So I blend most of my waking life; meaning that what I do online, I also, share, and compare to the real physical world. I do share different arguments, and debates with people, and ask for their input. My main goal in my life, is my own personal development, and growth; so I self reflect often, as well as trying to comprehend others lives through as close as I can come to their comprehension of our physical-temporal world.
Having that said, Saidit.net is a new website; literally void of any history, or significance beyond those here hoping it could, or 'may' be a site worthy in the future of reference. I've read people like Tom Bombadil making statements to the effect of what we do here, can influence public discourse. I also think there's possible merit for such things; perhaps.
A while back, I shared a link to Rumormillnews.com. I was shredded for using this site; it appears the main issue was the 'name' of the site. There were several posters that shredded for this alone. There were other posters that shredded, because I didn't go to the source, and present it from the source; yet most of the kickback was from the name.
Now, a bit of reference to the name, and site; it's one that I went to on dial up in the 90's. It's one that back in that day, when the Internet was a new, and slow thing, a thing where in which 'dot.coms' were the new source of wealth; a name alone would make you rich. Well, a great deal of that news was broadcast on Coast to Coast AM; driving across country; this is how I knew of rumormillnews.
I also noted Rumormillnews via Mike Rivero, and Whatreallyhappened.com. I like his site, and a lot of his news; I have a varied amount of differing opinions from Mike, but have found his site to post usually interesting, and different news than most. Mike uses Rumormillnews, and mike also links to the first blog to give attribution; as he runs a blog, and realizes he doesn't always want to 'cut to first'. On my part, I'm expressing my personal interest, or perhaps looked at a different way, trying to not cut out the 'salesman' working for scraps.
To cut to the chase, in the physical world to a man I know, I was describing the thread on saidit, and my ass reaming, which I thought was a bit in my view, childish. All of a sudden, the person I was speaking with said, 'saidit', that's just an opinion, I could've "said-it", but doesn't make it true, and why would I've said it, when I could've 'reddit'...... Then they made jokes about 'puns intended'. With this reaction, I tried a few other people of varied backgrounds, looking for reactions; they were about the same.
It caused me to think about it, I definitely had those same thoughts in the thread where people thought the name of 'rumormillnews' was silly rather than focusing on the news brought to discussion; what of saidit? Arguments fine, but the point is the same, there's not much difference in the name, but there's a big difference in duration, and impacts made. Yet the hate..... LMAO.
So, before anything else on this thread is said, I'm really curious to know what makes a reputable site in the eyes of the purveyors here?
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