Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!

@qskc Thanks!

Good job Joe. write to me sometimes

@evangoldin hmm always wondered what the deal with bleacher report was... now I know! Love the comments from disgruntled contributors!

@Zimmsy bleacher report is a huge bet on stupid... and stupid is winning.

@Zimmsy Read that yesterday. Do you actually believe that, or is that your play on the general sentiment? It's hard to tell via Twitter.

@Zimmsy Google could stop them in one move of the mouse. But it won't.

Can't stand B/R. You have to click through 82 pages to read a average story, nothing but a click-generator. 

I would like to see a poll of who in B/R believes what. Personally, as a former F/C myself I have been essentially forced to write on topics that I was less than enthusiastic about. I went back to writing for my own blog because I'd take 500 well earned views over 5000 cheap views.

As a past Featured Columnist for B/R covering a top college football team for 2 seasons, I can confirm everything you said in the article. Many promises to me were broken including press passes to team practices and games, and I was selected twice to cover the Rose Bowl but B/R did not have the credibility to get any of these press passes. Sensationalistic articles were assigned, point systems created to motivate article reads, and the quality of most writers work was abysmal. It became embarrassing to write for B/R and combined with the broken promises, I finally stopped writing. I continue to monitor B/R and it hasn't changed much. It has become too much work to find interesting and well researched articles.

As a current writer at B/R I can assure that the vast majority of this article is true.  Your headlines are SEO mandated and CANNOT be changed as I have been told over and over again in recent editor assignment emails. 

Additionally I am one of the unpaid people who write free content though I am higher up in the food chain than just a basic contributor.  Based on the recent B/R response I feel as though I should be getting paid based on the terms the set forth about who is paid. 

The B/R style guide goes against every ounce of AP style that I have had ground into my head by my journalism teacher over the last two years.  There is nothing remotely close to actual journalism that occurs on journalism. 

Further more if you go out and collect your own factual information you have to source it with another website in order to be considered credible. Your own information no matter how credible it may be had to be sourced by a real paid journalist. 

There are times where your own opinion or observation has to be sourced. 

To say that B/R is voluntary is absurd...voluntary implies you can write what you want when you want.  I can assure you you do not get to write what you want when you want.  There are two to three articles a week that are mandated that follow the B/R style and SEO requirements to which you don't get paid for. 

Some articles are completely baseless in the reasons they're written written specifically to create controversy and generate traffic. 

So yes even after $175-million purchase B/R still doesn't pay 90% of it's staff.

@joshjurnovoy lots of BS. Definitely not a perfect site but not the craphole the article makes it out to be

@culturekills There's no "but" about this. It's the exact same shit.

@MatthewBerryTMR Which is more than can be said for anything ever written in Bleacher Report!!

Here's a little fact I forgot to throw out in my last post: This humongous article is going to boost B/R even more in the search ranks. It is also going to boost SF Weekly, because that's how SEO works. One major internet presence attaches itself to another with keyword rich articles, the other responds by doing the same. B/R and SF Weekly may be on opposite sides of the fence, but they are sure as heck hopping over from time to time to scratch each other's backs. Example: Writer's of SF Weekly wrote this article, King Kaufman countered some of the statements made in this article in a post on B/R's Writer's Blog. Each of the major entities in question are now linked to each other, and loving each and every comment we're making regarding the Subject matter at hand.

I couldn't agree with this article more. I was once a NFL Featured Columnist that got booted because B/R's NFL poster boy, Matt "Little Girl" Miller, had an issue with me. It seems as though this article struck a chord with some of the B/R staff, namely King Kaufman. I say this because I got one of those annoying, automated e-mails from King 'Hairdo' himself, basically stating that there was no cause for concern over this article. King, you're pathetic, just like the rest of your B/R wannabe cronies. I know for a FACT that writers are bullied into writing fluffy, search engine friendly garbage, because I was one of them. If you don't answer to the crack of their whip they want to push you into their laughable Bleacher Report University for some good old-fashioned SEO brainwashing. I'll be one of the happiest people alive if I never have to read another one of B/R's "Top-(insert any number from 3-100)" slideshows. I can't believe I wasted a year of my life contributing to the Walmart of sports websites.

@MatthewBerryTMR Gotta be honest. I didn't get past the second word. #noattentionspan

@SirBen_WE It was a good article written from a local. But they got very few current negative opinions for the article. Good write up though

But you read and love its fantasy baseball content, right? Right?@MatthewBerryTMR I found this article fascinating: http://t.co/JMJdUDdC …

@MatthewBerryTMR would you trade Hakeem nicks and Donald brown for Ryan Matthews and jahvid best?

@ConnorMeaks jokes website lol they make outrageous posts

@MatthewBerryTMR this is more fascinating: http://t.co/uh3ssY1v

@MatthewBerryTMR taking ur advice and selling high on Turner with A Hawkins for Fred Jackson. A little risky but what do you think?

@carloscollazo__ How did I miss the "10 Possible Tiger Woods Porn Spin-offs: Mistress Edition"? Oh that's right, I don't read BR...

@MatthewBerryTMR I need to pick between James Jones or Maclin as my 3rd wr/TE in a ppr. Thoughts?starting Graham and D Thomas

.@MatthewBerryTMR. Whoa - Good shit, TMR! Nate would hate this article. BECAUSE HE'S A #WEASEL!!

@SportsGamerShow It's nothing of the sort.

@MatthewBerryTMR I edited for them for a few months, quite a challenge. I got an email today from BR citing inaccuracies, I didn't think so