You might have noticed... or not... that the ads are now gone from my blog. I never really liked the idea in the first place, only agreeing to display them on the promise of making my fortune without having to do all the hard work. But... the whole $9 something that I've raked in since the ads first appeared on my blog just doesn't seem to make up for the mess that my blog was. (Last month's takings amounted to a whole 18c... so far this month... zilch).
So... good-bye to commercialism... good-bye to capitalism... and all hail the return of anarchy and not selling out. I hope the page looks a bit neater now, at least.
....I get sick of them all, not yours in particular. I have been getting a rash of those weird emails lately - I wonder do they have anything to do with my inadvertently opening some of the new adver-blogs? The Guru would know, for sure - but the timing is suspicious. I wish we could be rid of them - this morning all ten recently updated blogs are cons.
Support is trying to get rid of these spammers, but it is very time consuming. And when one is deleted they just set up another one. It's very hard to police when there's not too many people doing it. There is only so many hours in a day. But... just a thought... some of you are online a fair bit, especially in the mornings. Why don't you offer support some help? If you were shown how to delete these blogs you could get rid of them when you see them. If their ads are being deleted as soon as they're up it might prove to be too much hassle for them to continue. There are certain of us who would be trustworthy enough to do this little job, I'm sure. Do you think that'd work?
And nothing would give me more pleasure than zapping them. I doubt that blognow would give us that privilege, but I'll think about it further. I have been reposting my blogs every time I see the spam in an attempt to drive them off the bottom. The problem with this is there are other bloggers sandwiched in between the spam who I don't want to get rid of.
Beats me why the spammers persevere. I wouldn't have thought the revenue they get from blognow hits would amount to much.
Edited by snowy on Tuesday 23 January 2007 at 2:56 PM
But only for the support of the bloggers meeting in March. If they tell me how to do it, I could spend the early hours happily deleting in the States until then at least.
(By the way, still happening, just still waiting on them to keep coming through)
So, we'll see what happens. In the meantime Kitty, Marcel may be happy for you to do it. Appropriate really. After all, it's coming from your side of town...;o)
Marcel has replied that it is not possible to give me the access to the system to zap spammers, which I fully expected. He says that it may be possible to incorporate this facility in the future, but no promises.
... and now you might get them thinking. It would be a useful tool in the hands of someone responsible. And if support could be assured that the responsible blogger were not going to just delete blogs willy-nilly it could be very useful to them too... not to mention time-saving...
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