Lukewarm bloggers — they do exist

I have been sub­scrib­ing to Perry Noble, pas­tor of NewSpring Church in Ander­son, South Car­olina, for a while now.  I always enjoy read­ing his thoughts every day and how he takes every­day sit­u­a­tions (like those with his tod­dler daugh­ter) and relates it back to scrip­ture and how we can apply it to our Chris­t­ian walk.

His post “Eight Signs of a Luke­warm Blog­ger” caught my atten­tion.  There are actu­ally peo­ple out there who exhibit some of these traits, if not all of them.  In my short tenure as a blog­ger, I have run across a few of them.   Some of them were self-professed Chris­tians, oth­ers were not.

Although his post is directed toward those who call them­selves Chris­tians but engage in some of these acts, it can be applied to “sec­u­lar” blog­ging as well.  These are the peo­ple we call “trolls” in com­ment threads.  They delib­er­ately search out peo­ple with whom they dis­agree and com­mence to word war­fare.  And not by just post­ing a dis­sent­ing view — but by per­son­ally attack­ing the blog­ger and/or the com­menters that hold the blogger’s view.

There have been many sit­u­a­tions where I would post a short com­ment on a blog post that I agreed with, give the blog­ger kudos for the post, and the next thing I know I’m being per­son­ally attacked for hold­ing the view I do.  I would then try to engage the “troll” by try­ing to explain where I was com­ing from, but to no avail.  The “troll” would get into attack mode (I won’t lie — I would get into defen­sive mode) and start call­ing names and using every curse word in the book.  I real­ized my energy was being wasted on the per­son, so I even­tu­ally just quit vis­it­ing the blog alto­gether.  (I now try to wan­der over to the blog(s) every now and then and see if the troll is still there.)

Luke­warm blog­gers are out there — they do exist.  The only thing the rest of us can do is pray for them and try to encour­age them to stop the prac­tice.

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