Comments on: MyBlogLog Community Mass Message SPAM Controversy

By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:40:40 +0000

Ian,

Thanks for taking the time to visit and comment … for a while I actually thought you guys decided to ignore our voices silly me.

I have provided a feedback on your post and am glad you have given us option to opt-out of ALL community messages (done on my profile already). Now what we need is an option to opt-in to select few … something similar to double opt-in mailist.

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:42:31 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming. A quick note to let you know that the team pushed out a release earlier today that allows you to opt-out of Community Message emails. You can select it as an option at the bottom of your Profile page. While it’s not exactly what you were suggesting, we felt the email was the biggest source of headache so we tackled that one.

For more details, see my post on the MyBlogLog blog:

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/at-your-service.html

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:00:23 +0000

Hi Alex,
Hopefully MBL will take note of what the community users think of their latest brainwave and provide an opt-out option……it was a bad idea in the form they presented it in.
Let’s wait and see.
All the best my friend,
Colin

By: Avinash

Avinash — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:21:52 +0000

My pleasure, Alex! I’m glad that you wrote about this on your blog. I think, the tiny spark is now strong enough to burn a complete trail. I hope you get what I mean.

People are coming ahead and writing about this on their blog and I believe that it’s not going to stop if an opt-out option isn’t added in the MBL system. I can only hope that the MBL folks are going to add an opt-out option.

Cheers!
- Avi

By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:12:10 +0000

Thanks to everyone for commenting.

I guess today is the day we MIGHT find out what they decided. Their original statement was that they will let it run for a week (today is The Day) and see community reaction.

Cross our fingers guys! Cheers.

By: Sephy's Platzish

Sephy's Platzish — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:38:40 +0000

MyBlogLog: Enabling Spammers…

The image at right is a sign of my commitment to not participate in the newest so-called “feature” of MyBlogLog – community messaging. It would be fine if it was just left at that, where messages from……

By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:37:43 +0000

@ Rob, after I have unsubscribed and deleted few early messages I don’t seem to get the spam now but I ended up leaving a few communities in first days because of that.

@ Avi, I guess we will see how they will take it. Their promise was to act after a “week test” based on community feedback. Today is day 5. I think they had plenty of feedback, considering that majority of users probably don’t even know they can visit MBL blog to leave it. I know it wasn’t too obvious to me at first …

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Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:09:05 +0000

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By: Avinash

Avinash — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:53:17 +0000

Alex,

You’ve made pretty strong points. I’ve been saying since the start that if they provide an opt out option, this mass messaging feature is great. Without an opt out option, they are just ignoring the CAN-SPAM Act.

In the past couple of days, I’ve noticed that most of the old MBL members have joined at least 300 or more communities. If Eric and his team doesn’t accept that his response and reaction was logically too poor to be posted on a corporate blog, I’m personally going to contact all these thousands of MBL members who are the members of 300 or more communities, providing a link to the MBL post in which Eric made 4 points.

The same people who are getting insulted now helped MyBlogLog reach a position where Yahoo! bought them and now see MBL team’s reaction. Anyways, we’ll see what happens. Maybe MBL wants to be more popular using a piss-the-members-off-marketing-trick.

- Avi

By: rob

rob — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:44:12 +0000

Well said Alex, I obviously agree with what you are saying too.

Im getting a few of these messages appear on my page, most are just spammy crap.

But at least Im not getting mass emails no more (ive turned the option off)