When bloggers go too far

By Oli on Tuesday, 19th December 2006. More information. Comments.

Update (28Dec06): I posted a thread on 9rules about this today -- some time after the link had been removed... I can't say it started smoothly, with the first post (eg mine) being annihilated after 10 minutes and the first reply becoming my post (and thoroughly confusing everyone). But then Mike (from 9r) replied and put it down to joking around but forgetting the footer edit was made until Colin brought this post to light. I've made a couple of posts further down the post throught the means of ~~StrikeThrough~~...

Not bloggers so much but blog networks; namely 9rules. They're taking upon themselves to try and shame a web designer/developer.

I'll be honest with you, my experience with 9rules is much like a child's experience with a toy shop with an strict parent. I can look in and I want to push my content over it. I'd love to stick a 9rules network badge on here and maybe one day I'll get that chance but in the mean while I'm forced to look and read what others make of things.

I scrolled to the bottom of the page today and noticed my "link" cursor flashing up where there wasn't any text. On closer inspection, you can see what the link is credited with:

How about a "what the hell?!"? That domain is used to shame Mr Devroe for bad business practices. Someone got stung and that's a pity, I'm sure.

~~Regardless of what this guy's done, he clearly loves himself... You can tell that after 2 seconds on his flickr page...~~ (edit: Turns out he's in the Me Today Flickr Group... which explains a lot)... But again... Why is 9rules aligning itself against individuals? Of all the evils in the world, you've chosen a guy that can't balance his cheque book and get work done on time... *sigh* At least if you're going to do it, do it properly with a banner and everything. This SEO-bombing technique risks you getting removed from search engines.

Edit: So it "turns out" there's nothing to worry about after all... Unless you like conspiracy theories, in which case, this is clearly a very poorly covered up, cover-up... You decide.

Written by Oli on Tuesday, 19 December 2006. Tagged with 9rules, funny. Read 1607 times. If you liked it, please give it a digg.

#1 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */

Your note in the 9Rules board was deleted. This is definitely disturbing me! I had replied to your note, also stating that I would like some sort of explanation for this slanderous act... looks like someone is trying to hide something.

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#2 — Author comment /* 2 years, 11 months ago */

No no... The head post exploded, making your post the head post... then about 6 people stormed in and went "what's this all about", reading your reply as my post... And then things got explained but the thread was so chaotic Scrivs decided to delete the thread.

It was a good decision. The forum blowing up and nuking the first post confused a lot of people.

I did make the edits the the above post but here's the quote fro Scrivis in his email:
>> I deleted the entire topic simply because the initial response was deleted and therefore the rest of the thread is nothing but confusion.

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