I came to JoeUser in September of 2003. Those that have been here a similar amount of time have seen my "activity" on the site wax and wane with seeming randomness. My participation has been "random" because I haven't had any goal in mind for my blogging. I originally joined when blogging was in its infancy and just wanted a place to spew whatever was on my mind. It has served me well.
Over time, I saw that this wasn't a universal goal. Some folks actually wish to develop a readership, and they want their blog to be high on the JU list of Top Users or Top Blogs, assumably because this serves to further their goal of having a readership.
I fully respect that goal, even though it is not my own, and so I am conscious of things I might do that would interfere with others' goals in much the same way that I would respect that other people exist in real life. Example - I would not cut in line because the other people in line have an equal right to be served.
With that in mind, I'd like to make a small suggestion to fellow JUs. You can safely put this in the "Preaching to the choir" category for all except one particular blogger, but since we aren't supposed to name names, preaching to the choir is the "correct" thing to do.
If you have lots of opinions, that's awesome. It's good to think about lots of things, and it's good to have opinions. But if you have, say, 10 opinions on a given day, it would be very respectful of you to create one article called "Today's Opinions" and put them all in that one article. The reason is, many people navigate the "recent articles" list, and if you post 10 articles in one day, you are removing exposure of other bloggers who wish to have their blogs read, as well. You also make it hard for me, who likes to read the opinions of more than just one person, to use the recent articles feature of the site to do so. This is unkind. It's unkind to the people writing on the site, and it's unkind to those of us that might just want to use the site to read. I respectfully request that you please stop.
I was not meaning to mock
you Ock
But now you insist
to persist
to attack
my back.
For the record, I don't think Era saying that I or anyone else hates someone is a big deal outside of the fact that it isn't true. I told Asaxygirl that if the Navy is so shallow as to take the word of this guy for any purpose whatsoever, then I didn't want anything to do with them. The "get a lawyer" thing was tongue in cheek because I know my wife's temper. It was sparked because Era feigned an apology and said he had "changed" what he wrote. Well, he "changed" it alright - to my wife's name instead of mine. Asaxygirl is human and she saw red.
How is that emotionally different from you taking sides on the issue? I haven't had anything against you, CS, and I still do not. But I will say that you choose very strange moral bedfellows and for what personal motivation you have, I can't begin to understand.
For myself, the matter is closed. I will continue to ignore his existence here, and the sooner a feature comes to JU through which I can stop seeing his poorly written, poorly defended, poorly thought out drivel on the article list, the happier I'll be.
Ock, you do know the hypocrisy of this article, don't you?
You attack me, then accuse me of Libel. I care about other peoples' JU experience. However, you obviously do not care about my right to write.
Go ahead and write your heart out. The admins have spoken. I'm listening to their advice (as I promised them I would). Are you?
I have not recieved any contact from the admin as to yet, off JU, and I have reduced my posting from posting individually into groups, with one exception (My medical-problems article, 'cause I needed it looked at fast). If it doesn't matter, why bother? It makes it inconvenient for me. I have posted four articles (as they'd appear in the list) over the past three days, containing a total of 12 as they would be divided.
I never said I didn't care about everyone's use of JU. If I didn't, I'd continue posting individual articles.
I still do not respect all of you, however.
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