Review: www.TheARGSite.com

[Johnson]

www.TheARGSite.com is a rant/satire website I've been working on a while now. I like writing and this is a great place to do it. About 40 unique visitors a day return to my website, which, to me, is an accomplishment.

Keep in mind: This is not meant to be a Maddox rip-off, so don't call it one.

If you have a humor oriented website then, providing you get adequate traffic, we can trade links. If you don't want to trade links, if your website is not humor based, or you do not receive enough traffic to make the trade profitable, I do sell text link advertisements for $1/week.

[Blitz-Host]

easy to use well done

[Johnson]

Thanks. How is the load time?

[netnexus]

Load time is easy, but quality of writing is terrible.

Next time you think about making a rant site, try to actually add some satire into it - you currently do not, and also, try not to make those minor grammatical errors that make you come off like a complete idiot:



5. #

Little gay ----s - Learn to ---- a women.

First of all, it would be Woman.

Secondly, I doubt you've ever done the deed yourself, so stop playing like you have.

Get some proper writing on there, perhaps more people will visit your site.

EDIT: Also, if you look at a site like Maddox's, he is so popular because he writes well and most of the time has pretty good content. He doesn't lay downt he expletives like salt and pepper, they are quite tactfully used in his article - it's not just big dump of testosterone swearing. He has style to his writing which can only be developed after years of writing. He almost never makes grammatical or spelling errors. If you do, it's your ticket to lost credibility.

And don't reply with "I don't care I rock" because you obviously do care posting the site here for review.

That's my review.

[Weirds]

very simple text site, not bad

If you can write a bit more respectively and formally, it would be better.

[Johnson]

Load time is easy, but quality of writing is terrible.

Next time you think about making a rant site, try to actually add some satire into it - you currently do not, and also, try not to make those minor grammatical errors that make you come off like a complete idiot:

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5. #

Little gay ----s - Learn to ---- a women.


First of all, it would be Woman.

Secondly, I doubt you've ever done the deed yourself, so stop playing like you have.

Get some proper writing on there, perhaps more people will visit your site.

EDIT: Also, if you look at a site like Maddox's, he is so popular because he writes well and most of the time has pretty good content. He doesn't lay downt he expletives like salt and pepper, they are quite tactfully used in his article - it's not just big dump of testosterone swearing. He has style to his writing which can only be developed after years of writing. He almost never makes grammatical or spelling errors. If you do, it's your ticket to lost credibility.

And don't reply with "I don't care I rock" because you obviously do care posting the site here for review.

That's my review.

Maddox has been writing for about 8 or 9 years. I've just started writing for fun a month ago. See the difference? I do have a different style of writing as well, this isn't meant to be Maddox site now is it?

I do agree that my writing can be juvenal at times, but minor mistakes such as Women and Woman aren't big deals. I wasn't aware that one letter would make me look "like a complete idiot." I do read over my writings 3 times and I may miss small errors like that.

Most of the satire community seems to enjoy my writing, because I am not always angry and pissed off. My last article (Death of Emoticons (http://theargsite.com/emoticons.html) ) is in more of a documentary point of view, not hateful.

I find it funny you are puting down my site, because it is not an exact clone of Maddox. Most people get mad at me because it is a simular to Maddox.

EDIT: Oh yeah, You (http://randomwriter.blogbloom.com/) do seem to think my site is good enough to rip off my article about Music (http://theargsite.com/pop.html). Insolently, I like your article better, as it was my first one. :P Although, you seem to swear quite a bit as I do, hypocrite.

[netnexus]

Maddox has been writing for about 8 or 9 years. I've just started writing for fun a month ago. See the difference? I do have a different style of writing as well, this isn't meant to be Maddox site now is it?

I do agree that my writing can be juvenal at times, but minor mistakes such as Women and Woman aren't big deals. I wasn't aware that one letter would make me look "like a complete idiot." I do read over my writings 3 times and I may miss small errors like that.

Most of the satire community seems to enjoy my writing, because I am not always angry and pissed off. My last article (Death of Emoticons (http://theargsite.com/emoticons.html) ) is in more of a documentary point of view, not hateful.

I find it funny you are puting down my site, because it is not an exact clone of Maddox. Most people get mad at me because it is a simular to Maddox.

EDIT: Oh yeah, You (http://randomwriter.blogbloom.com/) do seem to think my site is good enough to rip off my article about Music (http://theargsite.com/pop.html). Insolently, I like your article better, as it was my first one. :P Although, you seem to swear quite a bit as I do, hypocrite.
Don't you think it's a bit pretentious of you to think I visit your site so often that I got the idea for that from you? I made up that song while on holiday in Vietnam in august with my girlfriend. I decided to post it up after some careful restructuring of that. I had no idea that you even wrote a music article, because I have only read a couple of your articles. Don't be so presumptuous in the future, for your own sake.

Actually, I do feel the need to emphasise I did not rip your content - I am perfectly able of coming up with my own. I think it was incredible arrogant of you to assume I ripped yours, when everybody has their qualms about music taste. That is something you need to get out of your head.

And also, I am not getting angry that your site isn't a maddox-clone, nor did I say it was, so I am sorry if I gave you that impression.

My point was simply that a site such as maddox's, for example, which is undeniably similar to yours, is so successful because of the quality of writing. I just think that if you improve the quality of your writing, you will see a substantial gain in reader-base. I did not mean any offense by my post, I was simply critiqueing your website.

I do not believe your site should be an exact clone of maddox's, I just believe there are a few pages that you could take out of his book. For randomwriter, I sure did use his site and writing as a reference to help me with my writing. I am an aspiring author, so for an internet writer as good as maddox, there are certainly skills to be learnt. While he does tend to focus more on humour, I focus more on a serious tone.

I do swear but I try to throw them in at crafted points. I believe swearing can greatly emphasize a piece of writing's message, let alone its power. While I do not believe my writing is particularly powerful, the swearing helps me get there a bit quicker. I am still learning the basics of internet writing - it is something that needs to be honed in on. Internet writing is an art of it's own, and is classified differently from genre writing, authoring or magazine articles because on the internet, there are far fewer limits. So yes, I admit to being a hypocrite, for that I apologise.

However, all that said and done, grammatical errors do make people look rather stupid when they are trying to come off as clever on their site. To get something like your site, and mine, effective 100% you do have to eliminate as many errors as possible, because something as small as a spelling error can and will completely throw off the reader's attention and give him reason to doubt your writing. There is an element of pursuasive writing on both our sites, let alone Maddox's, and that pursuasive element with its corrosponding features cannot be broken by silly mistakes. It is a fundamental when it comes to humourous, satirical and persuasive writing.

Trust me, I am studying english language as well as creative writing and its other forms.

Randomwriter is a chance for me to try out styles - I am also a sci-fi writer.

But back to you, I do belive the arg site has potential to generate a large reader-base. But the writing has to be focused more, and perhaps a little more adult.

Just my .2

EDIT: After reading through my greenday article, I do agree with you that I have used swear words a little too frivalously. I will remember that in future.

[Johnson]

Isn't it a little odd that I wrote an article about Pop music, then you wrote one. I wrote a mock song, so did you.

My writing, at the beginning, was not the best, I agree, but it has evolved.

You must understand: I get nearly 100 unique visitors a day now and many other satire sites agree my site has good writing. I have honestly gotten fan mail and no hatemail. I do wish I got more hatemail, because they're fun :P.

And, as to your PM, I will still trade links with you, since you said you're sorry :) I will updated my links section when I get home.

[netnexus]

Isn't it a little odd that I wrote an article about Pop music, then you wrote one. I wrote a mock song, so did you.

My writing, at the beginning, was not the best, I agree, but it has evolved.

You must understand: I get nearly 100 unique visitors a day now and many other satire sites agree my site has good writing. I have honestly gotten fan mail and no hatemail. I do wish I got more hatemail, because they're fun :P.

And, as to your PM, I will still trade links with you, since you said you're sorry :) I will updated my links section when I get home.
I can't believe you are so arrogant as to assume I copied your article. I came up with that song on holiday with my girlfriend - it had nothing to do with your site. Why would I copy such an over-used concept at any rate? Oh wait, let me rephrase, there is no need to copy such an overused concept as at one point in time, everybody has mocked a song.

How old are you, out of curiosity?

I find it humourous how you believe you are the first one to come up with mock lyrics :rolleyes:

But believe what you like. I wrote that article because I have always hated greenday, and when that stupid song was stuck in my head, I felt the need to change it to make it bearable.

But, as to your unlimited pools of the highest wisdom, thank you for coming up with the concept of parodying a song. You sir, are a genious.

And as for links, I've decided I dont feel like it anymore. I apologised for offending you, as I obviously did in my initial review of your site, but your arrogance and self-absorbed nature really has thrown me off.

EDIT: Oh, and no it is not odd we have one similar article, of which mine is substantially better. There are millions of site sharing similar concept. Stop flattering yourself.

[Johnson]

Haha, how did I flatter myself, by complimenting you? I hardly think telling you that your Pop music article was better was flattering me.

I apologize about the music article, it may have just been a conscience.

Anyways, I was reading your new update. I am not trying to get a rise from you, I just want to point out something:


Example #1: I had never doubted the human race as much as I did when I pick up a brand new knife to use in the kitchen, and there is a warning label on it that reads “Warning: Knife is sharp”. Did I miss something here? Isn’t that the whole purpose of a knife? Do we really need warning labels on things like knives? Are people really that moronic? Sadly enough, the answer is yes. Depressing isn’t it, that we live in a world where the majority of the population is stupid enough to need a warning label on a knife.

The warning label is just a legal measure so they can't be sued if some moron cuts himself.


Example #3: The internet

Oh, in your words, you are a "complete idiot", because internet should be Internet.


Godbless the man who gave idiots a chance to voice thier word and not be punched straight away

Haha. What do you think you're doing? Oh, don't forget, it should be their, not thier. So, according to you, you are a "complete idiot" not once, but twice. Man, you're on a roll.


I am definetely intelligent by any standards

Oh, I thought I was the egotistical bastard. Damn, I guess you won't even let me be that!


Now, before you start getting pissed and flaming me, I am not trying to be mean. I am pointing a couple of errors, as you love to do with me. :)

EDIT: Ah, you know what? After looking it over more closely and using spell check, I noticed so many errors. Tsk Tsk. What? Don't believe me? They're all highlighted here http://theargsite.com/learntospell.html Hope this helps you before you call someone a "complete idiot" for writing Women instead of Woman. :)
You've also made several mistakes in your posts. You seem to love to point out my little mistakes, so I thought I would point out all your little mistakes, as they seem to pertain to how you get your jollies.

But you are right about it not being a good idea to trade links. I don't want an incompetent writer's link on my site. Plus, you try way too hard to sound smart.
You have now defined yourself as a contradicting, hypocritical, idiot. Congratulations. :wink2:

[netnexus]

Haha, how did I flatter myself, by complimenting you? I hardly think telling you that your Pop music article was better was flattering me.

I apologize about the music article, it may have just been a conscience.

Anyways, I was reading your new update. I am not trying to get a rise from you, I just want to point out something:



The warning label is just a legal measure so they can't be sued if some moron cuts himself.



Oh, in your words, you are a "complete idiot", because internet should be Internet.



Haha. What do you think you're doing? Oh, don't forget, it should be their, not thier. So, according to you, you are a "complete idiot" not once, but twice. Man, you're on a roll.



Oh, I thought I was the egotistical bastard. Damn, I guess you won't even let me be that!


Now, before you start getting pissed and flaming me, I am not trying to be mean. I am pointing a couple of errors, as you love to do with me. :)

EDIT: Ah, you know what? After looking it over more closely and using spell check, I noticed so many errors. Tsk Tsk. What? Don't believe me? They're all highlighted here http://theargsite.com/learntospell.html Hope this helps you before you call someone a "complete idiot" for writing Women instead of Woman. :)
You've also made several mistakes in your posts. You seem to love to point out my little mistakes, so I thought I would point out all your little mistakes, as they seem to pertain to how you get your jollies.

But you are right about it not being a good idea to trade links. I don't want an incompetent writer's link on my site. Plus, you try way too hard to sound smart.
You have now defined yourself as a contradicting, hypocritical, idiot. Congratulations. :wink2:
Haha, I find you very amusing. You ask for a review of your site, but you can't stand anything, so you bash my site. Thank you for being my editor, now I can correct my own. You have done me a good deed.

You asked for a review, I give you critique, and you get hostile? As I recall it, you did this the last time you posted your site for review here. You must be no older than 14, or have the maturity level of a 14 year old.

Oh, and these small spelling mistakes - I reside on the other side of the world to your ignorant body. I was writing at that 2 am, but I have no need to qualify myself, spelling mistakes to happen, and I did not even bother to double check that. As it were, I was writing it like a draft, and am fairly pleased with the writing itself besides the small errors.

But uhh, feel free to bash my site as much as you like, my friend. You are only succeeding in showing everybody here how you can't stand to be critisized, let alone wrong. Sounds like the shotcomings of a spoiled brat, if you ask me.

I am done here. You have obviously thrown this topic way off tangent but turning it on my site, but thankyou for the publicity ;) Bad news is good news in the real world, remember.

I suggest you wait a few years before trying to out-critisise people. Here are some errors you made of your critique.



back to front (front to back - can't read a newspaper backwards)

That was the point. If someone can't read a newspaper backwards and not understand it, by my standards, he or she is an idiot. Reading words in reverse order is a test of comprehension ability. Oh, but you wouldn't have it, would you?


appaulling (appalling)

actually, I used the British spelling. Stop being so arrogant and american. Don't believe me? Search it on dictionary.


beign (begin)

Even though you have the ability to change the order of letters, you still get this one wrong. Did you not bother to check the context of the sentence? No, that is supposed te being.


braindead (brain-dead)

This really boils down to matter of personal preferance, and doesn't affect anybody in any way.


Godbless (God bless)

Same with that.

Meaning you only actually found three spelling mistakes in my article, of which they were simply my typing to quick for my own good.

I love how you've tried to come off as clever on here, you know that? People see through your masquerade, mainly because of your immaturatiy and inability to accept critisism. You ask for reveiw, but deny any maddox-related views despite the screaming similarities between both your sites :rolleyes: screams insecurity to me.

Learn to accept criticism before you start posting here.

And grow up, for gods sake. You prove exactly what my article was saying.

Like I said, I am done. Feel free to demolish any credibility and respect you still have by further replying.

[Johnson]

Now since you've decided small spelling mistakes won't make you a "complete idiot" I won't be anal about my spelling as you supposedly were.


Haha, I find you very amusing. You ask for a review of your site, but you can't stand anything, so you bash my site. Thank you for being my editor, now I can correct my own. You have done me a good deed.

You asked for a review, I give you critique, and you get hostile? As I recall it, you did this the last time you posted your site for review here. You must be no older than 14, or have the maturity level of a 14 year old.

Ugh, too many quotes :P. I never really "bashed" your reply, I was just replying to you.


Oh, and these small spelling mistakes - I reside on the other side of the world to your ignorant body. I was writing at that 2 am, but I have no need to qualify myself, spelling mistakes to happen, and I did not even bother to double check that. As it were, I was writing it like a draft, and am fairly pleased with the writing itself besides the small errors.

So they never taught you to read your writing over in those fancy schools? Also, try taking 10 seconds and going through spell check. You're very hypocriticle, you called me a "complete idiot" for one tiny mistake! Small errors? You said those small errors reduce credibility and make you look like a complete idiot.


But uhh, feel free to bash my site as much as you like, my friend. You are only succeeding in showing everybody here how you can't stand to be critisized, let alone wrong. Sounds like the shotcomings of a spoiled brat, if you ask me.

Do you enjoy contradicting yourself?


That was the point. If someone can't read a newspaper backwards and not understand it, by my standards, he or she is an idiot. Reading words in reverse order is a test of comprehension ability. Oh, but you wouldn't have it, would you?

You were making fun of people because they COULDN'T READ IT BACK TO FRONT! That's just stupid.


actually, I used the British spelling. Stop being so arrogant and american. Don't believe me? Search it on dictionary.


I'm just going by spell check.


Even though you have the ability to change the order of letters, you still get this one wrong. Did you not bother to check the context of the sentence? No, that is supposed te being.

Again, spell checked it and don't bash me because I miscorrected your mistakes. That's just asinine.


This really boils down to matter of personal preferance, and doesn't affect anybody in any way.

Yeah, maybe on that one.


Meaning you only actually found three spelling mistakes in my article, of which they were simply my typing to quick for my own good.

I love how you've tried to come off as clever on here, you know that? People see through your masquerade, mainly because of your immaturatiy and inability to accept critisism. You ask for reveiw, but deny any maddox-related views despite the screaming similarities between both your sites screams insecurity to me.

Learn to accept criticism before you start posting here.

And grow up, for gods sake. You prove exactly what my article was saying.

Like I said, I am done. Feel free to demolish any credibility and respect you still have by further replying.

I do believe that is 2 more than I had, in which you called me a "complete idiot" and " lost credibility". So, what exactly would that make you?

Hell, if someone replies with criticism, that's great. But you are just bashing my site, without giving me any good ways of changing it. I pointed out certain things about your site, but could you handle them? No.

Just because my style is more of a normal/common person, doesn't make it dimwitted or stupid.

And don't try to make me not defend myself. Defending yourself to bashing doesn't lower your respect. You know I have you on this and don't think I wont see through your bull----. Moron.

[templateman]

LiquidGoat, i'd advise you to let this die... it's not worth the embarrassment. You are only digging yourself deeper into a hole.. lol net's posts in this thread are more amusing better written than your entire collection of arg articles.

You're only making yourself look like an idiot.

[Johnson]

Wow, nice one Net. I almost believed it was a real person, but then I looked at your first post under 'templateman'...


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[templateman]

hahaha, you're ever relenting aren't you? He was hosting it for me. We were going to set up a webdesign template site to try and make money - he was awarded free hosting from Host ultra, I can design templates in photoshop ;)

We are friends IRL... but nice try :biggrin2:

[netnexus]

You know, I said I'd not come back here, but you have made my day, Liquid Goat. I thank you.

EDIT:



hahaha, you're ever relenting aren't you? He was hosting it for me. We were going to set up a webdesign template site to try and make money - he was awarded free hosting from Host ultra, I can design templates in photoshop ;)

We are friends IRL... but nice try :biggrin2:

Yeah.. that failed miserably.

[templateman]

Indeed it did. I still have those layouts you know, I didn't take them off hostultra.. didn't you say you had spare 10gb space/bw? We should seriously make an effort to start selling templates.. there's alright money to be made in that buisness. just look at template monster - I bet they bring in "monster"profits *snigger*

:D

[netnexus]

Indeed it did. I still have those layouts you know, I didn't take them off hostultra.. didn't you say you had spare 10gb space/bw? We should seriously make an effort to start selling templates.. there's alright money to be made in that buisness. just look at template monster - I bet they bring in "monster"profits *snigger*

:D
You're spamming.. I'll talk to you later about it today. We still gotta go shopping before you piss off to UK for uni.

[Johnson]

You know, I said I'd not come back here, but you have made my day, Liquid Goat. I thank you.

I'm glad you find it funny when you are proven wrong over and over.

There is something extremely fishy about this. Each reply is exactly 5 min. apart and the replies all have simularities in them such as the use of "I" constantly and ".." Plus both net and templateman live in Hong Kong. Why would you need photoshop help? You are clearly skilled in it as to your site http://netnexus.deviantart.com/


Yeah.. that failed miserably.

If templateman is real, doubt it, it's a complete biased opinion.

Now, would you please stop spamming and bull----ing my thread, thank you.

[netnexus]

I'm glad you find it funny when you are proven wrong over and over.

There is something extremely fishy about this. Each reply is exactly 5 min. apart and the replies all have simularities in them such as the use of "I" constantly and ".." Plus both net and templateman live in Hong Kong. Why would you need photoshop help? You are clearly skilled in it as to your site http://netnexus.deviantart.com/



If templateman is real, doubt it, it's a complete biased opinion.

Now, would you please stop spamming and bull----ing my thread, thank you.
Because I can't slice templates and then convert them to HTML. I don't even know CSS very well.

WE both live in hong kong... we are friends IRL.

Would you like me to post a picture... ? Would you like me to run over to his (incidentaly, he lives on the same island as me, just a 20 min ferry ridde away).. and geta picture of him logged in? I referred him to this thread because I found it amusing.

Each reply ebing exactly 5 min apart? lol, I didn't know that. I am also reading on guru3d forums.. I don't tiem my replies. I just went down and ate breakfast.. but that's fishy too, ay?

Would you like me to post a screenshot of us talking on msn about how funny this thread was?

I am skilled in photoshop - texturing, abstract art and such. But what makes you think I know anything about slicing a template, let alone making one. And then converting all of those to a gif format, which would take ages, and the putting it into adequetly sized tables. It took me something like 1 week to get RW to look like it does now AND its a pre-made template. lol, pathetic? I guess - I am not great at html.

SO, if you want FURTHER proof, PM me and I can provide it for you. You can even get the mods to check the IP's.. you'll see they are different.

But anywho, I'll stop bull----ting your thread now.. beating this dead horse is worthless, as you fail to see any point of view but your own.

[Johnson]

I see your point of view, but you were a hypocrite, contradicting yourself, and bashing. So, I don't hold your replies in high credibility.

[netnexus]

I see your point of view, but you were a hypocrite, contradicting yourself, and bashing. So, I don't hold your replies in high credibility.
Glad we settled that then :)

EDIT: Screenshots sent to liquid goat as proof.

[T^2]

Here's my review.

I think the template and layout of the website could be more professional and better organized. It is a bit scattered.

As for the content, certain articles are a bit too unformal and are not all that funny. However, you do have some excellent articles.

On a different note; after reading through all of the replies it is evident that Liquid, you are pretty stubborn. What net wrote at the beginning was a review, which is what you asked for if I am not mistakened. There is no point in getting hostile about it. It is the opinion of 1 person, if you are confident in your writing and your site then you really don't need to worry about it that much. But from all the arguing you show that you have something to prove; you want to prove that your writing is good. But if you can't prove it to the public through your writing then you should spend more time on writing than arguing.

It is also very silly and immature of you to jump to a conclusion that Net and Temp are the same person because of a URL.

That's my review of your site and this thread :p.

[Johnson]

That is an actual review you just typed. You gave me suggestions, instead of just bashing it.

That temp and net thing just seem suspicious, because a new user, with 2 posts and used nexnetus's username on host ultra, talked and said the same things as net had.