Hi Scott,
A 5 1/2 years ordeal came to a very sudden and surprising end (good end) that cost me a lot of money, time, energy, got a congress man involved, forced my to leave house and home unvoluntarily without knowing if I can come back, forced me to let opportunities go by and a bunch of other things. Everybody has a handful moments in life where "clean" language can simply not express the feelings. Anybody who read the F-word and at least checked the post did probably understand and forgive me.
I hear you regarding the general problem, especially with bloggers who use this type of language in every other post (diminishing its power IMO, but that is a different story). They should be at least considerate enough to avoid it in the title. So I agree with your message, but not with the examples used. I know that those happened to be the ones at hand and probably the triggers for this post, because they happened right one after another.
Cheers! Carsten aka der boese Roy/SAC :)
sorry if you feel that you were made an example of, but yeah, you happened to trigger the thought. I agree, and I think I even said it in a comment, that the emotion in your blog warranted the language.
No need for either of you to explain yourself. I tried to remove myself from any holier-than-thou position with how I wrote this post.
My ONLY point, is that when you write a blog title, you're posting it not only on your own personal blog, but on others' personal blogs as well. And if you have taken the specific action of submitting your blog to places that facilitate that, then you have some responsibility for what you write.
(Again, congrats on the green card, Carsten!)
Scott,
I am not worried about that. You have been more than generous with links in the past. This is not the first time I come across this. Is it a new "spamming" technique?
If he can't leave his own url for example the next best thing to do is to point to a comment on another blog the allowed him to do so.
Yea, I know I sound paranoid a little. But if did not happen to me in the past I would have not bothered to raise the question.
In your blog swearing using as heading, i think so its very effective on your blog posting. yep i am agreed as well as others that its just same political and religious views its very effective because there is nobody know that who is the reader on the other end.But i think so searing is a good thing in which you can agree to other persons.
Good post Scott, I find that I can talk like a sailor no problem, even when I shouldn't sometimes. I almost never type cuss words, and never thought of it until now. It seems odd to me that you accidentally type cuss words, especially since you can take them back before you hit submit or send. I think that it has to be done on purpose knowing that it could be offensive to some people.
It's a good point and one I'm becoming more aware of as my daughter grows up and becomes more PC literate. At 6 years old, I don't want her exposed to that kind of language.
It's an eye opener actually as I'm now seeing more and more of the internet that I don't want her to be exposed to. Something that you don't think about till you become a father.
This is especially good advice for the teens on the net trying to make a "name" for themselves. My daughter recently viewed a video that was posted on a friends MySpace page where the main word was 'F'. This video was emailed to her and several other friends as well. Basically, this video went viral, locally through our church and within less than a week, everyone knew whose 14 year old son has language issues.
Nothing shames like the stupid things your children do. Having it seen by hundreds of people in the church doesn't help any.
That young man no longer has Internet access according to my daughter.
I hear you...
Reminds me: there was this whole big hoopla on JohnCow.com when one of the lead bloggers used the word 'C*nt' in the post title. Because of the nature of that blog (informative and humorous), I didn't think there was anything wrong with the language used; however, quite a few bloggers got really 'hot under the collar' and self-righteous about it.
Being a woman, I've learnt not to take offence to that word as I now know its original meaning (which is very positive).
My mum swears every now and then, but not in English, which makes it sound kinda cool!
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A few weeks ago I was at a good friend's wedding. The morning of the wedding we played golf, about eight of us. I'm sure there was plenty of foul language on the golf course.
After golf, we grabbed lunch in the clubhouse.
One guy there didn't seem to realize or care that there were others well within earshot of us or otherwise forgot to turn on the filters.
And since we were at a wedding event, he felt compelled to tell his nasty bachelor party stories. That's all well and good, very funny and all, but he was really loud, fucking fuck fuck. You know how we do it, adding 'fucking' as a new syllable into words.
The rest of us got really uncomfortable and told him to cool it more than once.
What's this have to do with anything, Scott?
Lots of bloggers I read tend to use this language in their blog posts as well. That's cool. That's who they are. Doesn't bother me at all to read that. It's actually nice to see that they have no inhibitions in their writing. I can sling that shit with the best of 'em.
But, a few times recently, a few of the blogs I read had up with "Fuck" right there in the title (like here and here).
They made me think, "cool it man, you're in crowded room."
Here's the thing. In this web 2.0 world of mashups and widgets, your blog headlines end up all over the place. Sure, if people are grabbing your feeds, fuck 'em, they get what they get.
But if you submit your blog to places like BlogCatalog, BUMPzee, Blogrush, etc. they dutifully pick up your blog posts and publish your headlines on other people's blogs who are in those networks.
It's all fine to put this stuff on your own blog, but when you put it in the title, you're putting it in other people's blogs and sites as well.
And their grandmothers may be reading. Or it may be your mother's blog. Consider that.