I’ve noticed there are many spam blogs in the “newer” listings, but you really need not worry, it’s easy to tell which blogs aren’t spammy by the cost of an advertisements. I’m not saying you can’t get a good one for cheap, but I’m mostly saying that you’re not really going to get spammy ones and over 500 ec a pop, that’s where I drop because I find myself often able to comment on a blog/site that someone actually cares about instead of someone just trying to bank off of entrecard’s traffic.
Paul: Yes, that was how I realized something was wrong. I kept getting the same site over and over in my inbox. But it wasn’t the same site, each time it had a diffrent URL.
I came by here yesterday before I went to Entrecard blog fully expecting this to be the next great thing and then after going to the forums and not seeing anything official, I had to come back and reinspect this. How bizarre.
I sure the hell hope Grahm knows what he is doing.
Ok you got my attention again. I see the comment “spammy blogs” a lot lately. What do you folks consider a spammy blog? I always thought that updating regularly and often is what is good.
Regina, there are two main types of spammy blogs. First are made for adsense blogs. Second are landing page blogs. Adsense blogs post crap that ranks them in the search engines so people come to their site, then click their adsense to get away. The content may change, but its always crap. Landing pages try to sell you a product. Often it’s a e-book or a free offer. Both really suck, and EC is full of them. The spam in the picture above are made for adsense sites.
Poor Ben will have to spend a good chunk of time deleting all those blogs from the system. What a waste of time. I’d say blogs need to be checked beforehand, don’t you?
In all honesty, I’m surprised it took this long. You can’t allow just any blog to enter. I’ve reported quite a few sites that tried to give me malware–this is unacceptable.
All it takes is one person. If this one person creates 10 different blogs and puts them on EC and each blog forces a trojan download… well, problems will happen.
I’m not a lawyer, but wouldn’t that be terms for a lawsuit?
Hopefully these blogs would be deleted quickly, but say it takes 2 days. This person could easily drop 300 cards on every blog (it might take hours, but it can happen), say just 50 people from each blog reciprocates. That is 500 people infected in 2 days.
Gary - good point. And if they have done their research before setting up such a thing, well that is just more insidious. All that energy devoted to the dark side, if your correct. I hope not.
@Beamer The Internet is a large place. Imagine, 17,000 people murder/year in the USA alone. Another 90,000 rape/year. That is 107,000 people in the USA each year.
2/3 of the people in the USA have access to the internet every day. That means around 71,000 murderers/rapists use the Internet every year (before they commit their crime).
That means don’t trust some random Internet user who want to join your web service.
I think none, I purposely didn’t link to Entrecard. Graham only reads posts that directly link to EC. It was probably the possibility of losing Ben that caused Graham to act. This isn’t the first time he’s been forced to take charge to clean up a mess of his own making.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********Wow, so there are like many education web sites in Entrecard now aye?
Yes, all of them went to the same Card Design school too. Go to their blog, and they all use the same theme.
I’ve noticed there are many spam blogs in the “newer” listings, but you really need not worry, it’s easy to tell which blogs aren’t spammy by the cost of an advertisements. I’m not saying you can’t get a good one for cheap, but I’m mostly saying that you’re not really going to get spammy ones and over 500 ec a pop, that’s where I drop because I find myself often able to comment on a blog/site that someone actually cares about instead of someone just trying to bank off of entrecard’s traffic.
Great title.
Well that is ridiculous.
At this point, I actually think that screenshot is funny.
What is actually interesting, is that the account you used to get that screenshot dropped on 7 of them.
Paul: Yes, that was how I realized something was wrong. I kept getting the same site over and over in my inbox. But it wasn’t the same site, each time it had a diffrent URL.
I wonder if they are using Mu or something.
Anyone know if they are on different domains, or just subdomains?
I spent a couple minutes trying to figure out the punch line - -
I thought these were the type of sites that were supposed to be deleted from entrecard under the strict new regime directive.
interesting!!!
One pics == 10000 words.
So, we have infection in EC system.
wow! and they didn’t even bother to make each card different..
I call this the Friday laugh-off—Headline is really good..
See! These are not the final day of Entrecard! Look at all the high quality new sites that get past the moderators now.
Personally, I am playing my fiddle as fast as I can.
LOVE that title, Turnip!
I came by here yesterday before I went to Entrecard blog fully expecting this to be the next great thing and then after going to the forums and not seeing anything official, I had to come back and reinspect this. How bizarre.
I sure the hell hope Grahm knows what he is doing.
Beamer
Ok you got my attention again. I see the comment “spammy blogs” a lot lately. What do you folks consider a spammy blog? I always thought that updating regularly and often is what is good.
And yes, I loved the Title heading as well.
Regina, there are two main types of spammy blogs. First are made for adsense blogs. Second are landing page blogs. Adsense blogs post crap that ranks them in the search engines so people come to their site, then click their adsense to get away. The content may change, but its always crap. Landing pages try to sell you a product. Often it’s a e-book or a free offer. Both really suck, and EC is full of them. The spam in the picture above are made for adsense sites.
So much for maintaining a high quality standard.
I’m sure they’ll all be deleted in the next few days though.
They will, I reported them all before I posted.
Poor Ben will have to spend a good chunk of time deleting all those blogs from the system. What a waste of time. I’d say blogs need to be checked beforehand, don’t you?
I’m more annoyed that there are so many people who try to scam the rest of the world. Honestly.
Nice interesting pic.
Somebody smart may just use that pic for his/her new spam education blog. Sure to draw controversy.
It took me a moment to “get” the title - but I did - very clever, and very funny. You sure said a lot with just a few words and a screenshot. Bravo!
In all honesty, I’m surprised it took this long. You can’t allow just any blog to enter. I’ve reported quite a few sites that tried to give me malware–this is unacceptable.
All it takes is one person. If this one person creates 10 different blogs and puts them on EC and each blog forces a trojan download… well, problems will happen.
I’m not a lawyer, but wouldn’t that be terms for a lawsuit?
Hopefully these blogs would be deleted quickly, but say it takes 2 days. This person could easily drop 300 cards on every blog (it might take hours, but it can happen), say just 50 people from each blog reciprocates. That is 500 people infected in 2 days.
Gary - good point. And if they have done their research before setting up such a thing, well that is just more insidious. All that energy devoted to the dark side, if your correct. I hope not.
Beamer
wow, all the entrecard with the same logo
@Beamer The Internet is a large place. Imagine, 17,000 people murder/year in the USA alone. Another 90,000 rape/year. That is 107,000 people in the USA each year.
2/3 of the people in the USA have access to the internet every day. That means around 71,000 murderers/rapists use the Internet every year (before they commit their crime).
That means don’t trust some random Internet user who want to join your web service.
Thank you join my twitter. Just transfer small token to your EC account. EC is GREAT system but some of them really miss use the system.
Looks like Graham is putting together a volunteer staff to add in the feature we’ve all wanted–approval before entry.
I wonder how much influence this post had?
I think none, I purposely didn’t link to Entrecard. Graham only reads posts that directly link to EC. It was probably the possibility of losing Ben that caused Graham to act. This isn’t the first time he’s been forced to take charge to clean up a mess of his own making.
thought that was one of those hypnotic images where you’re supposed to find a hidden image somewhere in the cracks
I’m sure they’ll get deleted. No worries
The policies of Entrecard have been changed and got stricter this week. So bye bye spammers.
I love this title too…Turnip!
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