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Bashing bloggers without a cause

I was going through my RSS feeds today and I found an interesting blog post from Shivanand Sharma as BinaryTurf.com. He went into a rant about how Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.net is basically scamming his visitors and putting out ... bad advice just to make money. He complained that there's no about page (lie), no vision for his website (lie) and no frontpage (lie). I mean it only took me 30 seconds to find these links so I'm not sure how Shivanand missed them.

He also said he was going to remove the bloggeries post within 24 hours "for obvious reasons", which I have a real problem with. If you're going to bash somebody like this, either have the balls to keep your opinion up, or shut up.

Right after I tried to leave a comment on his blog, the post was removed. Luckily there's this cool "cache" feature in most browsers that let me retrieve his post and share it with you. Click the picture below to see the full screenshot.



As far as his claim about taking advantage of unsuspecting visitors, how is this any different than any ad displayed on any other website? Bloggers are trying to make a living doing what they love, and Darren is no different. If a user happens to buy a camera through his website, why shouldn't he get a cut? If this truly was a spam website, people wouldn't keep coming back to visit his blog, but they do, and Darren isn't forcing them to come back.

Not every website on the internet has to be exactly the same. Give Darren credit for coming up with a unique design that keeps his readers interested.And if you're going to post something like this, don't get scared and remove the post. Have the balls to stand by what you said and what you believe.

Update: The post is back online.

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