Comments on: iHype & ePerks – How To Kill A Startup

By: venshine

venshine — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:01:59 +0000

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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:40:57 +0000

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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:44:06 +0000

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Jerry D. Russell » is iHype All Hype? — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:28:34 +0000

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By: Life as I find it» Blog Archive » » Right to free speech and ePerks

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:57:46 +0000

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By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:28:08 +0000

I agree the suit is about negative blog comments.

However if ePerks tries to say their website and traffic was greatly diminished by the blog I would beg to differ because the robots.txt entry is doing more damage to their website than any negative post on a blog would.

Makes you wonder if ePerks did the robots.txt file on purpose or if its out of incompetence on the webmasters behalf.

If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. – Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
http://www.interiorliving.com/eperks.jpg

For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html

How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server

I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.

ejerks should fire their webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit. The robots.txt is doing much more damage to their site than any blog posting saying something negative.

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:02:07 +0000

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By: Spreading the word about e-jerks | Portland's Pearl District

Spreading the word about e-jerks | Portland's Pearl District — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:53:24 +0000

By: dantel

dantel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:50:10 +0000

This whole ordeal is just ridiculous. A company PAYS someone for an honest review, he gives his honest review, and now they issue a cease and desist? HUH? If they didn’t expect comments they need to learn a thing or two about the Internet and Web 2.0 before paying for reviews.