Comments on: How NOT To Manipulate Social News: A Sphinn Experience

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:42:29 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:45:25 +0000

Thanks

By: admin

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:36:52 +0000

As much as I have a distaste for your tone there, I’ll cooperate. I didn’t notice that part.

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By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:20:56 +0000

And for the record, please take down any of my personal information from your blog post, I don’t want my personal information being broadcast like that, and if you want to live up to your high standards you apparently have, you’ll do this immediately.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:53:10 +0000

@Burgo: I understand what you’re saying, but I’m put in a position here of trying to write for both the blackhat and whitehat community. I included the justifications in the poll though, and perhaps I should’ve pointed people over there. Good point. I have mixed feelings on this, and I’m afraid I let it show.

@James: Yes, I’ve spammed before. But in the same way people who love stumbleupon fight spam on stumbleupon, I will do so on sphinn. Hypocritical? Probably. But none the less, it’s the reality.

@METAPILOT: I suspect mixed reactions. It was done largely for just being a post I liked vs. trying to hurt them. And a bit to protect sphinn. Heh.

@spostareduro: Outting a blackhat is a MAJOR offense within the BH community. While seo.com is obviously not blackhat, it’s still a bit of a red flag for some.

@melanie: Very true.

@Hobo: Thanks!

@I3lackI-Iat: I’m glad someone sees it this way. I’ve taken GREAT care to protect blackhat sites I’ve seen/posted about before, even blurring out the content to prevent searches. Also, I believe doing commercial SEO creates a certain responsibility. You wouldn’t believe some of the flamebait I had to moderate out here.

@Gab: There’s a new one born every minute. Shoemoney keeps duplicate accounts too.

@Sean: Just the above shoemoney reference. Although that’s not 100% confirmed, and it’s only one puppet account, it seems incredibly likely.

@Adam: I thank you for coming on here and saying your piece. However, I must disagree about me not being able to be believed. I benefit in no way from “outting”, and indeed being a “shady seo” is exactly why I’m good at spotting these things.
Second, I give you incredible amounts of credit for admitting you were wrong. I will never, under any conditions edit or delete a constructive, on topic post on my blog. It’s against everything I stand for.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:36:19 +0000

Well,
To give this post credibility, I think I will put in a few pointers here. Number one, anyone who goes around titled “shady seo” can never be believed 100% when they “out” someone else for slightly shady practices.
Number two, you’re right metapilot, the point of doing anything on sphinn is not really for anything else except publicity in the seo community, and apparently it worked for us.
Number three, as the above mentioned creator of said bogus accounts, otherwise known as “yummytork”, I publicly declare to anyone reading this post and the comments in it that what I did was stupid and wrong. But it got us more publicity (bad or otherwise) than you will ever know. Hopefully this comment will stay in it’s true state and get published, because there is nothing defamatory or spammy about it.