I started working on this blog last Sunday. The idea was in my head for a few months, but the B&W incident finally motivated me to act. At the same time, I wondered how bloggers would be around to react to it in the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
This is a notoriously slow time for my real blog. Not a whole lot of content has come from RE.net in general over the last week. The Inman Blog has been dormant since the 21st. It’s understandable with the holidays.
FGS was discovered on the 24th, and has averaged about 300 hits a day. Traffic is better than I anticipated, but I assume it will level off as the curiosity wanes a bit. With little to talk about on the RE.net front, we’ve been playing games with many of our posts. As the holidays pass, the blog will shift more to commenting on RE.net. We’re still going to have some fun though.
Building this site has created a few unexpected consequences. A few have tried to use FGS as a platform to attack the real Greg Swann. That aint gonna happen folks. We won’t condone personal attacks toward anyone. It has encouraged others to employ some trickery of their own. We’re fine with that. But don’t expect us to play by traditional rules. Also note that our deceitful ways end at the border’s edge. You won’t see Fake Gregg Swann commenting as Fake Greg Swann on other people’s blogs. If you do, it’s not the real FGS.
More rules may be needed. Less rules would even be better. It’ll depend on how the discussion evolves.
No commenting on other’s blog….Someone scared to have their IP address exposed?
You could easily fix that issue if you wanted. On a second thought, most blogs except for about two RE.net blogs are set so that only the owners see the poster’s IP address. I don’t think too many owners care enough about who the FGS is to really go in and look up the IP addresses.
It’s more fun trying to figure it out on our own and coming up with traps than it is looking up IP addresses.
I love this web site I really do.
Derek, yes you are correct that others could bust me as I busted you, by checking IP’s. But there’s ways around that. The reason comments will stay here is out of respect for the rules other bloggers wish to play by on their own blogs. It also assures that anyone else who tries to comment in this blog’s name will be known to be a fraud of a fraud.
A fraud concerned about a fraud of a fraud. How ironic.
If I was you I wouldn’t mind a fraud posting as me on other’s blogs. I mean it’s the traffic you’re after right? A fraud can only direct more traffic back to your site. Plus with a fraud of a fraud, exposing him or herself as you only conceals your true idenity even more!
You must be worried about something a bit more that what you’re letting us on to. I guess some frauds do have a bit of a heart after all eh?
>>I mean it’s the traffic you’re after right?<<
Nope. FGS is here to have some fun and talk about RE.net.