And, by the way, Rob, love the hat. What was the occasion???

Joe I think you are spot on too, we seem to inhabit a bit of a sensationalist sphere. It is necessary to craft controversial titles, content, links even, else we wither on the vine and gain no new readers.

Most of us are starting from a pretty low starting point. We don’t have the benefit of being say an innovator or a well known guru, or whatever other thing it is thats projected us into the stratosphere. We rely on slowly growing our readerships by pandering to at times, the lowest common denominators…

Sheeet, is that the time, im late I gotta run!

After I heard this I had to do a quick post on “How to get banned from mybloglog”. Gotta hit it while the fires hot right

Nice job Robb and its nice meeting you Andy.

I used to go through hell from my development team, because I was the middleman between them and the publishers. The publisher was always asking for small tweaks, sometimes bigger ones.
When you are trying to work to a development schedule, adding tweaks to code in a rush often leads to bugs that would otherwise not have happened, and can put a huge strain on the development timeline.

Every bug can be fixed quickly, but if it is generally not publicised you can stick to your normal release schedule.

The developers of WordPress for instance keep mum about security problems found, and thus they are less exploited by script kiddies.

I know Eric must be working hellish long hours, because he read my MBL post well after midnight in the US.

Outing bugs and attacking MBL has been turned into linkbait. It might even be worthwhile paying hackers to find bugs so you can release details of exploits for links.

You would never have someone posting a list of other people’s Adsense publisher numbers, or writing posts on how those could be used or abused… at least not in public.

“To be clear — we did not ban shoemoney for posting about exploits. Although we would certainly have appreciated that he email us first, it’s his decision where he would like to publish them. We banned him for publishing other people’s data on the site and urging readers to spoof them. On what planet is that not a bannable offense?”

I completely agree with you and I think that discovering these hacks and publishing them on his blog was to big of an opportunity to turn down. It gave him some great attention and now that he is banned it is going to cause even more buzz, more links and more traffic and exposure for him. I wonder if this was the idea all along