Comments on: One Way to Piss Off a Blogger (Don’t Do It)

By: Gwaendar

Gwaendar — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:55:17 +0000

While I clearly agree that the methods used aren’t exactly the smartest in the book, I think too many people are just too happy to use this as the convenient reason to ignore what the guy is actually writing.

At the risk of pissing off the entire community myself, I think there’s a bit of an overreaction to what he’s writing. He’s discussing MMO game design, and you can’t do that nowadays without talking about WoW. And as much as we all love the game, let’s not kid ourselves, it isn’t perfect, as we all know.

Is Cambios provoking, controversial, and sometimes quite off the mark? Absolutely. Is that a reason to ignore him entirely? I think that would be a loss, but that’s just me.

I don’t like his promotion methods, but I think what he writes on his blog merits consideration, if only for rebuttal.

My tuppence only, of course.

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By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:17:57 +0000

Guess he missed me. *sniff*

So far, I’ve avoided a written comment policy; as I’ve commented elsewhere, “my blog is my castle” and I don’t have to justify what comments I allow or disallow.

In fact, today I turned off the feature requiring me to moderate a commenter’s first post. We’ll see how that works. I have a niggling suspicion that action will probably drive a written policy.

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By: zupa

zupa — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:58:11 +0000

Well he certainly got noticed by a large cross-section of the community in a short period of time!

Like everyone else I wasn’t impressed by comments of his on other blogs, but gave him the benefit of the doubt to begin with, responded to his comments even.

Looked a bit deeper and decided he was a fraud in the first place, called him on it, did not receive any kind of satisfactory response.

/ignore

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By: typhoonandrew

typhoonandrew — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:39:41 +0000

@ Tankette – “Where does it end?”

If I ever get a hold of them, it’ll end.

I hate spam. Thankfully I don’t get many backtracks as yet – but it grinds my teeth when they steal content without acknowledgement.

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By: Tankette

Tankette — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:29:29 +0000

Too many scammers in the world in every situation. I got a new phone and got junk calls the same day. I go to my local corner store and get a begger all in my face wanting spare change. My son is convinced he got an invite to WoTLK Beta only to find out it was a scam and his account was hacked. I guess scammers find their way into blogs now too. Where does it end? Tankettes last blog post..Which of these bosses are the toughest?

By: Graylo

Graylo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:25:09 +0000

I didn’t get a post from this guy but I have gotten more gold farmer/snarky posts than usual lately.

My popularity doesn’t seem to have increased much so I wonder if it is something systemic that is causing this.

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By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:06:22 +0000

Natural selection at work, in my opinion. If it looks skeevy to me, it probably looks skeevy to others. First impressions are important, and this fellow certainly got off to a bad start. Phaelias last blog post..Phaelia v3.0

By: Runycat

Runycat — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:22:56 +0000

@Audron
You’re right. In much of the art/literary community, there’s a lot of talk about interest generated through “shock value” and “understatement”. Ultimately, the general consensus is that shock value will draw in large crowds initially, but interest wanes quickly and patrons find themselves moving back to the consistently superb (although less ZOMGZERS) work. If you build it, they will come.

@Matticus
I think what you’re getting at is that there’s really an unspoken etiquette for bloggers/readers–and that he crossed the line. I hope people get that. We all put up with a certain level of arrogance, audacity, and stupidity on a daily basis (in fact, I’ve left up some pretty nasty commentary just because I find it really reflects the ignorance and impoliteness that’s out there), and it’s always funny what finally pulls the last straw.

Actually, this would be a great topic to go into at a greater depth, but I’m not sure if I’m going to subject anyone else to more blogging about blogging at Unbearably HoT. It’s sort of like WoW–what unspoken bullshit do we do there that we just expect other people to follow (i.e. tipping for crafting, particular acronyms, loot rules, etc.)?
/end ramble

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