Comments on: Entrecard Members Against SocialSpark Sponsor Ad

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:23:25 +0000

Well, since my blog got called out in the comments and apparently in the overall forum thread I feel I must say something at least.

Jude - I like your rational approach to this issue. You have a well written, well thought out blog post here. Thank you.

Bendz - You left me a comment stating, “Dude, Social Spark is killing your blog.” Not exactly helpful in any way. If you had explained to me that you had a problem dropping your car on my blog then I could have rectified the situation.

You see, the social spark banner was not the issue. No, it loads pretty quickly. It added no load time to my blog other than you had to click close. If anyone was really at my blog to read my content and not just power drop then this should not have been an issue. It only happens the first time that you come to my blog.

The real issue was some code that I screwed up right above the EC widget. That is all. The social spark sponsorship banner was NOT the issue. There are plenty of Social Spark Testers who have the banner. I drop on them daily.

Since no one really contacted me about the issue but rather started a thread in the forum I am more than a little annoyed. I’m seeing posts about this everywhere too. And yet I have made a ton of changes to my blog to speed it up and while I no longer have the banner on my blog (sponsorship time ran out - You can set how long to sponsor your blog) I WILL be adding it back the next time there is a sponsorship I would like to have.

If anyone had an issue with my blog then they should have explained the issue to me directly.

By: Jude

Jude — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:02:56 +0000

I’m looking forward to SocialSparks and I have to say the bar on the bottom didn’t stop me from dropping any cards, but I was using IE. The bar on the bottom didn’t bother me and those that choose to use it I think is fine.

By: Melo

Melo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:32:03 +0000

I believe what you all saw was a Blog Sponsorshop bar. It’s optional. You can choose it or not.

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:28:25 +0000

And I thought I was the only one who hated the music - takes hours to load if like me you only half a mega nothing of broadband and it’s so damned intrusive!

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:18:09 +0000

I almost turned that voice ads (pay per play) on.. til I realize how pissed my readers will be.. it’s just not worth it for a few cents

By: Jude

Jude — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:13:38 +0000

Hi Bendzg,
I also get very annoyed with all those pop and rolling in your face ads and I have to always keep my audio off because instant playing music and ppplay audio ads set me on edge.

By: bendzg

bendzg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:36:53 +0000

the problem with the socialsparks is its in-your-face widgets that interferes with the entrecard widget. Benspark’s blog for example has SS on his blog and try as I may, I can’t drop on him. I guess this is why others don’t like it.

Most of us at EC knows how to make money online and we are just annoyed when other bloggers make some by annoying us with pop-up ads, pop-under ads and that horrific PayPerPlay ad