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• 1 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 3:02 am

  The name of the site is called, “Blarguments” - unfortunately, it will have no authenticity if one side of the equation is allowed to control the comment section. Otherwise, you might want to just switch the name of the blog to “sploguments” since a real argument takes two sides.

  Anyways, I’m done exposing the mob-dependent, victim-mentality mindset that acts spitefully, throws tantrums and then runs away claiming harrasment.

  If the guest blogger was truly harrased, do you think she’d have reprinted this post for her own amusement?

  The term scumbag still stands…

  Sam

• 2 Beth // Jan 26, 2008 at 3:44 am

  Sam you type so much, yet say so little.

• 3 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 5:32 am

  It’s purposeful. You’ve already demonstrated you don’t have what it takes for a facts-based argument so I do it just to grind you down.

  Isn’t it about time for another round of false harrasment claims? lol

• 4 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 5:40 am

  ps. Beth, I’m heading out for a few days. That should give you some time to round up your enablers and come back for a game of pile-on. I’ll check back in a few days if you’re lucky… tonight if you’re not, and remind each and every one of you that when you go back to the original transgression, all that’s there is your spiteful, criminal behavior and my simply calling you out on it.

  Anything else you make of it is due solely to the fact that you are the type who always ends up getting her ass kicked on Judge Judy.

  Go get your posse, girl. You can’t do this alone and you know it.

• 5 Beth // Jan 26, 2008 at 7:53 am

  Wow. I have a posse? Could you please tell me who and where they are? Because I believe I wrote the post on my own- others just happened to agree and were glad someone finally said what they had been wanting to say for a while. I’m also really glad you’ve taken so many classes in psychology and can see someone’s “type” by her “typing” alone. Controversy works two ways, Sam. I think this is where you fail to understand your chosen way of blog marketing.

• 6 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 8:47 am

  Beth, you typed so much but said so little.

  You poor thing, you really don’t stand a chance here but I do feel as if I have to support you in the effort since you went to such great lengths to ressurect this.

  Anyways, apparently, you don’t understand the concept of posse. It’s ok if you don’t. I’m sure onlookers understand just fine.

  The post you wrote on your own, however, was disingenuous and deceptive. You engaged not only by ignoring every reference to benefitting from an exact copy of something while spitefully bemoaning its author. That makes you a two-faced, criminal, scumbag.

  Your posse was reacting to that… and not as you lie when you say “they had been wanting to say for a while.” In fact, right in your comment section, some of them say they don’t even know what’s going on but they are just going on your heresay.

  Listen, little girl, anyone with the normal 2% of the brain functioning can wade through all your “poor me” bullshit and, in going back to the original premise, see, without any doubt whatsoever, that you benefitted from me by directly copying something I did while simultaneously trash-talking me.

  So if you can’t stand the heat, and it’s obvious you can’t, then get out of the kitchen… and quit your incessant bitching. Controversy, as I’ve stated quite clearly amidst your hall of turning mirrors is not about fabricating things and stirring the mud… it’s about CONFRONTING IT.

  And you were confronted, and like a spasmodic little child… you don’t like it. And you’ll gladly take all the victim enablers you can find.

  Seriously, you’re outgunned here…. you should just pack it in and accept your nasty, spiteful nature.

• 7 Beth // Jan 26, 2008 at 9:01 am

  I thought you were going away for a while, Sam? Let’s see, posse, dear me let me look the word up for my little ol’ brain so I can better understand:
  1. A group of people summoned by a sheriff to aid in law enforcement.-I have no dealings with law enforcement.
  2. A search party. -I’m not searching for anything.
  3. A gang involved in crimes such as running guns and illegal narcotics trafficking.-If you think me not linking to your blog is a crime you need more help than I first assumed.
  4. Slang A group of friends or associates.-Ah ha!- this must be it- you think I gathered a group of people to gang up on you.

  No, Sam. I think your issue with this entire episode is the fact a woman had the audacity to stand up to you.

• 8 C-Squared // Jan 26, 2008 at 10:12 am

  Freddy Freedom strikes again.

• 9 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 11:07 am

  @c-squared - judging by your comment, the answer to “are you smarter than a 5th grader?” would be… No.

  @ Beth -

  No, Sam. I think your issue with this entire episode is the fact a woman had the audacity to stand up to you.

  Listen, I know you’ve been struggling with “male issues” for a lot longer than just this week but it has nothing to do with that. I honestly want to give you a free pass just to even take that nonsense back but it’s too late. Yet another case of “I am woman, hear me roar”-itis has infected the blogosphere.

  Seriously, Beth, you’re both ridiculous and silly. Now, go run to a dictionary and find someone else’s staid definition as to why “silly” and “ridiculous” are either the same or different and then you’ll truly be a part of this conversation.

  The defintions of “posse” were priceless and only proved what I’d said about you (and your posse)… that you can’t think for yourselves.

  Happy Enabling,
  Sam

• 10 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 11:10 am

  ps. I think I just figured it out… you hired a 9th grader to do your dirty work. That explains why “your” replies are of that jr high school quality. Please, Beth, check the child labor laws and either write your own replies or have their parents sign an online consent form.

  As you say, it’s bad enough I supposedly bully women but bullying a 9th grader is too much even for more. I’ll know you’ve followed through when I get a mature, intelligent response.

  Until then…
  Sam

• 11 C-Squared // Jan 26, 2008 at 11:19 am

  And Freddy Freedom keeps going! When will he stop? Is anyone actually paying attention? Does he look like a fool? These answers and more tonight, on Who Gives a Shit News.

• 12 Beth // Jan 26, 2008 at 11:21 am

  LOL At C- couldn’t have said it better myself. Sam, quick, if you’re so smart, in what year was the war of 1812 fought? ***humming Jeopardy theme***

• 13 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  Listen, folks, it’s clear you’re outclassed which is why you’ve sunken to the level of a 3rd-grader. I don’t fault you for it - you are what you are. But, earlier, I wrote to Blarguments with the express hope that this would turn into something that could enrich the blog but neither of you have anything to offer.

  What a horrible, petty polluting of this otherwise decent concept. You should both be ashamed at your smallness.

  I’ll write a blog about you, beth. I’ll show you how it’s done properly… I mean REALLY properly.

  Have a nice day, children,
  Sam

• 14 Beth // Jan 26, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  Go for it, Sam. Before EntreCard no one heard of you. You’ve bullied people into doing what you want for your own needs and when you don’t get your way you threaten people. It’s blogging, Sam. That’s it. Blogging. If you need to threaten and belittle, (yes I used the word belittle again), to boost your own ego, by all means, be my guest. I stay true to my readers and don’t provide consequences if they don’t do something I like. I apologize when I make mistakes. I’m as honest on my blog as I am in real life. It’s a little sad you have to hide behind a computer and pretend like you’re this great marketing master. Blogging about me, negatively, is only going to drive traffic to my site. Do you realize this? I’ve been around a long time, I’ve had my ups and downs with blogging and I’ve never claimed to be anything I’m not. I stay true to myself Sam, and do my best to offer those who cross my blog’s path a little entertainment and insight into my life. It isn’t about money or popularity, it’s about being a part of a community and respecting those who respect you. Obviously, you have no respect for yourself or you wouldn’t turn to bashing one blogger because she didn’t link back to your little blog. Oh and by the way, wit is a sign of being highly intelligent. I’ve yet to see any wittiness on your end.

• 15 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 26, 2008 at 2:25 pm

  Beth, you typed so much but said so little. Anyways, I shall untangle it all for the lurkers of Blargument who don’t necessarily buy into your brand of bullshit.

  Go for it, Sam.

  Uh-oh, this is your pattern. You smugly continue the exchange and then you run to Entrecard, or anyone who will listen, to cry foul. Who can you cry foul to now since you not only made one blog post, but REPRINTED IT, lol!, which has shown you to be a willing participant?

  … and one who distracts from the original premise of benefitting from a direct copy of something while spitefully trash-talking the author…

  That is all that happened here - everything else is due to your avoidance of that.

  Before EntreCard no one heard of you.

  How laughable and thoroughly misleading. Not only am I responsible for driving 30-40k people into various other programs but I have certainly driven my share of people into Entrecard. But you wouldn’t know anything about that - not because it’s not true - but because you’re not experienced enough to see it and you’re not in that loop. You’re in a very tiny loop, actually, called, “Beth’s imaginary world.”

  And for several years, I’ve been plenty well known in the internet marketing circles blowing past the best known in fun things like this:

  the coolest guy on the planet
  Coolest Guy on the Planet Takes Number One In Google

  Now, that’s not even the tip of the iceberg… and you’ve done what???? And who knows you??? In fact, this exchange is clearly one of the better things that has ever happened to you or you wouldn’t have reprinted it. lol But your benefit has ZERO to do with your wittiness. It’s because I’m remaining involved.

  But you don’t seem to understand that with each new lie you bring about me, it gives me an opportunity to present the truth. And I don’t need all 50 of your posse, or all the lurkers, to like me… all it takes is one with ambition and reach to see that you really did spitefully bite the hand that fed you and that I am nothing that you’ve made me out to be.

  You’ve bullied people into doing what you want for your own needs and when you don’t get your way you threaten people.

  You poor child. I have bullied no one. And nowhere can you provide a specific example. If you could just do that, you would have credibility. Fortunately for you, most of those who line up on your side of the fence don’t have the capacity to really investigate the history of events and all they need is to hear you cry victim in order to believe you.

  So, I’ll give you those people - they’re low-quality and in no short supply.

  But I have never bullied anybody. I’ll reiterate because I believe the passers-by will get it faster than you ever will - you directly benefited from something I started and spitefully trash-talked me while employing it.

  Calling you out on that is not the same as bullying. But to a person with the emotional development of a tantrum-throwing toddler, it probably seems like I’m throwing the kitchen sink at her.

  Anyways, it was rather telling that Entrecard, in their own professional and diplomatic way, told you to go blow it out your ass.

  It’s blogging, Sam. That’s it. Blogging.

  If it were just blogging, you remorseless liar, you would either not have reprinted this conversation a second time. Now that you have, how can you retain any sense of self-respect and decency while saying, “It’s just blogging!” lol

  You are worse than Hillary Clinton which probably doesn’t seem so bad to either of you but if it’s “just blogging” then shut up and just blog… and if you’re going to be spiteful towards someone whose actions have benefitted you, then go a few rounds before crying victim, and then REPRINT the conversation… then please spare yourself the humiliation of trying to play the “It’s just blogging!” card.

  You’ve made it more than that. And all I did was call you on some spiteful, two-faced behavior.

  If you need to threaten and belittle, (yes I used the word belittle again), to boost your own ego, by all means, be my guest.

  You are like a broken record. I haven’t threatened you, nor anyone. I simply said that I would blog this matter properly. Perhaps, that might bother you, but there’s no threat there. I’m just telling you exactly what I plan to do. And, as for belittling… darling, i called you EXACTLY what you were for doing what you DID.

  That is not belittling. And having someone spitefully trash-talk me while benefiting from something I’d created should not be cause for anyone to stand idly by for fear of being called a bully or a belittler.

  What a victim-mindset you have. It’s truly appalling that you can’t just take responsibility for being trashy and dishonest.

  I stay true to my readers and don’t provide consequences if they don’t do something I like.

  I’m glad you say things like this. It makes it easier for me to point out what a twisted, misguided person you are. I do not threaten consequences against my readers. I’ve called out you and one other person for being spiteful and reckless.

  You weren’t my readers. You were “just bloggers” who did something spiteful and reckless.

  The “threat” to which you refer is to blog about this properly… and you have already blogged about it TWICE so I’m not doing anything you didn’t already do. In fact, you didn’t even give me the benefit of a threat lol

  What a piece of work you are.

  apologize when I make mistakes.

  You have to realize you made a mistake before you can apologize so please stop throwing 2nd grade psychology in the public’s face.

  When we go over the actual events here, including your actions, move-for-move, we see that you started off being spiteful and trash-talking me while benefiting from something nice I did for the community. Then when I called you what you were for doing that, you went down a slippery slope of trying to slip out of it, to blogging about it, to crying victim on many occasions, to then reprinting the conversation on an arguments blog and so on, and so on…

  I’m just holding the line, going toe-to-toe with you and your victim card has no more power when you reprint the conversation on Blarguments.

  I’m as honest on my blog as I am in real life. It’s a little sad you have to hide behind a computer and pretend like you’re this great marketing master.

  Now you are the one hurling insults. Remember, this started when you spitefully trash-talked me and I called you out on it. And now you’re trying to throw everything possible into the mix to keep the victim-enablers thinking you’re just a poor, little blogger who’s fending off a big bad meanie.

  And I’m not hiding… I’ve spoken to maaaany a person on the phone and even met some of them. Don’t mistake “beign selective” with “hiding” - think about it… do you think I need an irresponsible, spiteful, trash-mouth psycho like you having immediate access to my privacy?

  Have I invaded your privacy? Is a blog private? You banned me, was that not sufficient? You then reignited things by reprinting everything so, if anything, you are a victim of your own bad behavior.

  Blogging about me, negatively, is only going to drive traffic to my site. Do you realize this?

  lol oh really? somehow I forgot! Boy, that slipped right by me. It’s ok, hon. I’ll gladly drive traffic to your site in this case. You are a spiteful little brat who has taken no responsibility for benefitting from my community effort while spitefully trash-talking about me at the very same time.

  And if you get some traffic from my upcoming article then maybe it’ll be good for you therapeutically.

  I’ve been around a long time, I’ve had my ups and downs with blogging and I’ve never claimed to be anything I’m not. I stay true to myself Sam, and do my best to offer those who cross my blog’s path a little entertainment and insight into my life. It isn’t about money or popularity, it’s about being a part of a community and respecting those who respect you.

  Talk about ego… I don’t care about your resume. You’ve called me a bully and made all kinds of false accusations when this all started by you being spiteful towards me while benefiting from something I started and THEN continuing the whole affair by reposting it here.

  Welcome to your own doing, Beth. The resume you just gave means nothing in this matter.

  Obviously, you have no respect for yourself or you wouldn’t turn to bashing one blogger because she didn’t link back to your little blog.

  Another example of lying and distortion. It was because you were benefiting from it and spitefully trash-talking me at the same time. That kind of two-facedness should never be left unaddressed.

  I’ve reminded you that is what the problem was and you continue to make it out to be something else. So I can only surmise that you are a troubled soul who cannot take responsibility for her actions - like reposting the entire conversation when it had died down - so I’ll simply go toe-to-toe with each and every one of your lies and you can continue to cry victim.

  And if it ever comes across the desk of anyone who really matters… we can go back over the facts and we’ll all see who not only started it but who CONTINUED it here at Blarguments.

  You. I’m just here to make sure there’s a counter-point to every one of your lies and “poor me” statements.

  Oh and by the way, wit is a sign of being highly intelligent. I’ve yet to see any wittiness on your end.

  Your immature comments are a poor reflection on you. We’re not standing in a high school hallway. According to you, “It’s just blogging!” but you don’t waste a moment to toss an insult, spread a lie or cry foul…

  …even when all the evidence is in full view - that you started this by benefiting from something I started while spitefully trash-talking me and then CONTINUING it here at Blarguments long after it had died.

  Why did you do that, Beth? I can’t wait to hear your Hillary-Clinton like tap dance when you try to answer why you reprinted this here at Blarguments?

  Or will you avoid it altogether? I can’t wait to see what you come up with… maybe I somehow forced you! Maybe I “left you no choice!” lol Maybe you were “fearing for my life!” and thought you could garner waves of support.

  Or… maybe you’re just a petty, thoughtless, infantile sociopath who has learned to survive her spiteful, powerless existence by attacking people stronger than she and then playing victim when confronted.

  Shame on you… you mean-spirited, irresponsible infant.

  Go ahead… tell everyone why you reposted this. It’s got to be really, really good. I can’t wait. Come on… I’ve dispelled every one of your lies that anyone with an ounce of analytical power can easily verify within all of 2 minutes.

  Now tell everyone why you reposted this when it was over… cmon, blame me for that, too, while you’re at it.

  “Boo-hoo, sniff, sniff” doesn’t count.

• 16 C-Squared // Jan 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  buy into your brand of bullshit

  Sam used a bad word. I think we’re making progress.

• 17 Beth // Jan 26, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  Are you finished with your book, Sam? For the record I’ve not gone to EntreCard to mention this post at all. Other than running the contest on my site to give away your $10 that I offered to return to you several times, I haven’t even mentioned you on my blog since. You have the ego, or you wouldn’t write paragraphs on every blog you visit when you don’t get your way. I did inform Phirate of your threats and because of ECs lack of a good TOS you can get away with whatever you want. Or maybe it’s because they enjoy your type of behavior. I’m not sure where, when or how I have lied. You became upset over me not linking to you and it’s documented on my blog-with other comments. Keep feeding your ego, Sam. That’s all that is keeping you going in this little blogging world of yours. All you can do is call people names, which in and of itself, portrays a child-like character. Do you do this in the real world, Sam? If you don’t get what you want do you get down on the floor and throw a tantrum? If you really took blogging as a serious platform for marketing and monetizing your ideas, you wouldn’t piss off so many bloggers- and yes I’ve had quite a few email and send messages telling me way to go for standing up to you. To you this is all a game. Write your post about how horrible I am, since you know nothing about me personally, tell people I have lied, that I’m a sociopath, infantile- all of your favorite you so happen to use over and over. I’m sure you’ve done it before to make yourself feel like a big boy. Take it like a man, Sam. Get over the fact I refused, on my blog, to link to yours for my own reasons. I’ll welcome the traffic you send my way.

• 18 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 27, 2008 at 6:37 am

  Well, well, well… look who’s writing her own epic replies now, lol. I guess it’s ok when you’re the one doing it, huh? Anyways, while replies might seem long in terms of the internet, where everything is just a click away, in reality, they take all of 3 minutes to create and less than 3 minutes to read so your complaints are just another symptom of your juvenile angst.

  Also, I include quote snippets in mine which lengthen it considerably but I believe, in doing a service to the passers-by who are rational, that it helps to have the quote near the response.

  That being said,

  Are you finished with your book, Sam?

  Not quite. It should be clear by now that as long as you continue to remain spiteful and misleading, I’ll gladly untangle it. You see, unlike you, who is so desperate for traffic that you’re happy with even the lowest quality, I am doing this for my core, targeted audience who appreciate good writing and genuine attempts to flesh out and make sense of nonsense - such as yours. If I do it here, then I can do it anywhere on any topic, in any venue.

  The fact you describe it differently doesn’t matter since all the facts are still here before us.

  For the record I’ve not gone to EntreCard to mention this post at all.

  Misleading. You went to Entrecard to claim harassment and were sent away with a polite rejection. That false accusation is even worse.

  Other than running the contest on my site to give away your $10 that I offered to return to you several times, I haven’t even mentioned you on my blog since.

  Yes, you are definitely out of touch with reality. So you’ve “been a good girl” for several days before demonstrating more of your spiteful behavior with a contest? Do you understand, I gave you that $10 out of pity. lol I wanted to see what you’d do with it and you couldn’t help but prove that I was write regarding your spiteful nature.

  In fact, I might even send you another $10 later today. It’s cheaper than going to the zoo and far more entertaining… !

  You have the ego, or you wouldn’t write paragraphs on every blog you visit when you don’t get your way.

  Were you always this pathetic? You DODGED the issue as to why you rekindled the affair at Blarguments, so you lack any credibility on this matter. As for ego… darling, we ALL have ego, and it’s a lot bigger than we generally realize.

  As for paragraphs, yes, well, untangling lies takes considerable more words than the lies themselves. The passers-by will understand this even though you won’t.

  I did inform Phirate of your threats and because of ECs lack of a good TOS you can get away with whatever you want. Or maybe it’s because they enjoy your type of behavior.

  Darling, you can’t even name one threat. Not one. You were spiteful and trash-mouthing and you got called on it. When you grow up, you will own it. Until then, keep running around looking for partners in crime to believe your lies.

  I’m not sure where, when or how I have lied. You became upset over me not linking to you and it’s documented on my blog-with other comments. Keep feeding your ego, Sam.

  Thank you but this is not feeding my ego. You are nasty and I don’t find any real pleasure in pointing out, in very specific ways, how you are a pathetic, spiteful, liar. Even yet again, you refer to this as being upset over not having been linked to… I got 20-40 links that week, I didn’t care about your one little link. It was your nasty, spiteful behavior while benefiting from something I’d created.

  That will always remain the point and that is why I will blog about it because when you are allowed to go on freely, you can’t help but lie. You might not even realize you are lying. And some people will sympathize with you not because you’re articulate or intelligent but because they just simply pity you.

  You know how to work the pity card very well, I’ll give you that but, for what it’s worth, Al Sharpton still has you beat.

  That’s all that is keeping you going in this little blogging world of yours. All you can do is call people names, which in and of itself, portrays a child-like character. Do you do this in the real world, Sam?

  Do I confront people for being mean-spirited, spiteful and reckless in the real world. Absolutely… without hesitation.

  As for “all you can do is call people names” etc, that is more of your lying. All I can do includes promoting the positive potential of Entrecard through the roof, having helped many bloggers accomplish tasks they’ve found difficult, given loads of free advice to people to help them reach the next stage of their online development and so much more…

  But since you are a pathetic liar, your language severs your lying purpose…

  If you don’t get what you want do you get down on the floor and throw a tantrum?

  All of my replies are reasonable, rational and well-spoken. You are the one throwing tantrums.

  If you really took blogging as a serious platform for marketing and monetizing your ideas, you wouldn’t piss off so many bloggers-

  I have over 100 niche sites that do very well which allows me to speak my mind freely to those, like yourself, who are spiteful and trashy - people who have no problem benefiting from someones actions while trash-talking that person. You are lower than low and it is showing.

  and yes I’ve had quite a few email and send messages telling me way to go for standing up to you.

  Hitler had supporters, too. Who cares how many idiots you have screaming, “You go, girl!” - victim types always hang around each other in order to keep the pity-party alive.

  If there was any standing up being done, it was me standing up to your spiteful, mean-spirited trashy behavior towards me while benefiting from my actions. I stood up to YOU even knowing that your victim-enabling posse would play pile-on.

  To you this is all a game. Write your post about how horrible I am, since you know nothing about me personally,

  I have been genuinely helpful to people both from Entrecard and other places. That will never be in doubt. You, however, have shown yourself to be two-faced. You bite the hand that feeds you. If you’re going to use something someone originated to benefit you and your friends, then don’t spitefully trash talk the author at the same time and you won’t run into troubles like this any more.

  As for not knowing you, I know everything I need to know about you… you are

  spiteful,
  mean-spirited,
  trash-mouth,
  childish,
  victim-conditioned,
  pitiful,
  a liar,
  misleading,
  dishonest and
  not aware of any of it.

  tell people I have lied, that I’m a sociopath, infantile- all of your favorite you so happen to use over and over. I’m sure you’ve done it before to make yourself feel like a big boy.

  I’ve rarely done that. Controversial blogging is not about calling people names and making up lies about them. That’s your bag. Controversial blogging is calling people out on things that can be verified… and being willing to debate it to the very end because the facts, for any who care, will always be there to back up the assertions.

  Take it like a man, Sam. Get over the fact I refused, on my blog, to link to yours for my own reasons. I’ll welcome the traffic you send my way.

  Listen, you’re outgunned here, period. You’ve got the emotional maturity of a 12-yr old victim of abuse and, quite frankly, it is sad.

  If you were not lying or spitefully trash-talking those whose efforts have benefitted you, you would not have run into this.

  But that marks the difference between a child and an adult… an adult can take responsibility for his or her actions… a child can’t.

  And, by now, for anyone reading this who isn’t also the victim of abuse, it should be obvious which you are.

  You are a liar… you cannot post a single incidence of a threat.. you cannot demonstrate in any way shape or form that you were not spiteful… and that you did not trash talk someone whose efforts benefitted you… you cannot prove anything you said…. never can and never will.

  And you never answered why you reposted this situation here after it had died down. You are a fool and lack all credibility and anyone who feels bad for you or who thinks you, and all your high-school idioms are either in the right, or attractive, is someone I will be GLAD to not have as a reader.

  You cannot even begin to fathom the value of not having such low lives cruising your blog with their victim mindsets.

  Enjoy your roll in the mud with them…

  I will blog about this soon but first I am going to take a shower to rid me of your nasty scent,

  Sam

• 19 Beth // Jan 27, 2008 at 6:58 am

  All of this because you’re blog didn’t receive a link from my blog. I don’t get it Sam. If you’re so popular and help so many people, why on Earth are you so upset over ONE LINK. As for the $10? How is GIVING IT AWAY spiteful? Me keeping it would be spiteful, since I originally said, after you declined to take it back, that I would give it away in a contest. Don’t pity me, Sam, I pity you. Because if you were doing so well with all of your niched blogs you wouldn’t have the time or energy to keep up with these comments. As for traffic on my blog? I didn’t need EC for traffic and all one has to do is take a look at my stats for that info. As for helping so many bloggers, the only reason they “listen” to you is because no one else will state the obvious- you do bully, make promises and thrive on controversy all for your benefit- not theirs. I’m a little confused over how you think you know who I am by saying I was dishonest, a liar, (which by the way is the same as being dishonest), childish, victim-conditioned, (a new one for me), etc., etc. I didn’t begin my blog to become some guru in the blogging world. I started it because I was bored and needed a challenge. I’ve come a long way and you know what? No matter what you say, in the end, I still know who I am-a strong woman, who can think for herself without drinking your Kool-Aid of nonsense.

• 20 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Jan 27, 2008 at 7:00 am

  ps. Thank you, Blarguments… although I realize you thrive off such scenarios, you have at least done so fairly. You state exactly what your blog is about and why it exists and then you do not interfere - so far I can respect that.

  Just like my blog, where I state clearly what it is about.

  For those who are following this discussion, for me to continue would be like taking candy from a baby…

  Beth has lost on every point…
  Says the same high school level barbs…
  Cannot prove even one of her lies…
  Continues to misrepresent what happened and over-inflate the calling out she earned…
  And uses all the tactics and phrases necessary to rally pity-party enablers to her side…

  It’s both sad and disturbing.

  It’s just not fair that I continue along these lines with her. So, if you are going to continue following this, keep your eye on my blog and I’ll follow up with a proper conclusion to all of this.

  She misconstrues this notice as a “threat” even while she has blogged about this twice, is holding a contest and reprinted it here. But as she said, she’ll appreciate the traffic… right?

  Put your “Mommy Dearest” face on, Beth, you’re about to get some traffic and you don’t want to be caught without your face on…

  Here you go, Beth. Happy Memories, huh?

  Sam

• 21 Gary R. Hess // Jan 28, 2008 at 2:43 pm

  Alright, here we go:

  Sam, I have nothing against you or your website, I love your contests and I love that you have tried to get the Entrecard community to come together in this “link meme”. The problem though is that you are trying to gain something from this, something more than just a link back.

  In my experience with this sort of thing, you need to realize that you win some and you lose some. Some people just don’t feel that they need to link back to the originator of the link meme, and they all have their reasons. You should take your losses and let them continue the chain. The more people who view it will still realize it was your idea to start with somewhere down the line.

  If 100 people do the link meme and only 10 actually link to your site, it is still a success on your part. Complaining about it is just silly.

  As to Beth, I agree with what was said. Sam, you shouldn’t be wasting your time with this. Continue working on what you do and stop complaining on other peoples blogs about this. I have been linked to several times from the meme, yet I found no reason to link back to every single one. I love the idea, but I’m not going to follow through with it. One reason, it doesn’t fit in with my site. Second, it doesn’t seem ethical to me. I link to sites which are compatible with mine, not to just random sites because they linked to me or thought of the idea to start a mass link campaign somewhere down the line.

• 22 Gary R. Hess // Jan 28, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  (Sorry about two comments in a row Beth)

  I have run a few contests which require a link back to my site or a RSS subscription, Technorati fav, etc, just something in return. After a few weeks I select a winner.

  After the contest is over, how many of those people do you think actually keep the subscription or fav? Definitely not all. As of right now it is probably around 50% from the last contest. If the winner delinks me or unsubscribes to me, should I take back the prize? Hell no. I would look like a complete ass and the next contest I hold will not be successful.

  This is about marketing. And Sam, you are not helping yourself one bit.

• 23 Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog // Feb 7, 2008 at 2:50 pm

  Hi Gary,

  You really are a grade-A moron. Whenever I come across a reply like yours, I ask myself, in utter disbelief, “How do people like this actually survive past the 5th-grade?”

  Your response is so far out of whack and so unrelated to what happened, that I can only imagine that you must have some kind of serious emotional disturbance and just wanted to vent it a little bit alongside Beth who, by all accounts, also seems to suffer from one.

  Let’s bring this back to basics…

  This was not about getting a link back. Wait, let me capitalize that for you since the emotional disturbance, that both you and Beth seem to share, has prevented you from assimilating it:

  THIS WAS NOT ABOUT GETTING A LINK BACK.

  Is that clear?

  And I’ll capitalize what it IS about so that you can, from this point on, treat your time and energy as if it has some VALUE rather than wasting your breath lecturing on concepts that have no relation to the matter at hand.

  Beth has already proven her dedication to not only not getting the oft-stated point as well as repeating it more times than Rainman would but maybe you have a chance of coming out of the clouds safely… let’s see…

  The point is…

  IF YOU’RE GOING TO BENEFIT FROM SOMEONE SOMETHING DOES WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY TRASH-TALKING THEM THEN YOU ARE A SPITEFUL BITCH AND WILL BE TREATED AS SUCH.

  So, if you continue on from your comfy cubicle in La-La land that this is about “getting a link back” then I hope, in the very least, that your delusional state remains a joyful experience for you for years to come.

  As for “not helping yourself one bit”, I didn’t ask for your advice. You obviously can’t even flesh out the main, oft-stated point of a simple argument, so how can you be trusted to help anybody when it is you who is demonstrating a dire need for help?

  Thanks anyways, Gary, but until you can restate the main point of this thread with clarity and comprehension, you’re just another tumbleweed blowing on through.

  Sam

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