Truly the Worst -- Site -- Ever?
Or is it, maybe, simply the arrogance of people who post crap like the following:
Those dissatisfied, of course, have the option of changing the channel.
I haven't found there to be a real serious problem. All of my comments and posts have appeared, though in many cases, especially during the mid-day peak period, it has taken a couple of minutes.
If those posting multiple times, those posting total BS, those posting unsolicited campaign advice, those posting breaking news that was posted hours previously wither here at TPM or the other sites most of us regularly visit,and those who post those insufferably long, meandering posts weren't posting here things would be a lot different. Additionally, if the serial book posters would set up their own blogs, things would be quite different.
Most of what is posted, in my opinion, is not worth reading.
Posted by Chris Brown
For what little it's worth, I find the notion that 'there is no real problem here' to be offensive.
I posted something a couple of days ago. It went right through and I was hoping that all the trouble I'd had was gone. I went about my real world business and checked back a few hours later to see if I had any comments or recs. (I generally get at least a few comments on anything I post, and a few recs... every once in a while, I get enough recs to become a 'recommended post' for a day or so, which is always cool.)
I was a little surprised to discover that I had no comments yet, and no recs. Then I checked the sidebar, and could not find my post anywhere. Yet there it was, on my blog. But...
A few other people had posted after me, and all of them had posted over and over and over again. When three or four people post after you, usually you still stay in the sidebar for most of a day... but when three or four people post the same thing four or five or eight or nine times each, it drives the sidebar down relentlessly, and you pretty quickly drop off.
I cannot tell you how discouraging this is to me.
None of us are getting paid for this. ALL of us are doing it for, basically, attention. (That's nothing to be ashamed off, it's a basic human need.) When the servers are disfunctional to the point where multiple errors are driving fresh posts off the sidebar into oblivion within a few hours of being posted, well... that's a pretty significant problem.
Still, it's pretty obvious that I must fall into at least one, and probably more than one, of the categories Mr. Brown has nothing but contempt and disdain for, so, I guess I will take my talents, such as they are, elsewhere.
Those dissatisfied, of course, have the option of changing the channel.
I haven't found there to be a real serious problem. All of my comments and posts have appeared, though in many cases, especially during the mid-day peak period, it has taken a couple of minutes.
If those posting multiple times, those posting total BS, those posting unsolicited campaign advice, those posting breaking news that was posted hours previously wither here at TPM or the other sites most of us regularly visit,and those who post those insufferably long, meandering posts weren't posting here things would be a lot different. Additionally, if the serial book posters would set up their own blogs, things would be quite different.
Most of what is posted, in my opinion, is not worth reading.
Posted by Chris Brown
For what little it's worth, I find the notion that 'there is no real problem here' to be offensive.
I posted something a couple of days ago. It went right through and I was hoping that all the trouble I'd had was gone. I went about my real world business and checked back a few hours later to see if I had any comments or recs. (I generally get at least a few comments on anything I post, and a few recs... every once in a while, I get enough recs to become a 'recommended post' for a day or so, which is always cool.)
I was a little surprised to discover that I had no comments yet, and no recs. Then I checked the sidebar, and could not find my post anywhere. Yet there it was, on my blog. But...
A few other people had posted after me, and all of them had posted over and over and over again. When three or four people post after you, usually you still stay in the sidebar for most of a day... but when three or four people post the same thing four or five or eight or nine times each, it drives the sidebar down relentlessly, and you pretty quickly drop off.
I cannot tell you how discouraging this is to me.
None of us are getting paid for this. ALL of us are doing it for, basically, attention. (That's nothing to be ashamed off, it's a basic human need.) When the servers are disfunctional to the point where multiple errors are driving fresh posts off the sidebar into oblivion within a few hours of being posted, well... that's a pretty significant problem.
Still, it's pretty obvious that I must fall into at least one, and probably more than one, of the categories Mr. Brown has nothing but contempt and disdain for, so, I guess I will take my talents, such as they are, elsewhere.
