Blogrush or bogbrush?
Blogrush is suffering from a spam invasion. As I predicted at the weekend spammers have jumped at the chance of having their crap syndicated for free on some of the biggest blogs on the planet.
Blogrush emailed all their users last night with the following admission : “… the bozos have come out of the woodwork and are trying to cheat the BlogRush system. We have quite a few users that are abusing the system — from running scripts to auto-load the widget, to other fraudulent methods to earn syndication credits for their account that they do not deserve.”
Jason at One Little Duck has had enough of the spammers piggybacking on his site already and has pulled the widget. He rightly points out that “site owners/bloggers should remember that links on your own site are often seen as a recommendation by you to your users”
I’m hanging in there for the moment. I’m a bit concerned that the Blogrush guys didn’t see this coming but they reckon they have it in hand so I’ll let them see if they can solve the problems. Certainly the size of the network and the potential for getting your blog in front of so many new readers is not to be sniffed. And you can’t argue with the price either.
I’m grudgingly and constantly amazed at the ingenuity of spammers. They must get up very early in the morning to keep finding all these new ways of corrupting every idea everyone else comes up with. If only they could put that amount of energy into something useful we’d have cancer cured by now and be moving on to world peace, edible microwave meals and getting British trains to run on time.
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