Monday, April 05, 2004


Don’t Be That Guy


It’s been said before, but it’s worth repeating, that a blog isn’t a conversation. The blogger links, pontificates, dissembles, or whatever, and if he’s feeling froggy maybe he enables comments and/or trackbacks. She’s under no obligation to do so, of course. When you pay the rent, you make the rules.

That’s a great thing. Even if you don’t want to pay for a hosted service, there are places that will host your rants for free. Get it all off your chest, nucking go futs, you know the drill.

Despite efforts and advice to the contrary, I allowed myself to get sucked into one of the blogging world’s reigning permathreads, and quite simply, I got trolled. A certain individual, who notably doesn’t have a weblog of his own, pushed my buttons like a maestro in the comments of a third person’s weblog. I should have known better — I’ve been there before.

If you’re gonna pick a fight, don’t do it in the comments on someone else’s blog. That’s like camping out in somebody else’s backyard and taking a stinky steamer under his window. It’s just rude. Start your own blog.

Don’t be that guy.


:: Dave Walker 10:50 (EST/EDT) [+]

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sublimal wrote:

Title: RSS feed is broken

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RSS feed isn't valid
d.w. wrote:

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I'll probably get around to fixing it, but at this point it's probably best to consider the 0.91 feed deprecated. The RSS 1.0, 2.0, and Atom feeds have better permalinks, GUIDs, dates, and are easier to fix from this end for a variety of reasons (I control the templates, whereas the 0.91 feed is "baked into" my blogging software.) You'd be happier subscribing to one of the other feed versions, if you can.



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