Well said.
It does sadden me when you see a game blogger trying to be all "cool and individual" and sneering at the efforts of others. I think it shows a singular lack of perspective and is symptomatic of the blinkered attitude that puts cliques ahead of the gaming community as a whole.
What gamers need to realise is that now, more than at any time in the past, we are one. In the same way that all communities based on leisure are. Artists, sportsmen...they're all one. If something threatens a part of our community, it threatens all of our community, because games, and art and sports are made up of many small pieces, all fitting together into one overarching and very human construct.
And if the edges of that construct are allowed to crumble, if they're picked at by the cold, emotionless fingers of corporate big business, then ultimately the whole community is at risk. If our community falls, then a little piece of that construct, that humanity has been lost. And the more pieces we allow to be lost, the larger the cracks in the community become, until the entire community itself simply falls apart.
I wonder how such bloggers would react if someone said "20k signatures is something to snigger at , huh? I wonder how many people read your blog? 20k? 10k A couple of hundred? So why bother writing a blog at all? And if you think your blog is worth writing, then don't criticise a community who are acting because they believe what they're doing is worth it".