BTB Meta-blogging (help wanted edition)

Are you a narcissist? LOL

I can remember about 3 years ago Grizz commenting that if it wasn’t for me and a few others, he would be essentially talking to himself in the off season months like February and March.

Now, the comments and posts in the off season far exceed what we had back then during the football season. Simply incredible and hats off to Grizz and all the others that have made BTB by far and away the best football blog in existence.

and I’m sure what Grizz and Raf discuss behind the scenes, is the opportunity this blog has to replace the mainstream media in everything but on-the-spot reporting. Better insight, better writing, better respect for the intelligence of your readers.

Keep up the good work fellas, it’s much appreciated.

I love this place.

Just promise you’ll never stoop to JJT and the DMN’s level!

And it’s been wonderful seeing the growth and development of this place!!!

I enjoy reading all of the content, though I have a harder time reading all of the comments, as there are so many now that it takes forever. Thanks for all of the work that Grizz and Raf put in.

I’m impressed by the growth of this blog. I didn’t realize there were so many new incoming avenues. I originally read Blue and Silver Report after googling Dallas Cowboys. That also led me to BTB.

This blog, post-merger, is very dynamic. I used to get analytical info at BSR and a topical wide ranging info from BTB, and now I just hang out here. There’s a style of sports writing analysis that seems to be developing here, using more careful research and statistical observations, that I think every sports fan would wish their own team had.

I find the audience that reads this blog interesting. I had thought the difference in audience had something to do with people coming out of the woodwork in the offseason, after that black eye in philly. But no, you guys are escaping the basement of google and getting major publication syndication.

It seems slow when the top article doesn’t get 100 comments with in an hour. Thats another thing about this blog that makes it excellent – the ease with which commenting is handled makes it fun to participate

Is that I think for the most part this attracts more of your diehard Dallas Cowboy fans.

Lets face it, your average football fan doesn’t care about the breakdowns that all of BTB’s writers give.

Most all of the bloggers on here are educated and want to know about Dallas, they don’t spout off.

Even if you have a debate with someone(most of the time), no one is generally just making stuff up.

I love the banter as much as I do the articles.

I’ve been reading and posting a few thing from time to time for years now.

It has been almost a live safer verses watching/reading BSPN etc… when it comes to being a Cowboys Fan.

Thanks Dave & Raf

Although new to the site I have never seen the knowledge and passion that goes into the writing and commenting anywhere else. The work and research on most subjects is superb. Dave and Raf have put together a great group. For the most part the respect the members show each other is also excellent. I’m proud to be able to learn more about the Cowboys from this group.

Hey Grizz, in our Community Guidelines, it might also be useful to post something about the "Share on SB Nation" button and how to use it, there’s some basic cool tricks that make it very quick and easy to post a fanshot that I think most folks probably aren’t aware of. For those who don’t know…

Click on Manage FanPosts in the top right area (top left from the home page), then click on the FanShots tab, and there’s a "Share on SB Nation" button that says "Drag this button to your Bookmarks Bar to quickly post FanShots to SB Nation."

Once you have that in your bookmarks, when you are at a page you want to post as a FanShot, first highlight the section that you want to quote or use as the description in the link, then choose that Share with SB Nation bookmark, and the selected text is automatically filled in as a quote. Click the Link tab and it automatically becomes the description. And the URL and title are automatically filled in as well.

It’s a neat trick so you don’t even have to cut and paste, and can do a fanshot in just a few seconds.

If more folks are aware of this, when they see things they’d like to share that aren’t worth FanPosts, they will be encouraged to use the FanShots more often….

Damarcus Ware, Felix Jones, Tashard Choice, Michael Irvin and others just made appearance on WWE Raw.

I came over with Raf and the gang during the merger.

I read this blog, morning, afternoon, and evening.

Just can’t seem to get enough.

The insights into the Players, the Strategies, X’s and O’s, the dialogue – everything about it is Superb.

If the quality of the posts on BTB was not enough, surely the yahoo.com and si.com links will bring you guys a pass or two. You certainly deserve it.

Your insistence on honest and respectful dialogue and your high quality writing have been the foundation of the success.

Not too many know you are one of the initial founders of SB Nation as well. I remember when you brought at least 5 or 6 other teams into the fold and started tp link to other teams’ blogs in SBN in every preview and recap. I also remember you going to the first training camp and blogging daily reports. They are the highlight of my football year.

As an aside the Blazers Edge blog that began in SBN after you started here has also ballooned to thousands of posts per day and that certainly does present challenges. I wish I had time to post more here as I used to do but you clearly don’t need my help!