The original Boing Boing post that the referenced thread is about
started out "My Nebula-award-nominated story...". That sounds
self-congratulatory and is likely to attract adverse comment. It
slightly raised my hackles and I thought "that has the potential to
cause trouble" before any furore ensued. As it is I've met Cory and
he isn't of a self-congratulatory mind set; after all he's Canadian
and that's almost as self-effacing as being English.
I have to say, however, that I've noticed that a lot of his posts
are about things that could be considered as 'promoted' by the
post. Clearly I'm not the only one to have formed that opinion. My
attitude has been, well it's his blog and if he wants to do that he
can, but if it gets much more blatent then that may be one less
blog I read.
Due to constant exposure to spin, I can't help but ask if the
quoted 3 of his last 55 posts have been about 'himself' does that
mean that 4 of his last 56 posts have been like that?
By the way, you need to do something about spam and this blog. The
comment form requires an email address and posts it to the site
thus forcing its exposure. It took under 24 hours for me to get the
first spam to the (unique) email address I used for my first
comment on here. Spam to that unique address now represents 5% of
the spam I get (and I get a lot).
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