BE for sale?

After some considerable thinking about blogexplosion and the way its turning it out one thing keeps popping into the back of my mind. Could it be that blog explosion is designing new templates, paying out its ass for new members to increase traffic so eventually someone will come along and buy the domain name and Jeff and his cohorts can laugh all the way to the bank?

Jeffs primary concern is still tied up in numbers, rankings, how things LOOK etc and honestly if blog explosion was run by different people it would be an excellent service because if blog explosion really cared about the bloggers they would make the necessary changes by getting rid of a certain member of staff who has no public relations what so ever and they would stop trying to own the monopoly and they'd start to build a service for bloggers instead of building a service for revenue.

Interesting.

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Seeing Double

Make your way to Blog Advance's forum and you will see that it started 3 August 2005. More than a month later BE steps in and copies everything yet changes a few words around in a bid to look original. All BE do is update. There would be no new features if they had no one to steal ideas off.

BE has issues with a little healthy competition it seems. The admin staff cheat and threaten members and police the content of their members and are intent upon making every idea done by other exchanges as their own.

BE is like Walmart. They take a great product, decrease its value and then serve it up to the poor schmucks who frequent the site.

I still have a lot of material, but if anyone else would like to contribute, you can contact me on boycott.be@gmail.com Anonymity is assured unless its hate mail, then your ass is mine.

BE Lack Originality

Today I'm not going to point out people that have been shit on by BE. I'm going to point out how shit BE is. IMHO I think that Jeff, the owner of BE has become so obsessed with BA that he is now setting out to become BA. So far he has stolen the idea of a forum from BA and we all know he did because they had their board up and running for a few weeks before BE had one up.

Jeff's excuse was that he had always planned to put a board up but it took a whole month and a half to put it all together. Odd how it happened after the BA forum went up.

Two weeks ago BA were donating to Red Cross for victims of Katrina. Yesterday I received an email/newsletter from BE stating the same thing. Way to go Jeff you forerunner you. Are your days of an original thought over and are you going to add any new features or are you going to just keep updating and copying?

I hear that BA now have a whiteboard up so are you now going to say you had one of those on your to do list too and will it spring up out of nowhere with a 6 week old story behind it?

I read in your boards that someone congratulated you on being creative. I wasn't aware that you had braille blogs now because its obvious that some of your members have a seeing problem.

I also found this humorous:

If you notice the BE forums has an automatic login wrapper with a unified login so that members do not have to login twice.
3855 members refers to the number of members logging into BE since the forums were launched thereby creating a profile on the forums to allow for unified login to happen. Not trying to bend the numbers but the only way we can actually offer integrated logins for the BE forum.

and.

Actually 31580 members on BlogExplosion now.
Adding 200-400 new blogs a day for approval on an average day if you were asking..

Go take a look at how many members BE really have. Nearly 5000 is nothing to sneeze at. Impressive for a year, but its easy to see that some of those members were accrued during the beginning of BE opening and then subsequently forgotten.

Dr. Fil

Dr. Fil is the latest person to delete his account because of the treatment he got from BE.

Information Super-Highway Road Rage

There are also stirrings in blogs that haven't been banned.

Take for instance, this blog entry by Tickles the Tapeworm where he is threatened by a BE staff member. The BE staff member then proceeds to cheat in a battle to prove a point (and still fails).

You can read the rest for yourself, but a person wonders if this type of behavior from a site where you entrust your password and your blog to them is acting ethically.

Does BE know the password to the inner workings of YOUR blog?

Best you check.

Pocketlint

Banned Site #2

Pocketlint

What I discovered about this blog and the going's on, is how much the owners of BE are not completely right in the head. They attacked the owners of Pocketlint right on their blog and for what reason? because Pocketlint spoke out against BE.

Jeff, one of the admin at BE, did something stupid here, he made himself look like a right idiot for the whole blogosphere to see.

The Week That Was

Concerning Your Comment

My Final Thought

Are we beginning to see a trend? Only two popular sites that have been shown and already we see that BE are nothing but dictators who will allow you on their service, as long as you play by their game.

Grain of Salt

Banned Site #1

Grain of Salt

This was one of the first talked about blogs that BE banned from their service. They said it was because she spoke out against them constantly, so what if she did?

She was a regular user, used to frequent their BOTB and use their service a lot, but because she voiced an opinion that didn't go down well with the staff of BE, she was banned.

To make it worse, BE then covered their tracks by telling and showing people what they wanted people to see about why she was banned. But, the transcripts were saved and you can read it in full at her blog.

BE Suspension Transcript

Boycott BE

It seems lately that a "free" Blog traffic service has decided on what bloggers can and can't say on their own blogs. If they don't like your opinions, then they have been banning you from their service.

You speak out about something you dislike about their service and they act like you're a leper. They are also trying to alienate other traffic exchanges by making false accusations against them.

This isn't a service I want to be a part of, it's juvenile how they treat people.

This site is dedicated to those of you who have gone up against this site and lost accounts because of it.

In the interests of not helping them with their linkage and stats, could you refer to them by their initials. It makes them mad (and me happy).