In his well known Blog Eric blamed Getingate for spamming his blog becuase our marketing analysts happened to commented twice on a post praising another commenting tool that has known to submit spam comments as has been claimed here and here. It is the sad fact that many of the users of the other commenting tool decided to desert it after a short oppositely to our tool, which is highly popular relatively to its young age.
Our marketing analyst did not mean to submit 2 identical comments to the blog. It happened just like I am sure it happened to the rest of us, by accident. Of course, that minor detail didn't bother Eric who was quick to judge-and-execute our dedicated marketing analyst and blamed US for spamming his blog!
While this childish argument may sound fascinating for 3 yr olds I do not wish to get into that argument.
I apologized for Eric and invited him to use Getingate's tool, which as I mentioned does not submit any spam comments.
The borad question remained open. While I see "spam" as illegimiate publication containing trash, nonsense, links, or just text outisde of the context of the original post, Eric sees it as any content praising another tool. I support that Eric perfer one-minded readers who do not argue and chant his name in their mornings, agreeing with him on every post. These beliefs may belong to the Web 1.0 age but they have no place today.
It is unfortunate that the term "spam" received such a broad interpetation and disguised the strategy of using spam by our competitors while targetting us. Nontheless, these things happen and it is best to apologize as soon as possible when people are hurt, such as happened with Eric, and I am still sorry for that as none of us meant to hurt him. Unfortunatelly, even my sincere apology has been submitted twice for whatever reason and I can only pray to my personal gods that Eric will not consider this as "spam."
Good night.
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3 comments:
Commenting on someone's blog is not a spam. This Blogger sounds a little whiny. I do'nt think he works for disqus but it seems that he does have an over self esteem, but yeah too bad yo got involved with him. At least he doesn't hate your tool!
I think i agree with you. It is not spam unless its junk or Gibberish or just pointless links. I think you did well and it's nice of you to apologize.
I would like to extend a personal apology to Eric for my multiple submissions on his blog. I confess it was an accident on my part and I never intended to send any sort of "spam" message. I am working with the Getingate team in order to try to get the word out on their Web Commenting System. I hope that Eric will accept my apologize and perhaps give our product a try and provide us with his valuable feedback.
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