Canadian Forum Bosses and Bullies Full of Biases and Mean Spirits
Redflagdeals.com - Deals? Junk? You get what you waste your time for. Today, I e-mailed the management of a relatively high-profile Canadian forum whose sole purpose is to rake in money from advertisers while promoting free or discounted samples and sales promotions. The site masquerades as generosity incarnate, while its advertisers' relatives and minions masquerade as "red-flag" bargain hunters who want to waste their free time posting the products of multi-billion dollar corporations for nothing. (In addition, I sent copies of this e-mail to the Better Business Bureau.)
Thank you for responding to my request that you remove my posts from your forum. However, except for one [obviously trivial and absolutely questionable] warning last spring, soon after I joined the forum, I was NOT told that I was trying to exploit the forum for monetary gain, and 99% of my posts (or maybe all but one or two) remained on the forum as original threads, with both your members and one moderator adding positive and supportive comments and additions. As far as money goes, I only began advertising last April or May and have only made around $65 total [but it is pending], with 95% of that coming from Google Adsense (and I'm sure that 99.9% of those clicks on Adsense did not come from members of [your forum] . . . I have my own . . . following . . . who enter my site in more direct ways). If I was concerned about making click and/or referral money off your members, I would not have asked you to remove my posts . . . they contained links to my sites.
Since you enjoy exaggerating my actions, I am happy to avoid your forum (I usually avoid forums anyway, as they contain a lot of crap and very little of value.) At 51 years of age (and with my Internet activity serving as a subjective experiment that will later contribute to my hardcopy writing in the printed media), I am not particularly concerned about forums. And I find that in the real world, in the malls and on the street, business people are far more courteous and mature and professional (they don't act like peevish teenagers).
No one who knows me would have anything to do with [your forum]. (My friends and connections are very, very well connected to the rich or the famous or to Microsoft. We have all contributed quite a lot to Canada.) Other than our concerns re. investments (and we don't invest with the likes of [you]), we don't really care about . . .
Other than $60 worth of coffee change, my money does not arise from my Internet activities.
Max Ledbetter, Ph.D.
12 September 2005: Like I said above, I e-mailed copies of my complaint re. redflagdeals.com to the Better Business Bureau. Today the Better Business Bureau replied:
If you wish to place a complaint please do so through the web or if this is for our information only, thank you.
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As part of "recent hosting news" (30 June 2005), on http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/wordpress/?page_id=82, I wrote,
In fact, quite a few web hosts and forum leaders and webmasters (everywhere) resort to bully tactics and level slanderous accusations at anyone who complains. I have seen this type of behavior many times in . . . British Columbia, since I spent a number of years out there risking my life while studying their salmon fishery (see http://freepgs.com/ledbetter/).
Note: Perhaps the best way to avoid all the forum crud during a web search is to add the phrase -forum -forums to the search queries (i.e., to the search questions) you type into the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search boxes.
Or you can add -blog -blogs to the search queries (i.e., to the search questions) you type into the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search boxes.
Here is what the first page of "Free Web Hosting Reviewed" looked like on 18 August 2005: http://astonishing.memebot.com/weblog/. forum redflagdeals.com
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