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Old May 9, 2012 | 8:21 am
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Originally Posted by deirdre
Why is that any of your business? I have a (very small and minor) travel blog, am not going to be posting credit card links or whatever, but my day job remains my day job. This question is, quite literally, none of your business.

The standard way this internet accusation works: person A claims person B is making money from source C. Person B says that's not true, person A says, "Well, how do you make your money?" If person B answers, then Person A (or a sockpuppet) ridicules person B's profession (and, sometimes, as a bonus, calls to the employer -- or clients -- to complain and get the person fired). If person B doesn't answer, then person A (or a sockpuppet) makes it look like person B's lying.

I'd like to believe you're not that person A, but I've been around the internet too damn long.



Which is fine, if they so choose to disclose.



But you said full-time job, and, given that you don't have access to the bloggers' hourly schedules, I thought you might have seen their financials.

Since now you've established that you're just pulling part of your information out of /dev/null, we can proceed from there.
Beautifully done. Too much inane name-calling and other idiocy going on in this thread and for some reason the bloggers are feeling defensive, as if they had to answer to this peanut-gallery of myopic cry-babies. Insults like "leeches" are being hurled about at the level of discourse of the current presidential elections. Maybe that's why the thread got started! They can't string enough sentences together to put up their own blog and they are just jealous.
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