Tag: nuffnang

Nuff-Nazis… Sieg Heil! LOL!

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This is quite amusing. Hot on the heels of blogger Limetouch’s ban, now blogger sisuahlai is banned for 2 weeks (or was it 2 months?) on Innit. At first, it seems like the nuffnang clowns have learnt a little from the previous bad publicity as a result of Limetouch’s ban and have made an attempt at a lighter touch this round. But I was wrong. Behind what I perceived as a lighter touch, was a threat to sue!!

Now I must say I felt Limetouch was lucky. And here’s the next best part: poor sisuahlai first a public reply on his blog, and then some anonymous coward citing some ‘rules on confidentiality’, seems to have scared him into removing it. Bleah!! [Update: The entry has now been reposted after he obtained ‘permission’ to do so.]

But the good news is… Shadoxfox [whom I called 邪道狐 in Chinese] has a screen capture of sisuahlai’s post here, so all of you can see sisuahlai’s reply in its full glory.

As I went through nuffnang’s letter, I find this the most amusing. I quote:

‘What you have said in your blog is misleading in nature and would cause uncertainties among the bloggers who are not as informed as others.’

Can I say I am LMAO [laughing my ass off] when I read this? Frankly, just who, other than the very people running, or perhaps working for, nuffnang are any the wiser when compared to the rest of the common bloggers? In other words, the condition that ‘bloggers who are not as informed as others’ does not exist – the simple reason being that everyone is about just as informed as the others, not!

If that condition exists, then why does sisuahlai seem less informed than the rest (since he’s been asking all those questions)? Why are there certain bloggers privy to matters which sisuahlai or other bloggers are not? Should not certain knowledge be common and made known to all bloggers on nuffnang’s corporate website to prevent such… uncertainties? * In Darth Vader’s Voice * “I find your lack of a public, corporate response… disturbing.”

Oh… I forgot, absofxxkinglutely no corporate announcement of that sort exists on nuffnang corporate website. It has appeared to me they have always preferred to selectively answer to only certain bloggers in the comment section as they deem fit. Now no wonder they can now brag about ‘bloggers who are not as informed as others’ !

It’s a condition that exists on their own making!

Well done, nuff-nazis [short for nuffnang nazis]! Is this where I do the straight arm salute and scream ‘Sieg Heil!’ ? And sing ’nuffnang, nuffnang ueber alles?’

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Anyway, now that I have started raving, and I have put myself into a writing mood, I might as well also talk about some of the new things happening in Blogosphere, and the one I wanna talk about is sgping.com.

When the news broke, I was wondering what uzyn’s response will be. But after awhile, I realized that it probably doesn’t matter to uzyn at all. After all, Uzyn has been rather passive when innit came up, so why would uzyn give a flying fxxk to sgping.com? From what I gathered, uzyn mentioned at the ping party last year he put ping.sg together because he simply wanted to be able to read blog posts of people in Singapore. So, putting up ads on ping.sg – i.e. using ping.sg as a means of income – appeared to me to be an after-thought, unlike sgping.com which made it clear they are going to share the earnings with bloggers.

Anyway, many bloggers registered at ping for no other purpose other than an avenue to publicise their blogs. That ping.sg turned into an avenue for some to make new friends was almost a side effect. In other words, there is no conflict between ping.sg and sgping.com.

While elements within ping.sg users have talked about the lack of loyalty among pingsters who publicised sgping.com thru ping.sg, I beg to differ. (There maybe an element of ‘politics’ behind some did what they did, but I would prefer not to talk about them in public nor to get involved.)

First of all, there was never a question of loyalty. It has been clear to me that many bloggers have no loyalty other than to themselves and / or to the few bucks they can earn from monetising their blog. In other words, signing up to both sgping.com and ping.sg would give them the best of both worlds.

sgping.com can serve as an indirect means of monetizing one’s blog, while ping.sg continues to serve your purposes. Unless sgping.com moves more aggressively to make itself a virtual social activity outlet, at this point of time I don’t see a conflict between the two.

Now that I have get this off my chest, I believe some may consider I am making a sales pitch for sgping.com. As I have said before, some may even consider this a seditious and subversive posts and probably call for my head.

Whatever the case is, I do hope that the people running ping.sg are way more enlightened than the nuff-nazis, since ping.sg and nuffnang are pretty different. But if they turned into ping-nazis, there’s nothing much I can do about that anyway. All I can say is this:

Relax… you have a life beyond ping.sg. Don’t be too uptight about such small stuff.

Blog Advertising… yet again…

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Every now and then we will hear something about our ‘local’ Blog Advertising companies – e.g. Advertlets and Nuffnang. Most of the time it’s just complaints (if not the whines) of bloggers.

In rare cases, you hear something different. Even Blog2u was not spared of this curse, though in their case the matter quickly blew over with both sides – company and ex-staff – agreeing to remove their respective blog entries. (I will not go into details about this matter.)

Yet again, blog entries about nuffnang hits the Top 10 of ping.sg recently. This time written by bloggers who finally having enough of their service and deserting them. Starting with Limetouch, the body count soon increase to include: Kriscell, Wishbone and Sicarii. (If you aren’t mentioned here then it’s most likely your blog has been given the [-] on ping.sg, a list that is ever growing… daily.)

In Limetouch’s case, he also published his post on Innit, nuffnang’s very own propaganda machine People’s Daily blog aggregator which resulted in his ban in a matter of hours – an efficiency rarely seen in nuffnang (depending on who you asked). Of course, the reason for these bloggers finally ‘abandoning’ nuffnang, is yet again: the lack of ads, the never-ending controversy surrounding the transparency on how the ads are given out and also how bloggers are ‘tiered’ and paid. (And frankly speaking, I personally felt it wouldn’t matter very much to nuffnang unless there is a massive desertion of bloggers from using nuffnang to monetize their blogs, or when higher ups of big brands which use their service sit up and do something about it.)

Of course, where there are detractors, there will also be supporters. Blogger ylva wrote that she will not leave nuffnang regardless and stated that her reason she will stay with them for the ‘priceless’ activities nuffnang have organised and the ‘friends’ she can meet as a result of such activities.

But I wondered if ylva had thought about this: If bloggers continue to leave nuffnang in droves, then her chances of her making new friends are going to diminish as time goes by. Unless she’s content with meeting the same people over and over again, these ‘priceless’ activities she touted appears to me to be slowly depreciating in value.

Still, it was quite amusing for me to know that some actually found a special use nuffnang other than as an attempt to monetize one’s blog. It is now some kind of friend-finder or social networking facility like Asia Friendfinder. Perhaps nuffnang should consider adding a new facility along the lines of myspace, facebook or even friendster, so nuffnangers can now poke, slap or perhaps even scratch the back of one another.

Indeed, it appears to me that some bloggers are also unconsciously using ping.sg in that capacity and more than just a blog aggregator and a means to publicize their blogs as well. I personally have made and gained a few friends… and make a few enemies.

Meantime, I am glad I have outgrown the usual urge to respond to the ‘creative’ cut and paste of those who never grows up and fart through their blogs as easily as they do with their mouths. They are aptly be described by this new term: 兰州人 (Lanzhou Ren). An interesting term which I believe I will soon use often on die Mutter-Ficken Schweinhunde, hopefully without any offense to the real natives of Lanzhou.