{"id":2429,"date":"2007-12-26T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2007-12-26T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T19:44:04","slug":"two-changes-to-the-about-page-to-clarify-bloodhoundblogs-praxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2429\/two-changes-to-the-about-page-to-clarify-bloodhoundblogs-praxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Two changes to the About page to clarify BloodhoundBlog’s praxis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made two changes to our About page<\/a>, both of them to clear up potential ambiguities.<\/p>\n

The first grew out of a comment from Cheryl Johnson concerning the content of BloodhoundBlog and the possible consequences of Realtors or lenders emulating our outspokenness on their own weblogs:<\/p>\n

Verbum sapienti:<\/i><\/b> A word to the wise, that is. We are a real estate industry weblog, and much of our content concerns real estate marketing tools, technologies and techniques that real estate professionals might use in their own businesses. But: We are not appealing for business here. We are not selling real estate or loans or investments, and we are not walking on our tip-toes to avoid offending potential clients. If you are building or hope to build a lead-attracting real estate weblog, BloodhoundBlog is not a model for you to follow. Many of our contributors have client-focused weblogs, and those can be good models to work from. In addition, we wrote a book called Real Estate Weblogging 101<\/a> that explains how to build a successful real estate weblog. But BloodhoundBlog is written to be controversial, and we do not — and should not — care whose toes we might step on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The second is an amendment to our comments policy to clarify what kind of conduct results in a comment being deleted or a commenter being banned from BloodhoundBlog. In this paragraph, the added language is underlined:<\/p>\n

Comments policy:<\/i><\/b> Everyone disagrees with us about something, and we welcome this: It’s how we learn. We encourage a free and spirited debate about the issues we raise here. We police comments with a very light hand, deleting comments and banning commenters only for extreme obscenity, flaming or flame-baiting, plagiarism, spam, impersonation (sock-puppetry) or copyright infringement (a fair-use quotation with a link is fine). This warrants emphasis: We are all<\/i> about ideas, and, because of that, we are very strict about bad behavior. If you get the notion that your fear or anger or rock-ribbed moral fire accords you the right to abuse or insult or brow-beat the other guests in our salon, you will be ejected with dispatch.<\/u> Nota bene:<\/i> Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made two changes to our About page, both of them to clear up potential ambiguities. The first grew out of a comment from Cheryl Johnson concerning the content of BloodhoundBlog and the possible consequences of Realtors or lenders emulating our outspokenness on their own weblogs: Verbum sapienti: A word to the wise, that is. 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