Can I still speak poorly of Entrecard’s users on my blog? How about in my living room?

That is just wrong. If I had never wrote this post, I would still have known you were joking – just because I know you.

You would think that since you have been such an active member in the EC community, he would have seen that as a joke.

I don’t know what to say turnip, I hope he realises his mistake but somehow, I doubt it =(

Haha who the hell is this ******? I just came across this blog stumbling and this is the kind of pop tart licking *** we don’t need on the internet.

Talk about a bunch of brown nosing *** **** haha, just looked at the page you linked and soo many fanboys are sucking on his ***, or ******a in that fruit cakes place.

This is crazy – I didn’t believe it. The story makes it even worse. Well, I’ve quit before and I’m seriously considering doing it again.

Turnip, I am sorry that this happened to you. At the rate GL is going, he will have nothing left but spam blogs.

Graham seriously needs to grow the hell up, and his staff could and should force the issue, imo. Disliking someone or what someone says is one thing. Taking every little thing as an excuse to ban people is a whole other matter, and indicates a lack of maturity.

Nicely done, Turnip! That was a retarded idea for Graham to come up with in the first place, knowing that there are at least as many detractors out there as supporters these days.

Furthermore, it appears that EntreCard broke StumbleUpon TOS as it is under investigation by them and I always thought he showed immature behavior apparent in the fact that he created a forum where other member could argue with each other in and then closed it because of his own hurt feelings.

Bas: He has a history of not taking responsibility for his own actions. Who knows how many other people he has banned for negative blog posts, negative forums posts, negative stumble reviews of his own splogs, and of course, negative tweets. I know I’m not the first person banned under his incompetant leadership.

silly sad boy, that Graham…

Since most said by others, let me add something constructive:

Could you place the green RSS widget for follow up comments at the top of the comments to the location of the line that reads “***Use the green RSS widget above to subscribe to comments*** “. It is getting difficult to go all the way up to find it after 10+ comments.

Turnip,

Clearly ec is a waste of time — you’re better off without them.

I saw the thread he started in the EC Forums asking about how his hat looked. I went on over earlier to read, what were sure to be interesting replies and found the message: “We have a bug in our software…”. I immediately started laughing and just knew something was up and it involved that hat!! I’ll be by everyday- ECard or not.

I am utterly stunned. GL has made some pretty bone headed decisions and done some pretty awful things before, but this takes the cake. Feh.

What the F!

I never thought this would happen after all your effort to help him establish the service.

Too bad

After hours of being off-line, the forum is back. It will be interesting to see what happens to the inevitable discussion.

Hmmm this sucks.

Now I have the urge to remove the Entrecard widget from my blog. -_-

But that would leave a blank spot with weird dimensions next to my CMF widget. -_-

Then again, it would not do me much harm to leave the Entrecard widget there, it still brings in some amount of traffic. -_-

I have to agree with Deimos Tel Arin….I may have to abandon ship. I have not had a single sale from all of my hard card dropping as of yet….almost 7 months of dropping…(sigh) Thanks Turnip for keeping us all in the loop with the cyberspace politics! Laurie B.

wowwwww..
graham’s knickers have been in a knot since he made that big change a few months ago. basically he runs his business without any firm rules.
just on his emotions for the day.
that’s not stability.

I think that’s the real indicator of why his formerly prosperous entrecard is a shell of it’s formerly perceived glory.

Holy shit! I’m baffled. I’ve heard from various sources that EC sucks, but I’m seeing it for myself firsthand with this. I can’t believe it.

WOW!, but I don’t find GL’s behavior surprising as I saw this behavior when I left unceremoniously a long time ago.

I know we haven’t seen eye to eye , and definitely have had our fair share of internet antics, but I will say you were one of the voices of logic and reason for the young mind at the top of the tree at EC.

Bad move GL, (I know you will read this), Turnip will take many good people with him, and probably build a more successful competing site with the help of the community. GL, you have confirmed it, you are a tool in a bad hat…

Figures, I for a while had a blog and used EC, Actually, I have dropped many e’cards on your site T before I left EC, (I got tired of the constant up and down time on their systems).
It is “strange” that the EC Forums were down. Hmmm, I figured with all the problem he has had with EC and their servers that by now they would have correct these little problems, guess not. Either way T, I agree with your original comment, it is an asshat.

Who does he think he is, The Chief of the Thought Police. What’s next, will we have to submit our posts for his moderation? Your use of the term asshat seems to be a play on the term: Ascot which, as we know, is a type of rounded cap. Someone needs to pull his head out and get a sense of humor. Your site is a valuable resource and I for one, will continue to drop by.

“Well all I got to say is if I owned a hat like that I believe I would buy another just exactly like it and then shit in one and cover it with the other” ——– HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Entrecard sucks donkey dong

It appears as if soon Graham will have to do what he did at the start of EC, he will have to pay people to join. The man is most probably vain enough to be reading these comments so I would like to tell Graham that I quite like his new hat, it is the bit under the hat that I do not like.

Woa! (I just wrote a very good remark here, involving Goebbles, but deleted it. I don’t mess with vindictive people in bad hats).
Anyway – I still use EC for whatever residue traffic I can tweak out of it from my former months of dropping. I’m full of admiration for you Tulip, that you’ve persevered for so long…
I will be back.
Oh yes – and thanks for all the drops from me too. I haven’t dropped back for a while, but as an avid subscriber, I do read you.

He obviously likes his hat. However, his avatar has since changed so you cannot see it clearly.

The forums were already starting to get boring and now this.

By the way, I just noticed that your top 5 posts are EC related. That’s a bit of irony.

In the words of Lyndon B. Johnson, “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

You’re now officially outside the tent. I wonder if someone tweets this if they’ll join you outside the tent.

I have not used EC long but have realized that the ‘traffic’ is suspect. Also, why the huge 1/8th fee for transfer of credits?

Getting banned for a Tweet? Yikes. Sorry dude.

Be blessed.

Bruce

Wow, 60 comments!!! This big news is surely worthy of such a large ripple in the blog-o-sphere.

Oh I don’t know. All this attention should raise the value of EC exponentially . I wonder if the hat will be included in the sale?

Whoahh! Turnip, one of the pillar members of Entrecard is banned! LOL. I was actually expecting you get banned soon. You can’t mess up with Entrecard and the almighty Graham.

You have to beg so they will give you back your account. Just a tip. LOL

@Phone Girl, was that before or after he was whining about being homeless? His personal life seems to be mirroring his online persona and if I were a potential buyer I’d avoid that site like a plague. The negative publicity continues to mount while he shares his melt down publicly. He is a whiny, silly prat who is destroying something that had the potential to be good that now is not worth a pot to pi$$ in all because of his mismanagement and obnoxious behavior. When he started up awhile ago I dibbs on EC being gone by the end of the year and now it looks like I won’t be too far off. He is the laughing stock of the internet! The sad thing is when EC goes the way of Blog Rush he won’t even be able to leave a sincere message that he tried.

I am late in here…

I can say one word, though:

SPARTAAA!!!

Dude did you a favor in the long run.You might miss it for a second like I did Blogcatalog when they choose a scumbag snitch over me,but I have done much better without all those lame ass jerks on there MUCH Better

Graham should have sold when he had the chance. He doesn’t have the guts to run a business with a profile like EC.

Of course, maybe he can suck the life out of it, and he’ll be forced to sell it for a bargain. That would be the real kicker.

OMG, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Negative comments are part of any business. In fact, taking a negative and turning it into a positive is what good businesses should be doing.

Shame on Entrecard.

Keep up the good work, Turnip………..:)

Turnip, I am very upset about this. I just went to the EC blog and left the following comment:

I don’t know. It just seems to me that someone ought to receive a warning before they are banned from Entrecard. Turnip did not deserve to be banned without warning. I read Turnip’s blog post about this and he said he did a quick tweet just to see if it would show up and a few minutes later, he was removed from Entrecard. I don’t think it’s right. Turnip of Power didn’t deserve that. I also don’t like the idea of any kind of censorship of free speech. It’s anti-American. Harrassment is one thing but telling Entrecarders they can’t criticize another Entrecarder or Entrecard staff is just plain stupid. I’m just sayin’. I’m afraid you’re going to lose a lot of great Entrecarders over this which to me is very very sad.

Thanks for all the drops. I’m disgusted and disheartened. Entrecard has so much potential (and you’ve done so much for the site) but since this has happened to you and so many people are leaving, I’ll probably be following suit. You didn’t need Entrecard but Entrecard needed you. I’m subscribing to your site to keep up with you. Take care.

Graham should reimburse you 230*$6 for the lost credits

Or at least for the credits from t-shirt sales, since you made a financial investment.

Not every tech savvy community builder has the personal skills to deal with the people who inhabit the community. It’s really unfortunate that personal emotions seem to be driving/blocking EC’s development, because the concept is actually quite brilliant.

I was getting tire of all that card dropping anyway. I do like the hat, though.

Ian: I wouldn’t expect to see any common sense soon. He and his followers seem to think I am somehow behind every negative comment posted on the web about Entrecard. They will continue embarassing themselves publicly.

Turnip, my friend. You and I have been dropping on each other since the beginning (almost) of EC. I have always thought a lot of you and have always told you that. I am so sick about the asshat that owns entrecrap. What a DICK! I am glad I am subscribed to you so I can keep up with you. I took a picture of me wearing MY turnip shirt and posted it on my blog. I was told it would be a collectors item now that you were gone. I have a wordpress blog that I do not use. I may have to come and join you although I don’t think the free wordpress will let me. Will it?

I’m sorry you were banned from Entrecard, Turnip. I had good things to say about Entrecard, even though I had thoughts about removing the widget for other reasons…seeing what was happening is giving me a second thought.

tweeted and retweeted for christmas amusement… Asshat!.. aaaaahahahahahaha

Wow.

Just posting a reply to SG Entrepreneur, who thinks this discussion is taking place on the EC forums, and knows full well Turnip can’t reply there:

“You can tell that Turnip has also moderated the comments so that only those who agreed with him are on it.”

No, I think it’s more that most people are appalled by what happened here. Those who disagree with Turnip either didn’t comment at all, or perhaps didn’t want to get involved, or posted on the EC forums where Turnip can’t reply.

You only have to search around to see several other bloggers also wrote about this incident. Those people blogged about it with an unbiased view and still came to the same conclusion: that while Turnip’s comment was not particularly mature, people have got away with far worse on EC. And do you really think the commenters would get deleted for not agreeing with Turnip when it’s not even his blog they’re commenting on?

Well, seeing as I now have everyone’s attention…

Back in December I requested deletion of my Entrecard accounts as I wanted to leave. A few days passed. Nothing happened.

Then Graham wrote a long post (see grahamlangdon.com for the scoop) about “leadership in the web 2.0 space” and that people should cut him some slack. I commented to highlight some serious failings (which are still as large as life). His reply to me, where he said “and this is what I’m talking about”, was absolutely disgusting. With that one comment he basically treated me as though I’d always been a thorn in his side, and I’d never helped EC one bit.

That couldn’t be further from the truth. I did five months of mod/admin work for EC, I believed in the service for a long time, but there WERE serious failings – such as Graham not replying to emails.

He seemed to think that the suggestions I posted on his blog would cost money to fix. So, I posted on Twitter saying “can someone please tell Graham that replying to emails doesn’t cost anything?” He replied saying he “always” replied to emails – “don’t know what you’re talking about”.

You’re joking right? How many people emailed about blog posts and never got a reply? I emailed him a few weeks prior to say I was extremely unhappy about having to do contest transfers because they took so long to do – he never replied to that.

And guess what. A few minutes later I got two emails from Entrecard, saying that my blogs had been deleted, reason: “no widget”. Of course, I had already removed my widgets, but Graham didn’t even bother to check that I’d REQUESTED deletion – and instead decided to boot me out of the system for what can only be described as CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

This is not even close to calling him an “asshat” on Twitter. I’d just like to point out how he treats someone who was always a huge supporter of Entrecard when they give him some genuine feedback he simply doesn’t want to hear.

I may have moved onto other things, but I am utterly appalled and disgusted by his completely unprofessional behaviour. And that’s putting it nicely.

He posted on his blog. His response is “he can do what he wants”. It’s interesting to note I have seen him use the word “ass” in his own forums since then. Go back to December 4th 2008 and look for all the consecutive damage control posts, forum spam posts he made to bury the topic, and all the spam tweets he made. In fact, it’s a lot like today!

I also lost 80 dollars worth of EC.