Site Rules

Rules of the Blog

If you are commenting or contributing there are only a few guidelines.

• Be nice.
• Be respectful.
• The odd swear is fine in context. An unnecessary string of angry swears will be moderated.
• There will be no trolling.
• If you want to be anonymous I’m sure you can think of a psuedonym rather than using ‘Anonymous’.
• This is a personal blog not a content farm.
• I am not trying to ‘grow my website’. I don’t care about page views. I’m not trying to ‘get my name out there’. I am not a ‘wannabe journalist’. I just want to watch racing and write about it sometimes.

Twitter Account

Somehow I’ve accumulated a lot of followers on Twitter.

• I use @toomuchracing to follow people who talk about racing. If I follow you based on that but you don’t talk about racing I may unfollow you without saying so. It isn’t personal.
• I don’t care whether you have 50 or 5000 followers.
• I won’t retweet your plea to reach however many followers you are chasing that week. It isn’t a competition to reach the highest.
• ‘Please RT for x,y,z!’ No. Stop begging.
• If you quote your follower count (or readership or listener numbers) as justification for an opinion, you’re an idiot.
  “Well I believe *this* and I have x followers/readers/listeners, so I must be right!”. No, you’re an insufferable fool.
  Yes, well-known people have done this with me.
• I’m not a journalist or a reporter but it is important to get things right. Mistakes happen incredibly quickly and easily in social media and I try not to rush on to bandwagons but it is very, very easy to do so and mistakes are made. I’m not immune and neither are you!
• I follow a lot of people who are journalists, reporters, writers and trusted link sharers and I retweet their work frequently.
• If I share a report or video or podcast you can assume I have read/watched/listened to the content unless I say otherwise.
• Similarly, if you’re expecting me to share something of yours, give me time to read/listen/watch.
• I type quickly. I try not to flood your feed but it is easy to get carried away.
• Some people like live race tweet commentary, especially those who can’t see a TV screen. That said, I am trying to move away from telling you what has been shown on TV, a terrible habit.

Personal Twitter

I have one which is linked via the racing account. I don’t use it very much.

My thoughts there are my thoughts as if I were talking aloud with my friends or just my internal monologue. That might sometimes includes swears and drunk tweets. And UK politics, but less than I used to.

I’m more choosy who I follow there because it is ‘my’ account and not the one for the blog. Nothing personal.