April 15, 2008 at 10:38 am
· Filed under Poulsbo Real Estate, Real Estate Bites, Sparks from Sparky, Bite Me Blogs
As many of you may know, I am a Community Builder with ActiveRain, a very large real estate network and blogging platform. It’s a start-up based out of Bellevue WA, and has over 80,000 members throughout the US and Canada.
Part of my role is to simply monitor the network, make sure the members are behaving, and to field questions.
Earlier today, I received an e-mail from a fairly new member out on the East coast. She’s in her in late 20’s, is relatively new to the real estate profession (she didn’t pick the best time to enter the fray!), and is working through the challenges of establishing her business in a slow market.
She recently wrote an article about real estate commissions and the portion that actually ends up in the agent’s bank account. It was a well-written article. However, no sooner had she published it, than a swarm of bubble bloggers descended upon her post and unleashed their commenting fury.
The first volley of comments were fairly typical of most bubble bloggers, but as the discussion slowly devolved, they became increasingly base and personally degrading towards the young author.
(For my regular readers, please forgive the following uncensored re-publishing of a few of these comments. I don’t usually allow this kind of language within the confines of SoundBiteBlog, but I felt it necessary to include them here)
One of the Bubble Bloggers made this degrading comment:
After reading the various posts on this subject, I think that everyone involved is failing to see the big picture here which is that —– is one hot mamma jamma MILF and I can tell that she is a jackal in the sack.
In fact, I would like to bone her very much if she is ever open and willing to fulfill my naughty realtor mom who will do anything to close the deal fantasy.
Most of you are so caught up in your evil realtor nonsense that you can not appreciate a fine cougar when you see one.
—–, love you long time. You are the bomb in my book. You can flip my house any day.
Call me.
-Dave
P.S: Post more pictures.
And another example of this senseless filthy attack:
I’ll pay you 6%. You have proven your worth. I just have one question:
Does that 6% get me some “alone time” in the VIP room and a guaranteed happy ending?
Because I think it’s only fair that I can do to you what your commission would be doing to me.
-L. Flynt
We’ve had a few Seattle area Bubble Bloggers frequent SoundBiteBlog. Most of these individuals are extremely sharp. They’re very articulate and can discuss intricate economic indicators on a equal or better footing than most investment professionals. One in particular has become somewhat of a regular around here. Last time he stopped by, he actually gave me a compliment!
Many Bubble Bloggers tend to be rather argumentative and abrasive by nature, but rarely do they descend to this level of vicious attack. I was able to trace one of the perputraitors back to their blogspot site, and left a few choice comments of my own, along with the charge that he and his blog thugs didn’t reflect or represent the majority of Bubble Bloggers I had encountered.
No doubt they’ll hunt me down now and make me their next target….oh goody!
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I can not BELIEVE that commenting in AR went to that level — and I have been pretty darn playful in comments!! THAT was not “playful”, that was malicious. She didn’t deserve that and I hope there were people jumping in to protest.
I’m so glad you’re watching out for people in AR now. You are obviously needed, and do your job well.
Wow! I’ve missed all of this on AR! I try to tread lightly when posting so as not to offend anyone. Since I’m new (on AR since September 07 I believe) and have a 5 month old RE Tomato website (above), I use AR for the exposure and great learning opps as I can’t blog about my years of RE (at least from this side of the table) — yet. I love numbers and report them regularly as it hasn’t been done in my area and that keeps me out of trouble. Not all local agents like transparent reporting of numbers, as you know, but I believe in honesty and transparency.
Glad I picked up on you on Twitter.
Susie Blackmon
Maggie Valley NC
That’s just sick, obviously some people don’t have a life and look for ways to make someone elses uncomfortable. Get ‘em Rich!
Hey Sparky,
Irina Netchaev and I were talking about this particular blog post not too long ago. I didn’t get a chance to read it myself but she shared the horrifying nature of it as spelled by some of the comments. To think that someone could be attacked like that in a public forum is just, well…I can see how it could be scary and nerve-racking; especially if you’re new to blogging and new to Real Estate.
I only hope that she maintained her composure and held her own. On the other hand it’s great to see that someone like you and others on the network have her back!
To think that you have to stoop so low… Grow up, get educated and get a life!
Rich - That is really too bad. I have been active at the Rain for 8 months or so and I have yet to come across that kind of behavior. Sometimes I like to spark a little debate, but I steer well clear of personal attacks or threats. I can only assume that these comments were anonymous and I can only assume that you recorded their IP’s.
Why didn’t the author delete those comments? I wouldn’t tolerate it if I were her.
Wow. I didn’t see the original blog but good heavens those comments seem waaaay out of line. Those comments came from someone on AR? Sounds like someone needs to be taken to the woodshed.
This is disgusting. I think some people are going to be in for a major surprise one day when victims like this poor girl take a stand and go after these people legally. Don’t these people know their IP addresses are being logged? The anonimity of the internet is going to come to a blinding stop one day.
There is a difference between lobbing fear grenades and trying to get people to think outside of their conventional wisdom.
Sparky wrote @ May 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Fear grenades would have been welcomed, compared to the absolute degrading filth these morons were spouting. We all need to have our conventional wisdom challenged ocassionally….
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April 15, 2008 at 10:38 am
· Filed under Poulsbo Real Estate, Real Estate Bites, Sparks from Sparky, Bite Me Blogs
As many of you may know, I am a Community Builder with ActiveRain, a very large real estate network and blogging platform. It’s a start-up based out of Bellevue WA, and has over 80,000 members throughout the US and Canada.
Part of my role is to simply monitor the network, make sure the members are behaving, and to field questions.
Earlier today, I received an e-mail from a fairly new member out on the East coast. She’s in her in late 20’s, is relatively new to the real estate profession (she didn’t pick the best time to enter the fray!), and is working through the challenges of establishing her business in a slow market.
She recently wrote an article about real estate commissions and the portion that actually ends up in the agent’s bank account. It was a well-written article. However, no sooner had she published it, than a swarm of bubble bloggers descended upon her post and unleashed their commenting fury.
The first volley of comments were fairly typical of most bubble bloggers, but as the discussion slowly devolved, they became increasingly base and personally degrading towards the young author.
(For my regular readers, please forgive the following uncensored re-publishing of a few of these comments. I don’t usually allow this kind of language within the confines of SoundBiteBlog, but I felt it necessary to include them here)
One of the Bubble Bloggers made this degrading comment:
After reading the various posts on this subject, I think that everyone involved is failing to see the big picture here which is that —– is one hot mamma jamma MILF and I can tell that she is a jackal in the sack.
In fact, I would like to bone her very much if she is ever open and willing to fulfill my naughty realtor mom who will do anything to close the deal fantasy.
Most of you are so caught up in your evil realtor nonsense that you can not appreciate a fine cougar when you see one.
—–, love you long time. You are the bomb in my book. You can flip my house any day.
Call me.
-Dave
P.S: Post more pictures.
And another example of this senseless filthy attack:
I’ll pay you 6%. You have proven your worth. I just have one question:
Does that 6% get me some “alone time” in the VIP room and a guaranteed happy ending?
Because I think it’s only fair that I can do to you what your commission would be doing to me.
-L. Flynt
We’ve had a few Seattle area Bubble Bloggers frequent SoundBiteBlog. Most of these individuals are extremely sharp. They’re very articulate and can discuss intricate economic indicators on a equal or better footing than most investment professionals. One in particular has become somewhat of a regular around here. Last time he stopped by, he actually gave me a compliment!
Many Bubble Bloggers tend to be rather argumentative and abrasive by nature, but rarely do they descend to this level of vicious attack. I was able to trace one of the perputraitors back to their blogspot site, and left a few choice comments of my own, along with the charge that he and his blog thugs didn’t reflect or represent the majority of Bubble Bloggers I had encountered.
No doubt they’ll hunt me down now and make me their next target….oh goody!
activerain, bubble bloggers, housing bubble kitsap count wa real estateBookmark this article to:
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I can not BELIEVE that commenting in AR went to that level — and I have been pretty darn playful in comments!! THAT was not “playful”, that was malicious. She didn’t deserve that and I hope there were people jumping in to protest.
I’m so glad you’re watching out for people in AR now. You are obviously needed, and do your job well.
Wow! I’ve missed all of this on AR! I try to tread lightly when posting so as not to offend anyone. Since I’m new (on AR since September 07 I believe) and have a 5 month old RE Tomato website (above), I use AR for the exposure and great learning opps as I can’t blog about my years of RE (at least from this side of the table) — yet. I love numbers and report them regularly as it hasn’t been done in my area and that keeps me out of trouble. Not all local agents like transparent reporting of numbers, as you know, but I believe in honesty and transparency.
Glad I picked up on you on Twitter.
Susie Blackmon
Maggie Valley NC
That’s just sick, obviously some people don’t have a life and look for ways to make someone elses uncomfortable. Get ‘em Rich!
Hey Sparky,
Irina Netchaev and I were talking about this particular blog post not too long ago. I didn’t get a chance to read it myself but she shared the horrifying nature of it as spelled by some of the comments. To think that someone could be attacked like that in a public forum is just, well…I can see how it could be scary and nerve-racking; especially if you’re new to blogging and new to Real Estate.
I only hope that she maintained her composure and held her own. On the other hand it’s great to see that someone like you and others on the network have her back!
To think that you have to stoop so low… Grow up, get educated and get a life!
Rich - That is really too bad. I have been active at the Rain for 8 months or so and I have yet to come across that kind of behavior. Sometimes I like to spark a little debate, but I steer well clear of personal attacks or threats. I can only assume that these comments were anonymous and I can only assume that you recorded their IP’s.
Why didn’t the author delete those comments? I wouldn’t tolerate it if I were her.
Wow. I didn’t see the original blog but good heavens those comments seem waaaay out of line. Those comments came from someone on AR? Sounds like someone needs to be taken to the woodshed.
This is disgusting. I think some people are going to be in for a major surprise one day when victims like this poor girl take a stand and go after these people legally. Don’t these people know their IP addresses are being logged? The anonimity of the internet is going to come to a blinding stop one day.
There is a difference between lobbing fear grenades and trying to get people to think outside of their conventional wisdom.
Sparky wrote @ May 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Fear grenades would have been welcomed, compared to the absolute degrading filth these morons were spouting. We all need to have our conventional wisdom challenged ocassionally….
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