Nov 30
Manufacturing Chads
Scandal rocks the blogosphere!
Well, sort of. Truth Laid Bear, who runs the Ecosystem, posted this notice today:
Effective immediately, six weblogs are being put on notice that they are about to be suspended from the Ecosystem. If suspended, their entries will not be displayed on any Ecosystem pages (either by traffic ranking or by links); their links will not count to other weblogs, and their votes will not count in the New Weblog Showcase.
This concerns an effort by the League of Liberals (a.k.a. Blogs I Never Read) to game the system to push their ratings higher by installing multiple Sitemeter accounts on their blogs so that a hit on one registers on all the others.
How devious. How dumb. If you want to artificially inflate your Sitemeter readings, just disable the IP blocking and hit your site a hundred — nay, a thousand — times a day. Watch your stats rocket up! You are like, so sick! (I mean, like, in the Biblical sense.)
I think it’s rich that someone like Rush Limbaughtomy is at the centre of this little nest of corruption. Mr. Limbaughtomy, as you might guess, devotes a lot of time and effort to denouncing Rush Limbaugh’s sins, real or perceived. Indeed it seems to be something of an obsession with him.
By my count, though, Limbaugh is guilty of only two of the Seven Deadlies: Gluttony and Lust. (Loosely encompassing the pleasures of the Body.)
Whereas Limbaughtomy would seem to trip the wire on the remaining five: Pride, Greed, Anger, Envy, and Sloth. all crimes of the Mind. For some stupid blogging bragging rights.
So who’s the hypocrite now?
3 Comments so far
“This concerns an effort by the League of Liberals (a.k.a. Blogs I Never Read) to game the system…”
No, it’s an effort by a tiny number of the League members. Most of the League members have at least expressed discomfort with these tactics, and many outright condemnation.
—Kynn
Point taken, Kynn. I have read some of your blogs and you guys can be honest and funny too. I just get annoyed when I see people gaming any system, because I try to be honest, and I expect others to play fair too.
I am not really sure why they bothered. While the Ecosystem is neat, its far from accurate. I mean this blog gets about 3.5k hits a day yet we are 530th. Its fun but what is the point of getting so uptight about it you have to cheat?