The social networking site MUTI has a clique that is determined to remove business posts. Sadly I get some good traffic from Muti despite the crime of self promotion. I get that Social networking allows people to vote for or against sites. I was told by a regular that he would vote against against any people in my networks efforts, because in his words, the submissions are purely to drive traffic. Hallelujah, actually NO, does he understand why people promote their sites on MUTI? To drive traffic, thats why everyone uses Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Fark et al, to get their message seen.
So a few people have decided that posting your own site is Taboo and the rest must fall in. In my opinion a smallish group of spammers could hijack most of the SA aggregators and Social networking sites but have not bothered because the rewards are not worth the effort. There are those legitimately using the systems to, yes shock horror, drive traffic without any abuse of the system and there are a group of individuals opposing self promotion on the web voting against them. It seems that the voting anti network is determined to create a site without any valuable how to content. According to their benchmark every article on this site and any of those within this network are spam. This site designed to sell websites and offering free tutorials on getting traffic has no value because all the content is SPAM.
These people have become very important in their own minds, legends in their own lunchtime so to speak and feel that with their importance comes the right to decide who else gets to display their concepts and ideas on MUTI. Maybe they should start in on the aggregators and independant blog sites. They should decide who writes what and what may be posted. It seems that you as an individual can break an unwritten law and sin by promoting your own materials. I am sorry, In my world any author, artist, teacher that does not promote their own work will starve. If the work fails the tests of value, then yes demote it, but remember because you perceive it to have no value or interest, would I feel the same? Personally I hate blogs with fluffy kitties and inane slogans but I make the assumption that they proliferate because other people like them. Should I agitate to remove them from the web because they offend me? OR should I just bypass them.
There was a time when I got seriously unhappy about a certain type of blog and I would fight them. Seriously the only person sweating about that was me and a few others. If you don’t like it move on. Find something you do. I found a great tool called stumble upon. Boy, you can move from site to site better than channel hopping on the telly. You can teach it not to serve you stuff you don’t like. Why get unhappy because someone posted something that does not grab you? Move on.
My prediction. MUTI is going to die because the lack of interest generated when all the stuff is the same because it suits the clique, everyone else will move on. Someone suggested that I find a community more suited to my needs. I would like to think that many MUTI readers would love info about getting more traffic to their sites and blogs, at the same time I am guessing there are as many who couldn’t give a hoot.
Three people were today accused of being one because they use the same interface. Are all the MWEB bloggers the same person because they use the same interface? Maybe all the citizen bloggers are the same person. Get a clue.
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Tags: idiots who want to rule the internet, MUTI Self promotion Spam