Ya can’t please all the people all the time.
I guess that’s life.
This morning a blogger sent me an email stating:
This morning I woke up with this nasty comment on my blog with your name next to it. I deleted it immediatly and added a filter to block the N word in the future. I thought you should know in case it turns out to be a smear campaign of some sort against you.
And the removed post was:
New comment on your post
Author : Jim Boykin (IP: 219.88.162.87 ,
219-88-162-87.jetstream.xtra.co.nz)
E-mail : asdf@asdfasdf.com
URI :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=219.88.162.87
Comment: Makes me sad seeing these (racist word removed) popping all this kind of garbage.
they have love with their mothers.
A sad fact is that I can not make everyone happy, and some people don’t like me.
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January 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
OMG - That sucks!
What’s not to like?
January 29th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Find out if they’re worth suing for libel & slander
January 29th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
There’s the power of a brand in action, Jim.
I saw that comment and immediately thought “Nope, that wouldn’t be Jim. Someone’s trying to cause some trouble.”
And moved on.
Even though I’ve never met you and my entire ‘relationship’ with you is via reading your blog, your brand (to me at least) is good and decent, etc.
Cheers
Brendon
January 30th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Jim
aprox 1,5 years ago Aaron Wall told me sth like this…
Christoph, if people start bitching about you, put up hate sites and stuff, then you must be doing something right - that’s what I learnt
(cannot recall exact wording, but you get the message)
best,christoph
January 31st, 2007 at 2:39 am
Yep,
The net is the wild west…..
I’ve had this same crud happen to me before.
There’s nothing worse then your name being smeared in front of the entire internet.
but it’s true…. the more your name gets seen the more bound you are to piss someone off.
Good job on keeping your temper Jim.
If it makes you feel better someone called one of my blog posts “pathetic” today.
..
and Jeremy sure did hit Andy with a hard uppercut with his “MyBlogLog spam” comment.
Cheers Mate!
January 31st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
That’s messed up.
A seldom-discussed slant on reputation management…
January 31st, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Disappointing to see the nasty comment came from little old New Zealand.
We aren’t all like that, honest
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:57 am
The irony is, you probably have way more resources and know-how to outspam and destroy this guy’s net cred, but being held accountable, as well as being a nice guy, you won’t stoop to his level. Bravo for you.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
[...] Anyone that reads this blog knows that I hold Jim Boykin in the highest of regards and think is flat out the “jedi master ninja” when it comes to link building and link authority information. Earlier this week Jim posted about a smear campaign against him, and it really got me thinking about the downsides to really becoming an “authority”. So why would someone want to trash his name? Is it link baiting with bad ethics? In his post he talks about not being able to please everyone all the time and I totally agree, but why smear a good name because you don’t agree? Aaron Wall has posted before about critics of his spelling abilities, and more recently about ego’s, and had this to say about this attack on Jim: [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
This is so sad….People don’t really care anymore. Where are the ethics and morals in this world!
May 14th, 2007 at 6:11 am
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