Payperpost.com: "Bashing Homeless" or "Just Kidding"
October 5th's entry was at first cool, a college kid trying to brainstorm about how to market his blog...until he chose to put Payperpost in a position like this.
Besides being seen by bloggers and advertisers using the service, this public blog entry is 'tease linked' from Payperpost's Entry Portal page.
I have also considered avenues such as placing an ad in the UF newspaper, having some promotional merchandise made up, putting up flyers around town as part of a grass roots marketing effort, sending out a press release, paying homeless men to walk around downtown wearing sandwich boards...If "Mr. Wonderful" wants to slam people on his blog, that's his business. If Payperpost wants to slam people on their blog through allowing people to do this, then they've got a problem with me...and anyone else commenting on this entry that doesn't want to be ridiculed by Payperpost's blog, blogger and advertiser alike!
Well, okay. Maybe not the last one. After all, the homeless are notoriously unreliable.
Friday it was homeless people being unreliable. If unchecked, what's considered appropriate business blogging before Payperpost moderates their blog?
Jews 'less than honorable'?Maybe I'm just overreacting and personalizing. Maybe it's ok to bash people when standing up for what's right could cost someone, and make it all nice with 'just kidding', followed by another remark for flavor. Who am I to say what a business site's blog should say?
Lesbian parents not having a 'dad' for Janey or Joey?
Hispanics 'needing to go home'?
Just the guy who's got your attention about something you may not have paid enough attention when you read the blog at Payperpost between Friday and now.Site pages have been saved as well as screen shots taken, in case the post is deleted without anything said further on Payperpost's behalf.
9 comments:
For being 'unreliable', I do believe I've managed to be 'reliable' in blogging, being a Postie, holding a full time day job, not to mention now monetizing part time to the tune of $1,000.00 in 2.5 months.
...and I had actually considered using Payperpost as 'the' recommended choice to people I'll be teaching how to create a blog as a way off the street's financially.
First, Mr. Fab is not a college student looking to promote his blog. He is a middle aged man who has a job and a blog.
He is paid monthly by PPP to make weekly posts on their blog.
Was it offensive? Not really. Should it have been posted on the PPP blog? Hell no.
It's not Mr. Fab's blog, it's PPP's blog, and because of that, he should be more cautious about what he writes. He may not be an official spokesperson for them, but because it's their blog, he needs to think how thousands of readers will react to what is written there.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
That's your perspective, Kat, and I commend you for it.
I guess it would have been ok if he had said something about an out of work one breasted women then?
Sorry, but you sound like your defending him from your opening words.
On your choice of quotes...tell me...what about all of the women beaten, human trafficked, or abused daily tied up in sheds or little closets?
They didn't consent, and someone sure as hell makes them feel inferior...don't they?
Thanks for stopping by. :)
No, my opening words were to tell you facts you didn't know.
He is not a college kid, he is a middle aged man with a job.
PPP pays him to post on their blog once a week.
Those are the facts. It wasn't a defense, they were facts because you were unaware of who he is.
I also said that because it's PPP's blog, he does need to be more cautious about what he says because people will take things the wrong way.
He has a warped sense of humor, not everyone will agree with it.
I didn't find it offensive, but you did.
Perhaps you should take your concerns to PPP.
And before you think I'm a blogger of theirs and defending their actions, I am not.
I quit working for them because I disagree with a lot of what they do and how they treat their bloggers.
As someone who has been homeless myself, I can see why it upset you, but I choose how I react to things, and I chose to not be offended by this post.
Kat is right, he isn't a college kid, he is a middle aged man who blogs, and who happens to have a rather 'off beat' sense of humour.
However, I do agree with you, his comment is offensive, and it shouldn't have been included in an article written for a client. In fact, I'm surprised PPP approved it for publication, most publishers would have asked for that section to be removed or rewritten.
Thanks for highlighting this, I recently signed up with PPP, but I have had some doubts about staying with the scheme, mainly because my blog is such a niche one that it doesn't seem likely I will make much money out if it. Now, I know they allow their writers to make sweeping generalisations about large numbers of people I'm even less inclined to hang around.
Kat,
I'm a PPP blogger, as well as doing like work for other services.
THAT blog was meant for me, my peers, and my potential clients through PPP.
I could care less about the poster of that entry, I care about what I saw, my peers saw, and my potential and existing clients. If it had been about women, I would have personally called the writer out in THAT blog in THOSE COMMENTS.
You can ask anyone who's followed me, I've done it on Fuelmyblog.com, I've done it here, and I've done it on MyBlogLog.com, when I saw ANYONE being bashed.
Due to it being personal, it would have been seen as bitch, cry, inferior complex. It could have also been deleted. I took it here, I invited people at other forums and systems and kept it here.
You keep relating to your personal knowledge about a person, as well as the homeless issue. It's got nothing to do with those two matters.
It's got to do with what's right, what's acceptable due to mass buy in, as well as what's not.
Obviously from the responses I've gotten in email from both sides who didn't want to be seen publicly, this has turned into an issue.
Again, black, jew, straight, gay, it doesn't matter. If you can't print, blog, or say it publicly due to it not acceptable...
...it's not.
As to taking it to PPP, I have. Here.
It's called blogging.
I kept my speech and issue here, kept it focused to the issue, and kept it away from the other side of my relationship with PPP regarding business I do with them for 'our' clients.
I'm regret things didn't work out for you, as well as other bloggers with PPP. That happens. Sometimes it's little things, sometimes it's big things.
This is a pretty big issue in the blogging community.
I've tended towards facing those issues rather than quit and walk away.
Again, thanks for the comment. If you and I need to go further into this issue, please email me directly Kat. I can correspond about the other issues you may have, but I want this thread to maintain it's intended direction: acceptability should be the same, regardless of what group you drop in a sentence to test.
When we blog, we are all font on a screen equally. That should never be forgotten.
Kate,
Thanks. While the blogger isn't the focus, he's got his right to his style and content...in his realm. Given a paid position such as what's highlighted, that's not a place to minimize anyone.
Thanks for the comment. Glad to see you around. :)
I don't think you are over reacting at all John. That should not have been permitted.
Thanks for the comment, Rose. :)
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