Comments on: Blogging Fingers’ Good Name Tainted By RSS Gaming Con Man

By: Shady Services and Faking Social Proof

Shady Services and Faking Social Proof — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:15:27 +0000

[…] Yes, subscriber counts do offer social proof and provide a perception of quality, but they are not a replacement for real authority and valuable content! Certainly not worth paying a dollar per fake subscriber like some services are charging. […]

By: Ryan Shamus

Ryan Shamus — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:32:03 +0000

Wow, everywhere I go, this guy is around! It’ll be interesting to see what happens with this. Sad thing is, people will probably continue to use the service due to the fact that they can’t attract subscribers themselves…

Oh well, we’ll see what happens.

By: Ritu

Ritu — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:49:34 +0000

the snapshot that Cow put in his blog from his feedburner account did make it seem more like a circus rather than a business

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Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:01:32 +0000

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By: Scot

Scot — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:09:18 +0000

That was a bit of linkbait John is using against me.
Of course I do not sign up to your rss subscription with random e-mails– this is a business not a circus.

By: Tibi Puiu

Tibi Puiu — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:28:03 +0000

Dude false identities is not only immoral, but very illegal and for a better term it’s just .. lame.

By: Ritu

Ritu — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:15:16 +0000

I have been about this whole ordeal at Johncow’s blog and I can’t imagine that he is doing this. tell you the truth, I thought about it for a little bit and then again, it is just unethical. I would rather have no subscribers to my blog at all then to pay him and have it boosted.

Besides people don’t start blogs only to sell it. Getting your blog where you want requires time, work and patience.

Scot, you are cutting the same branch on a tree that you are sitting on. you better lay low cause you are getting hit pretty hard. All your income from RSSexplosion for now will be through new bloggers but now the secret is out and since JohnCow showed the email it shows what kind of subscribers you are actually sending their way. So probably stopping this for now would be a good idea

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:33:03 +0000

I almost fell for it. What a fool.