A
blogwar, also known as blog war, is a
coordinated
troll movement to intimidate
bloggers into shutting down their blog.
This is achieved through posting
flames and threats on particular entries. Typically,
the blog warriors declare blogwar on sites that they deem trite,
cliched, or stupid.
One of the shortlived pioneers of this
practice was
Blogwar
which was later shutdown after surviving for only a few months.
This site contained a list of targets and a list of successfully
shutdown targets.
Blogwar managed to force many bloggers to shut down
their blogs (primarily on
Xanga). However, after many of the successfully
shutdown targets had created new sites under different names, and
the users generally lost interest, the site was shut down by its
owners after its short-lived crusade.