Bad enough Entrecard founder Graham Langdon blamed the “Eastern World” for ruining the Entrecard economy, but his latest gaff is even more embarrassing. Graham has been caught commenting on his own forums under an assumed identity. This identity takes the guise of an Asian female. Complete with bad grammar, his secret personality defends Entrecard while attacking it’s critics.When forum members asked management directly how many blogs were in the Entrecard system, Graham chose to respond as Adele:
Yo I dunno ab anyone else here, but I find it so funny how people just demand to know how many blogs there are. LOL lemme go demand to know how many widgets blog catalog has, or better yet, lemme go demand to know how much money mybloglog makes. I’ll go ask Jerry Yang personally! LOLMAO
Entrecard staff & team makes themselves way more available than any other company i have ever seen. live it up! peace love and happiness right! I’m just glad I can chill here with them.
though I will say I would have liked to get an email when you started the paid ads! lol!
Graham Langdon’s idea of comedy shows how desperate and out of touch he is. As we say in Turnip Land, “Stop looking around Graham, the joke’s in your hand”.
By the way, for you doubters out there, I had the IP of both Adele and Graham verified to be the same. Also, Adele claims to be with Entrecard for nine months, yet has no blogs, never dropped a single card, nor placed a single ad. So let’s see Graham “Asshat” Langdon squirm out of this one.
- Lying to your members.
- Withholding information from advertisers.
- Attacking other ad networks under a fake name.
- Insulting Asian women.
- being an all around douchebag in your own forums.
Graham “Adele” Langdon has never had a successful blog nor dropped cards. How dare he try to sway discussions using such sophmoric tactics. So he tells the truth when using his “Graham” identity about how many blogs EC has? Or is it he tells the truth about some secret formula for a cash out service? Or is he only telling the truth when he writes in bad grammar under a fake name? His advertisers demand the truth. And they will get it, even if they have to read turnipofpower.com.
Wow, that’s actually sophomoric *and* despicable. Scary how badly he lies to his users. How can anyone believe him about anything?
Just WOW. I never thought it was that bad, but this is pretty amazing. Quite immature behavior for someone who wants to be a successful entrepreneur.
I went back and read all 15 of Adele’s posts and they are all pro_entrecard and try to defend different entrecard policies. There is no way Graham will be able to deny what he did.
It amazes me that he would waste his time doing this on a forum. I would estimate that less that 1% of all entrecard users even look at the forums.
Kevin: It’s a matter of integrity. Phirate has integrity, and thus refuses to answer when things are not in his best interest to do so. Graham on the other hand will try to change the issue and attack people under an assumed name. Notice the difference? East Asians say the darndest things!
Oh, wow… The grass gets greener & greener on the other side of Entrecard every day.
hey hey hey everybody,
Joyuna, u calld him out on running a crappy program?…
::grabs the popcorn::
You are seriously kidding, aren’t you? Oh wait a minute we are talking we are talking about Graham. This is a rather interesting turn of events! I wonder how A$$Hat likes controversy now?
what a soap opera writer he could have been…
How bizzare. And why the dig at BC? (Or maybe he just feels threatened by Any company in the blog services area that is professionally managed and openly communicative with it’s customers?) What a phuquing asshat.
I always kind of worried about Graham. But then I thought, well maybe the dude’s got something going.
But now… he’s lost my total respect. He, and his little band of paranoid asshat mods can take Entrecard and put it where the sun won’t shine on it.
In addition to his sockpuppet antics, he’s got the balls to demand personal information just for the opportunity to get $1 per 1000 EC. Not on your life, AssHat!
can we see your evidence for the matching IP adresses?
Rev, go document it for yourself. You are a forum mod, right? Changing Ip’s after the fact won’t work either, and I have screenshotted all Adele’s posts in case they get deleted. Now who do you serve there Rev?
Very amusing… Maybe that is a photo of GL in drag.. That maybe his street name and maybe he does pose as an Asian princess when he plays Neil and Bob… What an Asshat wearing Asshat.
Why do that? Seriously. What kind of a self-respecting business owner has the time to seriously impersonate someone else? Is he afraid of any bad PR?
If this is true, the credibility of the “fairness” of the cashout, the integrity of the data collected, should be of paramount concern. A cavalier attitude towards truth is inches away from graft and corruption. Those social security numbers are worth far more than the $250 (EC’s share) collected from paid ads. Identity theft is very, very real.
This might just be the last straw for me. As it is I’ve been using EC less and less. I stopped advertising because I was barely getting traffic from it anymore since at least half the time paid ads took my place. I was looking forward to cashing out but I refuse to fill out their unsecure form with my social security #. Thanks, Turnip, for helping us see what is really going on at EC. It is not a pretty picture.
@ turnip
I have, my information isn’t matching yours, you should contact me…i just want the truth…if its true just prove it to me in private…but you don’t need to be hostile toward me…i’ve never caused you any loss or harm
Rev, it’s already been verified. Obviously the person who first leaked the info had to think long and hard about making that decision. I’m not about to out them. Both Graham and Adele have the same IP. Whether or not that has been doctored in your database since I first posted does not change that fact. Yes, CMF Ads uses V-bulletin forums, in fact long before Entrecard started using them. So we know what can be changed.
Post of the week Turnip …. a great read and top undercover work once again.
i can’t just take your word for it Turnip…too convenient for you…whats the proof?
I stand by my story. 100% of it. Now, if someone tampered with the EC forum database, that is not my problem. Both phirate and Graham were online when my story broke. Let them comment if they wish.
Adele knows everything about Entrecard. Where is her blog? Show me one person’s blog she commented on, Show me one ad she pruchased, one blog she dropped a card on? Let those people compare her IP to graham’s. Until then, use your head a bit.
However, I will ask my source if they wish to send any “anonymous message” to you.
and turnip, if it is a mod that is able to see the IP’s then they already know me well enough to know that I simply want the truth…give them my email and it will be kept confidetial
this is becoming more like a tabloid every day…
evidence or bust dude…
Dude, go crawl back into the hole you came out of, o ye of little faith.
Turnip you bring sunshine to a cloudy day, as people rearrange deck chairs on the titanic the band plays its salute to the bullshit being peddled at ec.
@matt Are you debating whether or not adele is a real blogger or whether or not graham=adele?
I think after reading “her” 15 posts, there is no doubt that “she” acts more like a puppet than a blogger. Please, if you have any evidence that adele has an actual blog, please share it here or on the ec forums.
Kevin: Adel has made like 20 posts, Graham has made hundreds. Depending which 2 post you compare, you will see posts from Graham at the internet cafe, from his parent house, from his I-phone. It’s a very plausible lie to say “I’m looking at two posts that don’t match up”. Of course, comparing any Adele IP address to any other forum post made from that IP should tell you who she is. And if she no longer has a California Comcast IP, explain the coverup?
This is low.
In this mornings paper:
For Sale: Slightly Used Traffic Exchange – “Fixer Upper.” Current tenants should be gone by the end of the month.
Contact G. Langdon, ask for Adele.
Ok, so we have the paid ad issue of ads running despite members setting paid ads not to run. Then the racism issue and now Graham faking posts. It would appear either Graham is heavily medicated or not medicated enough! There is also the issue of giving out your personal information to a A$$Hat who could and likely will do things he shouldn’t. Once a liar and cheat, always one and A$$Hat is not going to change. Anyone who remotely thinks they will ever get any money out of entrecard is as delusional as Graham. Why anyone would leave that widget on their blog and risk the reputation of their blog is beyond me!
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What the hell is wrong with him?
I was already teetering on the point of dropping Entrecard, as the traffic I get from it is of questionable value. Just being associated with this type of behavior gives it such an unprofessional air that I do not want my blog associated with it, so I have made my decision – I’m done with Entrecard.
Well I guess in can’t be independently verified this time, so it comes down to who you trust, Turnip or Graham?
John, I understand exactly what you are saying. There are some things to consider.
1. I protect my sources. Never have I revealed a private email or conversation unless given permission to do so. Again, I stand by my sources, and I protect my sources. Anything short of that and why would any source trust me again with sensitive information?
2. Entrecard has a history of lying. When I posted about how Entrecard revealed the private emails addresses of all it’s members, Entrecard denied it. When I posted about the true number of blogs in the network, Entrecard denied it.
3. Adele is clearly a sockpuppet. She joins EC March 25th 2008 claiming to have been a member for 9 months. She posts in the intro thread without listing her blog URL? Please, this is a first in the history of Entrecard. She claims to know Sam Freedom? Sorry Graham/Adele, I knew Sam, and many of the other early EC users knew Sam. There never was any Adele back then. Adele knows so much about Entrecard that she can answer help questions. Adele also gets worked up over defending the “g-man”, Gee wonder why?
4. My source matched the IP Address. Not same city, not same part of the world. Unlike monkeytales where the IP’s went to the same town. This was a case where the IP addresses were identical.
Where’s Adele? Nowhere. Because she doesn’t exist. It’s obviously Graham and he’s a coward for not even apologizing.
Now I suspect everyone in the Entrecard forums of being sock puppets
Thanks a lot Turnip!
LMAO Graham/Adele = FAIL!!
Changing your IP is one of the easiest things in the world to do…
James: It only took him 24 hours to get someone bright enough to change Adele’s IP address in the database. However, I do have the old info, so this should be interesting. But you would have thought Graham is smart enough to not be a sockpuppet in the first place, or smart enough to use a different computer to post under fake accounts. It’s his arrogance in thinking he is somehow smarter than everyone that failed him yet again.
Oh, and this isn’t the first time Graham pulled this stunt: http://www.johncow.com/graham-langdon-have-you-been-naughty/ The article has been taken down, but you might be able to find an archive of it.
I am disappointed by this.
And I don’t doubt your integrity, Turnip, ‘never have.
Graham should clear the air.
His latest post is great Ken, “oh this is a good one. His evidence is what exactly? That he feels like it might be me? That’s a lot to go on. ” Isn’t that one step below asking for your lawyer before talking to the police? How about: “No, I did not post as Adele”. Instead, he is sidestepping the issue, buying for time, and asking for proof before opening his mouth again. He knows he’s screwed, because changing the IP’s makes him guilty of a coverup. Wonder which coder over there is so lacking in integrity as to change the DB for money.
Just when you think things can’t get any more weird…I left Entrecard this week. So glad I did if this is what’s going to happen.
Like Turnip said, all Adele needs to do is post. And to keep from paying some poor cafe girl in the Philippines to post a message, I’d say she needs to sign on to the webcam there and just chat to one of us, and look the same as she does in the picture. Easy enough, if its not true.
I’m amused by the fact that people get so emotional, stressed and outraged over EC, both here and in the EC forums. You’d think it was all about buying and selling sheep stations, not about selling a commodity created out of thin air and worth approximately nothing.
Its like being back in primary school hanging out in the forums and reading what people are saying.
That’s just the reality of especially the online marketing world…marketing= liars and manipulators for self profit..
@ matt oxley,
Hi Matt. You know me as Inspire Political Discourse. Just wanted to give you my opinion. Graham has been a liar and an f-up for at least as long as I’ve been using Entrecard, and I have been there since March 2008.
I have “known” Turnip since that time, and I can tell you that we, Turnip and a group of others on EC, have been through some stuff together.
Turnip is a good man, and I would not in a million years believe Graham or a mod over Turnip. Graham is a petulant child, looking for the easiest way to score. Don’t allow him to delude you. He is so not worth it, and neither is Entrecard.
~Peace~
Nicole
I’m surprised that the link to this post still remains open in the entrecard forum.
but we can trust him to pay out those $ to the real 50 million ec he is buying back can’t we.
I mean just because he can’t add up how many blogs there are and seems to have a shemale personality that has more twists than twisted sister, we can trust that he will pay the people with this money from advertising, ? he can’t get that wrong can she.
Turnip, What in the hell is going on. I saw where the asshat is buying credits for $1 per 1,000 and that was it for me. I have gotten rid of all but a few ads from friends and then I am gone. I have known you for a while actually back before you were a mod at EC and was there through so much of the bullshit. I totally stand behind you. When it is said and done I am glad for the friends I have made but I will NOT miss Graham asshat at all. I decided to go to the forum to see what the reaction was to the pissy amount being offered and my God they are up to 7 pages on the forums over this post. Way to go sugar!!!!!!!!!
One more thing Turnip. The Rev is going to suggest the asshat sue you for defamation of character. Bwahahahahahahaha!
Etta: To clear up a few facts, I was never a mod at EC. Anyone can sue anyone. He’s a proven sockpuppet, both this time and the previous time on john cow’s blog. Last time he claimed “roommates” pretended to be John Cow sock puppets while using his computer, which conveniently explains why the IP’s matched. I’m sure he has a similar excuse cooked up and waiting to go. A public figure who has defamed his own character through his actions won’t have such an easy time in court.
As for the John Cow post, Graham negotiated to have it removed after the original John Cow sold his blog. The new Cow had no issues with Graham at the time, so it was removed.
Sorry, me again. The link to the 4/11 post by Graham goes to a post on 4/8 and I cannot find the 4/11 post. Click home and you get 4/8, click announcements and you get 4/8. Am I doing something wrong? Or is the post deleted?
In this week’s episode of The Bored and the EC-Less – The man who started it all is hiding a deep secret of emotional pain and heartache. Now…it’s up to him to tell everyone around him what happened all those years ago. Is Graham a transvestite? Find out next Sunday at 3pm.
This article has got me a little angry.I can’t believe he would actually pull a stunt like this but then again.With all that’s been going on over there he’s either having a breakdown or his true colors just can’t hide anymore.Great post glad to have read this one.
Auch, that is bad. Graham is desperate for money. He probably wish entrecard would blow up like facebook.
@getfreestuff
It could have… it had enough free publicity. People talking about how great it is and how it could benefit bloggers…. waaay before the problogger interview. But then…. something happened.
I dunno, I’m just another avid audience of The Bored and the EC-Less… Nice one, Tech vixen. Made me laugh (hard).
Now the EC forums have been decimated and a bunch of people banned. All for asking crazy things like how many blogs are on EC, and what happened to pay-per-click? Meh. The drain circling, it hath begun.
Vein, so much for uncovering the truth. More like a giant coverup over there. I wonder if we will see Adele apply to get into the new forums. I saw someone claim all the negative posts were made by myself. This is by the same person who claimed to be checking IP’s.
Message to dumbass EC mods, my IP address traces back to New Jersey. When someone gives you the tools to verify something, use them and stop guessing. You only discredit yourself making accusations you could easily prove one way or another. If I could prove something to my satisfaction, couldn’t you? Notice not one other forum admin there opened their mouth, except to insult regular users. Nor did any quit in disgust. That speaks volumes of their character.
By the way, I checked how the v-bulletin forums displays IP Addresses to their admins. You mouse over a little icon of a computer and it displays the IP address of the post. So for the “Rev” to claim he was looking at two ip’s that don’t match, it would be impossible, as you can only mouse over one at a time. But no matter. All dissent will be crushed by the EC gestapo.
Oh good grief, Charlie Brown!:
http://forums.entrecard.com/member.php?u=3515
I’d like to amend my earlier comment about this being like back in primary school. The latest moves on the EC forums clearly show that was an overly generous asssessment – its really more like preschool.
I’d like to congratulate Graham and the team for turning something which was once a great idea and a place where people could find new blogs and new blogging friends into a place where nobody would want to venture at all. I think this is truly the end of Entrecard – it certainly is the end of my being a part of it.
I deleted my entrecard widget from my personal blog some weeks ago, when they first announced the paid ads. We have a group blog, and we have hung in there with that one hoping that things would change for the better.
After the initial burst of paid ads – which we approved every single one of including the controversial rev – they have now fallen off completely. Even worse, the free ads have dropped off to virtually nothing, there have been some days where there was no free ads on the widget at all.
I had been keeping an eye on the forums to be updated on what was going on and I was very surprised to arrive there today and see the changes. That truly is the final straw for our group blog. People often have things to say which are negative and if they do not let people say them, how do they expect to make improvements?
We have 3 ads left to show, and then we will close the account for the group blog also.
I was also dismayed to receive spam yesterday from Entrecard on the email address that belonged to the closed account, said spam being for ShoeMoney Tools.
It is clear to me that Graham does not care about the community, does not care about the people who have been using Entrecard, and just cares about the money.
I also think it is clear that Graham cannot be trusted with an email address, let alone a social security number!!
wow, I was reading this as the drama was unfolding, and just really didnt care to be honest, but now they banned all the newbies from the forums. I guess they dont want the newbies to read all that was written. I have no doubt in my mind now that Graham is Adele. WTF. talk about paddleing backwards. As a newbie, to exclude all of us, is so poor judgment, i cant even believe it.
Its like owning a store and making a rule that the only people taht can shop in the store are people who already spent 400 dollars, if you didnt spend 400 dollars, then you are not allowed to shop.
Entrecard just banned me for protesting against their forum changes.
“You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.
Date the ban will be lifted: 04-28-2009, 11:00 AM”
WOW.. this basically prove that you were completely right about not only the “Adele” issue but also all of the implications of shady and dictatorish actions.
Entrecard is playing their own death dirge by badgering their own community. I will be ditching entrecard and applying for CMF ads today as you have clearly shown integrity through this all of this by being communicative and transparent while while they have been the exact opposite and worse.
J,John,: Of course Adle is Graham, there was never a doubt once the IP’s matched. Every article published here has sources and facts are checked. As a condition for receiving the information, I ask my sources exactly how to word their involvement. You don’t burn a source, as Cournalists should know. I expected Graham to simply claim “It’s my forums and I can do what I want, even if I was Adele”. Instead, he crawled away with his tail between his legs and closed his forum. Interesting that every comment coming out of Adle’s mouth was to bash critics of Entrecard. Where were the mods then? Not one asked “Who the f__K is Adele?” I sure did, and thats what lead to the story.
Closing the forum will backfire, as that was the only option new members had to network. June 2009 will be the end of EC as we know it, I still stand by that prediction.