Reply #35 By: Muggaz - 4/27/2004 9:14:30 PM
Karma... I dont know about you, but i am here pretty much every weekday... and it's the same people over and over again... I used to care big time about points, but the little clique that surrounds the owner of the site, have the monopoly of his attention... as the owner it is his right, but if you think the decisions on what is featured is because of what the audience wants to see, rather than what Brad wants to see, you are very naive indeed. |
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.
People don't always comment on things that they read. Don't confuse comments with interest. You would be amazed at how many people are interested in business tools. A fast $1,000 printer is interesting to a lot of people.
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.
But, in the end, if you are here to be "featured" or to be in a "top" list, then you are here for the wrong reasons. This is a *free* blog site put here to allow people to post articles for *free*. It's not a democracy here. You don't have rights since you don't actually *pay* for anything. If the way it is run bothers you so much, go find some other blog site that suits your taste better.
And a better question, can you point out a site that is totally unbiased? Hell, nothing is completely unbiased, it's not possible. 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. Do you not see how transparent that is? Do you think that the owners of this site are even going to bother reading most of your stuff after that type of behavior? You could say "I should get another chance!" Sorry, but that usually doesn't happen in the real world. Is that slightly biased? Probably. But, I think it is also justified. Also, whom *you* see as the common blogger may not be who the common blogger is. Just because a handful of people read your blog (you may see the same names over and over again, but that is only a small fracture of the actual users) does not make those people the "common" blogger.
Bottom line: thinking that you know more about what should be featured than somebody who has been in online communities for almost as long as you have been alive is pretty arrogant. Don't like it here? Nothing stops you from moving on.
