“A blogger once told me that you never know who your true blog homies are, until you have readership.
I mean, in the beginning, you both get low hits so there is no strain on the bloggership.
If you have readers, or took their long-time readers, the blogger still needs you, so you will never know how they truly feel about your blog.
When you both get some readers, you’ll see.”
I don't know what it is, but I hope the first thing Barack Obama does after he enters office is address the haters. Not just his haters, but all haters. Period.
Especially blog haters. I mean, seriously, the ish has gotten out of hand.
I understand how life is. I understand how life can be. But you have to be a straight up lame to go around the blog-o-sphere hating on blogs.
Blogs.
Nowadays, when someone disagrees with someone else, it's considered as hating. I beg to differ. I prefer to call it a simple disagreement. Nor is it hating whenever a person dislikes another person, place, or thing. And it's certainly not hating to see people give their opinions.
All of the above are understandable.
Let me tell you what hating is: it's when you read your site meter stats and see where the same people who constantly criticize your blog post are sitting there reading the same blog post which they openly criticized. And I don't mean a single blog post, I'm speaking of multiple page views.
I can respect anyone who doesn't like something for whatever reasons. By all means...talk ish, criticize, vent, whatever it takes get it out your system. But what good does it do when you continue to visit my blog? That don't sound like Hate. That sounds like you're obsessed.
I imagine you didn't want your following to know that you talk that ish only to sneak over here and speed-read. My bad. Just tell 'em I'm lying and over here fabricating ish.
I take it as a compliment cause it appears what you are really saying is - how can I be down or how come I couldn't be down.
I understand human nature. I understand my people. I understand the hateful nature which exists. Sometimes to the point where my blog haters have joined forces with one sole purpose - to hate on my blog. And that's some sick ish.
It's funny though, cause those same blog haters were once hating on each other. Think about it for a second - the same bloggers who once hated on each other, have now joined forces to hate on me. Damn, that's deep.
They say:
1) Don preys on and sleeps with married women
2) Watch out for Don
3) He doesn't write anything but that 'nigga ish.'
4) He's not who he appears to be
5) I think he might be gay
6) (They want) My comments
7) His blog readers have an inferiority complex
8) All he talks about is sex, sex, sex.
9) Why he didn't call on God when...
10) Stop trying to sleep with blog women
I say:
1) Single or married, if you flirt with me and give the impression that it's all good, then yes I am trying to get to your city or 1/2 way there.
2) You're right, watch out for me.
3) *scratches head*
4) I am many different things to many different people.
5) C'mon now...
6) Oh, they want my comments.
7) Willie Lynch issues, I understand.
8) Yep. And guess what? (click here)
9) I ask myself the same question.
10) Why?
I swear to God, I'm not making this up. A certain clique blogger and a few clones, who once lived on my blog, had the audacity to write blog post speaking up on me. Why? Cause I once took your readers and forced you to close shop? Is that it?
Of course it is. Listen, I have love for all my blog readers and if I awoke one day to find that I only had five or six readers then guess what? Minus the Bars will be the best blog with five or six readers. I won't click onto another blog and see where they have my old readers and start hating on that particular blog. That's what haters do. I'm a player. A player doesn't spite, a player will try his best to get like.
Some of the same bloggers, (both male and female) who emailed me and told me they were digging my blog, now all of a sudden, I’ve become this nightmare they're having. Why? Cause I stop coming to your blog or took your blog link down?
As for the male bloggers taking shots at me; I'm a man to another man.
If you are a blog hater, then by all means do you. But you look real foolish hating on a particular blog yet still read the site like you hooked on that ish.
“You and I once stepped through the blog hood, like identical twins.
But it just so happened, that my blog became what’s happening.
You showed your true colors, the moment you started yapping.
That didn’t stop Minus the Bars from still getting action.
Fake blog love, fake blog hugs, fake blog women, fake blog thugs.
Not about shallow ish, so raise up. I’m bout this ink pen, dawg. Y’all haters stay up”
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I Put On For My Haters
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dumb ish,
hi haters,
random ish
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81 comments:
stop letting the haters into your mind. you're just letting them win.
OMG, could it be?!?! 70 people haven't commented before me, FINALLY haha! I liked this post. I can tell you had a lot to say cuz I woulda just left it at the part where you said hating on a BLOG (of all things) is lame. I mean, who does that?!
You gotta be EXTREMELY bored and a bit geeky. Well, very geeky. Trekie Convention, dressed as your favorite character, geeky to make a blog the target of your hate.
I'm glad you made the distinction & actually defined what hating is. I can't wait til I get haters so passionate that they openly hate on me. That means you've gotten somewhere in life. Congratulations. CELEBRATION BITCHES!!! You've officially made it.
Crabs-in-a-FUCKING....bucket, my Black brotha. Crabs in a bucket.
I mean...I done seen some stuff in my day. I've seen hating, but for people to take it to the blogosphere?!?!?! Admittedly, I saw your previous post, and thought it was a sick joke. I was really, TRULY hoping that people hadn't stooped to the level of taking hateration to cyberspace. For the record, NOTHING ceases to amaze me anymore.
Continue to do what you do, homie. Trust, I come to this site everyday, and always enjoy the stay. Others feel the same way (easy to tell, due to readership), so you're definitely doing something right.
Don't worry bout them haters Don. We got your back. Like I said before, nutin but jealousy. We know you a lover not a hater. Man, I maybe old, but I loves some ludacris:D
You will always have haters, so just dust yourself off and keep it moving. Don't feed into that negativity man. Make those haters your motivators!
What did Katt Williams say??? Now go get you SIX MO HATERS.....
Keep on doin you.
Like I told you before..the chicks just have grade school crushes..cause the minute you give your attention to another then the hate begins.
they should just admitt..they wanna have your baby and just be done with it..lmaooooo
As far as the males..soooo jealous. I stated that as well. I love how they inspire you. Continue to p^ss him off haters..it only makes him a better read. And be sure to continue to check him out..lol
Will always have love for ya Don..oh yeah..I married......
nuff said..
stay up Tha Don.
laughing at this post... Go Donny Go!
You have a point... Honestly we are all HATERS... thats just the damn truth... some of us just learn how to deal with it while others just need the attention...
Alright.. i'm over here rolling because Grown folks still be acting a fool... Thats y they say age ain't nothing but a number...
Don, We scorpios.. ain't nothing suppose touch us.. remember that.. feed off of it... oh u know you make cute babies.... thats some good shit! lol...
I don't have anything deep or inspirational to say. I'm just in awe that you have blog haters!!
lolol!!!
I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at the GROWN men/women who are actually mad about a blog.
What in the world?
A blog.
LOLOLOL!!! babahahahaha!!!
That's the funniest thing I've ever heard/read in my life.
Whew! Way to go "blog haters"!!! Thanks for my laugh of the day.
Blog hater... what in the world...
I see you still stiring up trouble as usual. (smile)
Sometimes people just want attention and will do strange things to get it.
Man, it seems as though the digital age is creating all kinds of new "issues" in the world.
damn man I didn't even realize there was so much hating in the blog world....keep your head up and keep doing what you do.....
great post as always man!
i'm stunned.
i took this [meaning the blog world] to be "sacred ground"...seems no venue is immune.
dangit.
sorry for your frustration don.
if it means anything...i haven't seen one "nigger" post yet.
::shrugs::
peace and love.
I just don't understand some people. If you don't like a blog...don't go there. It's not that difficult.
really? people hate on blogs? seriously? i mean really? let me sum up my sentiments on that:
"kill yourself..."
that was harsh but i dont mean it in the literal sense. just stop it...
its a damn shame they are blog haters. i thought folk who did blogs had a brain...
btw, stop being a hoe.
lol
sorry, i hadd to say it.
keep being u, cuz it makes yr shyt hotness... they just mad cuz they cant clean up their mess lyrically, so they hate on you but really hate themselves... so saddd
stay up
The fact that any of this is occurring to the point where you have to do a post on it is beyond my understanding. Seriously.
Perhaps it's just me, but I simply cannot see myself getting so deeply involved in life on the Web. Did we forget the purpose of blogs? You pour out all the shit you can't/won't/or maybe do say in everyday life. You read and enjoy things that enrich you. And the beauty of it is that when you come across something/someone you don't like...
there's a convenient little X in the top right hand corner of your screen.
What kind of crappy lives/marriages/relationships do some of these people have that they can be so easily shaken by some shit that's said on the INTERNET? IT'S THE FUCKIN INTERNET!
The killing thing is that a lot of the people participating in this behavior are real life grown people, older than me. But to me, this sounds like the same MySpace/Facebook bullying shit that we see high school and junior high kids doing.
Grow the fuck up. Step away from the keyboard. Get a fuckin' life.
Seriously.
Sorry to blog in your comments Don, but this shit is just ridiculous.
Wow...ummm...OK. What the hell is wrong with people?! Is nothing sacred? You mean to tell me you can't have peace of mind in the blogging world? Ni99as and flies I do despise...again, I say...eff 'em! Keep pimpin' your pen!
wow, i didn't think it was that serious either. "blog hate?" ...just crazy!
all they did was help you have another well written blog that your fans will add even more comments to and show even more love. they have no power. hahaha!
if no one else wants to talk about the pink elephant in the room I will:
you just loooooooove starting sh*t, dontcha? Did you learn nothing from the last time you had to close up shop when things blew up out of control? It's like you crave the drama...
so you have haters. so they obsess about what pages you visit and come here reading up all your posts so they can then hate on each word you wrote. AND? BIG F*CKING DEAL. How is that important in your real life? Like you said- it's just a blog. Unless it's affecting your livelihood, I don't see the point of even saying anything to or about them.
But, if you had to say it... it's your blog, do you... but you know, the more you address and acknowledge the haters, the longer you stay on their level.
It's all so disappointing to me to see grown-ass folks resorting to this nonsense. THIS is why we cannot move on as a people. Seriously.
Tell them to get the F*ck on!! I love your blog and you have a new..TRUE blog friend!!
I didn't even know all of this was going on keepin it real...guess I'm in my own tiny little world out of the loop.
I wouldn't trust site meter readings too much because if i look at mine and saw someone who stayed on my blog for 6 or seven seconds how am i to know if they read the blog on google reader or not? I DO understand the point that you made using that though. I mean people deny the fact that they fall in love with what they hate on.
If it's dudes hating on you then they prolly mad that they ain't putting it where these blog chick's ribs is at...I mean, but honestly, there are too many sexy blog chicks out there for all of that...
i'm with you, don. and i feel like if you can't say it to my face...you've got some nerve trying to blog hate. that's wack.
keep the posts coming :-)
Ay Don, don't get mad at the haters...that's their job...they hate. They're born to hate. If you don't have haters then that means you're not doing something right. You need to double your hater count...and don't even listen to all of the negativity, do you man.
First - WOW @ The Jaded NYer. Is it really an elephant? I must be so out of the loop...
*Pokes Don in the ribs, "are you a shit starter?" * raises eyebrow.
Don. Just listen to Katt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7z_ztMxBgk
In fact, I'mma blog about it tonight.
:)
Oh the love I have for my haters :)
*kisses Don on the cheek
B.
Leaving a piece of love and understanding.
@ the jaded nyer: put yourself in my blog shoes. and i don't start blog drama, i only reply to it.
my grandmother always told me "if they blog hit you first, when i call, i better tell her i need a bondsman."
The hate is unfortunate.. especially among black folk. I hate to see it. (no pun intended) Ultimately for blogging - it would be cool if we all just wrote for the love of expression. Its not a competition amongst one another. I feel good when people read my stuff - I get disappointed sometimes if I think something is good and it doesn't get read. But I love the craft or writing. So that is why readership or lack thereof won't stop me from doing it. If anything, a lack of readers show the motivation for me writing in the first place. Of course i want to share, provoke thought etc. But to do anything on an ongoing basis for reasons not related to the love of it, will soon reveal the bigger issue -the search for basic human spiritual needs in the wrong areas for the wrong reasons. Eddie Murphy said it best in "Buckwheat Sings" 'Wookin pu nub in all da wrong places.'
**now quick - take a look at my page.
That's fine, I see your point and we can agree to disagree and I'll still come over here and yank your chain and give you a hard time because it's what I do and you KNOW you love it; it makes you feel all tingly in your special places... LOL...
but, um, don't expect me to accept any collect calls from prison. Shoot- I don't even accept them from family...
"No operator, I don't know anyone named William Penzo. My father? Nooo, I think he's mistaken..."
No. You can't be serious. Blog haters?
I find blogs often that I just don't like. For whatever reason.
When that happens I don't go back. Wait, every once in a while I'll go back to see if I've change my mind.
Could it be that I am so new to the blog game that I cannot imagine such foolery as people hating on BLOGS?
Blog haters?
Say it aint so. lol.
Man, I get missing for a minute and the kids have gone wild! LOL
Hey what can I say. Katt Williams said, you need haters.. that's their job...to hate...if you got 14 haters you need to figure out how to get 16 before the summer gets here!! LOL
I love haters myself. Although I do understand the need to vent sometimes since 'dem fools can get out of hand!!! LOL
lmao @ the title of this post! :)
So let me get this right.....you stop making my panties wet during work hours cause someone said you talk about sex and that nigga ish to much......
I know folks keep telling you not to feed it but this is your blog and if this is your wat to release what you feel then do you, i'll be reading! :)
and they wonder why i call you KING....you go hard on the haters! lol
I had to read the post again!
Dang, my comment got lost. Here goes, again, this time it's much shorter.
The only reason you have haters is because your blog is good, and you stay on top of your game. Period.
People read what they want, you can't claim readership.
As long as you keep bringing it like you do, there will always be haters, so get used to it. I know it hurts your feelings when you don't feel like you did anything to anyone, but the world is effed up like this. I've just learned to accept it, not take it personal and hopefully find a way to capitalize on all the free publicity.
Wow. I was soooo not expecting to see/read this. LOL
Breathe in breathe out. Inhale, exhale...and do you.
Be easy
Don't let their hate get to you.... take a deep breath and move on...
Love this line, I'm a player. A player doesn't spite, a player will try his best to get like
Keep doing you Don.
Don,
Ignore it, it's sad. This is the Internet. If folks are stuck in grade school, let them do it by themselves. I love your blog and will keep coming back. :-)
*ahem.
I retract my offer to post a blog about hating.
Seems some others have already taken to the topic and I just can't see posting on something already over talked about.
Just an FYI
WTH??!!! I'm confused and shocked! This is a blog. I thought stuff like this happened in REAL life...now it's happening in the Blogosphere??!! I need a drink.
WTH??!!! I'm confused and shocked! This is a blog. I thought stuff like this happened in REAL life...now it's happening in the Blogosphere??!! I need a drink.
i'm pissed that i have to keep reading about haters, i am sick of a hater, i say we round them all up and stick em in one town together, let em hate on each other until their little heart's are content. Don, my brother, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to these suckers. They talking about you right? Then you must be doing something good. A hater makes my ass itch. I'm with sexxy luv, I luv when u talk about sex (but I'm always horny anyway) but for real just keep doing you and let the haters keep trying to do you. Peace Love and some STL soul!!!
Homie, this blog medium just gives some people another avenue to express their sorry ass life. Most of us know you are just voicing your opinion on things and that helps to bring variety to the posts. Keep doing what you're doing mayne. If you told someone it might rain they still might look at you like you are crazy. It comes with the game.
Damn Don, are me and you on the same shit? If you look at my site, you see I have an obsessed "hater" (I hate the term)and I am finally at the point where I pay this kid any attention. Him and the other guy who I actually called a friend since I know him personally. Everything you said is dead on. Now I don't have many readers because unlike some people, I got kids to take care of, but yo, keep on writing that real ish and f- these envious bastards. Keep doing your thang.
Wow! Well Don, just stay true to yourself and continue to do what you do. There will always be moments of attack from any angle of life, but continue to put your heart into what you love and pray to be able to surpass what's not so important. You will be just fine!
This nonsense has now crept into the blogsphere?!
I read mostly what folk said here and what stands out is "make the haters be your motivators."
In other words as in scripture, “let your enemies be your footstool.”
Be encouraged you have a lot of support.
In my opinion, married folk should be off limits. I don't care what kind of invitation you're offered or their circumstance.
Don, I'm still in shock that people actually write posts bashing you. WTF!!! I just don't understand. You keep on being you and ignore them. People need to grow up.
Please don't make me and my girl Lea do a Thelma & Louise on somebody...LOL
Tell me who it is...please...give me a hint.
Could it be one of those lame azz bloggers who always try to get so deep on a blog and stresses how much smarter they think they are than everyone else.
Could it be some of these wanna be writers who instead of foucsing on content they just try to look up the biggest words they can find and it still ends up being a simple post while they sit back and wish they had the same status of minus the bars.
You are so better than me because I would just call out the lame busta azz bloggers for what they really are...but then again you really don't have to because we all know who they are and often laugh at them when they leave random comments on others blogs!
"But it just so happened, that my blog became what’s happening."
i know thats right and just like your haters i stay on you page lol
Nowadays, when someone disagrees with someone else, it's considered as hating. I beg to differ. I prefer to call it a simple disagreement. Nor is it hating whenever a person dislikes another person, place, or thing. And it's certainly not hating to see people give their opinions
MAN I SAY THAT ALLL THE TIME.....
AND I ALSO SAY WHEN SOMEONE IS STATING FACTS ABOUT SOMEONE..ITS NOT HATING...ITS THE TRUTH!! AINT GOTTA HATE ON THAT...
hating is like envy!!!! u aint got it... you want it... so you talk down on that person cuz they doin their thang and aint worried about you!!!!
I'm here Don, lol, u happy now!
You know i did a post about HATERZ a little while back, it's some sick shit that we have got to get over and yet i received the same comments..."be glad you got haterz"....well i know for sure that Haterz have existed since 8th grade, they don't die, they multiply...and they only convince me to keep pushing the envelope, to be more, to be better! So my friend you do the same...as my gurl would say "make your haters, your motivators" cuz really unless they paying your bills it ain't all that serious!
You got them haters....you must be doing something right, pimping!
Lol at those questions and responses that you put up. I can't believe it's that damn serious. It's only a blog. It's only a blog
wow i cant believe that some people are still being so immature. its no place of hating on here...it just makes whoever starting the drama look really stupid. this is just the internet...well thats how i see it anyway. just keep doing you don and dont let any of this get to you.
@ the jaded nyer: if i end up behind bars, will you sneak me a cell phone so we can continue to have phone sex?
that depends... will "Bubba the Cell Mate" be there, too? Because that could be hot... LMAO!!!!
Though I rarely comment on your blog, I love reading it. I get some good advice especially from "black love" and "relationships" blogs. I think you are an interesting person that provides interesting reads. Keep blogging. Tell your haters hi! :)
A blog? Just a simple journal of your thoughts, feelings, ideas...etc. Is it really that serious? And if so...that's a damn shame
P.S....for what it's worth..I think your blog is awesome. You're a gifted writer and you don't mind stopping by my neck of the woods and leaving feedback. So, thanks and keep doing what you're doing
You are wide open today huh?!? :o)
Luv the list! HAHA! True @ you many different things to many different people.
But I must Amen everything Jaded Nyer said in her initial comment. AMEN! Especially this point
"the more you address and acknowledge the haters, the longer you stay on their level."
Seriously shake that ish off and let it go
Sooooo, would it be hating if I said I was jealous and wanted some haters too?????
i'm really really late, but this was kinda hilarious to me.
only you.
lol.
just tell em to stay out your beezwax i guess.
and we all know what katt williams said... as several people have reminded you.
you should start a union. NABH. Niggas Against Blog Haterz
lol
i'm so mad at internet thugs
"When they hate on you, then u know u doing something"--Hi Haters. haha. Seems like u've got far more people that love u than hate u.
*amused*...to a degree.
And um, I told you this before but leave them married heffas alone before you get your nuts shot off. Seriously.
The Jaded nyer has a point..a lil harsh but never the less a point..lol..
I was telling my hubby about the first beef a while ago and he stated "why yall take that sh*t so seriously, folks on the net not your friends." And that true..who cares about what someone types? Address them if you need to but dont stress about it..this should be seperate from your personal life..the two should never even mix. Most of us if not all of us should just be words to you.
This is the first time I'm reading your blog cuz it was linked in someone else's (they had only good things to say lol) and I must say that I'm glad I clicked the link. Keep doin you cuz at the end of the day, the haters are your biggest fans.
Okay, so I only have time to address the most important issue mentioned.
Why haven't you tried to sleep with ME???
*chuckling* jk...good stuff as always...
BLOG HATERS!!!??? People ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! Please get a life. Or do something positive with it. Thanks. :) lol
wow without reading the comments (But i did read the post lol) its like that in blogworld now? Really? And when the power goes out...then what???
Blog haters? Okay.....
I have learned to embrace all haters and continue to give them something to hate on.
Personally, I find it hard to argue with people I cannot physically see or touch. It just doesn't make sense.
Anyway, thanks for being one of the few people who actually visit my little ole blog. Keep doing what you do. Screw the haters.
lol @ obama addressing the haterz. I feel you on that. But like Kat Williams saod, "if you have 10 people hatin on yo azz, your next goal should be to get 15 more motha phuckin' haterz by next year". hahaha
You have got to be kidding! Don, I know that you are aware how much you are loved here...keep doing the dang thing. I think of haters as:
HUMAN
APPENDAGES (attempting to)
TARNISH
EVERYONE ELSES
RECEPTION OF YOUR SPIRIT
Let me explain. The appendix can be removed and we can live without it...it's the same with haters. It's a part of our body at birth (at the birth of your blog) and whether they're still here are not we can live with them and without them. Don, your spirit will live on and like "raven" said..."keep pimpin your pen!"
Preach, brother...this is my first visit. Will be back soon, specially cause Adrienne and Crimson are my homies, figuratively, lol!
Shake them haters off
Pay them no attention they just wanna get to you...
Just wave "Hi Haters"
BUHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I SHUD HAVE READ ALL THIS BEFORE I STARTED TAKING DOWN MY POSTS!!!!!!!!!LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.....EVN HAD ONE MAKE UP A GMAIL ADD CALLED FUCKKOKO........AND TO THINK I WAS NEW TO BLOG THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHHHHHHHHH WELLLLLLLLLL......DO YOUUUUUUUUU BOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
P.S:XOXO
U know I'm still ur #1 Groupie;)
Don,
OMG. I'm a blogger and I never knew this was going on. The only thing I can say is "Keep doing what you or doing." You are an excellent writer. I don't know about other bloggers but, I know that you and I share a love of writing.
When I started my blog it was with the intention of being creative, learning, teaching getting healthy feedback, opinions concerns whatever that would help me and my readers grow. It wasn't to boast, be negative or pursue an alternative motive.
Continue to share your stories, opinions and imagination. They are thought Provoking, interesting and yes sometimes captavating.
Keep up the good work and continue to write weather good, bad or indifferent. We are artist, hate it or love it that's what we do.
Take care,
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