Pojac
06-10-2005, 02:59 PM
According to Phil: http://www.paxbaculum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2093
"I have a confession to make to all of you. It occurred to me today as I was chuckling over something that came up in a Web search.
I love those kids at Bullshido.com.
I mean, yes, intellectually I can't hold them in anything but contempt, and I certainly could never throw my support behind such an utter trainwreck of a site. No forum where the inmates run the asylum could get my explicit support. (For that matter, if you've ever read Neal "Phrost" Fletcher's impossibly arrogant and self-important blustering about his own website, you'd get the impression the only thing keeping him from accepting the Nobel Peace Prize is the fact that his forum is above that sort of thing.)
From a perfectly pragmatic perspective, though, I owe them a debt of gratitude. I didn't start cracking 700,000 hits a month on our free content until they started whining and obsessing about me over there. They've done more to promote my work at The Martialist™ than I think I've done, and that's saying a lot considering how much effort I put into marketing. I don't know if they sit in front of their computers picturing me seething at their posts critical of me, or if they think it makes me sad, or what, but I have to say I spend most of my time quietly thanking them. Controversy and negative publicity are as valuable, if not more so, than positive press -- and I certainly could never put the kind of time and energy into that sort of marketing that they do for me, free of charge.
I don't know why I felt like sharing that; I was just feeling particularly candid and grateful."
And yes, I know by posting this I'm just giving him even more "publicity." Is it still controversy when a lot of people are talking about you but they all agree you're a moron?
"I have a confession to make to all of you. It occurred to me today as I was chuckling over something that came up in a Web search.
I love those kids at Bullshido.com.
I mean, yes, intellectually I can't hold them in anything but contempt, and I certainly could never throw my support behind such an utter trainwreck of a site. No forum where the inmates run the asylum could get my explicit support. (For that matter, if you've ever read Neal "Phrost" Fletcher's impossibly arrogant and self-important blustering about his own website, you'd get the impression the only thing keeping him from accepting the Nobel Peace Prize is the fact that his forum is above that sort of thing.)
From a perfectly pragmatic perspective, though, I owe them a debt of gratitude. I didn't start cracking 700,000 hits a month on our free content until they started whining and obsessing about me over there. They've done more to promote my work at The Martialist™ than I think I've done, and that's saying a lot considering how much effort I put into marketing. I don't know if they sit in front of their computers picturing me seething at their posts critical of me, or if they think it makes me sad, or what, but I have to say I spend most of my time quietly thanking them. Controversy and negative publicity are as valuable, if not more so, than positive press -- and I certainly could never put the kind of time and energy into that sort of marketing that they do for me, free of charge.
I don't know why I felt like sharing that; I was just feeling particularly candid and grateful."
And yes, I know by posting this I'm just giving him even more "publicity." Is it still controversy when a lot of people are talking about you but they all agree you're a moron?
