Are you certain you're not misinterpretting Herring's comment? I read it as "Dude, that is so good you need to start writing a blog", but you seem to read it as

Are you certain you're not misinterpretting Herring's comment? I read it as "Dude, that is so good you need to start writing a blog", but you seem to read it as "Dude, get a blog if you want to write rubbish". TBH it's ambiguous enough that either interpretation could be valid.