Comments on: Are You Talking at Me or With Me? http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me My commentary on Tech News, Starting a business, Ebay, and Everyday Life Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:42:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Thatedeguy http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89143 Thatedeguy Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:12:56 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89143 Readers who take the time to comment are generally the ones that are most sticky. They help build the community. Technically, you do not own a part of this blog, but as a reader, I don't want to ostracize you either. If you have an opinion about my writing, I want you to be able to express it, good or bad, so that I can try and improve as a blogger. I don't like talking to a wall, I like talking to people. You do have a right to tell me what to write about. I may not listen to you, but you do have the right to say something. Readers who take the time to comment are generally the ones that are most sticky. They help build the community.
Technically, you do not own a part of this blog, but as a reader, I don’t want to ostracize you either. If you have an opinion about my writing, I want you to be able to express it, good or bad, so that I can try and improve as a blogger. I don’t like talking to a wall, I like talking to people. You do have a right to tell me what to write about. I may not listen to you, but you do have the right to say something.

]]> By: Mr. Rajawang http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89082 Mr. Rajawang Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:24:55 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89082 Everyone is entitled to your own opinion.. There is always 2 way of looking at everything including blogs and comments. Whether you take a negative comments in a positively or bash the commentors is up to you. But for me comments ARE not built for ONLY POSITIVE comments! You get good ones, and sometimes you get bad ones. Commentators ARE readers. They don't comment if they don't read the blog. But to tell your commentors not to comment/bitch about what you can or not do in a post is just lame.. and that is only my humble opinion..which I am entitled to.. Everyone is entitled to your own opinion.. There is always 2 way of looking at everything including blogs and comments. Whether you take a negative comments in a positively or bash the commentors is up to you. But for me comments ARE not built for ONLY POSITIVE comments! You get good ones, and sometimes you get bad ones.

Commentators ARE readers. They don’t comment if they don’t read the blog.

But to tell your commentors not to comment/bitch about what you can or not do in a post is just lame..

and that is only my humble opinion..which I am entitled to..

]]> By: CashQuests http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89048 CashQuests Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:40:09 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89048 What if he paid the bills from Euro Wiki earnings? And what if the bulk of those visitors come from search engines and his high listings are the result of his hard work advertising? Commentators are never any more than 3% of total readers - that hardly pays the bills. There's a difference between readers and commentators too. He wasn't telling people to stop reading - just to stop thinking that you own a part of the site. This is the first time that I've been here - do I have the right to consider myself a part-owner of this site as I help pay the bills? Do I have the right to tell you what to write about? Will you be sending me a commission from your TextLinkAds earnings? What if he paid the bills from Euro Wiki earnings? And what if the bulk of those visitors come from search engines and his high listings are the result of his hard work advertising? Commentators are never any more than 3% of total readers - that hardly pays the bills.

There’s a difference between readers and commentators too. He wasn’t telling people to stop reading - just to stop thinking that you own a part of the site.

This is the first time that I’ve been here - do I have the right to consider myself a part-owner of this site as I help pay the bills? Do I have the right to tell you what to write about? Will you be sending me a commission from your TextLinkAds earnings?

]]> By: Thatedeguy http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89043 Thatedeguy Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:52:32 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89043 @cashquests I beg to differ. Where does he get the money to pay the bills. Independently wealthy? I don't think so. More likely, he pays the bills with the advertisements that he sold off of the site. Those same advertisements are probably based on how many visitors he gets in a month. If he only got one visitor a month, then he probably wouldn't be making 3k a month. He does get more than one visitor a month, however, he might not for long if he keeps thinking that the commentators don't matter. Yes, blogs can form a community, but so to do the users and writers of a single blog. Go tell Marc at 45n5.com that his blog community isn't a community because he doesn't have more than one blog involved in it. @cashquests
I beg to differ. Where does he get the money to pay the bills. Independently wealthy? I don’t think so. More likely, he pays the bills with the advertisements that he sold off of the site. Those same advertisements are probably based on how many visitors he gets in a month. If he only got one visitor a month, then he probably wouldn’t be making 3k a month. He does get more than one visitor a month, however, he might not for long if he keeps thinking that the commentators don’t matter.
Yes, blogs can form a community, but so to do the users and writers of a single blog. Go tell Marc at 45n5.com that his blog community isn’t a community because he doesn’t have more than one blog involved in it.

]]> By: CashQuests http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89029 CashQuests Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:26:00 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/are-you-talking-at-me-or-with-me#comment-89029 Who pays the bills? He pays the bills - commentators don't pay the bills. Those that leave negative comments have definitely not helped to pay the bills. Have you helped to pay the bills? People talk WITH each other? Yeah, right. ONE person gets their name on the site and gets their voice heard almost 100x more than anyone else on the site. Together blogs form a community, but you'll get talked AT on a single site. Who pays the bills? He pays the bills - commentators don’t pay the bills. Those that leave negative comments have definitely not helped to pay the bills. Have you helped to pay the bills?

People talk WITH each other? Yeah, right. ONE person gets their name on the site and gets their voice heard almost 100x more than anyone else on the site. Together blogs form a community, but you’ll get talked AT on a single site.

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