Since I started a blogfight, I guess, I'm just going to end it here and now so I'll stop fuming about it.
The first PF blog I ever read was Blogging Away Debt in spring 2007. It was in the NYT, in a Most Popular article. The concept was incredible! I was drawn to Tricia's struggle. I read the whole blog in one sitting, good, bad, ugly, with her debt tally right there the whole time.
I was INSPIRED by Tricia. I paid attention to my money, I thought about PF. I made a spreadsheet, and I wrote down my balances for the first time. A few months later I even started my own blog.
I don't really know anything about this Beks character. She tells cutesy anecdotes about money at a fourth grade reading level. Tricia told those stories, I tell them all the time. They're supposed to be one part of a broader story about transparency and accountability. Tricia practically invented anonymous transparency! I feel like I "know" Tricia because I followed her struggle. I saw her success, and I saw her failure. I saw where her money went, and the whole world knows where mine went.
If this were some random blog, I wouldn't think twice. It's not. Tricia was a visionary. Blogging Away Debt was important to me, and I'm sure to many others. Tricia was such a great blogger, it would be hard (maybe impossible) to match her. I sure couldn't do it, and I am a lot closer to the genre than Beks.
You would think that her successor would at least try! When you blog with/replace The Best, I would think you learned from The Best or at least read the freaking blog you replaced. I guess I could keep jabbing like Boston Gal does to MP Dunleavy, but it's just not interesting enough. I don't even want to read it anymore, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
I've never unsubscribed because of decline in quality, but I will now to spare Beks any more "whoe." It's sad to me, but there's nothing else to say about it. I'm done. < /soapbox>
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18 comments:
Amen to this! I feel the exact same way, and unsubscribed to her blog a long time ago.
* applause *
Nobody will have the balls to back you up, but we all agree.
A lot of my favorite PF bloggers have come and gone in the 15 months I've been blogging. It happens. And getting a random new person to take over your blog is pretty much the same as leaving.
Bleh. Team Beks. Almost every post you make refers to another blog. Uhhmmm...here's a tip, focus on the dog blog, not the other blogs. Are you so unsatisfied with your own life that you must bring others down? [/ owned]
Who the heck is Beks? And she lives in Santee, which trust me is NOT expensive area of San Diego. That's like cheap out there 1 hour outside of SD proper. Her home should not be over $300k.
@ Anon -- Though entertaining, I deleted the Beks's house data because I'm sensitive about anonymity. I guess y'all know a lot more than me!
Truth doesn't excuse nastiness or gossip.
What does chiding you help, though?
Good luck with your blog, Dog. Perhaps I'll check back in a year from now, and all your dreams and goals will have come true. I truly hope so.
Clearly the Anon who is on "Team Boring Beks" does not read your blog.
"Almost every other post you make refers to another blog."
I must be the only reader who has access to your blogs about health insurance, having kids, your new car and strip clubs, just to name a few of your recent topics.
Sounds like Anon just came around to "defend" Beks without any real reason to do so.
Sometimes the truth hurts, and what's the point of having your own blog if you can't publish your true thoughts?
First time commenter here.
If you didn't get anything out of the blog, you should've just unsubscribed a long time ago rather than calling her out and belittling her journey or her style on your blog. You know what they say about internet wars, "winning an argument on the internet is like winning the special olympics, even if you win you are still a retard!" Beks' comment on your previous post shows a lot more class than anything you've ever written.
I've been reading your blog for a while now and I'm not quite sure how I even found it. But once I started reading, I couldn't stop. Your blog is pure entertainment and akin to a horrific car crash - you can't help but bottle neck. I believe that a lot of what you've written here is pure fiction from a somewhat imaginative mind but trust me, your writing doesn't surpass a fourth grade reading level either.
I stopped reading that blog months ago! I think I gave it a month after Tricia left and then I couldn't take it any longer.
you know it's weird. i found blogging away debt to be not so interesting anymore but i didn't really think much about it. I know I was more excited when Trish posted updates about life after debt than the daily stuff Beks posted. I just found them boring. Like you, this was the first blog I read and I LOVED it.
I just read your post where you commented on Beks and I don't know that there was a need to say all that. Someone might call your blog boring because all we've heard about the last 3-4 months is about health insurance....but that's what you're going through and therefore what you talk about..... like someone said, personal finance is personal....you can't expect Beks to be the same as Trish..... Just unsubscribe. That's what I did with miss accountability coz all she talked about was gardening. remember blogging away debt was bought by someone... i'm sure if they notice a decline in subscribers they might change the blogger....
I'd unsubscribe too but I like reading updates from trish...
Sorry about the length of this comment
Dang - like a good drama on t.v.
Personally, I like Beks and her funny stories. Its entertainment and that's all. If you don't like it then you should have unsubscribed after Trish left. I agree that Trish and Beks are very different but I like the way Beks writes too.
BTW - I doubt it was even her that wrote that anonymous comment at the end. It didn't even sound like her.
I agree with you on this point. I don't find BAD interesting anymore without Tricia's inspiration. I hardly read that blog anymore.
I don't always agree with you, and it's perfectly fine to have an opinion about other bloggers. I certainly do. I welcome your honesty even when I don't agree with it.
If Beks can't take the heat, she'll get out of the kitchen. It's a line every blogger needs to draw for themselves. (I always hesitate about revealing too much or too little, even after 3 years of blogging.)
I'm with those who say that Bloggers can share what they care to share, and readers can choose to read the blog or not. Tricia's blog ended when Tricia left (which saddened me, because I LOVED her blog). I don't get this "buying" of blogs anyway--they are so easy to start that I don't get why one would pay someone else for their blog title. I understand that it is for the built-in readership, but that was Tricia's readership, not anyone else's.
Also, I agree that it is petty to dump on Beks or any other blogger. But petty makes for entertaining reading.
Go girls!
Beks > Dog
Obviously blogs are bought for their readership. It seems to be happening a lot lately. Bloggers who I thought were in it to help people have now sold for the money. Whatever.
I used to read Beks original blog "Financial Hack" before she became BAD. That is why I keep reading her blog. I think the "Beks>Dog" comment is funny - one is not better than the other - they are both unique and I like them for different reasons - one reason I love this blog is because of the comments. They always make me laugh!
@ Living Almost Large
Santee 1 hour outside of San Diego? Obviously you don't live in San Diego. It's 22 minutes from downtown. Mapquest it if you need help with your exaggeration problem.
If Beks bought her house more than a year ago, she paid well over 500K. Admit it or not.
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