WEB DESIGN MULTIMEDIA WEBANIMATOR SYNAPSE CIRCUIT

The Deftones - probably the most original Metal / Alternative band to come out America.

Somehow I don't think she'll be remembered in 2 years let alone 10! R.I.P. B. B. King!
I don't want to hear her cover of the Bee Gees song 'How Deep Is Your Love'.

SYNAPSE CIRCUIT
WEB DESIGN
MULTIMEDIA WITH WEBANIMATOR PLUS,
SORENSON SQUEEZE & WYSIWYG WEB DESIGN PROGRAMS

Goodhour, Synapse Circuit Readers! It’s great to see you as always! I hope that all is well with you and that you are winning with your tech projects! What? You are not doing a tech project??? C’mon... What’s wrong with you??? You need a challenge! Come with me...

Technology is a funny old thing... Tech know how = Technology. The Internet has been responsible for many things – including causing business models to adapt and change where possible or they fall by the wayside. One of the things that technology has changed somewhat is a reliance on systems created by others... All too often we give our power away to the next new thing on the Web be it MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, iTunes and so on! Some of us have stopped being excited at the prospect of creating an online web presence. That’s right! I am waxing on about how many of us have turned away from the dizzy world of Web Design. Read on...

#Incomedia #WebAnimatorPlus #SorensonSqueeze #Multimedia

THE DEATH OF THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SCENE... LONG LIVE THE NEW ALTERNATIVE ONLINE MUSIC SCENE...
I would like to use the world of music to illustrate just how bizarre the mentality of the artist / band has become... As a younger man I was searching for the equivalent of my Holy Grail, a recording contract! Suffice to say that I never got one! Hahahaha! I laugh but I am actually very relieved that I didn’t get one as I have had friends who thought themselves fortunate to have gotten a “record deal” only to be dropped unexpectedly.

Along came the Internet and then the advent of the CD-R... The CD-R writer when it was first launched was quite cost prohibitive and when the CD-R Plus & Minus writers became a PC standard we got some great software to enable us artists to make our own CDs. Some of us managed to make a living – not a fortune – selling our original music. Some of us came up with a great way to present a CD-R album i.e. many of us made custom album cases / packaging to sweeten the deal. But the euphoria that came with being truly independent was short lived as the MP3 format hit the scene and with Napster the masses didn’t want to buy music anymore. To be honest I can’t say that I blame people for not wanting to purchase music as a majority of chart music is forgettable. Without Googling Jennifer Lopez, name 3 of her tracks starting from now... See? You had to think about hard!

Apple’s iTunes, in my opinion, and I know that I go on about it a lot, snared the artist / band back into bondage. Jobs decided what a track was worth and I do believe that the iTunes business model doesn’t give a lot of scope to up and coming musicians in terms of royalties, etc. The artist still comes last when it comes to dividing up the costs to make and promote recordings. Further down the line there are outlets such as BandCamp that helps to get up and coming artists / bands music to an audience. So, artists / bands do not have an official website as they rely upon BandCamp, Zimbalam and an assortment of social network accounts. Artists / bands just squander their powers away when they could be selling CDs, CD-Rs, MP3 and merchandise from their very own official website.

DISCOURAGED?
It seems to me as though creative people in general are being discouraged from actively participating in their own web design. I think this is wrong! Yes, there are web hosting services that allow their customers to modify website templates but that are not what design is all about! Uh-uh! Me? I would rather see a badly designed website than a modified template as it such sites gives me an idea as to what the people behind them are about.

Once upon a time what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) web design software had a buzz around it as so many people from a non-design background were willing to have a go at designing their own website. Those were the days! Of course there were those that insisted that hand coding a site was the only way to go! Now it seems that the average person on the street has no desire to create a website as Facebook, Twitter, G Plus, YouTube, etc has fulfilled a basic need... A Facebook presence can lead the targeted market to a BandCamp page and so on...

Personally I would love to get you to make your own website! Although I am appealing to musicians in this narrative I wish to appeal to anyone and everyone to get the credit card out and invest in some decent web design and multimedia software...

ENCOURAGEMENT
One of the most important reasons for you to have your own website is to have an outlet whereby you can’t be oppressed. God knows how irritating it is when the social network Mother Hen Brigade tells us:

1. “Stop making friends! You are making too many friends and if you don’t stop making friends we’ll delete your account.” Yeah, right! These people are bluffing as they WANT and NEED our data. And if they do decide to delete your account unceremoniously they know that the likelihood of you making another one is high – especially as you may have bonded with some great people as I have!

2. “You have been accused of SPAM... As a result you cannot post many more links... Blah, blah, blah...” You know how I feel about that if you read up on my Antisocial Networking articles. In a nutshell “spam” is an overused terminology that is malleable to suit the purpose of the people behind the social networks. Just messaging someone you don’t know on Facebook constitutes as “spam”. As far as I am concerned “spam” is when you get true junk email i.e. offers for Viagra, slimming pills, etc. In fact Facebook is the BIGGEST SPAMMER going as it constantly puts advertisements in our faces on a daily basis! And to a degree it is the same with Google’s Gmail! Of course when they SPAM us... No... When they constantly bombard us with SPAM they call it something else... Great! The two-faced so and so’s... As you should know by now the main reason for these attacks and threats is that the social networks don’t want you to use their tools for your marketing.

3. You have the power to create your own business online without giving a large portion to a second or third party. PayPal is enough!

4. Avoiding censorship! I tell you... <shakes head and smiles wryly> ...the people who take it upon themselves to police the Internet end up being the very thing that they detest: A TROLL! Lately I have seen “ATTACHMENT UNAVAILABLE” on Facebook. Gee, I wonder that that is all about... You can bet it is someone posting up a conspiracy theory that touches upon the untouchables... Ooooh... People should have their say! On the one hand some people claim “freedom of speech” and in the next breath or click of a mouse all of a sudden we aren’t entitled to freedom of speech. Somebody somewhere would like to take things a step further and have you locked up with a criminal record for having and expressing an opinion these days. Let’s get away from conspiracy theories and freedom of speech...

You are an artist and your work features nudity / sexuality as you are using that medium or mediums to express something of artistic value... Sadly, very sadly, the self-appointed Internet Police try to make you out to be some kind of pervert or something. Often the self-appointed Internet Police are not intelligent enough to reason with and they troll you. They try to shut you down because they believe that they are the voice of reason when the irony is that you can’t reason with such folk! As an artist you might find that your own website is vital.

Still on the subject of censorship... I have a female friend on Facebook who has just hit her fifties and looking great – if I do say so myself – who likes to take glamour photos of herself and share them with her Facebook admirers. I think her photographs are tasteful and bear in mind that Facebook (and many other social networks) do not allow nudity on its platform. Even if Facebook were to revoke the policy on nudity my friend’s photos would be still tasteful! However, she gets trolled by people that keep claiming that her photos are indecent only to be proven wrong by the bods behind Facebook! I do feel for her as I believe that she should be able to express herself without people being a nuisance. If you don’t like it do not look and then launch into an insincere tirade against. My friend has her audience and she’s happy so why rain on her parade? The self-appointed Internet Police are nothing but simple minded trolls.

Again, my last point on censorship is that if you are a music artist and your video contains nudity / sexuality you can’t show it on YouTube. Do not misunderstand me; I don’t particularly like gratuity be it of a sexual, violent or any other nature but if there is context behind it that’s down to the originator. If you or I don’t like it then we can’t do squat about it as it is already out there. Do I want to take the time to have artistic expressions removed? Hell-to-the-no! The way I see it is this: as long as there is a warning that the material may be offensive then the expression is what it is. An artistic expression is a lot different to having some genuinely disturbing picture or video suddenly appear from performing an innocent Google search...

5. The last reason is that building a website enables you to learn more about the Internet and things like ecommerce (PayPal), web and graphic design and so on! These things are good to know and it will empower you!

FLASH IS DEAD! LONG LIVE HTML5!
When I was employed as a web and graphic designer many moons ago (gosh I am getting old) one the most exciting things around was (then) Macromedia Flash. Flash, in its early stages, just allowed for simple to complex animations that included sound and interactions that often became a part of the website navigation... Adobe bought out Macromedia and Flash eventually gained the ability to stream video and this video technology is prevalent in YouTube today! However, Flash has had its run and now one can create animations that include sound, video and interaction with relative ease! Certainly HTML5 based animation / interaction is far easier to achieve than with using Adobe Flash! For a start the Incomedia WebAnimator Plus costs a mere £64.99 compared to the cost of the Adobe Flash CS 6 software! Seriously! C’mon... Why on Earth would you want to pay £400 just to make animation / interactive content that can be seen on the PC, Mac and mobile devices when you can pay just £64.99???

Honestly, Adobe does not have the stranglehold on web media as it once did. Adobe is one of those business models that have had to adapt with the changes in technology and it is currently offering a monthly payment scheme for its collection of software. Personally I think that some of these monthly costs are too high! Adobe tries to keep up this elitist sensibility when they have been surpassed by Incomedia and Magix when it comes to web design, video editing / production and DTP. Once upon a time people would pay good money to do a two day course on Dreamweaver and today we would just spend the money on the following web design programs:-

Incomedia WebSite X5 Standard & Professional

Magix / Xara Web Designer Standard & Premium

Coffee Cup Visual Site Designer

And you will still have money left over to other stuff when you skip doing these two day courses. What £250 for a two day course??? Are you nuts??? Bear in mind that there are some free web design software out there! I will do an article on them in due course!

You can easily use WebAnimator with the web design programs listed above.

INCOMEDIA WEBANIMATOR PLUS
I don’t want to bore you with an extensive tutorial on WebAnimator Plus. No! What I want to do is give you a taste of what can be done with it! Below I did a very simple PowerPoint-like presentation based on one of my favourite Rock groups of all time, The Deftones, to illustrate just how quick one can create such presentations that can be viewed on a PC, Mac and mobile devices without you wanting to pull your hair out! 


1. I decided to create a full HD screen presentation, 1920 x 1080.


2. I created a menu screen quite easily by using an image (of the band) and adding a button. The image fades in and once complete the button flies in from the left to the centre of the presentation.


3. I then added a second scene that holds a full HD video so once the button is clicked on the first scene it jumps to scene two (with the video).

As you can imagine I could have created a more sophisticated presentation that has many screens / pages (scenes) and with intricate animations and interactions. But the purpose is to show you that within minutes a simple presentation can be completely outputted to an HTML file with the resources folder (containing the video and graphics) that can be placed online straightaway or can be a part of a website. Easy!

The last two screenshots above show the presentation playing within the Chrome browser using F11 to go full screen.

WebAnimator Plus: Present the way you want to! A well deserved Synapse Circuit Platinum Award as WebAnimator Plus allows you to create sophisticated animations, presentations and interactions with ease using image, sound and video files. There's also basic shapes and buttons! 



SORENSON SQUEEZE

If you read my review on Magix Video X7 Pro you should be familiar with the Sorenson Squeeze video format converter and compressor. No? OK... In a nutshell... Sorenson Squeeze can take video files and convert them into different file formats for different purposes i.e. the web, DVD, Bluray and so on. Even though we have fast broadband speeds and 4G data connections for our mobile devices it is still a good idea to make large video files as small as possible while maintaining the integrity of the video. If you are a recording artist and you want to showcase your videos without hindrances then you might just want to invest in Sorenson Squeeze. There are three different versions of Sorenson Squeeze:

Desktop Lite, $199

Desktop Standard, $549

&

Desktop Pro, $749

You will find that the Lite version should give you all that you need to start compression your files and / or formatting for different mediums i.e. DVD and Bluray. The professional version is for people / institutions that make their living from streaming video and create daily broadcasts independent of YouTube and similar online video outlets.

Sorenson Squeeze is a reliable and fast video / audio converter and compressor! It gets a Synapse Circuit Platinum! 

There are some free video compressors and I will have to take a look and make comparisons with the commercially available software such as Sorenson Squeeze. The reason why I recommend Sorenson Squeeze is because of its track record. Several years ago when I was part of a team creating a CD ROM for an up and coming Pop music act we discovered that the video was causing a major problem with some test systems that we had access to. I found Sorenson Squeeze through a web search – before Google had begun – and when it arrived we were able to have different formats on the CD ROM: MPEG-1 and QuickTime. Back in those days formatting video was a real pain mainly because PCs were used primarily for word processing and not much else. One couldn’t guarantee that a video would be able to play smoothly from one system to another.

In any event no matter what software you use to compress a video file into MP4 and OGG when combined with Incomedia WebAnimator Plus the results will be brilliant! The only thing missing from WebAnimator is a packager for Android and iOS apps! But that said who wants to be constantly downloading apps when presentations / animations can be viewed online? Even the news aggregator apps rely on taking content from the web.

And do not forget that if you get Incomedia WebSite X5 Standard or Professional it will be even easier to add an animation / presentation to the website you are creating whether it is for the desktop or mobile device such as a smartphone and / or tablet!

Do checkout these links for WebAnimator, Sorenson Squeeze and WebSite X5:-

WebAnimator

Sorenson Squeeze

WebSite X5

Dive in and make your website! Once it’s online give me a shout and I will link it!

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SYNAPSE CIRCUIT ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING THE SPAM SCHISM OF G PLUS

Above: The Invasion of the Spam Accusers (on G+).

SYNAPSE CIRCUIT
ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING: THE SPAM SCHISM OF G+

Goodhour, Synapse Circuit Readers! It’s great to see you as always! Are you sitting comfortably in the warmth of your wonderful abode! Are you due for an upgrade soon? Will it be the Galaxy S6 or the One M9?

Yes, this is the follow-up to the ‘ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING: THE IMMATURITY OF G+& THE HELLISH SCHIZOID AUTOMATONS’ article... Read on!

#Google #G+ #GooglePlus #GeePlus #Spam #Trolls #BrownNosing

LET’S RECAP
I joined a Google Plus “community” some time ago – maybe some 18 months ago or more. The community specialized in technology.

I thought I had made a friend with, Duke Carico, who appeared to be the owner / lead moderator of the “community” who said that he enjoyed my articles. Posting my articles wasn’t a problem in the beginning. Further down the line... ...much, much further I posted an article that probably got flagged up as “possible spam” by Google Plus. As a result of that (possible) flag one of the 16 moderators removed the link. I challenged the moderator’s decision and I was banned. I contacted Carico, told him what had happened and I was unbanned. That was the first time I asked to be unbanned.

The second time was when, after a long while, I went to post another article and discovered that I was banned again. I spoke to Carcio about it for the second and final time despite Carico’s exaggerations. I then posted up a reintroduction to myself as Blue Gene and Synapse Circuit. I also posted a review of the Google Nexus 6. Within minutes the reintroduction was removed. So, I posted up 2 more reintroductions and they were also removed but the article remained. Typically, I was confronted with a moderator regarding my reintroduction. I told this moderator that I had done nothing wrong which then prompted Carico to go nuts...

“Wow . . .This is Duke I didn't write the last reply, but just saw this!  I'm goint to reply and then end this!

BG - Simply because Duke got it wrong and he won't admit that.

YOU DON'T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT i ADMITED AND DIDN'T ADMIT. NOT ALL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT YOU TAKE PLACE IN YOUR SPAMMY THREADS. I EXPLAINED TO THE  MODS HANGOUT THAT I DID INDEED THINK YOU WERE REFERRING TO ME BECAUSE I DELETED THE FIRST POST. IT WAS A GLOAT. NOT BECAUSE YOU REFERRED TO A TROLL . . .  BUT BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T A SPAMMER.

Oh, I could say so much more, but there is no need. BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CAN'T ACCEPT THE CONSQUENCES. AND I'M TIRED OF ARGUING. YOU CAN'T BE GRACIOUS! YOU MUST HAVE THE LAST WORD. MODS, I AM BLOCKING THIS TROUBLE MAKER!  i HAVE BENT OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP HER AND PROMOTE HER AND ALL SHE WISHES TO DO IS WIN SOME TRIVIAL ARGUMENT.

At least this time, you can blame someone in the T&C community for being banned and be right about it!  YOU WIN! HA!?”

DO YOU SEE THE BIZARRE CONTRADICTIONS?

1. He thought that I was “gloating” in at least one of the reintroductions of the 3 I had made; what was wrong with the other 2? There is no rule to say that you can’t reintroduce yourself to new members.

2. If my posts were “spammy” why did he “bend over backwards to help and promote” me? I had every right to challenge the nonexistent rule about posting a reintroduction and being called a “spammer” when I am nothing of the sort!

Did you see the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors? And this Carico guy is telling me that I should learn to write? LMAO! Okay, let’s look at the “rules” that I have been constantly referred to...

THE RULES

“Spam -- There are a few definitions of what spam is. In our community we identify spam by the following criteria.  -- A post that is simply a link with no accompanying text to explain the contents found at the link. -- The same post is made to more than two communities. If we are unable to identify how many posts have been made because the poster's profile is private the we will err toward spam. -- A post that links to the poster's personal blog or article. If we feel that the link is posted to generated hits, views, or income for the poster than it will likely be considered spam...”

First of all they have decided to make their own definitions (as and when it pleases). But the bottom line is that they do not want to help writers generate their readership. However, Carico had no problem with my articles.



Above: Oh, look! Links to articles. But I thought... Never mind...

EXPOSED
In the first article I used a fake name as I didn’t want to out the person. However, as he has responded to the article he has let himself known, Duke Carico.



Such a nice guy! Add him at your peril. LMAO!


Some comments to the article were hidden as Google says they are "probably spam". It was just hateful comments. Too bad Google doesn't employ an algorithm to spot abuse / bullying.  
WHAT WAS THE AIM OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE?
The aim of the ‘ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING: THE IMMATURITY OF G+ & THE HELLISH SCHIZOID AUTOMATONS...’ was to show how Google Plus’ policy on “possible” spam can induce nastiness in people. The article also goes to show that some people, as a result of Google Plus’ “spam” policy aren’t able to think for themselves.

This idea that posting a one article in different communities is simply idiotic because let’s say that you or I wrote a review on, let’s say a Samsung phone. As you know Samsung handsets are mostly Android based so therefore the article is relevant in an Android community and another for general tech. So, that’s why Google Plus’ attitude towards spam is immature.

I think that the response from Carico, moderators and some “community” members demonstrates the above. Some have even stated that I am not actually a “spammer” but then become punctuation Nazis and start to find fault with the articles. They think that this behaviour is “community” oriented. They think that knowingly making false accusations and personal attacks is “community”.

The purpose of the article was never to “win” but to capture spitefulness and the sheeple that join in the personal attacks for no other reason that I can think of other than to brownnose. It’s a study in what I call “Antisocial Networking Hive Behaviour”.

I find it fascinating that some people can’t understand when one of their friends treats someone else in an unfriendly manner for no reason and attacks that someone else for demonstrating his or her discontent with the unfriendly friend. Do you follow? It’s like someone saying to a Jewish person, “Well, Hitler was nice to me because I am German...” Not that I am comparing Carico to Hitler. The analogy is just to show just how blind people can be defending their friend.

It’s spam... Well, actually it’s not spam... It’s the writing... It’s the writer... LMAO! You can’t please everybody!



Above: Notice that nobody says anything to what System Circuitry has stated. System Circuitry was banned from the "community" for having a different point of view. 

DELETED
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could, in real life, delete people we disagreed with? “I thought the Lord of the Rings movies were great!” Deleted! Problem solved. “Being a Vegan is the only way to live!” Deleted! Great! “Good morning!” There is nothing good about mornings! Deleted! There! Ha! “This iPhone is better than Android!” Deleted! You get the picture! I guess some would say that this happens in real life as I am sure you could say that John. F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy, Karen Silkwood got deleted for standing for what they believed in.

This is how many people behave when someone disagrees with some odd decision making in some of these “communities”. All you have to do is disagree with the inconsistencies in their argument(s) and you are ostracised from the “community”. Instead of conversing and resolving issues some of these people get a strange pleasure from ostracizing others. And these are not teenagers doing their best to be obnoxious as we know teenagers can be. No! These are adults! If they are blessed to have a child or children one has to wonder what kind of values they are instilling.

I guess that’s how some people are. It’s a shame that some people aren’t able to resolve matters in an adult manner. Anyway, I wish Carico and his community all the best.



HOPE
I do hope that G Plus (Gee Plus, Google Plus) revises its policy on “spam” as I believe that it will foster a positive attitude in its clientele.

It’s true, some communities have banned me for the same reasons as Carcio pointed out, Google Plus flags posts as possible spam if one article is shared with multiple communities. By the same token my articles have been accepted by other communities. When Google Plus communities work it is such a good feeling; it’s nice to make connections with others.

At some point I would like to create a community whereby people can relate to each other, have discussions and that writers can share their work without the fear of being labelled a “spammer”. I would be very proud if I could help a writer grow his or her readership. I’ve got no time for petty minded people. Share the love is what I say! Technology is supposed to bring people together!

I reckon that a good community does not require a moderator let alone 16! Moderators in general have a tendency to be power mad and corrupt communities and forums with their heavy and clumsy handling of people with another viewpoint. I don’t want to have a community based on virtual clones! I want people to enjoy expressing themselves and exchanging with others. I am hopeful!

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SYNAPSE CIRCUIT THE IMMATURITY OF G+

Above: Dukie Carcinogen (not real name), the gatekeeper of Hell!

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ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING: THE IMMATURITY OF G+ & THE HELLISH SCHIZOID AUTOMATONS...

Goodhour, Synapse Circuit Readers! Here's my second offering for today! I am on a roll!

What would you change about Google Plus or G+?

#Google #GooglePlus #G+ #Trolls #MadModerators Duke Carico is a nasty little man that is fixated upon his authority as a moderator to the point where his community is super-dull! 
WHAT’S WRONG WITH G+?
I happen to think that G+ or Google Plus is quite a decent social networking platform with a lot of potential! I prefer Gee Plus (G+) to Twitter – so much so that I have stopped using Twitter! If I could remember my password to Twitter I would just go ahead and delete my account! Needless to say that I use G+ a lot!

I am also a heavy Facebook user too! It has taken me a good while to get used to the Google Plus interface.

1. Improve the interface! Sure, my instinct is to say, “Copy Facebook!” But I am sure that the programmers in charge can come up with an even better interface!

It didn’t escape my attention that Google made it possible for people to call themselves what they want and I am sure that helped to get people involved with G+!

And now for a story... A true story... A true story based on real life events...

DUKIE CARCINOGEN:
THE G- HELLHOUND!
One of the best features of G+ is the “communities”. The communities are so great and are based upon a wide range of subject matters from Animation to Zoos! Join any number of communities and you can get chatting with others and share your passions (sometimes... we’ll get to that in a bit...).

At least a couple of years ago I joined a particular community based around technology and I shared my articles within that community. Dukie Carcinogen (not real name) was one of the 16 moderators of the community and in the past he told me that he “like my articles” and when I took some time off he sent me a message to ask if I was okay... Ahhh... Anyway, I posted up an article on Dukie’s community and the next thing I know another moderator removed it. When I asked why he said that it was “spam”. That got me irked as you can imagine... I asked, “How can you tell that it is spam without reading the article?” The reply strayed into weird territory, “I don’t have to read it to know that it’s spam...” And with that I was banned. So, I let Dukie know that I was banned and informed him about the altercation with one of his “moderators” (sic). Dukie apologized on the moderator’s behalf and the ban was lifted.

I think a month must have passed by before I went to post again in this particular community and saw that I was banned again. Once again, I contacted Dukie and the ban was lifted but not before letting me know that G+ can flag posts as spam... Okay, fair enough... Dukie also told me that he knows all 16 moderators personally and goes regularly for a drink with them, “They are nice guys...” Really? Anyway, I posted a new introduction in this community so that new members can get to know me and understand what I am about... I think I must have written...

“Hi, I am Blue Gene. I love technology and I write for Synapse Circuit...”

Oddly, this got taken down... There was no link only a picture of my Nexus 6!  So, I wrote another introduction,

“Hi! I am Blue Gene.... I love tech and I write for Synapse Circuit. Sometimes my posts get flagged as ‘spam’ but it’s just a link to my article...” Within less than a minute  someone posted a comment on it, “Reported!” What was in my introduction to report it? To me this was the action of a troll.

I also posted up an article that actually remained there! Shock! This particular “community” features loads of links to other articles and websites; I didn’t understand what the problem was. So, I wrote a third introduction...

“Hi! It’s Blue Gene again... This is my third introduction as some troll reported the last one as spam! Anyway, I love writing about tech and I look forward to interacting with you...” Or words to that effect!

About 5 minutes later it was removed with a message from another moderator saying that my posts are "spam" (when they are not) and that it is not allowed. I shouldn’t have written another introduction as I am already a member and that my articles contain Google ads and "we don’t allow commercial enterprise, blah, blah, blah..." So, in other words: Some people are worried that I am making money off these Google ads! Hahahaha!

So, the next thing I know Dukie waded in to say that he was the one that took my introductions down because I was “gloating”. Huh??? It turns out that because I said I “my posts aren’t spam but links to my articles” (that Dukie told me he appreciated), Dukie saw fit to remove it (them)! So, Dukie took offence to my refuting that my links are spam and banned me for challenging him and moderators. Dukie’s actual message gave me the impression that he was rabid... But at the end of the day there was no cause for that kind of behaviour.

2. Google Plus flagging articles that come from Google Blogger as “spam” is really stupid! In turn it makes other people stupid and paranoid! Anyone should be able to share his or her articles in as many relevant communities as they like!

I have said it once and a thousand times, “These spam accusations must stop! It’s childish!” I created a community as an experiment to see how it works and often I get posts flagged as “spam” when they are not! I take the time to have a look to see if the post is relevant to my community or not! Obviously, if it is a link to get some blue pills I delete it! But considering this Dukie chap knows all 16 of his moderators all he had to do was say, “Hey! Blue Gene is okay! He writes good articles...” Uh-uh! These people can’t take the initiative... These people can’t think for themselves, “Duh, Gee Plus says it could be spam... Duh, I had better delete the post and ban the community member...” It doesn’t help when people change the definition of “spam” to suit them!



"I'm a moderator! Respect my authoritah!" 

It would be wise if Google allowed people to think for themselves! For example, the equivalent to communities is Pages and Groups on Facebook. I have a couple of “Pages” and “Groups” and if someone posts up real spam i.e. a link to some shop or something like that I delete it! Facebook didn’t flag it; I saw it and deleted it!

People who aren’t moderators who cry “spam” are usually sad individuals who imagine that writers using Blogger any other form of journal based website are driving around in Lamborghini’s as a result of sharing their work. It’s so pathetic!

G+ needs to grow up and fast! Google Plus needs to get away from this “spam” flagging nonsense! It makes people nasty! It turns them into superficial-trolls reporting innocuous posts knowing that it’ll get removed and the user banned! In my mind that’s not what a community is about! The best communities are those that understand that articles from others can keep a community alive and buzzing! Google Plus has such great potential! I hope that Google will keep investing in it!

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