So here’s an e-mail I received today:
Hoping you’ll host a link to my blog on your site — and not too proud to beg! 😉
[links redacted]
Lots more original art and commentary that pulls no punches. All a solo effort.
peace,
[name redacted]
After checking the blog in question out, I decided that there was nothing wrong with it, but that I didn’t want to add it to my blogroll. So I sent the following response:
Thanks but no thanks.
Maybe I could have been nicer about it, but hey, it was an unsolicited e-mail. A bit later in the day I get this back:
Wow, nice snotty reply.
I’m sure your “blog” will do well with more nice widdow kitty pix…
LOL
At which point I got annoyed. Talk about being unable to handle rejection!
So here was my response:
You know something? You need to check your attitude.
YOU sent ME an unsolicited e-mail asking for a blogroll link. I could
have just ignored your request but instead I took the time to visit
your blog, read your most recent posts, and decide not to blogroll
you. I then sent you a short and somewhat flip, but not impolite,
e-mail telling you so.Your response is to call me snotty and make fun of the fact that I
post photos of the work I do for the SF SPCA on my blog. That kind of
response does not incline me to change my mind. It makes me think I
made the right decision in the first place.One of us has a problem, but somehow I don’t think it is me.
It takes a lot of nerve to turn around and insult someone that you’d just asked for a favor.