Nick.com Announces its "Slime Across America" Tour at Nick.com/slime

I've been following your ongoing battle about blurbs and bytes. No, but seriously. why should this be a blurb and not a byte?

Martin, I haven't been part of any "ongoing battle" about blurbs and bytes, if you mean submitting one as the other. In fact, I rarely point out that a person's blurb should be a byte or vice versa... as far as the various problems facing Xomba, I think that issue a fairly minor one.

Maybe you've got me confused with somebody else?

This post if more than 100 words, so it's a xombyte. Yes, it mentions a URL, but it also describes the Tour, the performers, some of the cities it's coming to, etc. If I posted 100 words of content that repeated the URL 10 times, that might be a violation.

But if despite all this you really feel my post is in violation, then by all means flag it for the Administrator.

Please contact us instead of commenting on people's stuff about whether they broke the rules.

As far as this article goes I think it is a toss-up. Idle is talking about a website, but he is more reviewing it.

He's not saying go here, but rather what nick.com is doing.

I seem to remember Xomba encouraging people to put URLs in our posts.

And from what I've heard, search engines like when posts have links to other sites.

You can put links to things on your Xombyte posts.

Xomblurbs are more for pointing out a video or website or an article.

It's a quick way to say "Hey, check out this cool site/video/image/article."

Sorry, but I didn't have you confused with someone else. the "In your Face" was a bad attempt on sarcasm. not to be taken seriously. However, I was referring to this discussion right here http://www.xomba.com/2012_pole_shift

With thousands of posts and xombies coming and going, things can get confusing. I've sometimes mixed up users with similar screen names.

As for that other discussion, I felt it was violating Xomba rules by misleading readers (talking about a Web site as if it was factual, when it was actually one person or group's opinion). I didn't think it was right to talk about catastrophes occurring as if they were a fact, which could confuse and alarm readers. The writer disagreed.

(I just went back and read that discussion, and you made a comment that seemed to agree with the points I was making. So I guess I'm not sure what you're saying here.)

If that Web site is right and the world really does end in 2012, well, then I guess that would make me wrong!

It's appropriate as a Xombyte, since it meets the minimum word count.

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Why should it be a xomblurb? He wrote over 100 words so there you have it. I see you couldn't wait to basically copy his idea in a blurb. Not a surprise.....

As long as All 100 words are spellt right. It is a zombyte. If a zomblerb is over 100 words, should it be a zombyte?

Actulley that is a real question I do have. Can a zomblerb turn into a zombyte?Hm mm.

No problem. Xomba's rules don't spell out everything in detail; a lot of things are left up to the Staff's judgement (how much sexual content is too much, for example.) If they spelled out every possibility, the rules would be as long as a dictionary.

The rules say:
"Xombytes are longer magazine quality articles which CAN contain links, but not for the sole purpose of bookmarking a website."

My purpose was to talk about the tour, not just the Web site, but since all the info I got was *from* the Web site, it made sense to give out the site address. But maybe Nick felt I focusing too much on the site, which is why he said it was a toss-up as to whether the post was OK as a 'byte.

Yeah I know that but I avoid writing about something if I see here that someone just wrote about it. It just seems like a lack of class when someone does that. But if it doesn't bother you, thanks, I'll just pull up what you just wrote about for new topics.

Sometimes it is a coincidence that people write on the same topics - if you follow the trends that is what's going to happen. I don't pull up what you wrote on and start writing about it. It just happens. So be it. Also if I am not mistaken, the first person who wrote on the topic gets the most hits. So have not taken anything away from anyone.

I don't know if that's true or not but it's cool. Sorry to have bothered you with this.

Don't have anything against you or what you write on or when you write them.

for the clarification. My confusion arose from the fact that the link was in the title. I was informed a while back that if there is a link in the title then it should be a Xomblurb. I guess I must have misunderstood :)

Champagndreams, It's always good to clarify things that are confusing. Glad if I could be of any help. And, you can have the website address in your title, if that is what you are writing about! (there is no rule to say you can't)

BTW, I loved the way you two made up with each other! :-))