Javablogs killfiles

Upon pondering some of the abysmal content of javablogs, the one killer feature (ha!) would be per-user killfiles. I’d like to basically specify somewhere that I have no interest whatever in a certain blog, and would like to never see any of its stories ever again.

To spice things up, maybe a generic message could be sent to the blog author saying something like ‘you have been killfiled by a javablogs user today. This brings the total of people who want to ignore you completely to 52′.

Alongside this, there could be a top 10 list of ‘most ignored’ people. All blog authors would then strive to avoid showing up on that list, and being the insecure little shits they are, will feel sad and demotivated when they get ignored by someone. I (and a few others) would likely wear it as a badge of pride (out of some combination of pride, stupidity, ignorance, and delusions of grandeur). Still, enough developers are socially dysfunctional and were bullied as children that they crave the attention and approval of others, so I think it’d definitely cut down on persistently stupid blogs.

Here are some people I’d like add to my killfile:

  • Christopher C Cemper: I have no idea what this guy talks about, but he’s so inept at choosing appropriately lengthed titles and has such boring subjects that I’d be happy to cut him out of my sight.
  • Carlos Perez: Recently re-added his own blog. Good bedtime reading if you’re unable to fall asleep, but has yet to present anything truly insightful or challenging. Mostly harmless though, just uninteresting to me.
  • Fred Grott: Deathly boring. Has such uninteresting material that it might cause physical damage. To be avoided at all costs.
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Customization & Extension SIG Weblog: Pretty obvious why this one would be killfiled. Any blog with e-business in it should be burnt at some sort of stake. Enough with the e-* crap already, time to join the rest of us in the new millennium.
  • Any FIRST POST article: Ok, so I’d like to set filters on article titles too. The FIRST POST is usually tremendously exciting to exactly one person. Everyone else is far too jaded to it by now.
  • Artima blogs: Ok, I want to filter by URL too. So far based on what I’ve seen, anyone ‘invited’ to blog on Artima is required to lack any sort of personality. Even java.net has superior blogs!

    So, who else should be on that list? I bet Mr Anonymous has a bunch of people he’d like to killfile, eh? Speak up, don’t be shy!

    The BileBlog is also considering doing interviews with the following people: Hani, Rickard, Mike (of Atlassian), and chiara. People might get hurt, so if you’re of a delicate constitution and in that list, then feel free to whimper (in private if you want) and the BileBlog will not publish the interview.

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    • 16 Responses to “Javablogs killfiles”

    1. Dave Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 9:31 am

      I like seeing some of the more retarded ones (like ::::::Manageability::::::::::::), so I know when to post some trolling responses.

    2. Richard Osbaldeston Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 10:00 am

      Focus on Java has to be one of the big offenders here, what was that story with them complaining about having their account hacked into and taken off java.blogs?

      A BileBlog interview with Hani? How you going to manage that, er Hani? Does it involve a wig, a dress and impersonating the voice of your dead mother you keep in the fruit cellar?

    3. Charles Miller Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 10:25 am

      I think we need to make a run of bumper-stickers: “I wasn’t important enough to be interviewed for the BileBlog.”

    4. Anon Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 10:32 am

      Hani vs. Hani. Genius.

      And it’s time to finish off that annoying cow chiara. (They wonder why there’s violence towards women…*sigh*)

    5. Carlos Villela Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 10:38 am

      Hani vs. Hani would be awesome – and somewhat schizophrenic, too :D

      I mean, given the options, I think Hani is truly the best of them (what would Rickard and Mike have to say, anyway? I see a point in interviewing Chiara, but a self-interview would be so much more fascinating :)

    6. fx Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 11:37 am

      I also like to see Hani vs. Hani, three rounds, 3 minutes each. And the winner fights Anonymous in the finals.

    7. Jason Carreira Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 12:06 pm

      We’re talking fictitious interviews here, right? Damn, I’m going to have to work harder to get on the list :-)

    8. Carlos Villela Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 12:20 pm

      I hope we don’t see any Hani guest blogs here on the Bileblog. This would get some people *really* confused.

    9. Anonymous Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 12:46 pm

      I love the bumper sticker idea. Make sure to keep the apos in it :P.

    10. Cameron Purdy Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 2:35 pm

      “(They wonder why there’s violence towards women … *sigh*)”

      I do hope that was tongue-in-cheek. With the possibility of sounding too-PC, that comment is not cool.

    11. Alan Green Says:
      August 29th, 2003 at 3:37 pm

      If the high noise-to-signal ratio annoys you, you can read the javablogs blogs with a news agggregator.

      Javablogs provides an OPML feed of newly registered blogs through this URL: http://www.javablogs.com/ViewBlogs.jspa?max=-1&order=alpha&view=opml

      Just add the ones you like the look of to your aggregator. Any blogs you later decide that you don’t like, remove from your aggregator.

      (Yes, I know this suggestion misses the point of your post.)

    12. Tom Says:
      August 30th, 2003 at 12:41 am

      You need to be added to a killfile dork!

      You are a bit out of touch are you not? Oracles Suite of Applications is called the E-Business Suite. What do you want the owner of that blog to do…change the name of Oracles bilion dollar product to suit your dorky behind?

      Idiot

    13. Anonymous Says:
      August 30th, 2003 at 7:46 pm

      Tom, you really missed the whole point didn’t you.

      We need a way to kill file commenters. Maybe just filter on the word “dork”.

    14. akr Says:
      August 31st, 2003 at 8:14 pm

      http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=BLOG-67

      Go vote for it :)

    15. Mike Cannon-Brookes Says:
      September 1st, 2003 at 1:22 am

      Woo – someone’s going to interview me and I don’t have to do any work? I wonder what I’ll say :)

      M

      PS does this mean I get to post an imaginary Hani interview on my blog? (“Half a dozen quiet sushi-rolls with the illusive Biler”)

    16. Anonymous Says:
      April 20th, 2004 at 6:58 pm

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