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  • I Hate Online Newbies – Do You Suck?

    Posted on April 26th, 2008 Jason 9 comments

    First off, let me state that I don’t hate all of them – most of you guys are pretty cool, are patient and not too demanding. Last but not least, I don’t hate anyone – I’m a fairly laid back person and the feeling is a too bit strong for me :razz: . However, what I’ve learned in my relatively short time blogging is that killer titles, extreme titles always do well as long as the points they raise are fairly decent, so let’s take a look at why I hate some online newbies.

    They’re too self promotional. Now, telling me every time you’ve written a fantastic blog post is one thing, but pinging me on MSN for every single blog post you make, be it about your dog dying, that last christmas you had or how XYZ blogger said this or that just isn’t cool. If I wanted to know every single time you updated, I’d subscribe to your RSS feed or better yet, use Twitter. Another thing that irritates is people that ask for Stumbles or Diggs (lucky I stopped using Digg, hey) every couple of hours or so, sometimes for the same sorry – I’m sure you have similar people on your list.

    They’re too enthusiastic. Being excited about something is great – heck, I wouldn’t do online business if I didn’t find it exciting and entertaining, however there is a thing of being too excited. For example, at 3AM in the morning when someone sends you a message on MSN or Yahoo asking you something and then nudges you every three seconds if you don’t answer – there’s a huge problem there. Being over-enthusiastic is fine, as long as it doesn’t irritate others – however you’re going to find that hard.

    They aren’t polite. Now fine – I don’t expect people to be too courteous on instant messenger systems, as it is a lot less formal than say – an email – I do however expect some modicum of politeness, especially if something is being asked of me. For example, yesterday I had a guy ask if I could plug his website – no please, no thank you, not even a question – just an order – “I want promotion for XYZ.com so mention it in tomorrow’s post” and then reminded me to do so every ten minutes after that. Sadly I turned him down, as a) his site was crap and b) he wasn’t polite at all.

    They’re misguided. Now, when someone has high goals I think great – you shouldn’t try anything in life if you do not aim to be one of the best at what you do – however, there is something as being realistic. Just last week I had someone tell me that his blog was going to be the biggest blog in the make money online niche within the next month – doable, yes, easy, no. I asked him what he knew about marketing, blogging, or even making money online – the answer was zilch. I told him that I didn’t think he would succeed in the time frame, and perhaps he should set a more realistic goal… he got pissed off.

    Another thing I have an issue with is all the newbie bloggers that setup a blog about making money online and then think everyone will want to “follow them on their journey”. That is part of the reason that I started TUK, but I soon realised – no one cares about your journey unless it’s progressing really fast or they can benefit from it in some way. It is the same reason that I moved TUK more to a social/rambling/blogging tips blog with the occasional bits of useful advice rather than focusing it as a “make money online” blog of which there are a few million out there, most of them crap.

    They want you to do the work. Now I don’t mind helping people out, even though I can’t design nor code for nuts – should you want me to proofread something or ask my opinion on how something looks, I have no problem. What I do have an issue with is someone asking me to do everything - although I am a student with plenty of time on his hands, I do not take such requests as all it shows is that the person is question is lazy.

    They’re all take, no give. It is not often I need help from people – I irritate the heck out of George or Reid for the many things anything I don’t understand or need help with – however when I do so, after helping someone and then get turned down – now that is annoying. I gave an example in my post about not being a douchebag blogger – people that are happy to take offered blog sponsored prizes but not so happy to offer their own time as prizes, now that is truly annoying.

    Rants are king, so I hope you enjoyed this one. :) If you are an online newbie that has done one of the above, don’t worry, I don’t stay annoyed for long – repetitive showing of the above leads to nothing more than a block on whatever instant messenger system I have you on. Please, do not ask me if you are one of the people that could fall under this post - if you have been annoying and done the above, you should know it (even though you might have to think back a little bit). As long as you are polite, helpful and take note that others have issues that they need to deal with too, you’ll be fine.

    Speaking of occasionally providing my readers with useful content, I’ve written a ten system guide to how even the laziest person around can help get up a blog in less than ten minutes – it’s under a thread in the private section of Blog Premiere, which only (free) registered members can see, so sign up today. I will also be getting a custom theme done soon – will put up a sample of what it will look like within the next week or two, depending on how my designer works. :)

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    8 responses to “I Hate Online Newbies – Do You Suck?” RSS icon

    • “For example, at 3AM in the morning when someone sends you a message on MSN or Yahoo asking you something and then nudges you every three seconds if you don’t answer”

      HILARIOUS.

      I actually had a bowl of food and a nice cold pepsi and was sitting and reading this. Extremely entertaining :D

      Sammy Ashouri’s last blog post..“I’ve Got Your Domains, Now Give Us Some Water”

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    • I think many people make these mistakes, but are for the most part completely unaware of it until the day comes when someone is doing it to them.

      Now as far as people messaging via an IM program and stating it entirely in a demonstrative way. That is the worst. At first your floored that someone who wants you to do a favor for them does not even have the courtesy to ask being as they probably don’t have much to offer in return.

      The world is filled with folks just not thinking clearly or for the most part just don’t know any better. Its good to see some reinforcement for people to examine what they asking someone just like this article has.

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    • “Another thing I have an issue with is all the newbie bloggers that setup a blog about making money online and then think everyone will want to ‘follow them on their journey’…”

      That is so true Jason! :P Everyday (if I’m not mistaken), at least 3 MMO blogs are born. LOL.

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    • The price you pay for fame eh? Can’t say I’ve had too many people banging my door down for a mention. ;) But I do struggle with people who aren’t prepared to put in a decent effort of their own to get their website/blog up and happening and known. And the manners thing….where have people’s manners gone these days anyway?????

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    • Rajaie (21 comments) April 27th, 2008 at 15:23

      I know how you feel. People always asking you for stuff, and then when you need their help for the first time, suddenly they’re all busy and have plenty of excuses to give you. In the end, most of these people are not successful with their blog, or mostly anything else.

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    • Like I told you on Yahoo messenger, this post was hilarious! And just based on the unusually low comments on here, I think some people are scared to comment because you were writing for them specifically! LOL!

      Jay

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    • OK you said it. Are you better now?

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    • I think a lot of time the problem with newbies is that they are lazy and they just want someone to tell them or show them how to make money instead of doing the work to go out and learn these things themselves. I know I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past….

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