Professional blogger, marketer and niche blogger should not participate in social forum live discussion like Blogcatalog because this is where people can easily damage your reputation.
By participating in Blogcatalog and other related sites, it means you surely will start your own discussion thread and interact with others. Your discussion thread can be targeted by some certain people to defame you. They may try their best to argue with you, anger you and play prank comments with your thread, comments and your blog promotion etc. At blogcatalog, everyone has a say there. Even a new user who has an one day old blog can really screw things up. That is why you wouldn’t find popular bloggers hanging around there.
The blogcatalog discussion forum are regularly indexed by search engine and it is highly possible that your discussion that went wrong will be found by peoples at large.
Lastly but not the least, I recommend young blogger to submit your blog to blogcatalog.com. If you are new to blogging, this is where you start promoting your blog and learn more about blogging.
I agree with you and thank for posting this.
That is a great advice,
Thank you blogcastor.