Should You Run a Blogging Group on Exclusively or Inclusivity? |

Ryan Biddulph February 7, 2025 blogging tips 🕑 5 minutes read

Penang, Malaysia

Run highly exclusive blogging groups for social media.

Approve only members who seem resonant.

Let them prove their inclusion once inside.

At the end of the day, blogging groups for sites like Twitter, Facebook and the pro network LinkedIn thrive based on:

the content published to the wall
the engagement of members in response to the content

Both seem to be critical factors in running a highly valued group. Highly valued groups drive organic traffic through social media. The algorithm loves excellent content mixed with solid engagement levels.

Where does excellent content and genuine engagement come from?

Why from quality, engaged, credible group members of course.

What About Being Inclusive?

Huge mistake.

Here’s why: including anyone allows the general public to enter the group.

The gen pop is almost always unclear. Being unclear means that:

spammers
time wasters
tire kickers
dead weight

invade the group. Or enter the group based on your inclusive invite.

Being as compassionate as possible and non-condemning. even filtering members carefully does not rule out the fact that 9 out of 10 Blogging From Paradise group members (I run 10 separate blogging tips themed groups through Twitter, Facebook and Linked) spend NOT 4 seconds to read the group rules before submitting content to be approved.

Being inclusive includes bone-heads. Sorry. But if you are mindless enough not to spend 4 seconds of your life for the:

good of the group
benefit of your good name
pure courtesy to the generous group owner who extended an invite to you

then yes, you are, in fact, a bone head dodo bird (no insults to extinct avian fauna out there).

Jokes aside, you must run social media blogging groups on exclusivity because a surprising majority of humans are not mindful. By default, the mindless masses trample all over a group with spam and/or no genuine engagement, ruining the group, crapping all over its organic reach and resulting in another social media group entering the cyber graveyard.

You know exactly what I mean guys.

80,000 member groups with 1 Like per post.

THOSE types of blogging groups.

50,000 member groups with 50 members who post identical business pitches all day long to a chorus of nobody, a seeming serenade of crickets.

These groups become graveyards because of inclusive tendencies. Include everyone to gradually make it fall apart for everyone.

Being inclusive works for being kind to all human beings. But as far as bringing everyone in under one group umbrella on the level of form, most carry too much head trash not to trash the collective itself.

If 9 out of 10 folks from my groups cannot be mindful for 4 seconds, what makes you think these folks will be mindful for 4 years to the group? Why would each person genuinely engage for years and publish highly detailed, helpful content for 4 years? If you cannot give 4 seconds of time to the collective how can you ever dream of giving more than that?

Far From Being a Rant

This post is not a rant but a reality of the world.

I do not take mindfulness personally.

But you as a blogger need to understand why running a group based solely on exclusively works best for everyone.

High quality content plus genuine, targeted engagement drives organic traffic to groups. Driving organic traffic to groups means everyone who posts helpful content to the wall can prosper greatly through the organic exposure increase.

Folks there to consume benefit handsomely for the depth and frequency of detailed content published to the wall.

Hand picking members then making them prove their group worth to you is the only way to run such highly coveted, valuable groups.

My Groups Process

I invite or approve potential members who experience a trial run once inside the group walls.

Does the individual submit spam content or spam comments?

If the member spams I either suspend them instantly or block them immediately. We are all adults who should spend 4 seconds reading the most basic group rules ever. I include 1-2 sentences as group guidelines.

If new members do not spam, new members prove on some level that they want to help the group and not hurt the group.

Valuable content providers, genuine commentors and Likers/Sharers arrest my attention span. I love these folks. These folks accelerate the collective success of the group. Generous members come to the front of the class.

Members who never comment or “see” updates are OK. Perhaps I cull dead weight after a while – why join a group if you do not actively participate? – or maybe I allow them to stick around. At the very least, inactive folks do not actively hurt the group.

Being a Member of a Group Is a Privilege Not a Right

Bloggers who run successful, engaged, organic groups worked for 1000’s of hours over years to build a positive reputation.

In essence, joining their group piggybacks on their reputation because you align with their name.

My friends; that is a privilege not a right.

Guess what?

You want that to be the case!

You want exclusively.

If joining blogging groups were a right, the inclusive doors would open and the general public would storm the group, shit all over it with spam content and spam comments, the value would plummet and the group would vanish after engagement reached ground zero.

Real Estate Example

My father lives in a nice middle class community in my native New Jersey.

Every neighbor took great care of their house and property on his block when I lived there from the late 1970’s to the early 2000’s.

Decades ago, a large family with a severe poverty consciousness moved across the street from him.

The family trashed the house, trashed the lawn and eventually moved out after creating a glaring eye sore and lowering the collective property values of neighbors for years. The home appeared to be bombed after years of neglect. Collapsing roof, crushed garage door, broken front door, mold on the siding, garbage strewn across the yard…..it was a mess.

The family did not earn the right to own a house in that neighborhood because living there was a privilege. Everyone else valued their home and their neighbors.

If that strikes you the wrong way, let them move next to you. 🙂 When your property value plummets, parties blare until 5 AM and drug dealing occurs across the street from you (as was the case with these neighbors from hell across the way from my dad), let’s see how much you fight for inclusive tendencies within your neighborhood.

The family likely moved to a small apartment they could adequately care for in a resonant neighborhood. City, suburbs or rural living, it doesn’t matter much.

Blogging groups are similar.

Include those who earned it and exclude everyone else for the good of all who join.

The excluded are free to: