RazorianFly: Ultimate Censorship
Although you may have gathered from here I do like to have a rant at large multi nationals that get things wrong, Apple being the target at the moment due to the iMac issues. Today I am going to have a little rant at a website, or at least advise viewers about this site. It pains me to have to link to it but I guess I have too to make this post, therefore, the site is RazorianFly. Unfortunately I need to provide advertising to make people aware about the authors of this site.
First, the positives. It’s a nice looking site, the owner is enthusiastic if not a tad deluded given the negatives. I have to admit the guy has a real skill for graphic design, he did the banner for this site and another site of mine (positives didn’t last long 
).
However, after posting a comment on his site one morning about an article that at first glance was so factually incorrect it wasn’t true I noticed that the edit he made in response to my comment was also not factually correct! I posted another comment to correct him…..
After the second time Aaron decided to pull the article (Not a good thing to do on the net) for correction and also decided to delete my comments! What Aaron doesn’t seem to understand is if you write shite then expect it to hit the fan, you will see numerous examples of this on big sites around the net where an author has got something wrong, they comment to apologise and correct the article, seems sensible. Not Aaron, he believes is complete control and censorship which is not what the net is about. Or does he? He seems to not like Apple’s censorship, but for him its a’ok! Apple removing “posts which might in any way make them ‘look bad’”…….hmmmm…… seems familiar.
Every comment on his site I made where I picked up on errors he deleted.
If that wasn’t enough to make me not want to read his site anymore the fact that he had then removed all links to this site (which was there under banner exchange) without having the courtesy to email me and tell me is not only not very nice it’s pretty rude. I even emailed him to say “I notice you have removed the link to my site so I returned the favour” and had no response, what a nice guy….would you want to work with him or employ him?
In fact one of my comments offered for him to contact me via MSN so i could help him correct his factually incorrect articles – he’s blocked me 
(Then he keeps deleting comments which could have been resolved via MSN – makes sense, not!)
So the moral of this story is don’t post on his site, your likely only be gagged and don’t bother linking with him as he will only pull the plug and not tell you and get a free link from your site to his!
Now I did mention negatives before and whilst I am here I may as well list them (despite the fact it may aid him in improving his site):
- Content is pretty much copied from Macrumors and BBC News Website and others. What he can’t get his head round is this actually provides him with a lower page rank in Google. I have to admit he is getting better though.
- Censoring comments is so very uncool
- Contradicting yourself from a post you make (saying your iphone has no dropped calls) and then a video you make (saying it does) and then blocking the comments from me asking why the contradiction is also ultimately lame. By the way before Aaron pulls the contradicting info his post stated “Fewer drop calls (this still happens? I haven’t had a dropped call in years)” and his video clearly said he was suffering from dropped calls!
- The URL has nothing to do with his content – One of the first rules for making a successful site.
- Consistently factually incorrect posts.
- Writing a post so that your the first to have written about it then doing multiple updates to actually create the full post that should have been done in the first place is not only lame it makes the article really crappy to read. Aaron, take screenshots and create a full article before posting – there is no rush to be the first, especially when first in this case is crap.
25 year old PhD student from rainy Manchester UK.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Good Day David,
Thanks for the kind words. You’ll actually find the post your referring to about ‘dropped calls’ was posted by Trentiles, another poster (you’ll find his name to the right of the date on the ‘Lets Rock: Aka Naptime!’ post), and yes – I did have dropped calls, hence the video.
Now onto some of your more interesting points. Firstly, everyone makes mistakes. The article in question ‘The Big bang: Take 2′ was published correctly first time round, I apologise for this. I need telling once, not twice, or three times, once. You purposely sat on that page while I was adjusting it, and you kept posting things like ‘Your still wrong’ etc … No site needs that.
You’ll also find our content is not ‘copied’ from Mac Rumors, or the BBC or anywhere else, the only ‘copied’ pieces of information are quoted statements. Let me remind you that all the big news corporations and tech blogs ‘copy’ each others content, adding their personal opinions into the mix – So don’t go slagging us off for that one.
Updating posts is part of everyday blogging. With 2.1, I decided to do an on-going post which talked you though how long the update process took, as well as some of the features installed throughout the process. Let me point, that your comment about this article:
“David Moore Says:
September 12th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
There are new GPRS and 3G symbols too”
Was not censored. I am not (although you might think) censoring your comments. I have a right to moderate comments on my blog as well as you do. Content I find to be inappropriate or no longer relevant to the post(s) in question will be censored.
Finally, MSN is a social tool in which you can choose who you want to speak to – After you consistently bashed my blog through your comments, I wasn’t in the mood to talk to you.
Posting a ‘rant’ about my blog on your blog, is actually even more pathetic than what your actually ranting over (which basically, is nothing).
Lets hope this comment actually gets through David’s comment ‘moderating’ as I intently wrote it …
Arron
RazorianFly.com
September 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
In case David chooses to pull me up over a spelling mistake, I meant to say (in the above comment):
“Firstly, everyone makes mistakes. The article in question ‘The Big bang: Take 2′ was published incorrectly first time round, I apologise for this.”
Arron
RazorianFly.com
September 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Arron,
As you see, I don’t censor comments! I wasn’t so much posting a rant Arron than informing others how you behave, it was the only forum I could express my views as you censored all my views and opinions on your site.
There is only one thing about people who run sites on the net etc that I hate and it’s those that censor free speech, the thing with the net is…. once you publish to it you need to expect any fall out from it. If you can’t stand the heat make sure you write accurate content.
Moderation of comments is there for censoring spam (Viagra etc) or abuse…. none of my comments fell within these categories. You just didn’t like the fact that consistently your post was wrong and you were being told so….. so you decided to not keep the comments to make yourself look better, much like Apple does
Had you spoken to me on MSN I could have corrected you off comments and it would have avoided the whole situation, the fact of the matter is I was blocked before I posted the first comment correction – adium tells you that….
I was not bashing your blog, I was trying to point out mistakes which made it look like a 5 year old was running it, I believe they call that ‘help’ not ‘bashing’ but then maybe this shows your inability to take criticism?
As for corrections, you know as well as I do the big bang article is not the only one of your posts that I have pointed out factual error in.
Thanks for stopping by Arron, be rest assured your comments are always welcome here – good or bad, I don’t censor
September 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Oh, and throwing your dummy out the pram removing links without informing the other site is also really poor. Maybe I am just getting old and forgetting how young people are that are running sites nowadays but I never did that when I was running sites over 10 years ago!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
David,
I am an author over at RazorianFly and just wanted to make a couple comments on your post.
1) You complain about our site not being factual. Well your blog post stating this has its own mistakes in it. First being that you comment on my post about not having dropped calls, saying that our site contradicts itself later on in the video where Arron states he has dropped calls.
Maybe you should read our posts a bit more carefully. I say this because I, trentiles, posted that article you mention. I state that I have not experienced dropped calls. Arron in the video states that he has experienced dropped calls. This is not contradicting ourselves. This is two DIFFERENT people having two DIFFERENT experiences.
So maybe you should correct your oh so “factual” blog posts, since this section of your post is obviously incorrect.
Now people make mistakes. Our site has made mistakes in the past just like you have made in this blog post. No one is perfect.
2) Thanks for the tip on the URL. Being big into SEO myself I am aware of that, but it was an already established name. I can’t even begin to count the number of Apple sites that are huge yet have a URL that does not describe their content. First that comes to mind it TUAW. Yes those initials mean something that applies to their site, but the actual domain name means nothing. How does using your own name show users and Google what is contained on your site? Oh wait it doesn’t.
Not having a very descriptive URL that pertains 100% to your content is not the end all be all of SEO. It helps, but doesn’t really hurt all that much in the big picture.
-Chris
September 13th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Chris,
Arron has already identified my mistake regarding your post, apologies. There is no need to correct it at this point as it is voiced twice over in the comments.
My site is a personal site, for my opinions and views on things. I don’t care about it being big…. simple. I have my own apple site with a relevant URL, posts regarding Apple on there I do care about being popular in google.
Thanks for taking the time to head over here and comment
Dave