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Regarding the Poll Blog…

December 2nd, 2007 . by TexasFred
I have received emails today telling me how I need to change this or that on todays poll and BITCHING about how the poll questions and answer options are written, or more precisely, not written to suit a certain few, well, I didn’t write todays question, it was submitted by a reader, below is the last email I received, BITCHING about the poll questions, so, I’m gonna let you ALL in on this, the people that have emailed me about polls today have NEVER submitted so much as one question or set of answer options… Read on…    

There’s no option to say I will be boycotting neither store, regardless of whether one rocks my world or not.

The question itself is biased.

Then there is one very simple solution, if the answer options aren’t written to your approval, don’t vote, if you don’t like the questions and answer options I use, email me with some that are written to YOUR exacting standards, then you’ll have NOTHING to complain about…

I can’t think for ALL of you, I can’t call up ALL the options that will make all people happy, and I will NEVER have ALL the answer options YOU want and I have asked for help on these questions and answers, and several folks have submitted quite a few questions with answer options, and to them I am very grateful…

Yeah, I am pissed off about these few emails, I am damned tired of people telling me how the stuff I use in the Poll Questions is wrong, but they never bother to submit a thing…

And BTW, once a poll is set, I can’t change a thing, once a vote, just ONE vote has been cast, the entire thing is locked in, I can’t edit so much as ONE WORD, and that is the most FAIR process I can imagine!!

Biased?? Here’s an idea, you try writing the questions and answers for a while, write them and send them to me, I’ll use them and send YOU all the BITCH email I get telling me what’s wrong with it…

I’m about ready to dump the whole thing over crap like this, it gets pretty damned frustrating when you work your ass off on something and then have several people complaining, people that can offer nothing in support, just negative BITCH comments…

I say this to ALL of my readers, I’ll take you OFF the email list if you don’t want to be a part of the poll blog email sends, that is not a problem, if that will make you happy I’m all for it, or am I being BIASED in my desire to see YOU happy??

A simple email request to be taken OFF the list will be sufficient!

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16 Responses to “Regarding the Poll Blog…”

  1. comment number 1 by: Ranando

    The question itself is biased.

    WTF!

    Keep it up Fred, I enjoy it.

  2. comment number 2 by: TexasFred

    Thanks Ranando, most folks DO enjoy it, but once in a while you get some sanctimonious prick that can’t be happy with 2 dozen answers, and I am goddamned tired of it, if they don’t like the questions and answer options, let THEM do a Poll Blog and see how many EXACTLY PRECISE answers and questions THEY can come up with, in other words, SCREW EM if they don’t like it, I don’t make so much as a penny from this blog, or any other blogs for that matter, and it really doesn’t hurt my feelings at all if a certain few folks go elsewhere with their superior attitudes…

    And I am pretty damned sure those folks KNOW who I am referring to…

    I’m a lot of things but I am NOT perfect, anyone that doesn’t like the way I write my blogs can do us ALL a favor, LEAVE, and we’ll ALL be a lot happier, at least I’ll be happier…

    Yeah, I am steamed over this, I was damned serious when I said, “I am tired of working my ass off” only to be criticized by some asshat that doesn’t even blog anymore, he just sets up some Open Trackback bullshit and calls it a blog…

  3. comment number 3 by: Debbie

    Fred, don’t worry about those folks. I vote on every single poll question you put up. I realize how difficult it is because of your limitations on length of questions/possible answers, etc. to please everybody. If folks don’t like the questions, they can leave. Nobody’s forcing them to vote.

    Keep up the good work.

  4. comment number 4 by: BobF

    Gee, if you don’t like the question or answers, DON’T VOTE! It’s not Rocket Science.

    Shoot, they’re guys that would complain about spending an evening with Carmen Electra because they didn’t like the shoes she was wearing.

    You’re doing a good job Fred.

  5. comment number 5 by: TexasFred

    Thanks folks, the person I am referring to in all this has remained unnamed by me, I wasn’t going to use the name, I just figure the ass would know who he is, and apparently I was right…

    Now he’s pissing and crying like a baby on his blog because he got spanked here, and that’s cool too, it’s his blog, and yeah, I DID delete his comment AND track-back, he requested that I remove him from everything because I was very blunt with him in regards to his sanctimonious prick type email, well, I don’t need his link backs OR comments, he can go cry in his own blog, but he’s not commenting here any longer, his pissy attitude and crybaby bullshit is something that’s just not gonna float here…

    And here’s one more thing for, you come take a shit in MY house, you can bet I will clean you out, apparently totally honest and upfront answers aren’t something he can handle well, as you see, several others have already said, “You don’t like it, don’t use it”, well, there ya go…  

  6. comment number 6 by: Kate

    I like the polls questions. Tell, who ever it is, to bite MY hinder.

  7. comment number 7 by: TexasFred

    Kate: You just did!! :D

  8. comment number 8 by: Bloviating Zeppelin

    Hey, it’s this simple: it’s YOUR poll, it’s YOUR blog. If they don’t like it, they can go back to reading their Teen Beat magazine.

    BZ

  9. comment number 9 by: gunz

    I take it this person claims to be part of the conservative ranks, sounds like whining to me. These people that want to bitch, whine, and moan over something like this better do a gut check with themselves or maybe consider joining the Ron Paul Revolution…

    We’re better than that folks.

  10. comment number 10 by: Patrick Sperry

    Sanctimonious asshat? I love it! The polls answers are fine for the most part, and if the piss ant doesn’t like them, he doesn’t need to participate. Simple as that… Or maybe just another classic case of.

    Stupid is as stupid does.

  11. comment number 11 by: TexasFred

    You mean bunch of Fred Fans outta be ashamed of yourself, you didn’t get the ‘other’ side of the story, and you did a ‘pile on’ so now the sanctimonious prick is doing a real live DRAMA QUEEN routine and he’s taking a ‘hiatus’ to think about whether his feelings have been hurt SO bad that maybe he should just quit blogging altogether…

    Hey man, grow a set of balls you big wussy…

     

    You did your criticism, you opened a can of worms and I opened a can of Whupass, the BIG economy size… Maybe you do need to stop blogging if you’re that big a WUSSY!!

    I know you have always been a real non-confrontational WUSSY type, but dude, you kinda/sorta attacked this poll thing when YOU said it was BIASED…

    If YOU can’t take the heat, get the hell OUT of my kitchen, and stop your crying, it makes you look really bad, so, in summation:

    Oh, wait!! Maybe I shouldn’t be SO rude, I might be guilty of internet bullying, and held responsible if he commits internet blog suicide… It could happen you know…

  12. comment number 12 by: wildbill208

    Fred you do a great job, tell him k.m.a.

  13. comment number 13 by: TexasFred

    wildbill208 Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 am
    Fred you do a great job, tell him k.m.a.

    You just did Wild Bill, now you’ll have the Drama Queen crying even more about people dog piling him…

  14. comment number 14 by: Jenn

    I think it is made abundantly clear on the Polling blog itself, which I have a link to on my blog because I think it’s funny:

    “All Polls are confidential, voters are anonymous, there are no posts to get in the way, no arguments to be had and no TROLLS to disrupt the process.”

    It also say it is NON SCIENTIFIC.

    Come on people, just have some fun with it. We all need to lighten up a bit and chill out a bit. The polling place is a hoot.

  15. comment number 15 by: Panhandle Poet

    Chuckle, chuckle some more, heh, heh, heh — I may break out laughing. I wonder, does anyone here think the ABC News Polls, the Gallup Polls, the CNN Polls, the any polling outfit you want to name Polls are unbiased????

  16. comment number 16 by: TexasFred

    Perri has pulled his blog down, I guess the heat was just too much…

    Here’s the deal Perri, you started the SHIT, I finished it, and you have shown everyone what a wuss you are…

    Drama Queens… Go figure…