John Cow dot COM - Latest Comments in This Months Stupid Cow Award

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almir — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:18:38 -0000

well think of it in this way many things online are so just be on the look out for such practices

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almir — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:16:42 -0000

i certainly agree i find it wrong considering its terrible for anyone to use such practices in order to gain or benefit from them

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almir — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:14:03 -0000

sad thing is they not really worried about it because their looking to make a quick buck than they go ahead and come up with another great idea but yet terrible one since it will fake out others

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Jenny — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:06:03 -0000

*sings* how low can you go?!

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Neotrepreneur — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:39:51 -0000

Great job for exposing that stupid site.

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high tech — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:39:35 -0000

:)))

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Indra Diky — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:34:05 -0000

i don't care about scot and his stupid idea.

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Girish a.k.a KiHack — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:53:25 -0000

John Chow is gonna be furious with these buffoons, I'm sure he doesn't condone any such behaviour.

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Rampantheart — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:47:29 -0000

I didn't know such people even existed!Thanks a lot for bringing such shameful act into the limelight!I stumbled upon this post and i must say i find your weblog very interesting!;)

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Jamaipanese — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:44:43 -0000

an award well deserved :evil:

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Jon Waraas — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:28:23 -0000

I wish the kid didn't use my service (buyblogcomments) in his email. Its like he is trying to feed off all the bad hype my company produced.

I really don't like how he used John Chow. Not very creative at all, now a lot of people wont take his new company serious.

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Caroline Middlebrook — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:22:48 -0000

Lol that's a nice expose :)

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John Cow — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:42:23 -0000

Thanks for the warning TDave, seems that plugin is broken. And no, we didn't win the award for that little joke. But thanks for thinking of us!

Re: This Months Stupid Cow Award

TDave — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:09:54 -0000

While I think faking/semi-faking an email is ridiculous, let's not forget the little hoax you and John Chow pulled about someone threatening a lawsuit against johncow.com. Did you get the first Stupid Cow award for that one :?:

P.S. What's up with prechecking the "subscribe to comments by email" box without even labeling it?

Re: This Months Stupid Cow Award

Prince John — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:44:41 -0000

Author: A Nony Mouse
Comment:
Does anyone even care about the # of RSS subscribers? I don't use the "counter" chicklet for the same reason that I don't use a hit counter. In my opinion, neither of them are particularly credible since they can be so easily faked.

Sure, Nony Mouse, it will be time for to take the RSS subscriber count off the subscription chicklet. That number just lose its shine and legit bloggers too will have to answer questions like how many of these subscribers are 'real'.

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jessica — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:02:25 -0000

Wait just a cotton pickin' second. That email I got from John Chow wasn't real? Next thing I know, you'll be telling me that the check I sent to Nigeria to help me claim my dead relative's money is a scam. Good think I bought the Brooklyn Bridge last week.

To me, if you change your email name to be someone else, and use their identity to falsly promote you business - everything that comes of that is fruit from the poisonous tree.

If you can't get people to consider your product or service without misleading them - how good can it be?

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fatgadget — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:16:49 -0000

@ Frank C

It could be done easily, I suspect that what he is doing is using one domain name and the email coming through to catchall, then he just clicks on the feedburner confirmation in the email and the subscriber is live.

Just one problem, when the person or company who is buying your blog wan'ts full details of your rss subscribers how do you explain the 10,000 subscribers on the same domain name ?

:roll:

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jfcarr — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:32:55 -0000

It's pretty obvious that this kind of thing can be done easily through email subscriptions.

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Julio Medina — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:25:24 -0000

Why would you pay for "fake" readers? If you are that "desperate" for readers you can create fake accounts on your own for free. But here is a great alternative. Blog about stuff people are interested in and attract your own crowd! I know that sounds out there, LOL but maybe if you need "fake readers" you should not be blogging. :roll: :!: :shock: :smile: :mrgreen:

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DayJobNuker (Bruce) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:34:58 -0000

Maybe this should end so that the RSS Explosion guy doesn't get anymore exposure on this thread

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A Nony Mouse — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:52:05 -0000

Does anyone even care about the # of RSS subscribers? I don't use the "counter" chicklet for the same reason that I don't use a hit counter. In my opinion, neither of them are particularly credible since they can be so easily faked.

Why bother with this chump's hack when you can just stick up a gif that says you've got 50,000 RSS subscribers? Anyone who is going to subscribe to a blog "because everyone else does" isn't going to bother to see if the subscriber count is legit, so a spoofed count will work just as well and you won't tick off Feedburner.

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chipseo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:38:31 -0000

I would have to agree, to say that blogs have no credibility is throwing a big blanket over a lot of people's hard work. As I recall, the BlogWorld Expo looked like it was a huge success, and I am gaging that from the live news reports from Fox News as they reported from the floor of the convention.

Everyone may not care for FNC but I would say they are pretty legit, and they interviewed a bunch of bloggers and carried the story for several days.

There are more blogs than just MMO blogs, and many of them have a ton of credibility in the main stream media, not to mention the ones already spoken for above. Scott

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Fatgadget — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:26:42 -0000

@RSS Explosion

If blogs have no credability, how come the likes of Darrewn Rowse, John Chow and Shoemoney are all accepted by the mainstream media and have all been featured in large publications?

How come one article on Engadget (all be it wrong), sent Apple's stock into a nosedive on the stock exchanges around the world

You talk about marketing in one of your earlier posts, is it good marketing to state that the very people you are trying to obtain as your customers have no credability to the mainstream media.

The only one lacking any credability here is you and your pathetic attempt to manipulate a useful tool for bloggers and itwould be interesting to see how Google and Feedburner view 'unique service'

Rather than attempting to scam something, why dont you put your time and effort into something that would actually be of a benefit to people.

Re: This Months Stupid Cow Award

Allyn Paul — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:02:25 -0000

To exploded RSS hawker: I see your point about readership building credibility. Would-be readers want to be a part of something successful, and a big number showing on the RSS readers box draws them in. It's the bandwagon theory. (I do real marketing on the outside)
However, anything that is faked will eventually come crashing down. Don't you know that print media outlets get fined and sued over inflating subscriber numbers?
Finally, I am not asking for your proprietary secrets. I am asking "are real people getting the feed and reading it" when you generate them.
Why woul you not offer full disclosure unless you know you are shady?

Re: This Months Stupid Cow Award

Wayne Liew — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:26:30 -0000

This is MADNESS! Everything from traffic to now, RSS subscription numbers can be flawed. Money does all the magic here. Will there be any more space more bloggers with pure quality.

Maybe we should let this dude do his business, do what he likes to do. I know he will get business (perhaps many) but what goes around comes around, we shall see... :mrgreen: Actually, I quite like the way you pitch probloggers, daring and skilful explanation after everything was poked out of your bag. :mrgreen: