I get a lot of emails and spam comments directed at B&P (and other sites) for one reason or another.
Puzzled: I used to get 4 or 5 emails a week in the form of complaints about products ordered from the puzzle company bearing the same base name as this site but using the .com suffix. I had created a canned response giving the writer the correct email address where they could contact the people who could (I didn’t say would) solve their problem. I guess they just Google Bits and Pieces and find my contact info. The puzzle company, and many other online companies, do a pretty good job of burying their contact info. So I did some research and found the correct email address for their customer service department and put it into my canned response.
Since the Covid-19 outbreak started they must be selling a lot more puzzles because I get 3 to 5 complaints every day now. (The puzzle business must be good!) I don’t mind directing them to the right place and I even get a couple of ‘thank you’ replies, but not that many.
Guest posts: I get quite a few emails from people wanting to do a ‘guest post’ on the site. These ‘guest posts’ are almost always hyping some website, product, or niche that isn’t of general interest, or at least I don’t find them interesting. Some even offer to pay me to post them. I almost always just ignore them. Some seem to get upset that I don’t reply to their email.
Foreign Affairs: I get A LOT of spam email and comments on posts in foreign languages and contain a bunch of foreign language links. I just delete these. I get some that have been loosely translated to English. I understand if English is a second language and it’s not perfectly clear but in some cases, English must be the 8th or 9th language. Here’s an example of a comment on a post that I received this morning, apparently translated from Polish:
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It had a link to some kind of gaming site, in Poland I assume. I considered replying in an altered English, but ‘I ain’t got time for dat!
The Good Shit: Of course, I get quite a bit from readers/friends sending things that they think I’d like to share. I appreciate these submissions and do post many of them. Some I don’t because I’ve posted them recently or sometimes I just don’t understand them. I rarely reply to these submissions mainly because of the time it takes but, rest assured, I do sincerely appreciate your submissions and the time and effort it took to send them to me.
As you know, I recently got my real estate license.. With the main brokerage office, local brokerage office, state board of realtors, local board of realtors, our areas listing service, and now other agents with new or reduced priced listings – I’m getting so, so, so many emails (in addition to all the normal stuff I get) I just cannot keep track!! They want me to also join all the facebook groups for all of these.. I dont even want to look at my OWN facebook wall, much less all this other stuff! These are crazy times people… just crazy!!!
‘Risky Realtors’ seems like a good name for your new Facebook page. 🙂
ALOL That actually sounds like a terrible name – would you buy a house from a “risky” realtor?!
I would.
I suspect that there is another issue that occurs. When you get multiple submissions from your audience of the same meme. Then the credit goes to one, most plausibly the one who sent it first.
That happens occasionally and like you say, I usually credit the first person who sends it, or sometimes I will credit 2 or 3 people if I get the same submission in a really short timeframe. But, once in a while, I pass on something for one reason or another, and when I receive the same thing later I might decide to post it and usually use the later sender, only because I don’t remember who sent it in the first place.
Once I post something I usually delete the email so I can’t go back and try to find it. This is evident on the Bits Of Wisdom site where I had the title of a few dozen posts but I didn’t save the source to link to. So there will be some posts there for a week or two without via links or sources.
I for one beam with pride when I see a thanks to me – even if you do misspell my name as “Bor r Doom” instead of Boy r Doom.
That wasn’t me, that was my fingers. They have a mind of their own.
And what’s with the lowercase R?
I don’t normally send you stuff, I just quietly stalk and enjoy. 🙂 I am trying to buy a puzzle and that seems to be the business to be in these days. I think I will check out your .com friend and see if they can make it happen.
Cheers!
With as many unhappy customers that have contacted me, I don’t think I would shop there.