Sorry, didn’t mean to sound as though I was levelling any criticism at you. I was just agreeing with a more general point (that from a dev’s point of view, it gets frustrating if users don’t read the instructions). I didn’t mean to imply that you personally hadn’t read them - there was nothing to read in this case.

I completely agree with you that the lack of warning before the ‘cull’ was hardly the best way to go about matters. Proof enough of that can be seen on the income.com blog, they had to close off the comments section.

As you can see on my blog I fully copped to the typo issue. However you may feel about incompetent users, from my POV the big error here was how Blogrush communicated this info to me and other users like me. If they had told me that was the issue up front I would have had no problem with them. I still have no problem with them. I just wasn’t crazy about the way they went about things.

Andrew

It may well be 6 of one, half a douzen of the other in this case. Did BlogRush screen blogs initially when they launched? If not, then I’d ask why not? If they did, then why didn’t they catch splogs etc at that point?

I don’t think anyone can argue with the fact that there must be some screening done to minimise spam showing up in the system, and that is going to be subjective to a degree (what is a splog?).

Maybe it wasn’t so wise to announce on the income.com blog - we just got rid of 10,000 blogs. For all we know, 99.9% of those may well have been in the spam zone, but again, why was it all done in one go without warning, and why was there no clear policy from the beginning?

Did they get a bit too wrapped up in their own hype initially?

“I got to the bottom of why your blog wasn’t approved… it’s because your BlogURL was in our system as “locaseoguide.com” ; apparently you made a typo when creating your original account. ”

I think that’s hilarious! Users blame the system when it is their own fault. As a software developer, I can’t stand users that get furious and start hating the company for something that they did wrong. Stop acting like a baby about BlogRush. Have some patience and investigate the matter yourself if you care so much about membership in this system. If you don’t care about BlogRush, stop hating.

Wah wah.

Unless it seriously messes up, I”ll continue to use Blogrush. Then again, I used to put other blogs’ RSS feeds in my sidebars so readers could see what else is going on out there.