Everybody hurts... sometimes
Here's the thing. A lot of people I respect immensely have written in to tell me that I screwed up, and after a point, it becomes impossible to avoid the truth. We banned Shoemoney originally to keep him from updating his list of User IDs on Wednesday night, which I think was the right thing to do. But after fixing the exploit, I should have unbanned him and thanked him for finding it. But I didn't. I screwed up.
Shoemoney's picture is now featured on our Members page, we unbanned his IP address, and we at MyBlogLog hope to return to the constructive dialog that we once had. Like others who have apologized for their contribution to this controversy, we believe in redemption and hope ShoeMoney does as well.
Nice move Eric. Your passion around the business drove your initial instincts, and it is great to see you are flexible enough to see you were off base.
Posted by: Willan Johnson | February 23, 2007 at 11:34 PM
I really admire your attitude towards this whole business, Eric!
Posted by: AL | February 24, 2007 at 12:23 AM
Good move.
Posted by: Ivan Pope | February 24, 2007 at 02:17 AM
Thats a real good step.
Posted by: Arpit | February 24, 2007 at 07:54 AM
Bug fixed, case closed. Great job!
Posted by: ilker | February 24, 2007 at 08:31 AM
Appreciate your honesty! Keep up the great work you guys are doing!!
Posted by: tomo | February 24, 2007 at 09:44 AM
Good deal.
Posted by: Sprague Dawley | February 24, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Eric,
When do you sleep? I see you everywhere! MBL is lucky to have you. Not sure you needed to apologize - you were obviously more concerned about the other bloggers than Shoemoney. I admire that. It's nice to have someone looking out for the little guy.
Regards,
Doug
Posted by: Doug Karr | February 24, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Great news, now let's get back to the business of loving mybloglog, because it still is awesome.
Posted by: Jim Kukral | February 24, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Nice job Eric - you handled the whole situation very well in my mind.
Posted by: Drew Meyers | February 24, 2007 at 01:19 PM
Good move!
Posted by: Pranav Chavda | February 24, 2007 at 01:50 PM
Its great to see a company which is owned by such a massive organisation listening to its users and doing the right thing. Its a great day all round with Shoemoney being reinstated, Me winning $20 on the lotto and to top it all of I hear MYBlogLog are going to make me a featured user* (*go on please :) leebandoni)
Posted by: Lee Bandoni | February 24, 2007 at 01:54 PM
You guys are apologizing over this, but what about the much larger issue of Yahoo and MBL tracking every MBL users's AdSense statistics?
http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/02/23/mybloglog-tracks-your-visitors-ad-clicks/
Posted by: Mike Rundle | February 24, 2007 at 02:00 PM
Why would MBL apologize over a public feature of the MBL tracker, Mike? That entire post by "ddn" is ridiculous. MBL never hid the fact that they track ad clicks. I think it's hilarious that they even made a little video "proving" that ad clicks are tracked when all they had to do was log into their click log @ MBL!
Posted by: Matt | February 24, 2007 at 03:33 PM
Great move.
Posted by: Matthew Chen | February 24, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Yeah, that's an attitude. Nice move, Eric.
Posted by: Eris Ristemena | February 24, 2007 at 06:24 PM
I think you act well while it is going on to you...sometimes it could be like that,happen under uncontroll situation...hurmmm...
Posted by: Shudai | February 24, 2007 at 07:25 PM
Wow... nice work. And good luck. And this may just have pushed me to sign on.
Posted by: John Andrews | February 24, 2007 at 09:52 PM
Well done. Glad the spamming got sorted as well. The honesty worked well. Hope the next period will be less hectic. Break a leg. I'm adding your feed reader.
Posted by: Don Crowley | February 25, 2007 at 03:23 AM
MyBlogLog rocks! Way to reach out to the community. Now if we could only get the president to be so magnaminous.
Posted by: David Temple | February 25, 2007 at 07:49 AM
At least it's Fixed..and no more exploits!
Thank God for that!
Good to see the earth come back to it's senses though
Azrin @ http://azrin.net
Posted by: azrin | February 25, 2007 at 11:44 AM
If Shoemoney wants a job at MyBlogLog, he needs to apply and they need to decide. This is getting as ridiculous as David Gorman from ModBlog having to dance around some of the issues between his friends choices; as Admin there; and the members who shot holes in blog rights and censorship.
Business is business, namebrand is namebrand, and opportunity elsewhere is what you seek if you don't like being with someone or group.
Course people'd rant, just like they did when MyBlogLog got things under control. They'll do it again.
If you're making everyone happy all of the time, you're not doing your job.
Welcome to the next level, guys.
Posted by: JohnC | February 25, 2007 at 01:38 PM
brave move. we all screwed up sometimes.
but not much that willing to admit it ^^
great
Posted by: qureyoon | February 25, 2007 at 07:53 PM
I did post a similar comment to this on shoemoneys blog but he decided to remove the comment and then ban me. How ironic.
I don't think he deserves an apology of any sorts. He was actively trying to exploit your system and lead others to do the same. It is these kind of actions which can cause a service to go completely down hill with users feeling insecure.
He has acted hard done by but if he really wanted to help then he could have told you directly and let you fix the problem... especially since you let him use your system to play his little games.
Posted by: Esrun | February 26, 2007 at 01:21 AM
So, what happened to the click tags?
Posted by: BlueSkyHunter | February 26, 2007 at 05:36 PM