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To BigV
Thank you for your breath of fresh air. There is no such thing as a comment that is too long as far as I'm concerned. Since the Blogging Network software let you get away with that long comment, you're OK in my book, too.
I post for the cash as well as the practice. Even the lowly burger flipper at McDonald's gets paid something for his or her efforts - he or she certainly does not get paid for such an endeavor. Why do we expect to be able to give away so much of our work for free? Besides, BN pays more by far than Epinions.com has for the past six months. (For a full month's worth of work, I got 69 cents - yep you read right, one penny short of seventy cents - on Epinions. I've exceeded that by far here, and I feel like I'm in clover.)
Just once, I'd like to see the number of comments to a non-controversial, well-written post (and I like to think I wrote my post well) skyrocket to the level that the controversial stuff gets. And I'd like to see those comments stick around in the "new comments" section for the same length of time. AND I'd like to see the utter junk stop as well. There are some of us here trying to take this seriously, after all.
posted by
kidnykid
on April 2, 2003 at 3:50 PM
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Commenti Ad Nauseum
Well... seeing you asked... I remember the night I posted my one and only comment on that subject... and I will NOT use that name in a blog or comment again... within a matter of a couple of hours, my name was mentioned with that name as being in a flame war. All I did was to point out that some one was having convultions on their keyboard and was posting it up in monumental proportions... and was wiping GOOD material right off the post board.
I will freely admit that I was absolutely beside myself when I posted a very good... in my eyes anyway... blog and when I checked it less than 10 minutes later, it was completely off the board... even the expanded board... and the crap that had pushed it off was exactly that... pure garbage.
Until that point, I had not posted nor read any of the previous stuff and I have read that some of the earlier stuff may have actually been good. I don't know... but I am telling you that the garbage being posted that night made me VERY angry.
I don't post here for the cash... I post here to work on various styles to see what will make people respond. (Editormum... I so badly wanted to finish that sentence with the word "to." It took me a good 30 seconds to avoid that. Perhaps you can parlay that into a new blog?) When people begin to dork the site up with vomited words, it drives away people who would normally PAY to read decent stuff.
I have posted that thought and the thought that I dearly wish some of you would PLEASE refrain from using gutter vulgarities in your titles and opening two lines. You honestly can't believe the number of people you will chase away from the site when you do that. If ya gotta curse right off the bat... post it as a mature blog.
Well, I am already over my word count for a comment but if you observe the comment title you can't say you weren't warned. Be well. V
posted by
BigV
on April 2, 2003 at 2:37 PM
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Anyone up for commenting on this blog?
I'm game.
posted by
kidnykid
on April 2, 2003 at 2:01 PM
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