10 Brickpoints for every approved entry that you post. If members like your content and start to post comments to your editorial, then you will receive 1 Brickpoint for every comment posted.

The goal Ed and I are trying to achieve is to create a fun, helpful and interactive community. We want your voice to be heard and we know people learn through sharing experiences. This is not required for anyone, it is there for you use if you wish to use it. This is also a stepping stone to what is coming around the corner and the continued growth and enhancement of Brickpicker.

So create your blog and start blogging!
http://www.brickpicker.com/forum/index.php/blogs/

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Just a note. Even though you are free to do reviews, evaluations, etc. These entries do not count towards the current running contest unless you let us know that is what you wrote it for. Write your blog entry and if you feel it's a good fit four our main blog or evaluation corner article, please send Ed and myself a PM so that we can review it. We just want to make it clear that the number of posts you do on your community blog does not have anything to do with the contests unless we are informed that your blog entry is being written for the contest.