Patrick got on my case about my s-m-u-t-t-y blogging yesterday. When I was typing that up, I was working in a cafe. I kept looking around to see if anyone could see the sex toys on my screen. NSFW … so he has a point. You’ll notice we had big gaps on the left and right on the DSS homescreen most of yesterday (when the site actually responded). Those were where the Google ad feeds were slated in. I guess they didn’t like all my talk about titles.
I’ve gone back in to edit the previous blog entry and tried to smooth it over for the Googlebots. Replaced a few key phrases and took out the entire list of Break Studios titles to replace them with a PNG image. Soon enough we may have to resort to steganography around here to communicate without triggering a negative reaction from the bots.
How to Show your Love to a CE
You tell me, should the free market dictate what is socially appropriate discourse in a forum? We’re only losing a few bucks, at most. I’m inclined to flip Google the bird and damn the torpedoes. Patrick is not so cavalier about things. The primary reason I’m even posting this blog entry is in a feeble attempt to reassure the bots that we really are OK here on the DSS, and that it truly is a family friendly site. Come back Mr. Roboto and bring your ad cents with you. Don’t know whether they’ll return to the fun loving crawlers that they were, dropping pennies from heaven. Sears ads kept running, perhaps because the underwear ads in their catalogs used to be fraught with sexual tension.
I must confess that DSS is really not that far removed from the prudishness of DMS after all. Excuse me while I sweep my self-respect up off the floor. It has not gone unnoticed that nobody has yet voted to ditch the ads in the current poll. I don’t know whether that’s because you DSSers are all savvy enough to disable flash and install adblock in your browsers, or whether you’re willing to cut us some slack to keep the lights on in this little corner of the intertubes.
Patrick has yet to give me the high sign to proceed with a site migration this weekend, so we may have to postpone the host migration for another week. He says that he’s been criss-crossing the country and hosting foreign guests. Well, at least he’s not grabbing the swinger articles before I can get to them.
