Yeah. Good Times.: What to Do When You Disagree With a Blog Post: Guest Blogger

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Monday, August 8, 2011

What to Do When You Disagree With a Blog Post: Guest Blogger

I am SO excited today to be hosting Amber, author of the incredibly awesome Parenting. Illustrated with Crappy Pictures. If you don't read her, you need to start reading her. Everything she writes and draws is so true and her pictures are sooooo funny. Seriously, do something nice for yourself today and read what it is like to eat in a nice restaurant... illustrated with crappy pictures™ and what it is like to (not) sleep at night - illustrated with crappy pictures™

What to Do When You Disagree With a Blog Post

Welcome to the internet!

While you are browsing, you may find personal blog posts that you don't agree with, don't find funny or you otherwise don't understand.

Here is a handy guide on what to do when this happens.

Option A

(Our most popular Option! Used by billions of sane, smart people with regular lives!)

Upon encountering a disagreeable post, simply leave and move onto another blog. Just one click and you are taken away!

Option B

(Our second most popular Option! Commonly used by lonely people, bored people and sanctimonious assholes.)

Upon encountering a disagreeable post, tell the blog owner that you disagree and proceed to calmly and politely educate them on why you are right and they are wrong. Spend a lot of time doing this. Eventually give up when you realize that no one cares.

Option C

(This Option is for discerning individuals who like to stand out! Commonly used by people with rabies.)

Upon encountering a disagreeable post, proceed to personally attack the writer and anyone who agrees with them. Utilize contact methods such as comments, Facebook, Twitter and email simultaneously. Deliver insults with poor grammar. Most importantly, never, ever leave.

Have fun!

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Amanda · 711 weeks ago

Hilarious! You forgot the part where if it's a blogger, they write their own post. Not that I've ever done that or anything. (But it usually brings good traffic if you're into that sort of thing)
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Marianna Annadanna · 711 weeks ago

So funny! Secret option number four: start with option three and then change your name to someone else on the interwebs that you also hate - double sabotage. .
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Sharon · 711 weeks ago

Yes I'm the sanctimonious arsehole. Love the pic of me!
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Jenn · 711 weeks ago

Bwhahahah!!! Love it! I have not yet had a troll but I have read trolly comments on other sites and I just don't get it . . . that being said . . . it might be fun to have a troll at least once.
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Claire · 711 weeks ago

What's that woman got against rabid people? Like, is she "rabies-ist?" Sheesh. Rabids are people too you know.
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bre87 63p · 711 weeks ago

my Google Reader almost exploded due to the fact that Amber is a guest blogger on here. it was some sort of odd vortex crossing of the blogs.
i feel some sort of way about this and may or may not do a blog to properly express my unhappiness.
or maybe not but yes the innanets is full of the rabid.
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jillsmo 103p · 711 weeks ago

If you do, make sure you go with Option C !!!!

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Nicole · 711 weeks ago

I have met quite a few option C people before.. They are mildly entertaining.
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Ryan @TWM · 711 weeks ago

Oh, trolls. They make everything stinky.
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@PhasesofMe · 711 weeks ago

I used to dread getting a troll, then another blogger (forgive me, I forget who it was) said they'd gotten their 1st troll and it made them feel like a REAL BLOGGER! I decided that was a great attitude, so I'm going with that!

Seriously though, why can't there be more option A people?
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jillsmo 103p · 711 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that other blogger was me

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Sharon · 711 weeks ago

Could have been me. I felt the same way. :p
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Alison 102p · 711 weeks ago

Amber, you just made my day. I love this post. Your drawings are amazing!

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Gini · 711 weeks ago

Yeah. Pretty sure this needs to be required reading for everyone before they're allowed to have an internet connection or a computer. Along with a written test, a spelling test and a general common sense test.
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Vinny C · 711 weeks ago

I've never get the option B or C people. Most of my readers fall into the option A category.
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Mandy_Fish · 711 weeks ago

I've gotten some really stunning C-Types. As I type that, I realize a "C-Type" makes me think of another C-word...

*Evil laugh*
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Frivolous Mom · 711 weeks ago

This is awesome! In my 12 years as a blogger I have seen this over and over and over and over and over...you get the point.

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Frankie Parker · 711 weeks ago

Oh so true... if you don't like something more on...

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Brandon · 711 weeks ago

FUCK YOU AND THE KEYBOARD YOU RODE IN ON!!!

But I digress....

I LOVE this post! Part of me wishes I had more C in my life, because they make writing much more interesting. Today's topic may instigate that, since I said "America needs another pimp in the White House, like Bill Clinton." We'll see....

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Rachel · 711 weeks ago

Recently, I responded in a post on my blog to someone who had posted a piece on her own blog with very pejorative stereotypes of autistic people --- the kind of stereotypes that can wreak serious havoc in our lives. My post was respectful and clear, and I spent a good amount of time on it, because I thought the issue was important. Basically, given my autism, writing is one of the few avenues available to me for helping to create a better world, and I do it because other people do care about issues that matter.

I suppose that makes me lonely, bored, and a sanctimonious asshole? And here I thought I had a passion for social justice and a well-developed capacity for empathy.

Oh well. More illusions shattered.

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parentingcontroversy 4p · 711 weeks ago

I agree with Rachel (above). Sometimes type B is warranted. Besides, sometimes a little healthy debate can be fun... especially because we bloggers are always absolutely right, right? ;)
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@ByWordsMusings · 711 weeks ago

My last troll told me to get off my high and mighty podium and called me a banal narcissistic Walmart shopping heifer with three snotty screaming kids ... seriously, everyone knows I only have two.

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jillsmo 103p · 711 weeks ago

LOL

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pinkrunningshoes 53p · 711 weeks ago

u forgot 2 add commenting using h8ful txt talk and uneek spelling.

So far I haven't had a troll beyond the under the bridge sort, but i use those to fetch coffee.

I fall between a and b depending on if it is a subject I'm passionate about and is one that deserves (RESPECTFUL..ahem) debate, but I find most often I just can't deal with some of the other comments that fall under c and so I just go away...click.

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AmyLynn · 711 weeks ago

I am the one saying "meh"....so often I read a post and think?!*& I got nothin---nada, cannot even think of a reply---I hate that__________that is all

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@MommaCupcake · 711 weeks ago

hell with all of this i just post passive aggressive posts on my facebook knowing that eventually it will get to the person i was talking about. works like a charm! my trolls personally email me. i feel so special.

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pluckymama 23p · 711 weeks ago

You're so wrong....you need to just sit there in your wrongness and be wrong.
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@ShirleyEwe · 711 weeks ago

I disagree with this post. No wait, I disagree with this comment about this post. Wait, that's kinda like a double negative... I LIKE YOUR POST! *whew!*

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Amber · 711 weeks ago

That was hilarious.

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Amber · 711 weeks ago

Thanks for giving a home to my post, Jill!!
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jillsmo 103p · 711 weeks ago

Any time! :)

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Efloraross 100p · 711 weeks ago

The type C people are seriously, seriously scary. The amount of time and energy they expend in such a manner baffles me. I think option B can be fine if done in a respectful manner. And that is where the problem often lies. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing. But be short, sweet and to the point. Go ahead and speak your mind and share your opinion. Then move on.
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Lisa QF · 711 weeks ago

HA! I Love It!

The type C people are great for entertainment value but...seriously, who has that kind of time on their hands to trash talk on the internet?
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Cactusinyrpants 59p · 711 weeks ago

I met Jill at a message board that could easily be called "Option C on steroids".

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jillsmo 103p · 711 weeks ago

it's funny 'cause it's true

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Amy · 711 weeks ago

OK, you're right...I have to go read more! Definitely funny and definitely true.
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Tough Cookie Mommy · 711 weeks ago

Hahahaha, seriously, this is so true. I've had some rabid raccoons comment on posts. Most recently, I had a woman write a page long comment about how she has four dogs she can't take care of but needs donations to pay for their medications since they are really old and can't see or hear. I felt badly but, come on...

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Tough Cookie Mommy · 711 weeks ago

By the way, I'm following you and you better follow back before I become like the last blogger in your post. Joking, maybe. ;)
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shan · 711 weeks ago

Hmm. So no wonder I don't ever receive any comments.
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Rhonda · 711 weeks ago

Love the post and especially your cartoons. Thanks for the laugh. Glad I don't disagree with you :)
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Sarcasm Goddess · 711 weeks ago

Deliver insults with poor grammar. Hahahaha! I love it when the person insulting you is a complete moron.
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Jill · 711 weeks ago

the illustrations really made work! LOL ....
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Pandorican · 711 weeks ago

You forgot "Cat-rapey".

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Ally · 711 weeks ago

Don't you love that last one? They not only attack the writer, but the commenters, as well. And then they come BACK!
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mama0307 41p · 711 weeks ago

Hilarious. The best part is obviously when they use twitter and ALL their followers to join together in a crusade to prove someone wrong.
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Optimistic Mom · 711 weeks ago

Very funny, but true!! Some people just have nothing better to do than harass people who could care less about them.
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Danielle · 711 weeks ago

LOL this seriously made me laugh! It's like a personality test with types A. B. and C.
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