A thought occurred to me today while I was perusing the latest and greatest from Active Rain. You see, I have a long list of people that I have subscribed to. I am constantly looking for more great bloggers to keep track of due to the fact that there is so much to be learned from people here in the Rain!
Anyway, I have come to the realization that there are basically two types of people here in the Rain. There are the people who genuinely want to learn and share information with their peers, and there are those who are here for "other" reasons (cue dramatic music)...
Reason #1: They are here basically to use AR as a secondary MLS service, constantly posting listings 
whenever they get one in the hope of landing a client.
Reason #2: They are here to post as much mindless, meaningless drivel as they can in order to make themselves climb the Google ladder to its apex.
Reason #3: They are here to post the same boring inane "market conditions" blogs in order to get easy points and once again, climb the Google ladder.
Now let me explain the above critiques!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reason #1: Now, please understand that I don't have any problem with people who want to post their listings on Active Rain. In fact, I think it is a pretty good idea! What I do have a problem with is the blogger who ONLY posts listings without ever contributing any useful information to the collective knowledge base. It is my understanding that the purpose of AR is to glean and share information with other Real Estate professionals for the purpose of helping each other out.
Reason #2: Ah, the drivel slinger...I have come across a few bloggers who seem as if their entire purpose in life is to stab other Rainers in the back! One person in particular wrote several blogs specifically attacking one individual and actually NAMED that individual. I am happy to see that their account has since been suspended, but the fact remains that there are guys like that out there!
Reason #3: Finally, we come to boring inane guy. In mt recent quest to add to my quality bloggers list, I stumbled across a fellow who only posts "market conditions" blogs for his particular city. Generally I don't think this is a big deal, but he posts the same thing every few days! All he has to do is change the numbers up a bit, and hit the "post" button. As of the writing of this blog, he has posted over 50 entries and received 3 comments total. Why? Because its boring! Shake it up a bit! We want to see some of your personality shine through the tedium!
Sigh...oh well, at least there are more folks here for the right reasons than the wrong ones! I will keep 
addingto my list of awesome bloggers and weeding through the "others". I heard a quote today that actually applies very well here in the Rain. "Sometimes, you have to walk through some manure to get to the flowers!"
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