ActiveRain "doesn't have anywhere near the juice"

Morgan Carey wrote: "I was going to leave this alone, but I keep getting notification that more and more people are talking about Real Estate Webmasters in a thread that the author has demanded I no longer participate in. I wanted to make sure users did not think I lost interest, disappeared or something. I am here on active rain any time you wish to contact me, and I am also "Webmaster" at REW Forums stop by any time.

I am done with this thread"

Hooray.  Sad excuse.  Go in to each and every comment you have made via edit  (I think above imakes 9 comments here) and unclick the "Notify me of new comments:" simple as that.  Now do that before you get notified of more comments.  I will be responding  to Lenn and Bryant. 

You should have left it alone. You were asked to stop commenting. You were asked privately.  

New captcha!  Where's my fruit! Three tries. I don't like it AR.

Bryant:  Thanks for stopping by.  It is kind of lenghty to read all the comments, especially if you click all the links, sign up for REW, read all the REW forums so you too are an SEO expert, write a blog on REW,  test your SERP..... Personally I'm just talking about people talking about ActiveRain and I am exhausted by the thread.  The first thread on REW about ActiveRain was just sour grapes about ActiveRain. 

Lenn:  Your timing sucks.  I still love you. I appreciate your comment. I am sorry Morgan felt your comment was license for him to comment after I had asked him to stop commenting here, privately. I got a  loooong (can you imagine that?)  email from Morgan wondering if I was really asking HIM  to stop commenting. I sent him an email confirming that I had asked him to stop posting comments to this entry.

I believe that is my right.  I could just delete Morgan's comments.  People have been asking me for days why I have not deleted his REW commercials and the rest of the comment spam here in this entry.  

Morgan has carried on a monologue in the comment here since Friday.  I don't see where anyone was talking to him, Morgan was not responding to the thread, he was just advertising REW.  This is a conversation that does go in a hundred different directions but IMHO you could remove all that Morgan wrote and the thread would make sense. Others may have got something out of Morgan's comments. To me Morgan's comments were the commercials where we all scatttered to the bathroom or went to see if there was anything to snack on in the kitchen.  One or two would not have been a problem. He has 7? 8?  comments before I asked him to stop commenting. 

This is about Morgan, not to him, this does not require a response from him.  Morgan feels the need to defend REW.  This was not an attack against REW but you'd hardly know it from the comments.   I can't imagine Matt, Caleb or Jonathan defending ActiveRain on REW or elsewehere.  Why would they need to? Morgan can post on his forum about how nasty I was asking him to leave, how arrogant I am, how condescending I am....  He can write a post on AR about how poorly he was treated here (conforming to AR community guidelines of course on the bottom of each and every page on ActiveRain) this entry is not his platform. 

Lots of people I know from AR have come here and said nice things about REW, a number of people have signed up for REW.  People on AR who had never heard of REW have signed up because of this entry.   

The thread I picked up on via Google Alerts is gossip.  The second thread on the REW forum about this entry is gossip.  The thread about you Lenn is gossip.  The members of REW can tell themselves they have hard core, hard hitting he-man conversations about SEO and nothing more but they are gossiping about ActiveRain and it caught my eye and tickled my funny bone. 

When Google sends out alerts that say:

"I gave it up when I realized the SEO benefit of REW blogs and forums probably far out weighs AR. I have dropped to 4 now but who cares. I would rather spend my time in here with all of my new found SEO friends instead of talking about "Why agents shouldn't bring their pets to open houses" on Active Rain. LOL. Don't get me wrong, there are some great content writers in Active Rain, but most are spammy point-generating posts that have 0 value."

and

"Anyone know what the criteria is to be the featured agent on the AR homepage?

You just get picked...not a giant rhyme nor reason...sign up and read the thread. Some have tried for a long time...others featured even admit they are honored but have no clue!"

and " No question - by the way is this Mike or Jenn or is it both of you?"

it is funny. The Google alerts made me go see what it is all about. Traffic!  You can see in the thread in their forums that they are excited about getting traffic from this entry. 

On ONE of James T. Boyer's ActiveRain accounts there's an entry "Active Rain VS REW Blogs SEO."  Many of the REW members who visited this entry were responding to his blog not mine.   James T. Boyer has three lonely comments on his entry...  Yet the REW people came here and respond to James T. Boyer's blogs entry.    

Again thanks for your comment Lenn.  I appreciate your input.  I am sorry about the timing but you sure had no way of knowing I had already asked Morgan to stop.

Ryan: This is ActiveRain not the forums on REW.  This is my blog.  This is not a debate.  You may think I am rude.   You wrote on the REW thread about this entry  more than once that you were done with this thread. Be a man of your word and leave this thread behind.  Thanks!

Ryan:  Next comment from you will be deleted.  In fact maybe after I read your last comment  it will be deleted.  Why waste your time that way?  This is not what is valued on ActiveRain.  Slamming one another may be all the rage on REW.  Go back to REW and post in the forums. Post an entry here about how I should not have blogged about REW.  You can write all about how  "You brought this on by writing the post."  

I am invoking the Kathy Sierra dinner party rule on my blog  "We LOVE to hear from you, and we think of this blog as a big dinner party. Y'all are our invited guests, but if you're being rude and obnoxious we'll let the bouncer toss you. So please, stick to debating and criticizing ideas rather than personal attacks." 

Not that I am saying you are being rude or obnoxious.... I think you might be but I don't think I would say it here publicly but I just happen to have that paragraph handy. 

Thanks for the final comment from you!

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I agree.  Do we know you?  Are you the same anonymous commenter as a day or so ago?  Not that it matters.

Thanks for the comment, thanks for your opinion.  Any advice?

I usually would have made this a  members only post or shut it down by this point. 

James: That was your last comment here. 

Hopefully people who want to debate ActiveRain vs. REW will take their conversation to your entry.  

I have not checked out what you have linked in this comment  so still may delete the last comment from you.  I would have hoped after your outburst about ignorance the other day that you would have realized that you were no longer welcome to comment here.

Morgan can post about his company where ever he wants to just no more in the comments on this entry. I did not mention Morgan in the blog, just because it is about REW does not give him rights to carry on a monologue in the comments.  I did not name Ryan or any of the others. I've let you all have your say.  This was not a debate about ActiveRain vs. REW as much as all of you want it to be.      

Doug: They are businesses so they do compete for business.

Here's a conversation on AR about different blog platforms that got wild last fall.  The Tomato Blogs vs. Real Estate Blogsites vs. RSS Pieces Blogs.  The participants got contentious and Bill French felt the need to make it members only.  Comparing Blog Platforms  The part of the title about "schizophrenic" was added later the crazier it got.

Free platforms for real estate blogs compete too. I think Matt, Caleb and Jonathan are too busy for the sort of stuff that REW does.  I think AR blogs had a different approach to get people blogging here. Did you watch the video on Inman Friday with Matt and Jon?  It is posted on the official ActiveRain blog. 

Thanks for the comment.

many of us are thrilled with AR Juice.  There could be other sites that have more Juice but they aren't as popular as AR. 

I'm not royalty.  Most of my points on AR are from inviting good bloggers.