Wow! Thanks for sharing that post Dennis.
Myself, I guess I can see both sides of the fence right now. Just my opinions here but some people need to be reminded that it does say BETA on the BlogRush home page. Quirks were to be expected. Right from the beginning, I must have received somewhere between 5 - 10 announcements that very Saturday morning it launched. I too jumped right on the bandwagon one reason being some of the recommendations came from people I highly respect and the second being ... well, it came from John Reese. I personally have yet to be steered wrong by the man.
There DOES have to be a line drawn somewhere. Unfortunately, no matter what you do, you're going to upset people on both sides. Although, by the sounds of this ... 10,000 blogs removed? Yikes! That's quite a number.
But, on the other hand ... I do agree with some that are upset. Making people wait a month to re-submit a blog for approval? I'd bet money had I been one who was deemed "unfit" ... by the time a month was over ... I would have probably forgotten or figured it wasn't worth it.
And speaking of not being worth it ...
I can't say for sure what the "dreaded email" said or didn't say. But, majority speaks there in saying that it didn't explain why they were temporarily suspended. Had I been one of those ... I would have looked over the list of "guidelines" then reviewed my blog. If it wasn't something that jumped out at me, I wouldn't have bothered going any farther. And yet, I myself have a handful of blog posts recommendind BR. Then what do I do? Boy, I've been there ... it's quite a humbling experience to have to apologize to your blog readers. It's not an easy thing to do.
I can also feel for everyone who gave him rave reviews, published the widget and highly recommended BR giving John an insane number of people to join in a very short amount of time ... those who now are left with a banned (
or temporarily suspended) account. I can easily see why they wouldn't be so quick to jump at the next latest and greatest.
With all that said ... I guess I can claim myself as one of the few and the proud to uh, what did Dr. Mani call that ... have the "mark of approval" by John Reese
I also have to severly disagree with Mr. Lloyd Lopes. BlogRush is nothing like FFA sites or all the other garbage traffic exchange programs. This is exactly why I
did recommend BR.
Great discussion! Really makes me think even though my blog (so far anyway) hasn't be rejected. Hope they don't include a stupid guidline like PayPerPost did and reject me because it's a "team blog".