Blog Etiquette?

Here's what happened:

1. Cynical-C made a post about Jana Skinny Water, adding "And at $43.20 for a case of 24 bottles it is a steal. You guess who is robbing who."
2. Tressa copied that post and posted it to her blog, Mind Over Platter, without a linkback to Cynical-C.
3. Cynical-C finds out about this, and they have an exchange of communication. The original message from Cynical-C is not posted as far as I can tell. Tressa's response is posted here.
4. Cynical-C then makes a post titled Blog Etiquette , taking Tressa to task for not linking back.
5. Tressa apologizes.
6. Tressa adds a link back to Cynical-C .

This whole major event in the life of the Blog-O-Sphere generates 82 comments at last count. Here are some of the comments on Cynical-C directed toward Tressa:

• I like how the page has no header. And is remarkably ugly.
• Boy, Tressa has issues
• Tressa dearie, remember what the doctor said - if you don't take your meddies, then you'll have to go back in.
• Tressa, a piece of well meaning advice - stay far far away from alt.tasteless. We're meek and mild compared to those folks.
• Wow Tressa you are a complete moron.
• Tressa...you are insane...LOL
• Tressa has a George Orwell style of blogging. She uses that "delete comment" button like a black Sharpie
• Come to think of it, you should just stick to plagiarizing your copy instead of trying to write it yourself.

All of this over the line "And at $43.20 for a case of 24 bottles it is a steal. You guess who is robbing who." As one of the comments said "Good god, people leave the poor girl alone. Is your day truly so empty that you can't find anything to do but attack someone's blog? Get over yourselves, you're not publishing any pulitzer prize worth pieces..."

I couldn't agree more.

Comments

[Roz]

"...who is robbing who?" The original poster should be relieved that he didn't get credited with the grammatical error.

[Tressa]

Tom, You Made My Day! LoL. Thank You :) Great Site; Keep It Up!

[radmila]

I followed that thread and it wasn't so much that she took the line, which was bad enough...it was her "fuck you, too bad" attitude. And then when she was attacked for it, her response was "HOLY FUCK, I'M SORRY OK? HOLY SHIT!" which is not a very sincere apology, and it escalated from there.

..and that is the rest of the story.
People might view the entry as petty by the way that it's described..but it wasn't about stealing content so much as it was for being rude about it.

Tressa was rude, and got a very rude response.

[Tom McMahon]

That's why I have all the links, so people can judge for themselves. It's just ironic that a post titled Blog Etiquette is itself about the poorest example of blog etiquette one could find on the internet.

[radmila]

I thought it was a good example of how easily things can get out of hand when people begin with a bad attitude.
Chances are that had Tressa not been so belligerent in the beginning, it wouldn't have gone the route it did.
By the time she realized and tried to fix it, she had insulted more than just Cynical-C's original complaint, but others who had simply come to his defence.
By then, it was on.
I assume Tressa is a relatively new blogger, otherwise she wouldn't have engaged Cynical-C the way she did.

[Tom McMahon]

I just wish I still had energy like that to burn, too. :-)

[Bibi]

Even when I'm angry I don't give names because I don't want to give popularity to who did and I don't want to create aggressive discussions and people saying bad things etc. I just say , "hey I don't like when people do do this" and I hope that who did read that and understand.

I won't judge his attitude, but I didn't like what she did (about the link). I didn't visit her blog to see what happened there (and won't do that) because what I had to say, that don't approve her attitude, I said there, there is no reason to use aggressive words or go to her blog to say these kind of thing.

Well, all the thing is there, they can't change and I hope it's over. I hope that everybody had learn that be nice, don't use names on posts to protest on these occasions and don't be stupid with others are good to every one.

PS.: thanks for the very sweet comment on my blog Tom and thanks for the link on "UndiscoveredBlogs" :)