Last week I passed a very special milestone; over 3000 comments published on this site. I am happy to say, that most of them have been positive and engaged in good conversation. However, over the various months and years, I have accumulated some negative comments. Some of them real doozies! It’s like I have my own personal trolls who just like to disagree and criticize everything I write. But what inspired to do this post, and possibly a few more in the future is Radio 1. Scott Mills has the 1pm slot and does a little segment called ‘Loving The Trolls’. He basically gets a funny computerized voice to read out some of the nasty comments left by listeners and turn the tables and totally take the p**s out of them in return! That inspired me to do this one with some of the nasty and generally crappy comments on here! It makes for extremely funny listening. Remember Microsoft Sam? It’s like that. Enjoy!

1. Post: Twitter Top 20. Commentor: NEIL:  “jealousy my ass I just piss myself laughing at such crap, the fact that greendeal4wales produces such crap sort of tells you how busy they are not.

I was on holiday not long ago on another continent and read a 2 page spread about myself in the business page of the local rag . Most of it was utter bull I dont get carried away in my own publicity .

Twitter is a laugh and my guys use twitter here very succesfully to market one of our niche products nothing to with houses although thats where i made my cash, cars are much more fun. Nothing I say on ur site is personal most of it is a piss take by the way.”

Listen to comment: Neil

2. Post: Discounts Disrespect Customers. Commentor: NEIL – “The title of your post is clap trap really . discounts do not disrespect customers .

Do I feel disrespected in Richer Sounds getting a discount, I recently bought 3 LED tvs i cant remember the exact figure but i offered cash to round it down to the full £100 a quick caculation told me that if I paid by card they would get a similar mount of cash. The products were already discounted and one was probably a loss leader

Did I feel disrespected haggling over the price of my wifes new car? No

All the major supermarkets attract customers this way and the only way they get new customers is to get market share from someone else.

There are unscrupulous firms out there offering stupid discounts, others offer BOGOF, free fitting etc etc basically its designed to get business and there’s a lot of merit getting signed up on the night .

It could be that you need to sharpen up your sales skills to counter-act some of the more silly offers in our marketplace!!!”

Listen to comment: Neil 2

3. Post: Epwin Group And Latium Merge With Immediate Effect. Commentor: ANONYMOUS – this is my fave! “It makes me laugh that you’re annoyed that you didn’t hear this news early.

You are suffering from the delusion that you somehow have your finger on the pulse of our industry. Nothing could be further from the truth; it’s clear from your blog that, most of the time, you’re blissfully unaware of what’s going on out there. Granted, you occasionally get wind of a rumour that turns out to be true and which – because you’re desperate to be seen as a credible commentator – you publish early. Even then you invariably cock it up, publishing falsehoods that you have to hastily retract.

You’re far too eager to publish something big – solely so that you get bragging rights – without researching or understanding what you’re talking about. That desperation makes you gullible and naïve, with the result that – on at least one occasion that I know of – you’ve been deliberately fed a false story about a competitor which you’ve gone on to publish (and subsequently had to remove after the threat of legal action – I’ll let you work out which of your posts I’m referring to).

However, much worse than all this is the fact that while you’re blundering around in the dark publishing any old nonsense, you forget that the companies you’re commenting on have real people working for them, with real families who rely on them. In your rush to publish the latest false gossip about Company X, you forget that Company X’s staff may well be reading your posts, wondering what on earth is going on and whether they’ll have their job in the morning. And all so you can feed your delusion of grandeur.

You have managed to get yourself a bit of a reputation within certain sectors of our industry, but not – I fear – the sort of reputation you’d like. “Mouthy kid who doesn’t know what he’s talking about” sums it up. It seems, in the view many, your ego far outstrips your talent when it comes to industry journalism.”

Listen to comment: Anon 1

4. Post: Some Of The Worst Tripe I’ve Ever Read. Commentor: ANONYMOUS – different one this time: “I stumbled across this blog, and I have to say – what a lot of complete and utter nonsense this post is. Didn’t you stop to think for one moment before writing it?

It’s blindingly obvious that this article is aimed at an audience who can’t just go out and spend thousands on replacement windows (homeowners who don’t have that sort of money to spare, tenants in flats and social housing etc). You may have spotted the recession that’s been running for a few years now, but not everyone has as much disposable income as you clearly do. Funnily enough, ‘A’ rated plastic windows are not at the top of everyone’s priority list.

In any of these cases, covering up freezing single pane windows during the winter with anything transparent is a cheap and – in many cases – the only way of improving insulation. And who opens their windows during winter? As the article says, put the insulation up when winter starts, and take it down again at the end. From looking at your blog, I get the impression that you’re not very old – if you were a little older you’d remember that this is exactly the sort of thing that many people used to do to stop windows freezing up inside.

I have no idea whether you’re a good double glazing salesman – to be honest you sound exactly like the stereotypical doorstep salesman that gives your industry such a bad reputation. However, with the sort of arrogance you show, and the scoffing at people who can’t afford your windows, we can be certain that you’ll be a lousy businessman.”

Listen to comment: Anon 2

5. Post: Our Industry Is Evolving. Commentor: DAVE: “Lol so if someone doesn’t agree with you they are a troll? Grow up!”

Listen to comment: Dave 1

If you have a blog of your own and you find you are accumulating a few haters, I recommend you do this! I had a lot of fun doing it and amusing myself. Bullies just sound funnier like this!