This is interesting because it dovetails with my post today about a social media conference I went to yesterday. It’s some of these ‘using the channels as marketing’ issues I’ve been pondering.

In the conference, people were very open to this type of thing, but I had my doubts (with your post from the other day in mind).

Sheesh. There are some angry, bitter people out there. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

I’d have had your back if I knew about it.

Cuz I woooov you.

I’m not kidding, I do not understand the enmity.

I think BusyDad misunderstands. I said someone whose name rhymes with “Schmuck Hall” exhibits behavior commonly seen in trolls. Whether she is a troll or isn’t, well who really cares. We shouldn’t feed the crazies either way.

Seriously.

I get like 3-4 of those email a week-they never spell my name right and are always SPAM. I’d call it out too.

And Sara is right-you don’t ask for links…you earn them.

Queen of SS-maybe we need to start an “F a Troll” initiative. You know, for the greater good.

Rock on Sara.

I also think the one whose name rhymes with “suck balls” probably has mental issues commonly associated with TROLLS.

I’ve often heard that TROLLS don’t get laid enough.

Anywho, I just wanted to say that I’m not a regular poster, or even reader – but Sara’s been very helpful to me and was great when I (a mommyblogger, not a spammer) was looking to do a link exchange with her last year – she knows what she’s doin’ ya’ll!

I’d like to shed a bit more light for newbie bloggers, of which I am one even though my blog’s over a year old now.

I’ve broken a lot of those “commandments,” and certainly many others. I know for a fact I’m breaking at least a couple right now (my cre8 page has auto music! It annoys me, too, yet I leave it on!). And you know what? Some of the bloggers in yesterday’s comments who were called bitches for laying down suggestions still come to my blog every day, and are truly some of the kindest, most generous people I have ever had the good fortune to get to know.

This is just to say that the “commandments” and other “rules” were really meant to be humorously worded suggestions via a list of personal bloggy pet peaves, at least for the bloggers I know and interact with regularly. I suspect it’s true of all of them.

You lost me at ASS.

ASSumption? What a geek. Rock it though. You’re fan club is gettin’ off on it.

You are officially the lamest blogger I’ve ever read. Is there an award for THAT? You’d be my top nom – sara @ SO.

For real peoples.

GO. GET. LAID.

Instead of showing your ass on a blog, go show it to someone special in your bedroom….perhaps they’ll care to see it.

But, let me just say in defense of us newbie bloggers who took that post out of context…

Wha? Link sale sites, pagerank, Google crackdowns on PPP…you may as well be speaking Chinese. I just recently aquired a feedburner but still don’t know what the hell it’s for, I have no idea what my page rank is or if it really matters, and have never heard of a link sale site.

So, understand, that to someone like me, who doesn’t know the lengths people will go to to spam a blog for reasons of monetization, your post yesterday seemed way harsh. Of course I am going to ASSume it was a blogger emailing you. In my mind, there was no other choice.

Call it naive, call it ignorant, call it just plain stupid if you wish. Just know that not everyone has the same knowledge of the “blogging commandments” that you have, that some of us are still learning as we go along. Your words, thought they were perfectly reasonable to you, came off differently to those of us who have not yet been schooled.

So, I guess this has been a learning experience for all involved. You learned how easily your words and their intended meaning can be twisted, and I learned a little something about spam, making ASSumptions, and that apparently, blogging has a lot more to do with making money than I thought.