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Spasm and spam only differ by one letter

anarchivist — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:54:59 -0800

What is a good source of online etiquette for cross-medium self-promotion? I'm thinking someone might be going over the line, but I want something to back me up so it doesn't seem like I'm just overreacting. A member of an e-mail list I subscribe to posts about her/his blogs over frequently, to the point of always posting whenever there is a new entry up. I'm through ignoring it, and more than one person has suggested to him on list that if people wanted to read her/his blog that they'd do it. I'm not sure she/he is getting it. However, I can't really find any good sources for this sort of netiquette - I'm finding things only related to blogs or to e-mail lists, not both. I'd like something to point to if I (or others) choose to reach out to her/him.

Craigslist - Okay to crosspost?

bangitliketmac — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:46:56 -0800

I live right between two locations on Craigslist. Posting an ad to one region means it won't show up on the other, though they are both equally distant and I want people from both areas to see. I want to cross post, but there's a warning that the posting might be flagged/removed. Should I worry about this, or go ahead anyway? This isn't spam, and it's also my first time posting on the site.

photoshopping netiquette

tkolar — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:41:13 -0800

Best way to attract quality photoshoppers? (I apologize if this is a duplicate. I vaguely remember seeing it, but I can't for the life of me find it in the archives)

I have four 600k pictures that I'd like to let the internet's photoshoppers-at-large have a go at. They are 4 pictures of the same person but in different poses.

Being the overkill kind of person I am, my initial instinct would be to set up the pictures on a site of their own, along with a $100 first place/$50 second place award for the best jobs. That approach has two drawbacks: first -- the matter of advertising it, and second -- the inevitable "Bandwidth Exceeded" message if the advertising suceeded.

Assuming I don't want to go that far, what are my options? I suppose I can drop one of them in the Fark photoshop queue -- are there other sites I should be thinking of?

Thanks in advance.

Email Etiquette

brheavy — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:56:51 -0800

Email.etiquette.filter - How do you all battle those annoying email relationships in which responses never come or questions you ask never get answered? Email etiquette seems to be lacking amongst many people and I have some acquaintances that send out emails, but never bother replying, or when they reply, never answer my questions or acknowledge my response. The obvious answer is to just ignore them or lower my standards, but have any of you found a method to improve the email etiquette of your friends? It can be so annoying!

Online dating diplomacy.

scarabic — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:04:41 -0800

Online dating diplomacy. If you decide after an email or two that you are not interested in the other person, either because the conversation is uninspiring or the pictures they send are unappealing, should you actually write to tell them "sorry, but I'm not interested?" Or is that worse than falling silent and letting the correspondence die? Some people persist if you don't respond, and ask "what's the deal? you didn't like my pic?" I honestly don't know what's the best thing to say, if anything. Honesty is not the same as full disclosure, and I just feel that random people really don't need to hear that I find them undesireable / uninteresting. I figure if I just stop writing, most people will simply write me off and move on. What do you think?

Saying No

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:35:50 -0800

What do you say or do when someone out of the Blue - generally a fellow user who rarely comments and so is quite new to you - suddenly e-mails for the first time saying he or she will be in town, is interested in something you could help with and would like to have a drink with you?

It's clearly a friendly invitation but how do you politely decline, without having to lie and/or appearing to be a stuffed shirt?

Is there any etiquette to hotlinking images from third parties?

PrinceValium — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:52:50 -0800

This comment got me thinking: is there a standard etiquette for displaying inline images from third-party servers on either private blogs or community sites like MeFi? Is it always appropriate, never appropriate, or only appropriate depending on the source and the server from which the image originates?