I’m sure that screenshot speaks a thousand word!
I was doing my reciprocate drop to a site and found a link to this “wonderful” site! It actually has our Entrecard widgets on there so that people can drop their cards easily in one central location!
This may sound great and useful, but it defeats the purpose of the whole Entrecard community!! We go to other members’ sites and drop our card there! We visit, read their posts, make comments, and make friends with them! Although we sometimes drop like there’s no tomorrow, still we visit and sometimes we read!
This site gets a big thumb down for me!
And if you think that “What’s the big deal?” “Why does this guy get angry for nothing?”. Well if your widget is there, you are supposed to be as mad as me! I honestly was tempted to do some dropping there, but hey, don’t be selfish! You don’t want us to drop our cards to your widget using this way too, do you?
Your opinion, guys?
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I’m not a big fan of that site either. I don’t like it when people take the easy way out of earning real “money” (or EC in our cases) so I find the site despicable.
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Great find Michael! Thanks for posting the info here and on the forums.
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I hate this idea as well I have to admit! I am going to look if my widget is there, but even if it isn’t this site takes away the purpose of using Entrecard.
I wonder if there is anyway to get our widgets taken off? If mine is there, I may politely ask for it to be removed.
I’m with you, Maria!
Don’t worry guys, the site now displays: “Temporary out of services! Sorry for inconvenient!”.
I and a few people left quite harsh comments earlier about the site and it seems that the site owner has realized (hopefully) his/her mistakes in putting the site up!
I totally agree with you and totally disagree with the website.. but I wonder how could the maker of the site combine so many entrecards altogether?
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Interesting post. I came here from your thread in the forum. I agree that such a technique, while creative, defeats the purpose of Entrecard.
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Wow, that stinks. I hadn’t seen that site for myself. When I signed up for Entrecard I admit I was just trying to increase the traffic to my blog, but now that I’ve been on here for a couple of weeks I’ll admit that I’ve really enjoyed reading some of the blogs I’ve found. It’s sad that some people are trying to circumvent the system.
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I think everyone is over reacting to this site. If you really don’t like the site you shouldn’t write about it because good press or bad press, it is press. You are promoting it intentionally or unintentionally.
it does defeat the purpose. No more blog hopping, there goes the viewers all gone.
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I agree Michael. The site really defeats the purpose of the entire community. I have found many interesting posts while on a ‘dropping spree’ and met different people and sites like the once you mentioned just defeat the purpose…you may as well just ask for 300 credits for free. I think many members really dislike sites like that.
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I hope that user gets banned forever >.<
But how could the site be able to do that? Isn’t the Entrecard script checking the referrer string?
Terrific find–thanks for finding and reporting it. I hate it when people try to cheat. I will now think of you as Michael Aulia, Whistleblower Extraordinaire!
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If you really don’t like the site you shouldn’t write about it because good press or bad press, it is press. You are promoting it intentionally or unintentionally.
Not really. As you can see on my post, I didn’t put any URL there at all.
I believe the site owner didn’t mean any harm (based on reading his comments) and was trying to help out people. He/she probably just didn’t realize it until I and Margaret (from eyespi20.com) pointed it out
Not the first time something like this happened.
Just report it to phirate immediately and he will sort things out.
Graham and phirate really need to come up with a set of proper Terms of Service or Codes of Conduct for EntreCard so they can just take appropriate measures when such incidents occur.
Deimos Tel`Arins last blog post..Silent Thoughts – Destitution
I had never seen that site before you post about it and I agree with you that it defeats the entire concept behind Entrecard.
Probably the site’s owner just wanted to get some extra traffic for him/herself (who doesn’t?). But as Deimos said, it should be good that Graham and Phirate sharpen their terms of service.
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thats great can i have link to this site??
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wow glad that guys sites down i hate people like that try to cheat the entrecard system
I was clicking through to say “make sure you report it” but sounds like everything is in hand. Well done!
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Since Entrecard gets popular, there are a lot of users try to cheat the system. They create applications so that they can drop the cards faster. This is the main reason which makes me feel disappointed about Entrecard community. Hope Entrecard can take actions towards such websites/members, else i think more and more members will leave Entrecard soon.
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Have you make a report to Entrecard? Make sure this fellow get banned forever.
I posted it in the forum and Phirate responded a few minutes after: “We certainly can do something about it *whistles cheerfully*”
@Abhishek: Not really a good idea to post the URL here (to protect everyone and the owner of the site). There’s nothing there now anyway, except for the temporary out of service text.
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That’s crap! That’s my blog’s Entrecard widget in the middle of your screenshot! Boo! Ruined! I call shenanigans.
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Huh?
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Really great post as always Michael. I am not a fan of this site anyway…hope it gets banned
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This was done before by widget surf but was taken down. bloggers can’t visit our site anymore and get our post more exposure if this carry on. Thanks for Sharing this Michael.
I am sure this will be added on the list of the cheater that’s been banned (I’d like to see that!, I hope there is a hall of shame in the Entrecard)
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I should have been more active in our local bloggers forum. I just discovered that the creator of this site is speaks the same language as I do, probably living in the same city where I am right now. Very resourceful, always as expected from our people
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Damn.. this site will kill the perfect entrecard system!
Try telling that to vkeong. -_-
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There are a lot of ways, in which this is bad.
Come on, the whole purpose of entrecard is link exchange, why just drop for credits?
I feel that sites like these, and campaigns that scream “Get 300 drops a day, easy” should be shut down.
Come on, that defies the whole purpose and meaning of the entrecard site and service…
Good find, and I’m sure the widgets can be blocked from certain websites/ip’s , that ‘s why they can stop people like the creator of that site.
Cheers.
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@Deimos: Who’s vkeong?
According to Phirate in the forum, it’s pretty easy to disable the widgets, although it’ll be a quicker process if we help reporting sites like these.
Someone in the forum reported that another of exactly the same site has appeared on a different domain lol.
These people don’t quit, eh?
You guys need to catch up! This site has been down for awhile now.
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haha I didn’t see this post.. I guess this is the world we live in!
People are making a decent buck selling these entrecard credits so it’s bound to happen again!
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The site I was referring to earlier is not actually the site being reported by Michael. My bad.
The owner of the site (who is a member of our local blogging group) wrote that he actually got the idea from Michael’s post.
Isles Techs last blog post..How to increase Entrecard reciprocal drops
Wow, I had no idea. I knew that spammers were causing mischief with Entrecard, now this. I wonder what action, if any, the Big E can take against a site like this one?
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a pretty cool idea..
.. but, im not anymore active with “E”..
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@Michael Aulia:
If you are interested, the story is here:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/675719
Cheers!
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@Rodel: Why not?
it’s taking a lot of your time? (mine has, honestly)
@Deimos:
it really is something, eh? I guess you can’t do anything more about it. You better inform Google about the clicks though before you get banned
This is something! How did he do that? Its unfair for us who do it the hard way… tsk tsk tsk
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We gonna bombard them
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I have found another entrecard member blog with only one page content like this displaying members card image in one page….hard to load that page to drop my card, so I may skip it when doing recipros
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Good call, Shearyadi (Suryadi) – Indonesian name, I presume?
You can be the bad guy (or a good guy?) and let phirate knows about the site and he’ll shut it down in no time and help the Entrecard community!
They might get ec credits a lot! but still entrecard is not just for dropping only its more likely a community thats my opinion.
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its good that site was down. which was killing our lovely community. great work keep it up.
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This is example for the reason: why i think EC is the good way for increase your “hit”
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I can make 300+ drops in a single page with a 3 lines of php code.