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Can I use genuine questions about shameless blog promotion as shameless blog promotion?
Posted by Maladjusted • 8/21/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: genius et cetera, link dropping, shameless blog promotion
Okay, so I'm aware that there are several threads out there suggesting that the 'no link dropping' rule is potentially in conflict with the very idea of "shameless blog promotion", in a way that is in danger of enforcing a name change to "timid, and ellipitical ways to promote your blog despite the moritorium on doing so."
Worse, the deal seems to be that while I cannot simply say: "here is my fabulous new post, see how magnificent it is [and then link drop like it was the last night before the banning of the internet], I will be considered within my rights if I write a post saying: "hey, everyone do you ever wonder why cats are so amusing?", On a completely unrelated note, I have a new blog post on the very subject that I have just mentioned!
So, as a tribute to this problem: I have a new post, that I would like to promote in a shameless fashion. Under the old, barbaric, pre-link dropping ban way I would have simply set up a post with a link to my blog and then a comment saying something charmingly modest like "look on my works ye mighty and despair."
But I am not sure what to do under the current regime? Suggestions, anyone?
(Notice, incidentally the way that this whole discussion acts as a -- not very subtle -- way of shamelessly promoting my blog.) Ah, B.C. how you teach us to practice deceit. It is most sad. 
Best,
-Mal.
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Yes, a link to your post is allowed in the OP of a Shameless Blog Promotion post. No, you cannot just simply drop the link into the OP, and fail to support it with a promotion and attempt to create discussion. Yes, an actual promotion and an attempt to initiate discussion is what is expected.
Does this post help?
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T.T.L excellent. I was kind of hoping you might be around. I think of you as the person to ask about this sort of thing.
Okay, so I've read the article that you mentioned, which while clearly written and sensible, doesn't, I'm afraid actually clear up the issues in my head. (This may be b/c it is very late here, and that my brain is rather befogged.) But although I understand the sentences and that I am, amongst other things, not to encourage other people's link dropping, I would have read this article as giving me the go ahead, for writing a post called: "Mal's amazing new post", that would have been followed by a brief description and a link?
Perhaps you could point me to some exemplary uses of the category, i.e. instances of actual shameless blog promotion posted under the current regime that did not get banned?
In any case, thank you for taking the time to read this!
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TT is correct above me...
I just wanted to comment on how entertaining your topic introduction was.
Anyone who quotes:
"look on my works ye mighty and despair."
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Thank you, kdawg! That's most gracious of you!
Now, if you would only rush to my blog, my evil plan will have succeeded. Further, I'd get an answer to my all-important question: "can I use the shameless blog promotion category to ask genuine questions about the shameless blog promotion category while at the same time surreptitiously using this thread as a means of shameless blog promotion?" I mean, I feel something of a zen koan is in order, something like: if I shamelessly promote my blog while asking (real) questions about shameless blog promotion, will trees make noise when they fall? Er...hmm...lost something there. The mind is a precarious thing...
Best,
-Mal-
The answer is, of course, "Yes." You've had a great deal more success with your attempt than most folks, whose shameless disguises are quite a bit thinner than yours.
One note: not dropping your link here leads people to click through to your profile and blog, which increases your BC rank, which moves you up in their search results. You can shamelessly promote simply by mentioning your post and the trees will be deafening when they fall. Wait--that didn't make any more sense when I said it than when you did.
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Legbamel: c'est charmant. Thank you for that!
On my tree-falling drivel: sometimes I think that English needs to have (like German) a word, not just for nonsense, but for "counter-sense." (c.f. German: Wiedersinn). Te suggestion here is that that something isn't simply lacking in sense, but rather making a pathetic, if determined war on sense: it's a Don Quixote of nonsense titling at invisible windmills of meaning.
(Making more and more sense all the time. Sorta.)
-Mal.-
Merci, and you are welcome.
That's a lot to ask of a single little word! I shall consider and return.
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Ah, but your single word was "yes", after all. A powerful word that one. So much more likely to provoke a torrent of words than its opposite.
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