Bloggers have to put up with a lot of shit. Trolls. Assholes like me. Overzealous fans who point over every single mistake you make. It’s all part of the job of being an extremely minor celebrity.
But there is one bunch that is worse than everyone else. These are the people that try to make a few bucks off of the blogger.
A few recent samples:
- Hi Jay - I noticed that you had a few posts in your archives with some lists of seemingly random things. Would you be willing to rewrite that list to include a link to this sketchy product?
Oh hell no I would not.
- Jay - I’m number 5 on Google for a vague search term that you aren’t targeting. Would you be interested in buying another domain?
Of course I want another domain to manage that has nothing to do with what I’m interested in! How thoughtful of you to contact me in your blast email. Let me get back to you if I decide I want to rank for “Lick my hairy balls.”
Sketchy advertisers - I’m flattered you think my blog is good enough for you to hawk your wares on, whether to me or to my readers.
But fuck you. Selling out my readers trust for a few bucks isn’t worth it.
I wish there was an indicator of nuisance related advertisements on social networking. In that way, you can easily send those posts to the recycle bin.
- spam
- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
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