Comments on: MyBlogLog Plutoed?

By: Zune Accessory » MyBlogLog Plutoed?

Zune Accessory » MyBlogLog Plutoed? — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:59:53 +0000

[...] post by Andy Beard January 08th 2007 Posted to [...]

By: Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin : Blog Archive Andy Beard

Shoemoney Nofollow Plugin : Blog Archive Andy Beard — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:26:02 +0000

[...] should note this plugin has nothing to do with disagreements with Shoemoney in the past and his invitation tactics as previously discussed. Previously I had left all links intact from my [...]

By: MyBlogLog Wishlists - Stop Thinking Small : Blog Archive Andy Beard

MyBlogLog Wishlists - Stop Thinking Small : Blog Archive Andy Beard — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:17:44 +0000

[...] also has a list, but I am not going to link to him as he prefers invective to cover up his spamming activities. In fact Shoemoney’s list seems to be an attempt to control the problems his community [...]

By: MyBlogLog Flaw - Andy Beard

MyBlogLog Flaw - Andy Beard — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:02:50 +0000

[...] If you really want to game MyBlogLog, the tactics mentioned in my “MyBlogLog Plutoed” post do work, but are not entirely ethical. [...]

By: Wordpress 2.1 Launch date set - Andy Beard

Wordpress 2.1 Launch date set - Andy Beard — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:49:43 +0000

[...] There is quite a bit of discussion on monetisation as would be expected. The emphasis was that you would earn more money from blogging as being part of the community and gaining influence and “notability” than you would from any possible advertising revenue. This certainly turns the tables on what Jim Kukral was trying to demonstrate. (p.s. nice permalinks). Jason Calacanis has already given his opinion on this topic with a great counter-punch. Matt is still thinking about ways WordPress.com users can include some form of monetisation. Matt seems positive about MyBlogLog which is good news for possible future addoption. I found it interesting how Shoemoney agrees with Matt about criticism. In my experience Shoe doesn’t accept criticism very well, and certainly much worse than Matt who I feel handles it fairly well. In the interview Shoemoney states that criticism plays “a vital role”, “I never learned anything from a compliment” and “learn from criticism”. I didn’t link through to Shoe directly because he tends to censor criticism and trackbacks. [...]

By: O’Flaherty - » Yahoo360Log?

O’Flaherty - » Yahoo360Log? — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:26:59 +0000

[...] While I love MyBlogLog, I’m deeply worried about the ease with which the contacts system can be abused by spammers. Andy Beard wrote a great post about this yesterday which addresses a lot of the concerns. BTW, Andy gets an award for introducing me to whole new word, “Plutoed” which I hope never catches on as its sounds dreadful. [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:12:37 +0000

Oked to use a female avatar sure. It is fairly common, and in a similar way I use a simple logo as faces just don’t stand out.

You don’t seem to get the point of the post though. Your “challenge” is totally invalid because of the tactics you used and didn’t care to mention in your blog post.

Your tactics if employed by others would totally devalue MyBlogLog as a real social network, similar to LinkedIn but a little more casual.
If it becomes standard practice to invite 25% of the members automatically, “carefully selected” my ass, the whole idea of contacts falls apart.

If there was some special arrangement allowing you to spam 8000+ people with contact requests, I am sure Eric would have defended you in the previous comment.

Btw great censorship on your blog comments. I gather you don’t want your readers to know how you are really gaining all the new community members.

By: ShoeMoney

ShoeMoney — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:54:00 +0000

Dude I was working with the developers and also was ok’d by mybloglog to use the female avatar.

By: Eric Marcoullier

Eric Marcoullier — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:44:54 +0000

Andy — we’re going to continue working hard this year to keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible. Over the holidays last month we released a feature that lets you only see messages from your own contacts and I think this will help. As always, suggestions on how we can do better are encouraged.