Comments on: Lakota are stupid motherfuckers

By: fights alone

fights alone — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:59:56 +0000

How dare you speak of the Lakota in such a manner.
If I have misunderstood your posting and you are actually talking about a company or group using the name Lakota, then I DEMAND that you clarify the situation along with an apology to the nation of the Lakota…..
To say the very least your posting title, through your own negligence, due to the fact. that YOU didn’t state. the fact that it was a company, suggests that your remarks are racist and therefore by definition ILLEGAL..
I recommend therefore that you retract your comment with an apology and further clarify the situation.

Friends of the Lakota Ireland

To all my relations

Tom

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By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:37:04 +0000

@jan I wouldn’t have blogged if Lakota didn’t come back to me with such a rude and condescending reply both from thir intern and then from the owner himself who suggested because he shook my hand and added me to a guest list for his band (Halfset) that I shouldn’t be complaining.

A sorry or a “we fucked up” would have been fine but instead I got a “what is your problem?” reply. As you said, life is short and I won’t let any dickhead get away with such ignorant behaviour. Thanks for the comment about the site.

@Noel, you may have noticed that there are 44 comments and I’ve replied to just a few, mostly those who hide behind proxies and those who left retarded comments like the girl who created a fake name to leave a comment defending Lakota and saying because I have a blog I have no right to complain about spam.

I respect the opinion of most others who left a comment whether they agreed with me or disagreed. Yourself and Jen included. Perhaps next time I’ll leave a comment after a few comments saying thanks and I don’t agree? I doubt I can reply to every one just saying thanks, it’ll look a bit er spammy.

At the bottom of this blog post you’ll see a link to the stats of this blog, they’re public. If you were looking during the week you’ll see a lot of visits from one or two computers and a lot of people being sent here via an email which I am led to believe was sent asking for people to support Lakota and teach me a lesson or whatever. I won’t repond kindly to fakery.

By: Noel

Noel — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:54:33 +0000

Mulley, why wont you engage with anyone who has expressed reservations about this post? It was an inflammoatory post that was inevitably going to cause heated discussion. Surely common decency demands that you at least enagage with the readers of your blog rather than simply insulting them?

By: jan

jan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:27:13 +0000

i have to say, having no ties with either yourself damien or lakota it would seem that you have a serious axe to grind with these guys for the relatively small faux pas of receiving some spam from them.

i don’t think it warrants such a harsh response and have to agree with a previous poster who said the title and sentiments expressed in this thread come across as plain rude.

i read and like your blog a lot and it’s your domain around here, fair play by the way, so of course you can say as you please, but in this instance you come across uncharacteristically petty and aggressive.

life is short, it’s only an email.

best of luck with everything and keep up the (non aggressive) great work.

jan

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:48:54 +0000

Briefly, because Iheartbloggers addressed me, albeit anonymously.

The point I made was, just to be totally clear, adding ANYONE to a bulk mailing list without their consent is illegal, spamming, call it what you like at worst. At best it’s a surefire way of pissing off the people you’re trying to get your message out to. Counterproductive, no?

ANYONE. Paid or not. The point I was making was that those of us who work in the mainstream media just shrug our shoulders, say “meh” and get on with it because it’s part of our paying day job. Bloggers do this as a hobby so thus, rightly, are more prickly when it comes to that sort of thing.

“I would therefore claim it as my right to contact you with or without your permission with relevant information.”

You can claim that as much as you like but it won’t make it legal. You could also similarly try claiming your arse tastes like strawberries but that won’t make it so either.

“E-mail is a reasonable, efficient and cost effective means of contacting a blogger. It is not spamming.”

See? BINGO!!!!! You’re right, and there’s the rub. Please do e-mail bloggers who have their addresses on their blogs to your hearts content. I can’t find a single person who disagrees with that. Fire away. Just don’t subscribe them to mass mailing lists with 400 other people…

Which led me to a thought. And I asked a friend in PR. And he agreed with me.

It strikes me that those PR people who have chosen to anonymously represent their profession here (if they are real PR people, let’s add. They’ve all commented anonymously so we have no idea if they are or not) don’t want to put in any extra effort with that sort of thing beyond what they currently do with most mainstream media. Lash a load of names in a list and hey presto.

Individual e-mails (even just changing the name in the “Dear…” bit!) takes time on the part of the PR person. More time than the traditional way.

The bottom line to all this is, surely, that PR people have snake oil to sell to bloggers (or else they wouldn’t be here), many bloggers are interested in subscribing to your pamphlet, all they ask is not to be put on large bulk mailing lists without their consent.

Individual e-mails good, adding to bulk mailing lists, bad.

There’s no rocket science to this.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:46:27 +0000

I couldn’t be bothered with this anymore

10 mins later…

Obviously not. Point proven.

Make up your mind. Whoops, there’s that door again!

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:39:38 +0000

“Aren’t you able to form a constructive argument?”

….. Obviously not. Point proven.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:09:37 +0000

Arse and door love. Bye!

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:02:59 +0000

I actually didn’t receive any email asking to leave a comment… up until now I read your blog pretty regularly. As one of your readers, I find it really petty and immature for you to react to my opinions like this. You obviously don’t have the intelligence to construct a decent reply so have to resort to calling me ‘dumb’. Ouch. You’ve lost one reader in me and the way you’re going I’m sure I won’t be the last.

If you’re going to publish a post entitled ‘Latoka are Stupid Motherfuckers’ you’re inviting conflicting comments…. at least have the conviction to follow it through with legitimate feedback. It seems to me that all you’ve done is abuse anyone who dares disagree with ‘The Great Damien Mulley’. Aren’t you able to form a constructive argument? To be honest, like everyone else with sense, I couldn’t be bothered with this anymore. Good luck with your ‘journalistic endeavours’… I’m sure you’ll go far.

(and yes, bloggers make up a huge percentage of new media, if you don’t realise this then you don’t deserve your “1000s of readers”)