August was another controversial one on Active Rain, complete with hundreds of red x's, rude members, vote tampering, banned members, ugly comments, and whiners.  Lots of whiners.  First...the only serious note of this post...always remember this..... receiving comments on your post is a privilege not a right.  If you aren't getting comments on your posts, it could be that people just don't like you.

Before we begin......I would like to announce that I will now be selling advertising space in the comment section of my blog.  Here's how it works:   Add your advertisement in the comment section of this blog.  Send $1.49 to my address for every time your ad appears. We can be on the honor system here since I trust each and every one of you.  Remember this blog has good readership so your $1.49 is much better spent than newspaper advertising at 10 times the cost!  Sorry but no ginzu knives are included, but there will be a free spatula for the first 15 advertisers.

And now on to the Rainie awards for August: 

The "Most profound blog of the month" award:  These bloggers do an excellent job of presenting an honest assessment of today's real estate conditions.  A Different Kind of Market  

The "Message to Mars" Award:  What say you???

THE "VERY VERY BEST RANT" AWARD:  PLEASE STOP...

 The "Schzophrenia" Award: Given to the person who comments the most on his own blog.  I'll let you decide who HE is.

The "Best single sentence in a blog post" award:  "The stated income borrowers are the mortgage industry's smokers." by Brian Brady. - Bravo Mr. Brady.

The HOLY KA KA Award.   Given to TLW for her post on rainers who try to game the system by rating blogs down.  Big mistake.  Be nice to TLW.  She carries a gun.  Holy Ka Ka!!!

 The Special Kind of Stupid Award.   Even the Hyphen is plagerized.  Need I say more????

http://activerain.com/blogsview/70331/Bargain-Homes*

http://activerain.com/blogsview/195038/BARGAIN-HOMES*

for stealing this blog:  http://activerain.com/blogsview/43799/Bargain-Homes

*Hopefully, is no longer active.

The "Most Creative Solicitation of Comments" Award:  Ralph Nudi for his How I got 500 comments in less than 3 days post.

Speaking of solicitation of comments -  By special decree of Carnac:  Subscribe to my blog buttons are allowed and encouraged on this blog but only on this blog.  The $1.49 advertising fee does not apply.

And now what you have been waiting for - here are next month's predictions:

1.  Craig Schiller produces, directs and stars in Inconvenient Truths in the Staging Industry. Upon acceptance of his academy awards he thanks the "little people" of Active Rain.

2.  87 new groups are formed next month including the most popular, Bloggers Against Drunk Bloggers group. Running a close second is the Things I did on my Summer Vacation group.

3.  A new Project Blogger contest is announced.  No one enters. Active Rainers rejoice!

4. The 15^th edition of the reality series Survivor begins mid September.  Each tribe is given a map at the start of the show to find water for their camp.  As the TV camera  pans to the water maps....., the TV audience sees it and gasps.....copywrite LennHarley.com.  Ah oh.  Lenn and her attorney retire as millionaires.   Again.

5. The Rain God's finally admit that the "Flag Post" doesn't work.  In fact, the flag has never worked.  Ever.  Caleb admits "We don't need no stinkin flag thingie."

6. Due to the quick sell-out of Moderator Dartboards and Moderator Voodoo Dolls, Moderator Punching Bags will now be available for $29.95.  If you order within the next 30 days, you will receive free comment creator software,  a blinking subscribe to me button and a chopomatic food processor.

7. Consumers, fed up with Active-Rain Drama, turn to MySpace for all their Real Estate news and information. .

8. The Active Rain Gods release their Custom Blogs platform; allowing members  to maintain an ActiveRain blog with its own domain name as long as Active Rain appears as the first two words of the domain name. A rush to Go Daddy takes place and http://www.activeraincrap.com/ is immediately taken.

9. Chris Elizabeth Griffith wins the lottery and buys Active Rain.  She renames it "The Griffith Reign"  and immediately changes the point structure - negative points are given for being stupid,  writing crap, and whining.  At any time your point balance reaches zero, you are permanently banned.  That means forever.  

10.  Membership in AR hits a plateau and in an effort to add new members, the Rain Gods announce a special MEMBERS ONLY blog by Al Gore, the first blogger on the Internet.  Algore blogs about the days leading up to his inventions of MySpace and FaceBook.

11. The following words are banned from future blog posts until further notice:  Find Your Voice.

12.  The Active Rain Referral Exchange is canceled but no one notices.

Dr. Phil makes his monthly appearance and has a message for all whiners:   This is Active-Freakin-Rain, not Burger King.  You can't have it your way!!

 And THIS JUST IN!!!!!   The new Active Rain Pinnochio Button has just been released  and Carnac has been given the honor of testing the prototype.  The new Pinnochio Button will activate automatically if you lie on your blog post.  Ok....ahem....testing testing.   I SOLD 451 homes last year and took a 3 month vacation. 

AND Just in case you missed Carnac in the past:

January 1st Carnac Predictions

February Carnac Predictions

March Carnac Predictions

April Carnac Predictions

May Carnac Predictions

June Carnac Predictions

July Carnac Predictions