BlogWars User Manual

After extensive research on the net (aka clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky" and getting no useful info), I have realized that there is no official manual on how to conduct a blog war.. That kinda sucks.. Mao Kung Fu wrote about the Art of War and everybody drools about it.. I have never read that and I won't until it becomes a movie with nudity and aliens (not necessarily combined, but creativity is welcome). The fact is that there is no way to know how to be at war with another blogger..

When you need to whack another nation, it is very straightforward: throw something that makes a big hole. If we are attacking a neighboring city, you might wanna reduce the size of the hole, thus downgrading from nukes to large stones and maybe some molotov. If you are at war with your neighbour, you throw your garbage and dead leaves to their side of the sidewalk.. I'm guessing that marital war involves spitting on each other from each side of the bed..

Regardless of the type of missile, the outcome can be easily evaluated: the side that is disabled first, loses the war. By disabling I mean "being incapable of throwing any missiles".. So, if a nation never threw any missiles and was just hiding in some cellar, it doesn't count as a war, that must be something else..

But for Internet wars, it gets more complex: Hackers whack servers, and maybe you could kinda keep count of how many servers were taken over by each party.. Virus writers infect as many machines as possible, with their nickname hidden somewhere in the code (brilliant).. How about blog wars?

I can see a couple of alternatives to this setting:
- we can get a group of impartial "jurors" to assess the posts in each blog and determine which blog excels in quality.
- we can let the stats tell us about the number of visitors in each site, and let these numbers decide
- Accept that I won and come back to the underworld

I have some reservations about the first one, because life has taught me that I am unable to instill 'nice' feelings in people whether online or, even less likely, in person. Consequently, any opponent would quickly gain the hearts of the jurors and I would be screwed.. No go.

The third alternative is awesome and I will be adopting it in my head. Welcome to my life.

By elimination, we have the second model left. Sounds fair enough.. But here are the clauses to be adhered to:
- Points will be given for daily 'Unique visitors' and 'Returning Visitors' (use http://www.statcounter.com for these stats)
- Points will be assessed on a daily basis; weekly winners get an extra point
- First blogger to reach 50 points wins the war
- We must both (or ALL, in case of a war with multiple parties) post the weekly reports each Monday
- A visible link to enemy blogs should be inserted on each blog. This is how the masses can choose which blog should be supported

So.. KP.. Starting next Monday? I'm not afraid to lose, life has taught me to do that very well.. But let me know so that I keep my best material for later.. *grins diabolically while trying to think of anything at all worth posting*

Vikings shall rule the earth..