Kiddies—If you have a good website and don’t want to lose exposure, watch what you say! Anything blue or words just a tad worse than ‘crap’ or ‘booby’, will get you a smartass email from the big brothers at BlogSnob!
Check it…I got this crazy message from them the other day:
To: bbojojo99 AT yahoo DOT com Subject: BlogSnob ad… From: blogsnob@idya.net
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 03:15:24 -0400
Hi!
This is an automated notifier to tell you that a member of BlogSnob admin team has seen your page
and reported it to us. Your page
might have either violated the acceptance rules, or you have not
displayed your ad on the page properly.
These are the kind of sites that we do not accept:1) No offensive/pornographic content allowed. 2) No commercial sites allowed. 3) No pop up/under ad sites. 4) No foul language–OK, this one is a little tricky – let’s say “if you heard it on NBC/other TV networks, it’s probably ok”.NOTE: This point should hold for the following: the content of your site, it’s name, and the slogan that you
give in the ad.
5) Personal sites and Blogs Only. When people checkout a BlogSnob site, they expect it to be a nice Blog by somebody.
So your site should either be a personal blog, or something close to it.
Let’s keep the spirit of blogging alive!
regards,
The BlogSnob Team.
“…they expect it to be a nice Blog by somebody.”
Oh, so just because I have a blog it’s supposed to be all rainbows and ass-kissing? And my blog is by ME. I’m somebody. I think I established that back in um–preschool–when we discussed how special each of us little kids are, and that we’re all SOMEBODY. That right there should tell you the kind of members BlogSnob has…children.
Here is their method by which they accept sites:
“First, when a site signs up, the blogsnob system automatically goes out, and checks it. It tries to see if the site is a blog, is clean, if it contains any objectionable language or pictures. If it finds no problem with the site, or the ad, it approves the site. All applicant sites that have objectionable words, pictures, etc. are politely rejected. If any user of blogsnob finds any site that is not a personal or a blog site, or it is offensive, or improper, he/she reports it using the contact page. The site is then immediately checked out by first the BlogSnob system itself, and also by the Admins. The site is then dealt with accordingly.”
Ooooh, I’M TO BE DEALT WITH!
Have I been a bad little girl? Am I now to stand in line for my whooping?
Shit.
Well, BlogSnob is a work of a bunch of snobs. Truly.
This is MY FREEDOM. To write and say what I please. It’s their loss if they don’t want a fine quality site like day lee in their stupid little club. HA!
Besides, none of those assholes said anything was bad about my site back when I didn’t have a huge pic displaying the word ‘fuck’ on it when I signed up two years ago, however day lee’s always been chock-full of words and stuff that would make a sailor blush. So what gives, peeps?
I’m going to be THE BIGGEST SNOB OF ALL, and not only boycott BlogSnob and all sites but also any site which displays links to, belongs to, and otherwise encourages the services and policies set forth by BlogSnob and its partners/evil minions. Besides, I think they only sent me a handful of hits a day. Probably people who are all of 11, still crapping their pants and sheilding their eyes from all the bad, bad stuff in this world, LOL!
Who’s with me?