The adventures of Mommy woman
Published on April 26, 2004 By JillUser In Blogging
I have seen a lot of advice given lately regarding what to/not to blog about, when to blog about it, blacklisting, etc. The way I see it, it is your web log. Write about whatever you want whenever you want. If you are going to be knowingly offensive, restrict your audience. The only "don't" is don't put another blogger's name in your title unless it is complimentary.

You might want to take advice from others if you are worried about points, but otherwise, do your own thing. Your blog is your house here on JU. You have to abide by the neighborhood bylaws but other than that, it's your call.

Now, commenting is another story. Since you are then the guest at someone else's house, you need to mind your manners. I tend to stay away from blogs of people I know set me off. It is kind of like blacklisting myself I try to stick to the subject at hand but have been known to get caught up in defending people that I am in agreement with or people I think are being wrongly attacked. I try to be careful about it and know that the blogger has every right to delete anything I say that isn't on subject or simply rubs them the wrong way.

Well, that's my 2 cents at least. Blog on!

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on Apr 28, 2004
I think that you are the naive one (or, maybe just ignorant). I know a whole lot about this site. Have you ever looked in my profile? I don't hide my email address. What is the domain? Considering that I have worked with Brad for almost 9 years, I can tell you that he isn't paying attention to a "clique". He didn't grow a company this large by being an elitist.


By scanning the current articles, I can't see how anyone can say that their are only "favorites" featured. I don't even recognize half the people on the featured page.


I know who you are...

BAM!!!
on Apr 28, 2004
"I mean, you have Dan here, who hasn't quite figured out the hypocrisy in calling himself Buddha, whom created a fake name, said nasty things, got caught, and now posts "Brad is a God" type crap whenever possible to try and make up for it"

Very good point, that is the first time a woman has made me laugh in years. I too have noticed Dan's new found admiration for Brad Wardell, Brad slapped the boy down saying he was only 17 and had no idea about certain things and the boy just says "more please Mr Wardell"
on Apr 28, 2004

I know who you are...

Really?  Who am I?  What do I do at Stardock?  And, what does the second quote have to do with who I am?

SPM, glad you got a chuckle out of that

on Apr 28, 2004
JillUser, sorry that this got off topic...
on Apr 28, 2004
And, what does the second quote have to do with who I am


Cant you read between the lines?

you blabber on about how well you know the place... blah blah blah, and then how you dont recognise half of the people on the feature page...

are you whacking yourself on the head now?

I dont really care what you do at stardock sorry... if it makes you feel important, you can share it with us... why dont you write a blog about it? It will probably get featured you know...

BAM!!!
on Apr 28, 2004
Kharma, I think you pointed out some important issues. Everyone has an opinion about what should be featured and what shouldn't. I think it is a lacking in maturity that keeps people from accepting things as they are rather than clouding it with the "It's not fair" attitude. Like you said, Brad has been running online communties for an extremely long time and it is his site that we are using for free. Sure he has his own agenda. Why wouldn't he? Look at all the people posting their agendas and they have no rights to the site what so ever.

Brad's opinion about what gets featured trumps anyone else's because only he knows how he wants the site to be represented. You can piss and moan all you want or you can enjoy blogging. Your choice.

I guess that is 2 more cents worth
on Apr 28, 2004
BTW, Muggaz, I don't recall ever seeing Kharma featured. Maybe she has and I missed it. Could you give me an example of Brad featuring KharmaGrl? I tend to think you shot yourself in the foot with that outburst. If Brad were just featuring his own clique, A) You would have seen Kharma featured a lot and You wouldn't see liberals featured.......ever! Besides, Brad is arrogant enough to just come out and say "Hey, I feature stuff from people I like" if that were the case. You know I am right about that don't you.
on Apr 28, 2004
Shot foot or not, I think I made my point.

I am not bitter... just stating my 0.02c worth

BAM!!!
on Apr 28, 2004

you blabber on about how well you know the place... blah blah blah, and then how you dont recognise half of the people on the feature page...

Sorry, Muggaz, but are you really that dense?  My point about that was that the most of the people who are featured right now are not the "clique" that you act like are the "only" ones who get featured.  They aren't the ones that you see plastered on all the blogs trying to "stir the pot" to get points.  The point was that you are bitching about the fact that *you* are not featured under the guise that only a few people or types or articles get featured.  So what if you have the same people come to your blog all the time?  Does that mean that you have what the "general" population wants to read?  No, it means that you write what a certain percentage of people what to read whom keep coming back to your blog. 

And, trust me, you do not know who I am.

on Apr 28, 2004
Jill, actually, I was featured once (that I know of) but that was way in the beginning when there were only about 50 people on the site.  If I was featured since then, I really missed it as I typically don't even look at the front page and just go to the forums.  I think people also like to ignore the fact that there is a section at the very top that highlights the most popular articles    I don't even know where my site falls in the "top", and I could really care less.
on Apr 28, 2004
I usually just go to the forums too. I guess I missed that feature of yours. I will have to check out the top article highlights. I never notice them either.
on Apr 28, 2004

Not sure that you were actually a member at that time, Jill.  It was a long time ago.

Yes, check out the top articles. They are generated by stats, not by "opinion"

on Apr 28, 2004

JoeUser.com is a business.

I choose articles to feature based on what I believe is of interest to other people. I wrote an article about Spyware and how it's changing the course of the Internet. It only has a few responses to it but it has brought a great deal of traffic to this site.

By contrast, a personal journal talking about what they ate for lunch or who they had an argument with is not going to be of much interest to the wider audience. As a result, I don't tend to pick those. 

I don't claim to be unbiased.  But I do claim to be fairly qualified in knowing what kinds of topics are of interest to the wider audience. I don't make any bones about what I choose. I am choosing articles that I think will lead to JoeUser.com becoming more popular.  Given that this site hasn't even been officially announced but is already one of the most popular blog sites on the Internet, I think I can be cut a little slack on knowing what I'm doing.

The only recent Muggaz article that I might have featured would have been the one on role models but I read that one after it was too late to feature it for that day. There are no other community blog sites on the Internet designed as JoeUser is. You do not have to be featured on the home page in order for your article to become popular. Users could go out and promote their articles elsewhere for instance and gain points that way.  Right now I could write an article and not feature it and it would still become one of the most popular articles on this site because I try to write articles that interest both myself and other readers.

As someone else said, going by # of comments is a ridiculous measurement. Admins know precisely how many unique people have read a given article. General interest articles are of much greater interest than ones about one's cat or how they got drunk last night or how depressed they are or whatever.

on Apr 28, 2004
um..Jill, I'm really sorry, I was so caught up in this debate, that I accidently knocked grape juice all over your carpet--where do you keep the paper towels? **muttering about how she'll never be invited back to Jill's house**

Ok, here's my two cents on the featured debate:

To the best of my knowledge, I am not in the clique.

To the best of my knowledge, Brad and I do not see eye to eye on many matters.

Yet, I have seen three of my articles featured (I've only been here a little over a month).
on Apr 28, 2004
shadesofgrey, you must be the exception to the rule then
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