Please don't try to steal my BYC friends

[rancher hicks]

So it goes like this. A new member or old member comes on and offers to help us and says "I have a blog, yada, yada, yada," .

I have all I can do to follow my preferred threads here at BYC, much less follow someones blog.

I was fortunate enough to find BYC when I started with chickens more than 5 years ago and have been to other "chicken" sites etc. etc. but can't follow every one or my chickens would starve.

It wouldn't bode well if you owned a store and someone came in and started to chat up your customers and try to get them to come to their store would it?

Well then why do folks think it's okay to come on here and say in essence come to my blogspot ?

I can find all the help I need here thank you! Seems to me if you want a following then you should start a church. Perhaps this is to straight forward or to harsh but it is what it is.

Love my BYC family and don't want them being drawn away,

Rancher, loves BYC, Hicks.

 

[sourland]

Amen, Rancher, Amen!

 

[b.hromada]

Amen, Rancher, Amen!

x 2!

 

[theoldchick]

So true!

 

[lularat]

No, not harsh at all. When I need help, I want a straight answer and that is what you get here and usually pretty quick. Haven't been here as long as you, but also love BYC.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

A blog typically is neither a store nor a comparable multi-user forum though. It is typically a personal log where others can comment on personal stories posted by the account holder. Rather than a competitor of or threat to BYC, of which traits a blog typically shares very little, most blogs are optional side journeys that can further enrich community bonds as others learn more about the individuals they meet on BYC. Getting angered about most blogs is a bit like claiming that BYC members getting together offline, drinking tea, and sharing photos and stories of their chickens will draw away members from the forum.

Breath easy and enjoy your friends on BYC. Blogs are unlikely to ensnare them away.

 

[rancher hicks]

Anger might be a bit more than I feel.

We have the New York chicken lovers thread and will be having our annual picnic again this year. Inclusive of all folks in NYS or here if someone wants to make the trek. I do have BYC members who are more than associates of BYC, but I feel no need to have a blog exclude of other members.

As for blogs being an "optional" side journey the same can be said for other chicken "newsletters" and "sites." If one has a blog IMHO they should not be using BYC to advertise such or to gain a following. It is clearly divisive.

I know of one member who has stopped posting to BYC with the claim that if anyone wants to contact them "they know where to find me". On their blog. IMO, blogs are nothing more the internet "soapboxes". It is also MO that it is the "individuals" who want an audience who start blogs.

I know I'm right so I won't respond to further postings here.

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