Comments on: Tales of the trade #5: How to author a super successful MySQL blog https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog Blog by Shlomi Noach Thu, 19 May 2011 03:10:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.3 By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40178 Thu, 19 May 2011 03:10:25 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40178 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

]]> By: Ulf Wendel https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40147 Wed, 18 May 2011 20:44:30 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40147 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

]]> By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40129 Wed, 18 May 2011 17:13:14 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40129 @Jonno,
Thank you. All of the above tips are directly based on real cases.

]]> By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40122 Wed, 18 May 2011 15:51:15 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40122 @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.

]]> By: Rhys https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40116 Wed, 18 May 2011 15:14:43 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40116 Funny comment with a serious point. Surely with a little moderator help this wouldn’t be too hard to resolve?

]]> By: Jonno https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40114 Wed, 18 May 2011 14:39:39 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40114 It made me laugh 🙂

]]> By: Great post! | domas mituzas https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40108 Wed, 18 May 2011 12:35:54 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40108 […] out this great MySQL-related post. Meta. hehehe. This entry was posted in mysql. Bookmark the permalink. ← On database […]

]]> By: shlomi https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40098 Wed, 18 May 2011 10:05:25 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40098 @Ulf,
This is very interesting, because I was thinking along the same lines; which is why I split the entire comic into 3 distinct images, expecting Planet to only present the first, so as to make for lesser impact.
I was surprised that the Planet presented all three.

So, I apologize for ruining the look of the Planet, please understand this was not my intention. Hopefully, though, this post will negate the ten times fold ruining of the Planet by blog-spammers, which are the issue of this comic. I respect and thank your comment; but, to be melodramatic, my conscience is clear.

Regards

]]> By: Ulf Wendel https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/mysql/tales-of-the-trade-4-how-to-author-a-super-successful-mysql-blog/comment-page-1#comment-40096 Wed, 18 May 2011 10:00:08 +0000 https://shlomi-noach.github.io/blog/?p=3605#comment-40096 Sorry, but spamming the PlanetMySQL front page with images does not meet my sense of humor.

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