Originally Posted by
84fiero
If someone posted your personal information, you wouldn't delete it? Really?
Your blog used to censor comments (at least when you ran it, I don't visit much anymore) that you deemed inappropriate regarding you or your family. In fact comments all required approval in the first place.
A one-off deletion for legit reasons, is not the same as blogs that routinely moderate/censor, another one of which is DeltaPoints, which makes it ironic that he made the TBB post to begin with.
admittedly I never saw the comment before it was censored and can't speak to anything other than Georgie indicated it identified him. So what? Is his identity a big secret? I suspect the true answer to that question is yes, particularly in light of the censorship.
I think the censoring is just a continuation of a pattern on this blog that is hypercritical of others.
1. the first issue was disclosure. In the early blog days the hype was bloggers needed to disclose fully their link relationship to some standard George decided was acceptable. Little did it matter that all bloggers conformed with the legal requirements of disclosure. George wanted is own standard imposed until the question of his name disclosure was repeatedly brought up as a counter point. that issue disappeared from the radar screen until this past week.
2. Next was the issue of card pimping, and that still continues on the blog. George always insinuated he would do a better job with links BUT money wasn't important. Yet, we all remember the great Adsense debacle of '13 where he tried and failed to monetize his own blog, and has he has gone to conferences, and met with affiliate marketing managers to do the same himself. Yet he continues to call out others for of all things: the barrage of blue links.
3. And most recently his shtick is credibility, yet he can call others out for deleting comments and you want to give him a pass for doing the same thing? I'd gladly give him the pass if the pattern wasn't so clear, the ranting so loud and the degrading of others so severe.
If credibility is truly an issue for George, maybe he'll take a little helpful criticism for a change instead of just dishing out his rants and slams. If you are going to try to hold yourself out to a higher standard, you'd better live that higher standard yourself.
when it is all said and done, George is just another Bozo on the Bus with little room to criticize others.
"Let he without sin, cast the first stone"