It's that time of year again. Miss Stardoll World will begin shortly and I can honestly say that I'm not looking forward to it. I get a fair amount of covergirl spam as it is, which I don't mind because if people take the time to vote me, I'll vote them back. But, I can already foresee that there will be a dramatic increase in the amount of guestbook spamming.
I really think people take this way too seriously. As I've mentioned before, I don't believe in virtual recognition as it doesn't get you anywhere in the real world. Sure, it's nice to have a group of regular readers on your blog, or a decent number of page views. I'm talking about the deceitful kind of fame that we see on Stardoll, the one that breaks friendships and clutters guestbooks.
No poor Stardoll member wants to log onto their account to find an abundance of "Vote me for Miss Stardoll World". What really bothers me is the threatening members of Stardoll that think you'll vote them if the cast their ill-grammar abuse on you. I'm even contemplating closing my guestbook for the duration of the voting. I don't want to sound like a snob here, because that's not what I'm trying to be. I want to preserve my short fuse before my temper really gets the better of me and I take it out on someone innocent.
Thankfully, this time last year, I was taking a break from Stardoll so I escaped being caught up in any of the MSW drama. This is my first encounter with it but I've already heard some terrible stories about it - so called 'friends' falling out, LE and rares being offered to anyone that will spare a moment to vote and members spending thousands of Stardollars broadcasting.
I just visited last year's Miss Stardoll World winner, perilice2 and she seems to be quite a deserving winner. I'm not sure if she used the tactics mentioned above but by reading her presentation, she seems to be a nice person. I'm not saying there is nothing positive about this contest, but the way people go about trying to win just really annoys me.
Last year's MSW winner - perilice2
I'm pretty positive I won't run for MSW. One, I don't have a chance at winning and two, I don't want to really annoy people by spamming their guestbook. I'll be really glad when this whole thing is all over so that some normality can be restored to this site.
Sorry for the long post, some things just really need to be said.
