WHO ARE YOU IN INNIT?

Alas, the author was down with the flu strains known as H99N99 this whole week, which explains the absence from updating this blog in any manner. Thus, the readership for this blog has gone down and it is time to re-boost it back!! How you ask? Simple, take some controversial topic and make it big. I thought that is what bloggers do.

Now, I am sure that almost everyone knows what is the Innit for and Nuffnangers always hang around there almost all the time, chatting, gossiping and a new word "Nang-whore". That includes me (maybe not so into the third one). Been thankful, I have met a tremendous number of fellow bloggers over my one whole year in Nuffnang, something critical as a blogger to expand the readerships, popularity and of course earnings.

Honestly speaking, Innit is not a pretty heavenly place as you think it is. It is a filthy place, biased, judgemental and a lot of whoring activities going down there! In Innit you can find all sorts of people, in which they are some that I like, some I dislike and some I hate. Then, ask yourself this question, who are you in Innit?

01. NANG-WHORING

I think I mentioned numerous time in the past and yet people still loves to do this. Is "Nang" really that important? Many peoples have come out with their own theories on how to get high nangs and I believe these theories are somewhat true. Nang-whoring is defined as an act of keep asking people to nang their post. Simply to say, this is not so much different than begging or hooking around.

SIGNS IF YOU ARE ONE:

• You keep posting your Innit link on the chatbox when people are chatting of something else. Imagine this, when people are talking about nice pizzas in a cafe, you come in suddenly and ask about a good Ferrari sparepart!!
• You try to be nice with people, get their MSN and one day you MSN-bombed everyone on your contact list to inform them. Now imagine this, you didn't set the alarm for that Sunday morning but your alarm clock out of its madness just buzzed you off at 6AM and you feel like you want to throw the alarm into a bin.
• You ask for nang from a specific person on the chatbox.
• You ask for link exchange when you don't really know the real concept of link exchange itself.
• You become an attention seeker on the chatbox. You try so hard to get into the conversation that you end up still blur but you act like you know, rather than stay quiet and get the facts right first.

02. PHOTOCOPY MACHINE

This is an ethical breach, seriously. How many times you walk into a post which promises you with something sensational and you found the article so familiar that soon you realize it is actually a copy and paste from another main sources? Simply to say, you read the post and it's 90% copied from Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, CNN, BBC,etc. Oh, just read at the recent H1N1 posts saga or the bitch snapping her employer's cock thingy, is not it obvious it is from some news articles! By adding another 10% of your comments which is only a paragraph of 2 sentence to justify its your post, come on, get a life.

SIGNS IF YOU ARE ONE:

• You copy and paste an external article from much fame resources, with or without crediting it back to the source. Imagine this, you spend an hourwriting an essay for exam and someone copied the exact way as yours and add some thought of his own, but that fella scores higher than you!!
• You post Innit links like the world is going to end soon, particularly those blog running on news articles. They can post their links in succession, possibly 10 links in the main page in one go. This one can be a characteristic of nang-whoring as well. Hmmm, i can't find a metaphor for this!!

03. POTONG STIMMER (English call what? Steam cutter?)

This is absolutely working tactics but then, it annoys and irritates people. How many time you look through a title, sounds so explosive and sensational, promising that you will enjoy it very much? Many, well, I understand how you feel. Given the perverts are looming all around Innit, given catchy title will always attract people's attention, so this steam cutting will always happen.

SIGNS IF YOU ARE ONE:

• You make a sensational title on Innit post that have nothing related to its content. Imagine a ice-cream man not selling ice creams although he is driving on his typical ice cream van!!
• You make a sensational title on Innit post and somehow build up people's expectation and high hopes, in the end it falters. Why? Because you said "13 Years Old Having Sex For 9999 Times" and yet it is a news article form some porn shop. Good, got some co-incidence with the number 2 above.
• You need to do a preview, view and review of some event and stuffs you do. Need to do preview for what? This one can go to number 1 and 4 as well. Although its not a sin in a whole, can't you just straight to the point. I know, you do it because of you want to have traffic.
  

04. ATTENTION SEEKER

As in number 1, attention seeker is a general term and has a broad wider spectrum of meaning and perspective views.

SIGNS IF YOU ARE ONE:

• You try to grab people's attention by claiming you went somewhere SPECIAL, you attended this SPECIAL event or you claimed this is the best SPECIAL thing you have done, saw or heard while the topic is related or not at all with the conversation and whether the topic is new or old. Confusing? Yeap? read again slowly and decipher again. Still can't understand, leave your comment on the comment box so I can keep in touch with you and answer your question. Ahh, I just did my LG Party Post but I lazy wanna put on Innit, so come to my blog la. Wait a minute, the bolded lines are the fine good examples you can find in Innit chatbox, don't they?
• You try to bitch into a conversation.
• You informed the person that you have just nanged the person in hopes that the person will nanged yours too.
  

In the end of the day,

• NANG is not a unit of measuring how good or how crap your posts are. It measures your popularity only. Therefore, you will get event posts and rubbish posts earning more nangs than others. I pity those who really put in theior efforts for writing something interesting.
• If you do not get into the Top 10 Most Popular Chart, your post will be abandoned from the blogosphere. How many are willing to scroll backward and read? Therefore once you are in Top 10, it creates awareness inside the blogosphere.
• Top 10 are always been ruled by the same and particular person. NO COMMENT for this.
• If you think your NANG is EXCEPTIONALLY high, long gone the day when you can reached more 200 nangs exactly a year ago.

Anymore you want to add. I am sure after I post this, I am expecting a lot of hate mails. I have to get ready and brace myself for this. Ahh, HEADACHE...

Nang and Dang: It's Really Big Deal

Anyone read JJR’s post regarding the dang issues in her blog? I don’t know if what I am doing right now is merely a right or wrong? I don’t know if she will hate me for what I am doing here since this issue has been reaching a point of her disappointment? Before I decided to ink this down, I fear this would ruin or hurt my reputation in front of JJR or any other Nuffnangers. But seeing someone you know among the Innit-Nuffnangers that I chat with everyday feeling sad, disappointed because of some annoying issue that give a big impact to the whole Innit society; does not made me feel right and happy.

I don’t want to talk much about the special visitor called MarcieTan whom I deemed as attention seeker and baby whiner, who came and danged all my Innit post. For me, a dang for a post in Innit is not something I would enjoy doing or making it into a circus entertainment. I have my own principles when giving a dang or just leave it for mercy. However, my principles had been questioned and challenged by this special visitor. Therefore, I would give you clarification that I usually give a dang when:

(1)   A post contains some flaws, inaccuracies in facts and figures. I remembered I danged Cjude87 for stating that ‘Malaysia achieved independence on 31 August 1953 few times in a post’, only to realize a fortnight later that the inaccuracies have been mended.

(2)   Heavy promotion on the chat box. I don’t mind you invite people to go to your link or blog, but placing a nanging link may not be the ultimatum solution for it at all. I don’t advertise but I merely made my presence in Innit been felt, and I believe in how people will aware about you and may eventually visit your blog. Try to write something that your readers will enjoy. You have a profile that list down your recent posts, right? My readers and visitors are my priorities!

(3)   Simply annoying!!

After the incidents of nang and dang on Innit over the last few days and JJR’s post, I realized two things:

(1)   Nang and dang may have been misused in Innit (no doubt) but it is still some form of measurement to determine how well or crap your post is. Nang-dang is like a vote, but not everyone can or will vote a certain post because you may not know the author, the topic doesn’t seems interesting or some other reasons. Hence, popularity or traffic does come back in play. I wish nang-dang is a measurement of how well the post is, not for some obsessions and satisfactions.

(2)   Why nang-dang is so important? It is important but I don’t think it is so perfectly important. I believe that unique visitors or your readers are the most perfect indicator. I believe that your way of writing and your ideas are the most perfect indicator.

To The Innit-Nuffnangers:

You may call me a hypocrite or anything but I think what ever JJR wrote in her post, we should consider the truthness behind all her words. I admit that this message also I write to remind myself about it.

When the question of whether some one should be danged or not, it depends on the individual itself to decide for their choices. I have my own principlse to do it but if other want to do so; either for principles, gang-dang or influenced by someone else, who are we to stop them?

A nang and a dang, why make it a fuss when your Nuffnang income is still flowing in?

Even a gang-dang, dang here or dang there may create a huge havoc, believe me, do you think the issue will resolve?

I wouldn’t say it is a great achievement and moment to see some ones’ post been danged till negative, should we?

We in Innit are just like other communities; there are goods and culprits residing in it. Sometimes we have fun, make fun of someone, hate some people, create insanity or even talk crap in the chatbox, but what is more important is our identity and our ethics as a blogger. What happened in Innit on Thursday when gang-danged occurred was not something we wish to do or we realy enjoy doing for just simply displaying a circus show. Well, we may seem to be enjoying it but sometimes beware of our borders!! Today I can tell Nath that people are hard to pleased!

To JunJun Riko:

I understand how our actions had made you disappointed and disgusted. Sometimes, the Innits are just crazy and I have to admit that we sometimes may over-react. I believe the majority of them are not some people who just simply danging others for fun. 

I did not wish to put the revenge on the first place. Sometimes, it may be hard for us to understand the insignificant of a dang. I admit that we are making ourselves no different for the one who are making the noise. Perhaps we felt what enough is enough and therefore, taking the matters into our own hand. Whether it was enjoyable or not, down in my heart, I felt it may not be that appropriate thing to do so. 

JunJun, I representing the whole Innit community directly or indirectly to say sorry if your feeling have been offended or disgusted due to our actions. We never hope things like this will ever happen, but what happen had been happened, with the saga will likely to continue. I’m sorry if I myself talking craps too but been a part of the Innit family, I felt I have the responsible to say sorry if you are offended. I do not wish to see you sad or disappointed. Cheer up girl!! 

Innit family will never complete without you because you are a part of us as well. The community is too big for you and me to really take care of but what we can do is to pin-point what is right or wrong, since controlling is impossible. 

Once again, SORRY JUNJUN!!