Since I came over here last week and crowed about having had a blog post at SEOmoz (and did I mention that it was also Dugg and SEOranked? I bet I did), I also have to come here and report that I got three thumbs down.
Not on my post. It would be okay if people disliked my post, I guess. But there were only thumbs up there. The thumbs down were at my profile.
I went to my profile to change the email address. It has my business email address from the store which, as you know, closed. The owners haven’t yet actually taken down the website, but presumably it will disappear soon, since no one is paying for it, so I figured I should change my email address, and the URL, too, to something that will still exist next week.
There it was, in black and white: three thumbs down. I went to look at the post to see what the thumbs-downers had said. “Go back to the knitting blogs where you belong!” maybe. Nope. Only thumbs up.
I’ve never posted anything else there. I scarcely ever comment (you know I’m not much of a commenter). All the comments that were showing, in fact, were my boring and repetitive “Thanks!” to all the nice comments at my post.
And yet I had three thumbs down. On the profile page, where it looks like personal distaste. How did I manage to inspire this distaste? I have no idea.
This will be good for my humility, which needs some work.
awww
Maybe they clicked the wrong button. Computer geeks are known to do that.
I agree with Mel, maybe they clicked the wrong button. If they didn’t then they should have given a reason for the negative feedback. They were probably just jealous of your awesomeness (that won’t help your humility at all will it? LOL).
I didn’t know there were websites which allowed you to give people’s profiles a “thumbs down”. That seems most peculiar to me. I can see ranking people’s writing, or pictures, or advice – but not people themselves.
“This mother of four sucks. Her face, her personality, her life — everything’s a total loss. I could assemble a better mother of four in my sleep. She seems slap-dash, not a well-put-together being. I’d like to see a mother of four that’s had some effort put into it. Two thumbs down.”
So does a thumbs down mean you have to re-think your entire life?
@universehall – ROTFL. Yes, that seems to have been the conclusion they drew.
Well that’s just mean.
I love the hypothetical thumbs-down comment by universehall… It’s a tiny short story, and a very well-written one.