Originally Posted by
Mile-a-holic
I think the difference might be that the other bloggers tend to tailor their blog plugs to specific requests or known areas of interest. For example, if slotownmomma had responded to the thread "Paris for a Librarian" with recommendations and a link to the strategy, I think the response would have been different.
The other concern might be the slippery slope. Sure, right now it's just ignore the one thread. But, is it 15 threads tomorrow from other bloggers?
Great point on holding off on the judging--there's no need for that. But, slotownmomma should expect that non-newbies on the board will review this and offer comments since this is on FT and newbies will be reading it. So the "My question to you is why are you here? Why didn't you just click to somewhere else? You obviously aren't a newbie and don't need any advice? Just wondering?" also isn't constructive.
I don't think slotownmomma has any objections to legitimate questions and discussion about miles and methods and such but how are you supposed to react when people automatically react to your posts in such an adversarial manner. Every post on FT could be argued this way or that in some nuanced way if you wanted to but why do it in such an adversarial manner? What's the point? Discussion or just knocking someone? If you don't agree with someone, and you actually care enough, just politely state your case and click on but don't accuse people of having some sort of hidden agenda with the intention of deceiving people for profit.
Holy cow. Not sure what you mean by her reaction to this accusation not being 'constructive' but I don't think I would personally respond with a "thank you very much for your view" reply. "Click to somewhere else" was a pretty mature and reserved reply (as opposed to the comments that inspired it) as far as I'm concerned.
But I do agree she could probably get a little more adept at posting information that provides useful insight concerning a specific subject being discussed in a thread as opposed to just making a post out of the blue telling people to go to her blog. And I think various people pointed that out to her in a nice, respectful manner but a few guys just seemed to really be torqued over it and way overreacted. That's what I can't figure out.
There's just no reason to treat this place like a wack-a-mole game and flame someone for trying to raise their head. I'm sure she'll get better at FT protocol for those in her situation. There's no reason to feel threatened in the meantime. I think we'll all be o.k.