I’m just saying…

I thought it’d be fair to lay out for everyone the method in which I intend on running this here wagon train that is “I’m Just Saying.”

Criticisms or “Snarking”

Criticism is the number one point of this blog, its inherent purpose if you will. The criticisms shall be quite informal and based mostly on things that come by my attention. If I see something that’s just dying for commentary or analysis, I’ll post a thumbnail and link to the source of the item, followed by my thoughts on the matter. And that’s really it as far as that goes.

Opinion Pieces

Once in a while this will become my soapbox on which to deliver my thoughts and opinions on an issue of some sort. This will usually be inspired by my personal encounters, or on the rare occasion I actually pick up a damned newspaper. And each of these will probably garner me tons of flames/comments. But once in a while, you need to speak you heart out on something that really matters to you.

Slice of Life

I do have a livejournal. That’s where most of my personal life is written when I actually update the thing with something relevant. Otherwise I use that to inform my lazier friends that I’ve updated my webcomic. But if the mood takes me, or the need justifies, I’ll post about my personal life in here.

Let’s make a few things perfectly clear:

1) The criticisms in this blog are first and forever my opinion. I hold no illusions that my word is divine mandate and that you as readers must adhere to what I think, and if you think otherwise it makes you a filthy heretic. Basically I want to make sure you know that I’m well aware that my opinions are valid as far as an opinion can ever go.

2) It may strike many (including myself) as odd that I am making a habit of criticizing other webcomics while at the same time writing and drawing my own. I want to make perfectly clear that I hold no illusions that my webcomic is better than anyone else. And a lot of times I may criticize other comics on things that my own comic is also guilty of. That’s fine by me, because I don’t care how bad my own comic is. It’s just for fun and for the love of making people laugh. I’m not about to stand here and claim that I’m better than anyone else and when I’m criticizing a comic, I’m not going to criticize other comics by comparing them to mine and say that I did a better job. Because I don’t hold the standards of my comic above the standards of the comics I read, and only in a few cases, do I hold my comic at the same standard of some of the comics I read. In those cases, they’re usually people that I know and work with regularly.

3) I’m not the only one doing this. If you happen to be someone who is only aware of my blog, I highly recommend reading others (especially Websnark).

4) Commenting is open to anyone. Anyone’s allowed to comment. It’d be cool of you to register also, I encourage everyone to. I’m not going to be a comment Nazi and delete the comments I don’t agree with, because that would make me a bastard. But if all you do is post flames, I’m going to have to snuff them. Same goes for spamming and trolling. The commenting function is intended to be a fun and safe environment for argument, debate, tomfoolery, and witty banter.

5) Argue with me. If you disagree, don’t hesitate to say something. I may not always be able to argue back, but I definitely will where appropriate. I usually won’t post the simple acknowledgements of “Hey, good point,” unless you totally humble me. If I respond to every damned thing, it gets really messy. But still, argue to your hearts content, but try to have a point when you do. Just saying “ur dum! carzorthade roxx!!12″ won’t elicit a response out of me.

And that concludes the Terms of Service for “I’m Just Saying…” at the moment. It might be overly formal to go through a laundry list like that, but I’m doing it so down the road I can just point to this instead of explain for 15 minutes on what I’m all about. And this will change as time goes on, because more things will come to mind and more things will come to pass. But just for everyone’s information, this is the way I run things around here.

I’m just sayin’ is all…

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