Comments on: Paranoid Bloggers Shoot Selves In Foot, Film At Eleven

By: sen

sen — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:55:00 +0000

hello
french are paranoid too
some french architect ask for money because a blogger edit pictures about building in his city !!!

By: just another geek

just another geek — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:31:00 +0000

Hasn’t anyone heard of “fair use”?

Contrary to what the big media companies, and that blogger, would have you believe “copyright” is not absolute. It’s perfectly legal to quote brief passages as long as its properly attributed — hell that’s critical since it turns the monologue of each of us shouting into the wilderness into a meaningful dialogue.

BTW (and as another unrelated technical issue) this is why I have my mail server set up to reject any mail where I can’t find the sender myself. My attitude is that I’m only interested in dialogues — if somebody is sending out a message that I can’t possibly respond to then there’s no point in accepting it in the first place.

By: t

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:10:00 +0000

for us, and i think other bloggers, having your stuff on a site for everyone to see is what it’s about. sharing and knowing other people are reading your stuff. the best way to get more traffic is to have links and references from other people.
now if the point of your website is to earn loads of money and end up rich then i guess you might be a little more protective of your stuff. yet wouldn’t more traffic help that too?

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:04:00 +0000

Yet another blatantly obvious technical suggestion deleted. Geez, people, what part of “any fool can get around that stupid javascript” don’t you understand?

And why in the heck do so many of you continue to think that “Here’s how to copy that” is a germane response to “So-and-so is an idiot for not wanting that copied”?

By: ~Storm

~Storm — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:57:00 +0000

I love when people quote me or link to me (thanks by the way for the sexblog roundup hits) and also by the way… I have a link to you on my site. I get a lot of traffic from you guys.

Thanks!!

By: RGM

RGM — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:33:00 +0000

Bacchus, I like this site and enjoy the entries very much. However I found your action on comments irritating. Why delete the comments just for the reason that they don’t seem to get your point? Why not just leave them here AND leave your comments about that?

Just like you found Fleshbot’s JavaScript restriction unacceptable, I found your comment-controlling behavior unacceptable. And this does not seem to be the first time you needlessly delete comments. I perfectly aware that this is your website and you have total control, but I believe I have the right to not read your site. I’m outta here.

Thanks, bye.

By: Petronius

Petronius — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:03:00 +0000

Out of curiousity, did the website in question quote text from other sources?
what’s sauce for the goose, etc. etc.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:25:00 +0000

I can understand that gets a little irritating. Personally what pisses me off about that situation is not that I can’t get around it, but …that it really pisses me off. Here I’m trying to do a service to the world and the site in question and to myself by quoting something that is good. And then they tell me the equivalent of “fuck off, we don’t serve your kind here!” And somehow it isn’t satisfying enough to just leave that site alone. If there were a way of slamming the door on the way out, I would.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:04:00 +0000

RGM, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Eros Blog comments have always been heavily moderated. One of the things I moderate is insults, and I find it insulting that every time I mention this topic, people assume I’m too stupid to know how to get around the javascript. And so they post, at endless and irrelevant length, suggestions on how to do it. This is the third or fourth thread where this has happened, and I’m tired of receiving that insult. So I’m deleting it now. It’s that simple.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:56:00 +0000

Web is free????? So if I copyright a nice picture or a nice story, I should give it away free???? Sorry, but to post on the web does not mean that it may be free. So Karl, do you go to porn sites and expect to get all that porn for free?
[a "profoundly missed the point" technical suggestion was deleted here -- Bacchus]