I suppose I should be thankful that some things in this world will remain constant, no matter how much everything else around us changes.
It would appear as though wanna-be gunblogger and certified attention whore Robert Farago is still being a dick, and a rather ineffective one at that.
Someone who stoops to arbitrarily deleting comments and then lying about the content of those comments, misappropriating and misrepresenting others’ hard work, engaging in pointless smear campaigns against massively successful pro-rights advocates, and fabricating controversies just to bolster his traffic numbers is not exactly going to pause at pointlessly stabbing another weblogger in the back for the gos-se and giggles of it, much less engaging in such ludicrously childish tactics as attempting to make fun of someone for their beard.
As I said before, "Apparently neither Farago’s maturity nor whatever passed for his personal integrity made it off the kindergarten playground."
I brought up an interesting (to me) point over at Weer’d's that I wanted to echo here and see what my readers thought – Say Uncle is widely regarded as the premier firearm-related weblog out there (with good reason… w00t for #23!), but I will be damned if I can see much overlap, if any, between the commenters there and the commenters at Farago’s hole. Granted, I spend very little time at the latter site, but the same could be said when one compares the clientele at View from the Porch and Sharp as a Marble to those at "The Truth About Guns". What does this mean? No idea. But I have to wonder about the discrepancy.
Good god, you all sound like a bunch of drama-laden teenagers. I happen to read both of your blogs (as well as a number of other gun related blogs) and I honestly couldn’t care less about these things. Not a fan of politics being directly tied to gun blogs either (but that’s for another time).
If the dude literally lifted your content word for word, images created by you with no attribution, etc, file a DCMA notice if he refuses to take it down. Otherwise, STFU and talk about guns!
Allow me to make myself perfectly clear, because you obviously have not read the posts wherein I did that before: I do this for me, not you. If you do not like what I write, you are kindly invited not to read it.
And, frankly, if your first comment here is to make demands of me and tell me to “STFU”, I would almost prefer if you did not waste both our times.
SallySockpuppet sez: Robert Farago, You’re the best! All the other bloggers wish they could run a blog as successful as you!
It took several emails to get Robert to edit Mikeb302000′s obvious and blatant flame of Weerd.
Guess he only is ethical when someone is calling him on his behavior
It is your party, and you *can* cry if you want to. Doesn’t mean you should. You wrote these things on the internet, so clearly you decided at some point that it wasn’t just for ‘you’.
If you write for others, to any degree, there is some duty to be professional about things. As you have indicated, it is your blog, and you *can* ignore that duty.
Others can only judge us by our actions, and if we display a startling lack of maturity in a public arena, they fail to see past that to the perfectly reasonable person behind it.
I’ll stop reading this blog when it gets boring, but probably not before that point
@ Sean D Sorrentino: It is interesting how almost none of his commenters are webloggers themselves…
@ Bob S.: Cannot say as though I am surprised. I notice that he did not make it public knowledge that he edited the comment either, which is yet another ethical violation and is tremendously misleading to his readers.
Mark Smith wrote:
In point of fact, it bloody well does.
This is my weblog. This is my private property. Not only can I do whatever the hell I bloody well please, I should do it to boot. That is what “mine” typically means.
Moving on, I have absolutely no specious “duty” to you or almost any other of my readers or commenters. You are not family. You are not even a friend. You do not pay me. I have no contract to you. I am not beholden to you.
And you can kindly take your guilt-trip-through-misappropriation-of-words, print it out on the roughest cardstock you can find, fold it until it is all sharp corners, and shove it up your…
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about how the internet works and what it was designed for, but that’s another argument for another time.
If you are not beholden to your readers in any fashion, you need to disable comments on the entire blog. I’ve read it long enough to know that you have some sort of dialog with the people that comment on here, so clearly you don’t hate that aspect of it. If you grow upset when not surrounded by ‘yes men’ who share your every view and position, so be it.
To paraphrase, I come not to insult you but to try and talk sense. If no benefit is gained from my words, I’ll stop writing them. As you’ve clearly stated, you see no duty to your readers, so I take comfort in following your lead at this point.
Mark Smith wrote:
No, jackass, I become annoyed when a complete and total stranger comes into my weblog – my private property that I bought and paid for with money that I worked to earn – and has the unmitigated gall to dictate to me what I should and should not do with it… as you continue to do so, even to this comment.
If you want to offer constructive criticism, fine. If you want to politely indicate what you would prefer and why, fine. If you want to to provide suggestions, fine.
You did none of that. You stormed in here like some petulant brat, made expletive-laden demands, and then compounded your childishness when you were called on it.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works, and, frankly, that is your damned problem, not mine.
Why stop now? I already indicated your first comment was worthless, but you just kept on truckin’!
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