Comments on: Christmas Nachos http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/christmas-nachos Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Keith http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/christmas-nachos/comment-page-1#comment-12496 Keith Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:10:44 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/asides/christmas-nachos#comment-12496 Amazing Christmas Ideas is definitely not a splog. In fact, we receive a lot of emails from people thanking us for the articles and ideas. And analysis of our log files shows that visitors have printed our articles hundreds of times and emailed the site to friends dozens of times in the month of December alone. If it didn't have adsense and a few affiliate links on it I doubt you would have referred to it as a splog. But considering how many splogs have adsense, I can understand the misconception. About the domain hyphens - if I could go back and change that, I would. Simply because it gives some people a bad impression, as it did with Matt. About domainsbyproxy - I'm not scared to be linked to Amazing Christmas Ideas. I used private registration because I didn't want an inbox full of junk mail, which is what happened to me the last time I used public registration. If you were to look at the about us page, you'd see we're actually quite open about who we are. I'm proud to be associated with Amazing Christmas Ideas. Amazing Christmas Ideas is definitely not a splog. In fact, we receive a lot of emails from people thanking us for the articles and ideas. And analysis of our log files shows that visitors have printed our articles hundreds of times and emailed the site to friends dozens of times in the month of December alone.

If it didn’t have adsense and a few affiliate links on it I doubt you would have referred to it as a splog. But considering how many splogs have adsense, I can understand the misconception.

About the domain hyphens – if I could go back and change that, I would. Simply because it gives some people a bad impression, as it did with Matt.

About domainsbyproxy – I’m not scared to be linked to Amazing Christmas Ideas. I used private registration because I didn’t want an inbox full of junk mail, which is what happened to me the last time I used public registration. If you were to look at the about us page, you’d see we’re actually quite open about who we are. I’m proud to be associated with Amazing Christmas Ideas.

]]> By: vermillion « wordpress™ wank http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/christmas-nachos/comment-page-1#comment-12499 vermillion « wordpress™ wank Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:40:41 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/asides/christmas-nachos#comment-12499 [...] Adam continues picking up the Christmas slack with news of yet another dodgy wordpress.com theme. [...] [...] Adam continues picking up the Christmas slack with news of yet another dodgy wordpress.com theme. [...]

]]> By: adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/christmas-nachos/comment-page-1#comment-12498 adam Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:16:25 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/asides/christmas-nachos#comment-12498 i mean anti-commercial in the sense of <a href="http://mark.wordpress.com/2006/12/17/catching-the-spammers/" rel="nofollow">mark's post</a>, especially david's comment. it's something that went back and forth in the forums recently, regarding the terms of service, which specifically forbid commercial blogs. anyway, good to hear, both about dark themes, and that you would consider barthelme again. hope your holidays are fun. i mean anti-commercial in the sense of mark’s post, especially david’s comment. it’s something that went back and forth in the forums recently, regarding the terms of service, which specifically forbid commercial blogs.

anyway, good to hear, both about dark themes, and that you would consider barthelme again. hope your holidays are fun.

]]> By: Matt http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/christmas-nachos/comment-page-1#comment-12497 Matt Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:41:53 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/asides/christmas-nachos#comment-12497 We've never had an anti-commercial stance, that'd be a little silly since we're a commercial entity ourselves. I just personally think that introducing free-for-all ads/etc would have unintended consequences, and not having ads hasn't really impacted our growth. (It's not a big deal to most people.) I still Barthelme on my desktop, I may look at it again later, but right now we're heavy on white and minimalist themes but the demand is really for darker stuff, so that's where you'll see it lean for a few weeks. We’ve never had an anti-commercial stance, that’d be a little silly since we’re a commercial entity ourselves. I just personally think that introducing free-for-all ads/etc would have unintended consequences, and not having ads hasn’t really impacted our growth. (It’s not a big deal to most people.) I still Barthelme on my desktop, I may look at it again later, but right now we’re heavy on white and minimalist themes but the demand is really for darker stuff, so that’s where you’ll see it lean for a few weeks.

]]> By: adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/christmas-nachos/comment-page-1#comment-12495 adam Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:47:19 +0000 http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/asides/christmas-nachos#comment-12495 i poked around the site a bit, and i came to the same realization. i still posted this because it's still a commercial site, in a way that other theme homepages aren't. i'm not about to advertise his business, in the same way that if i were running barthelme, i'd strip the flower delivery link. sploggy might be a bit strong for keith, but in light of wordpress.com's anti-commercial stance, it sticks out like a sore thumb. most theme authors could run their blogs on wordpress.com without the adsense. i think keith would get caught in a 'report as spam' dragnet. i poked around the site a bit, and i came to the same realization. i still posted this because it’s still a commercial site, in a way that other theme homepages aren’t. i’m not about to advertise his business, in the same way that if i were running barthelme, i’d strip the flower delivery link. sploggy might be a bit strong for keith, but in light of wordpress.com’s anti-commercial stance, it sticks out like a sore thumb. most theme authors could run their blogs on wordpress.com without the adsense. i think keith would get caught in a ‘report as spam’ dragnet.

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