Something has been bugging me for a while about this whole "blogging" thing. I have the looming feeling that if you're not already established in the blogging community that it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to get the same level of recognition even if your editorials are of a higher caliber. Specifically, I'm referring to myself and my own posts.

I remember a few months ago having the goal of making it onto the user soapbox, and I spent a couple hours writing an editorial about how binging on games can somewhat ruin the experience altogether. It was funny, thoughtful, well written and with the perfect amount of perspective – and yet, it didn't make it onto the soapbox. In fact, for all I can tell only one person read it (though that person commented that they thought it was a good post =P).

Now I look at the soapbox and see posts like "Vote for Giygas!" and "Why Vader shouldn't be in the contest" prominently displayed, even though identical sentiments have been expressed on the forums dozens of times. Meanwhile, I'm here writing thoughtful editorials about the rapidly growing infection of gamespot users converting to trolls and about people using a second online avatar to protect their first, and I get nothing.

What does it take to get some recognition?