{"id":1545,"date":"2007-06-15T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2007-06-15T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T19:26:21","slug":"if-you-dont-have-something-nice-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1545\/if-you-dont-have-something-nice-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don’t Have Something Nice To Say…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RealtorWives.comAs a reminder, I write from the point of view of a consumer\/RE enthusiast (I’m a Realtor Wife). That being said, I’m noticing a little<\/em> movement in the blogosphere that will be short-lived if I can help it.<\/p>\n

Backstory: The Tomato<\/a> addressed the fact that there are a vast number of terrible RE.net sites and blogs online and they ask “Where’s Simon Cowell When You Need Him?” My primary response was “yeah, where is Simon? These sites are terrible!”<\/p>\n

Shaun McLane<\/a> and I began an offline conversation about hosting a “Blogger Idol” site with a panel judging and commenting on the junky blogs in the RE.net sphere. Shaun started Posh’d<\/a> and seemed like a good fit for two reasons (1) he and I were thinking in the same direction about a startup site and (2) he’d done a great job putting together the good<\/strong> blogs\/sites online. At the time, Shaun was busy with his real job and said he wanted to involve me but wasn’t ready to launch. Then last week, in an effort to contact Shaun, I found the Idol site he’d launched- oh well, I wasn’t persistent enough, I suppose. <\/p>\n

The great news is that I actually found his new site because I wanted to let him know that I thought it was a bad idea and I didn’t want to be involved. My belief that it’s a bad idea is confirmed today by the harsh RSS Pieces article<\/a> that tears a blog a new one.<\/p>\n

I think it’s fine that others are out there trolling for the worst of the worst, but here’s why I’m steering clear:<\/p>\n