In His Own Words...

Why are you here?

from JoeUser Forums

"Doesn't Blogspot look so much sharper than JU?"

"I've been impressed with the features of this website -- it's light years ahead of what I've been using in terms of ease of editing and fun stuff."

"It runs a lot faster than the JU forums, too."

"I just left a blog site that, like the United States is governed by an out-of-touch rich man, controlled by a conservative elite, and possessed of only one or two voices of moderation and compassion. People who don't toe the party line there are ridiculed and smeared; character assassination at its finest."

"They lob insults like grenades and the lurkers wait around like suicide bombers looking for an opening. Troops are marshalled, sides are taken, and the winners gloat and the losers sit and snipe from a distance. Loyalties are tested and the rhetoric gets less and less tolerant and more extreme."

"By the time I dealt with the flamers at the last site I blogged at, I originally jumped to the bait and then decided it just wasn't worth the effort. It's like the old saying, 'What if they held a war and nobody came?'"





 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wonder who would have written those things?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
The only blogs I have read on Blogspot were by a few poker bloggers who write well, but have their own audience and don't attract the smacktards and griefers.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thanks for posting them!  I did not bother to even read their trash!
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

wonder who would have written those things?


Gee...I wonder?


Thanks for posting them!


You're welcome. I just thought it strange to see him back as if all was well.....wanted to shed light on what he said.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

You're welcome. I just thought it strange to see him back as if all was well.....wanted to shed light on what he said.


Actually, he did it before, he jsut did not 'resign' like he did this time.


Do you think if we pretend he is not here, he will go away?

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Do you think if we pretend he is not here, he will go away?

One can only hope! The whole reason he is back, I think, is because his most popular blog over there received 2 comments, and those were from JUs. He seeks attention, poor soul.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

One can only hope! The whole reason he is back, I think, is because his most popular blog over there received 2 comments, and those were from JUs. He seeks attention, poor soul.

Well, looking at the site, I can understand why.  It is very obtuse.  Now who was that?

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
received 2 comments


And that right there is the reason I don't think those who get irrationally passionate enough about their blogging to storm off with their panties in a knot will ever survive at the other blog sites. At least not in the way they are currently set up. Ohh, this just sparked an idea for a quick article. Thanks heather!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

Ohh, this just sparked an idea for a quick article. Thanks heather!

Always glad to help get the creative juices flowing!

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

People sure do get around, eh?

Well, they definitely spread their hatred....

How arrogant to attack Brad who gives this site freely...."out-of-touch rich man"

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

How arrogant to attack Brad who gives this site freely...."out-of-touch rich man"

Oh, I thought that was me!  I got a 2 houses and 2 cars!  !  Sorry Brad for usurping your fat cat status!

Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
How arrogant to attack Brad who gives this site freely...."out-of-touch rich man"


You are so right.

People sure do get around


Actually, Blogspot wasn't the only sit where this crap (other former JUs talking smack about JU) was occuring. But I find it tiresome. Like someone else said, "good riddance." Uh...at least until they come back.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

Blogspot wasn't the only sit where this crap (other former JUs talking smack about JU) was occuring

I figured not, but did those others come back to torment us again, and again, and again?

 

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

they talk sour grapes....but cant stay away.

Because JU is the best and they know it.

Its also amusing that this person's return comes with no aknowledement of his leaving, the deletion of every previous article, and his disparaging comments about this site and its owners elsewhere.

You found that interesting, too, huh? Amazing the arrogance.

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
typical liberal


Honestly, you wonder why no one gets long around here when all we do is bait each other with stupid name calling. The person you are taking about is no more or less typical of a liberal than I am, and I've about had it with people (by virtue of calling all liberals) calling me immoral, amoral, cowardly, or any other long list of names. If someone is mean and nasty, or silly and stupid, or simply goes off the deep end, I don't think it really has anything to do with their party affliation.

This is getting ridiculous--you don't go around seeing me saying "typical conservatives" everytime someone engages in behavior I don't like.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

The person you are taking about is no more or less typical of a liberal than I am, and I've about had it with people (by virtue of calling all liberals) calling me immoral, amoral, cowardly, or any other long list of names

I would wish that you were typical of most liberals in that you are none of those.  Unfortunately, more often than not, we use a broad brush when talking about just a subset of the opposition, whether that is liberal or conservative.

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
First of all-- I reread my post and it came off a little angrier than I had intented--so my apologies for that.

I would wish that you were typical of most liberals in that you are none of those


I guess that is sort of my point--In my opinion, I am pretty typical of most liberals--at least the ones I know.

Dont feel bad, though...its no different from Conservatives being called Nazi's every time we turn around.


Agreed

If that shoe didnt fit you, there was no need to wear it.


Again, the shoe of "typical liberal" does fit--just not all the negatives that you are associating with it...

What I am trying to say is--feel free to call out an individual for their actions, but don't assume that the individual represents the party that they are associated with...
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
What I am trying to say is--feel free to call out an individual for their actions, but don't assume that the individual represents the party that they are associated with...


I think that is worth an insightful for the day shadesofgrey.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, I have nothing to add to that. I think we all reached an understanding...good on us!
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I don't. The fact is, no one (or hardly anyone) will read what is written on other blog sites.

The reason why JU is slower than a site like Blogspot is because Blogspot blogs are static pages where as JU is purely database driven. So the downside is there's a speed hit but the upside is that it allows for syndication, point systems, referral tracking, latest responses to posts being syndicated, channels, home page coverage, etc.

If soemone wants a truly private blog they can get that here by intentionally setting it so that no one but yourself can see it.  Or you can create a blog on blogspot in which no one will see it because there's no way to find it from anywhere.

Most former JU people only get a few people onto their blogs by advertising it through JU.