The Conservative Cat

The writer of that email might not be a lawyer, and certainly isn't a snob. On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

The concern we have with third party submission forms is that they train the carnival participants to go to the submission form each week rather than the carnival's own dedicated page or website. That drives the traffic to the form website instead. I know because I use your handy little form often when participating in other carnivals. See how I lost track of the fact that so many of these others have dedicated addresses and websites. For Blawg Review, we don't favor that approach, though others might have no problem with it, and we don't speak for anyone but ourselves.

It also concerns us that promoting such a system puts our submissions in the control of the form generator webmaster rather than the "carnival" organizers. For us, we are not confident to rely on strangers to be responsible that the forwarding of submissions works effectively. We would have no control over where our submissions might be sent, or saved, if our participants were encouraged to use your scheme.

On what basis should we trust a cat handle our business, anyway? If you're even a cat.

You're lucky he didn't include a bill.

I, personally, do not see how having both the "centralized" carnival submission system (as in the one on the Blawgreview site or whatever) as well as the one proposed by this site (which, come to think of it, is more centralized than the other version... blah) could be a bad thing... Sure, some people will go here instead of going to the Blawgreview site. So what? If they are just posting a carnival entry, what are the odds of them continuing on to read the rest of the site (I honestly do not know, hence the question)? Traffic that comes in, posts a link, and then leaves hardly counts as traffic. Additionally, having a submission system on this site would attract the traffic that already visits this site (but not the Blawgreview one), potentially adding more traffic, instead of subtracting it.

At any rate, yeah, it was a snobbish email. Here, a fuzzy feline was trying to help another site out, and this person turns him down cold, with what amounts to be a, "we're better than you," message. Blah. Ain't nothin' superior to a cat.

"The writer of that email might not be a lawyer, and certainly isn't a snob. On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

Watch it with the snide cracks, buddy. We canines are a damn sight smarter than human lawyers. And we're such snobs about it, we won't even bother ourselves to whiz on your wingtips.

In all things, follow the money.