Posted By admin on April 23, 2009
Surprise, surprise! Entrecard is quietly scamming members again. Since sometime in March, Entrecard quietly discontinued a blogging incentive.
Graham Langdon, founder of Entrecard, has long expressed that one of the best ways to drive traffic is to attract traffic, and that should be done with fresh content, visiting blogs and leaving comments in addition to dropping your Entrecard.
That was part of the driving force behind the partnership with SezWho, the now-defunct comment platform.
One of the more successful efforts encouraging Entrecard members to create fresh content was to award 25 EC per blog post up to 3 posts per week, no matter how many blogs you maintain. That’s a maximum of 75 extra credits per week for positive contributions to the blog community.
Now, I can only look back to March 24, but I can safely say that I’ve received zero EC for blog posts since at least that day. There were no announcements in the now-private forum. There were no announcements in the Entrecard blog… heck, nothing’s been updated there since early April.
No, they just quietly stopped awarding the EC hoping no one would notice. Way to go Entrecard.
Granted, Entrecard has a credit inflation issue (to the tune of many millions). They’ve introduced a paid ads system which deflates the value of the drops by up to 50%, since paid ads can run on a widget up to 50% of the time, and the dropper gets no credit for a drop on paid ad.
Look at it this way.
If you generally dropped 50 cards a day (six days a week), were credited up to 75 credits for your posts, you could earn 375 credits on your own efforts. You could count on at least 50% of your drops being reciprocated, so add another 150 credits.
New paid system comes along…
You get credit for 25 cards… but you could get 0, since the software works from the advertiser side, not the dropper side. You no longer earn 75 credits for posting. Your own droppers experience the same problem and they stop reciprocating.
Boom… you’re earning squat!
But Entrecard is taking up space on your blog, showing ads you may or may not approve of, and then treating you like dirt by closing the forum to you unless you’ve sold 400 ads… hellooooo!
So, why don’t I ask Graham what’s happening?
Seems he’s taken a runner. Yep, I’m calling him out. He hasn’t updated his blog since early April. The last time he responded to a comment was April 13. That’s also the last time he bothered to tweet. So… I believe Graham has left the building.
He appears to have left Entrecard in the hands of a 19-year-old kid who has no real people skills, less management skills, and is on a total power trip. Since he’s taken control, Entrecard has gone from a community to concentration camp.
While Andy says he was directed by a higher power… let’s see Graham has left the building and Andy claims to be the “Head Moderator - EC Staff Trainer”, who joined the Entrecard forum on Feb 23. That was about the time Graham was looking for more (new) yes men moderators. The only guy “above” Andy would be “Phirate”, the programmer, and he’s not talking.
So, I’m calling Entrecard dead on arrival, buyer beware, poison, you name it. The card has gone toxic. Members are leaving faster than they’re joining. Don’t believe the crap Andy is feeding you.
The Alexa stats spiked on April 19, the day Shoemoney wrote his stinking piece of excrement review and plug. Tell me… do you see the Entrecard widget on his blog? Ever since that day, the traffic is doing a slow drop. Watch for it to continue to drop, right off the radar.
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