9 thoughts on “Tales of the trade #5: How to author a super successful MySQL blog

  1. @Rhys,
    Thanks.

    What’s funny is that a post criticizing the many planet.mysql spammers is called a spam.

    In all good faith, I’ve separated images, and have inserted long HTML comment so as to make Planet not show all images. Planet stripped HTML comments and forced showing of all images.

    Perhaps it’s possible to contact the Planet’s moderator to do something manually. I don’t think I should waste his time. By tomorrow this post will be on page #2, and the great evilness will dissipate; light shall come.

  2. Shlomi,

    it has not been obvious to me if you had planned to “spam” the Planet with tons of pictures or not. As a reader it was a guessing game: planned to stress out your message or not planned. If you had planned it, well, I’d say that would have had been a bit to much.

    However, it has not been your intention. Not you should apologize, I should!

    The comics, the message, all great. Nothing to discuss here. I agree with you on the message. And, it must have been a lot of work to create – wow!

    It was the flood of images that made me leave this spontaneous “thumbs down” comment. I probably should not have blamed you but rather directed my reaction towards the maintainers of PlanetMySQL.

    Ulf

  3. Ulf,

    Thank you kindly for this message. Hats off to you!
    You should not be apologizing the least. Anyone has the right to thumb down any post. In particular, I cannot expect a post that is both criticizing as well as being a form of art (comics) to pass without controversy.

    The fact that you took bother to explain your thumb down in the first place stands for you. Many just thumb down without explaining (this is their right as well).

    At any case, this is much appreciated. See you around!

    Shlomi

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