Yep, last week...the week leading up to Christmas...Christmas eve as it were...nonamedufus got a metaphorical lump of coal in his stocking. And here I'd done my best to be a good boy. Let me back up. Around late summer/early fall I submitted my blog to Ask And Ye Shall Receive for review. When a couple of months had passed and I'd had no response I figured they'd passed me by and I put it behind me.
Lo and behold, last week a very nice fellow by the name of People In The Sun reviewed my blog. Now I should have picked up on their preternatural disposition to other people's blogs. The domain name of their site is, after all http://iwillfuckingtearyouapart.blogspot.com/. Yeah, enough said. And, I knew going in they had a mad on for humour bloggers, in particular members of Humor Bloggers Dot Com. But it must have been my good Catholic upbringing because as an adult I still crave to be punished for no good cause.
The review, titled Blame Humor Bloggers, is kind of meh. It doesn't focus on the content at all but rather criticizes my blog template and the number of widgets and badges in my right sidebar. For some reason they don't like the "looks" of my blog, in particular the number of references to Humor Bloggers Dot Com. Hey, my feeling is that the folks at HBDC allowed me into their somewhat exclusive club and the least I can do is provide a link or two to their site and participate in some of their events.
Feel free to read the review at the link above and the comments some of their frantic fans have posted...and let me know what you think.
I'm willing to take their criticism at face value and to that end I intend to do some tweaking here and there. As Canadian handyman Red Green likes to say: "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."
On balance, I found the review to be basically, um, er...balanced. I would like to have seen more reaction to my blog's content but if they left it well enough alone I guess they didn't have a problem with it. And as I said in my comments to them, I should be happy with their rating of "one star", seeing how there were 4-5 categories, including flying fiery fingers to pass through to get to it. So Ask And Ye Shall Receive thanks, I think.
Comments
Why "they" have such mad on for HBDC is beyond me.
A blog is in the eye of the beholder. This beholder, for one, thinks you rock!!!
As Cat Lady says humour is very personal. Your blog makes me laugh. It's on my list of blogs I like to read, so there! No review will make me change my mind.
That ain't right. Cuz what you write is more than all right.
You have a great blog and make me laugh or smile all the time. That's why you are always a must read for me.
Templates be damned! Heh heh heh.
You did get off with a lot less scathing than I've read before from them.
So kudos Noname! You must be doing something write, erm, I mean right! *smile*
Happy New Year, Dufas.
Jayne
Your blog is yours. You have a lot of followers/repeat visitors. You will never make everyone happy, but as long as you make YOU happy, mission accomplished! Blog for the fun of it, not for what others want...unless this is your meal ticket. Just keep doing what your doing, NND, 'cause it's great!
P.S. -- Fuck them, and the Internet they rode in on.
What a douchebag.
Which made me wonder. What kind of hits is *he* getting?
There is a website called www.websitevaluecalculator.com It said that your website is worth $119. That other dude's website, in comparison, is only worth $111.
So see? You're $5 ahead of him. :-)
In further comparison, I have a buddy who pays $100 a year for his website, and it said his is only worth $86. At least you're not in the hole...:-)
Sorry for your icky Christmas gift.
Hugs!!!
Ms. 30 Something
Haha!!
And to think, I majored in Accounting before I switched my major to English. Good thing, eh?
Ms. 30 Something
P.S. -- Fuck them, and the Internet they rode in on.
Haha!!
And to think, I majored in Accounting before I switched my major to English. Good thing, eh?
Ms. 30 Something
As Cat Lady says humour is very personal. Your blog makes me laugh. It's on my list of blogs I like to read, so there! No review will make me change my mind.
That ain't right. Cuz what you write is more than all right.
You have a great blog and make me laugh or smile all the time. That's why you are always a must read for me.
Templates be damned! Heh heh heh.
You did get off with a lot less scathing than I've read before from them.
So kudos Noname! You must be doing something write, erm, I mean right! *smile*