I was curious about the development so I went back to
the blog. It seems that he is extremely happy about our little discussion (he calls it a bitching session) and also believes that the OP of this thread is the one who commented on his blog:
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After my counter-attack against him (see the last blog) he started his own thread, entitled...
“Rude author blasts commentor who complains about typos.” (Yep! That will be me then.) I encourage all of you who are learning something from this experiment to read through it. The link is below. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=149734
It is an outstanding piece of work; I am branded a “tool”, an “idiot”, “mentally ill” and all manner of things my teachers used to call me at school. My, how it brought back fond memories. The first reply to his post was this, “That blogger is an attention whore. This ignorant outburst will only help him garner even more. Best SEO tool there is.” (That's Search Engine Optimization for those of you that don't know) Very astute and by God it worked. The traffic to the blog soared overnight (directly from his link) and distribution levels of FBK1 jumped dramatically as a direct result.
Mr. Anonymous did, in one day, what I have failed to do in the past three months; he increased my blog readership by almost 200%. In brief, I have always found that controversy helps, it gets people talking (even if they are putting you down) but you will always have the curious who want to delve deeper and see what all the fuss is about. This is an especially useful tool to use with so-called “academics” because they just can’t let a sleeping dog lie.
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