EDIT: I am keeping the discussion in the comments below from now on. They are keeping at it over at Snoozevine and I am now, apparently, a bottom feeder and several other things. God if they only knew who they were actually talking about! So much for doing your homework citizen journalists, lol. No wonder the establishment takes shots at people like these as “quasi” or “hobby” journalists. How are we to believe in their version of the “news” if they can’t be bothered to find out about the people they attack?
EDIT: At least I drew out the person who did the axing. They are in the process of covering up the truth and manufacturing a story about how I so badly spammed their stupid speck of a snooze site. Check it out here.
Hey guys, here’s a MASSIVE freakin’ hint for you: Spammers don’t complain about their accounts getting shut down. They EXPECT it. Spammers don’t have high traffic sites and use their real names. There isn’t a single spammer on the planet whose site you can pull up by just typing his name in your browser bar. Stop acting so freakin’ incredulous and face the fact you’ve screwed with someone of account and been drawn out in front of tens of thousands as a hack site run by overzealous people who lie to their members.
Oh, and to the person who implied that I went back in under another name to post the above, Calvin knows full well he banned my IP so I couldn’t come back in as easy as that. Although I AM in there, I’m not the one who posted the thread above.
For the sake of clarification I am not mad about getting banned from Newsvine because I needed to be there or it was some source of traffic. I am pissed about the lies going on over there and the people in charge of what everyone else thinks is a respectable site run by respectable people. It is neither, and the web should know about it.
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So I go to log in to my Newsvine account to give them more content they can make money from and come to find out I no longer exist.
I just kept getting referred to their main page. Went to comment on a post about Sesame Street, since it’s on pretty much all throughout the day in this house, and find that I wasn’t automatically logged in. That I was unable TO login as if I never existed there.
I had put up videos for Newsvine to profit from. Articles. All helpful and all added to the value of the community. (Which is what sites that have gone to shit call it. What it really is is getting people to build your site for you so you can advertise and make a killing in Federated Media and Google Adsense.)
Newsvine is dragged around by the neck by “Social Community Prima Donnas.” These are people who claim the site as their own. They are just members, but very powerful ones. They think everything is spam and they want everyone in the site to know who they are and that they call the shots around there.
They can, and do, have people zapped if they rub them wrong. And admin just does what its told by these people.
The Decline of Social News Communities
Letting your Prima Donnas police your social site for you is the beginning of the end for such sites. They don’t care about anything but having more power than they’ve ever had in the real world and wielding it over people they imagine that beat them up in high school. They start going Columbine on new members as soon as they sign up and start contributing.
That’s the death blow for your social news site.
I will be watching out for “dead communities walking” from now on and posting them here so you know not to bother contributing to them. You’ll just get zapped.
The irony of all this is my most recent post on how to behave in these communities. Follow the rules. Post good content. Don’t seed your own stuff.
Then just hours later the dipshits at Newsvine close my account. I know why too. And it wasn’t justified under their own holier-than-thou altruistic “sounding” code of “honor.”
There’s one word missing from their code of honor at the bottom: Bullshit!
Newsvine is clearly just a money-making scheme for its owners. Writers and others do all the work and Newsvine cashes in. And they let the crazies run the place and run off good content producers.
They aren’t the only ones. I’ll rant about the others later.
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Check out the new #1 result for “newsvine sucks.”
I warned ’em. lol
Thanks everyone for your emails and thanks to the zealots at Newsvine for sending me so much traffic. Several subscribers were generated from this fiasco and, although not worth the trouble, it is a good start. I’d still rather the whole thing not happen and be able to help people over there who are interested in my topics. But the people who aren’t are the ones controlling the flow of information and memberships.
The thread over there is an amazing look into the minds of the anti-marketer. One comment talks about how “did you see his blog? All blog marketing and seo stuff.” As if that was supposed to be flat out evidence of my “evilness.” They hate marketers people.
Once again, though I can’t prove it because they took my stuff down, I didn’t post overly promotional content. I offer into the evidence the posts I have made here at FTR regarding how to act on social networks and how to follow the rules and become an authority on such sites. Written well before I was ousted from Snoozevine.
“Calvin: The user in question was posting one press release after another, linking back to his site. End of story. The CoH & ToS are quite clear. The guy made a choice…a poor one.”
Boy they love their leaders over there. All Calvin had to say was I posted press releases (which I absolutely did NOT do) and his flock appreciates the opportunity to blindly follow and backs him up.
I am responsible for thousands of marketers and SEOs who would otherwise (intentionally or unintentionally) spam social networks seeing my message that this is not cool and not a good way to interact with these communities. And for that, I get ousted for trying to play by the rules.
Anyway, so long Snoozevine! And thanks for all the traffic!