This post is because of the horrible, and I repeat, horrible site, PbPixel.com (I’m not linking to their trash, and I would suggest that no one go to it, here’s a screenshot so you don’t have to go)
Anyways, here’s the deal. It’s a pixel selling website, you know, like that shiteous million dollar homepage crap, that makes absolutely no sense, but managed to get enough people to spam it so it got traffic (he’s also trying to do it again, but it’s a complete and utter failure). It has no use or adds any value to anything. It just exists, and it even does that poorly.
Want to make your own? Easy. Just download one of the many million dollar homepage clone scripts, add some crappy looking logo, and maybe a catch phrase, hopefully a more sensible one than ‘pixel your website’, and your done. Really, it takes at most 10 minutes. I would do a screencast of it, but I’m too lazy.
Another popularity, those thankfully it has died down now, was MySpace clones that focused on paintball, like Paintball Alliance, Mobzor, and tons of others. Pointless. But since I’m not seeing more of these, I’m not going to continue.
But another issue coming to fruition are splogs. Most are jsut taking either an RSS feed of Google News or Blog Search nad making those out to be posts. Some are actually taking content from providers (even some are using some of my posts). 68Caliber complained about people taking their content before, though they were going after members of forums doing it. Want to set one up? Just get a modified version of WordPress with an RSS catcher in it, add a couple of feeds, and you’re done. Oh, and don’t forget to put ads everywhere, that’s a must, or else it seems like you aren’t doing it for the money, but of course you are.
I really don’t care too much if people are using my content, since I’m all for free and open information sharing, which is why all these posts are licensed under a Creative Commons license. It allows you to copy and paste the whole article as long as you cite that you got it from here and don’t use it for commercial purposes, as in, don’t sell it.
Anyways, this post was just everywhere. I wrote parts of it at different places and times, so my mind was always somewhere else. I’ll try give you a better one tomorrow.
Paintball needs to grow the fuck up. Put down the emo, stop sucking Bob Long’s dick, and just fucking play.
Good post dude, keep the content rolling, you’ve got one of the only blogs that isn’t trying to sell me shit I don’t need.
Hey, I am the owner of the website of PbPixel.com, and I please ask you to delete this comment, there is no need to. I dont flame your website even if is not the best, so please dont do mine,
Regards.
Daniel
Daniel, Grow up. Not everyone will appreciate your hard work. The man who made this website is a Linux user and a damn good scripter as far as I can tell, but he used WordPress instead of making his own from scratch. Not everyone will love your website, especially if it sucks. Expect James to let you know your site sucks if it does. If you never knew your site sucked, then you would never make it better. Good article James, keep up the good work.
P.S.
Nice work on the B/S/T links… I’m loving those… *click* just for you.
@Mobzor Guy,
They’re actually referral links (some are just forum threads though that aren’t anything), so you would have to buy something or create an account for me to make anything. I used to also include the PbNation B/S/T threads on there, but the ridiculous titles were just too ridiculous to display in a sidebar. I still index them, so a slight change in my SQL query would display them again. I need to actually see if any more forums added RSS feeds for their B/S/T forums so I can add them, since it’s been a while since I checked.
I know that… hence my comment. Very slick way of getting some high paying eBay ad revenue. I noticed the referral links and thought that was clever.
-Andrew