How far do you go in the name of getting attention? Where do you draw the line? What do you do when yo u disagree with someone’s methods or their teachings?

One thing is certain. When you mention someone specifically, you draw not only attention to them but also traffic. Sometimes people engage in “friendly fire” that is done specifically to draw attention and thus eyeballs and that means TRAFFIC. But not everyone takes the more friendly adversarial approach. Some go right for the jugular.

With Top Affiliate Challenge on the horizon, already there are some fireworks between Big Jason Henderson and Ty Hurd. That is to be expected considering that this is a reality show and we all have our interesting personality traits. A lot of the contestants are helping each other out. some are remaining aloof.

The ones who do a lot of PPC (Pay Per Click for the majority of my audience who just went “what the???”) and other “techy” tactics think they’re going to obliterate a bunch of us in the first few episodes. I imagine some people think I should be the first to go. All that does is fuel my determination - so LET someone say that to my face. Buah-ha-ha-ha-ha

One of the guys reminds me of the snide kids on the playground but I’ve heard it all so much it just rolls off. I’ve dealt with bullys and nasty kids throughout my childhood. Not nice but let them show their true colors. Once the viewers get wind of how they’re cutting other contestants it could get interesting.

Anyway…Most of what is happening is all in good fun and MOST of it is not direct character assassination. Though now the call Thor made to one contestant is live and this man (I’m the only woman, so …) directly accuses another contestant of lying. Being mistaken is more apt. Now you may notice here that I’m not naming names, leaving you to figure it out for yourself.

But this is the least of it. One guy posted a video a couple of days just slaughtering Ross Goldberg, saying Ross gave out the absolute worst advice ever. OK OK sure - not the best maybe, and what he wrote perhaps needed some mroe context, but what bothered me was he didn’t say, this is what you said and this is my opinion. He really slammed Ross and admitted he doesn’t know the guy at all. I met Ross’ whole family at JV Alert Live. His daughter fell in love with Molly, my guide dog.

Ross Goldberg, however, did the most elegant deflect I’ve seen in a while. He did not return the slam in kind but thanked the offending party for pointing out that he should have provided more context and then he put together a special report (no opt-in).

Now John Reese is under attack too and he’s one of the good guys around. Just bugs me when people go after the person rather than the information. It’s ugly and mean.

It IS possible to disagree with someone without assassinating their character. Let’s try that, shall we?

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