Comments on: You Sphinn Me Right Round, Baby

By: deloresdefacto

deloresdefacto — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:11:00 +0000

Thanks for commenting on this, Steve. Maybe with enough complaints, they’ll fix up their policies.

By: Steve Patterson

Steve Patterson — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:47:15 +0000

You are not the only one. They did it to me too.
I am going to remove the icon from my post with my social bookmarking. I won’t support or refer people to them anymore. Thanks for this post.

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I remembered, hey, I forgot to get her picture « Delor.es.Defacto — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:08:33 +0000

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By: deloresdefacto

deloresdefacto — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:04:19 +0000

“Delores never really had anything bad to say about Sphinn.”
Thanks again. I couldn’t say anything bad about them since I wasn’t able to use Sphinn. I’m glad to get some answers and I look forward to the Social Bookmarking post.

By: Matthew Henrickson

Matthew Henrickson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:52:35 +0000

Delores never really had anything bad to say about Sphinn, just never got any answers.

The obvious best thing to do was post about it, all the confusion was cleared up. This also should show new users to be careful what you submit.

I have an upcoming post about Social Bookmarking sites etc that should serve our readers

By: deloresdefacto

deloresdefacto — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:00:04 +0000

Thanks Matthew.

I’m actually very astonished by Shady’s remark that I can, in fact, submit my own links. Of course Sphinn never explained that to me so you’re the only one who’s given me a straight answer about what “spam” entails.

I tend to write posts that talk about the internet as well as entertainment, school, employment, personal opinions, etc. If Sphinn is only allowing entries that are curtailed to only internet marketing posts then they can have at it. I don’t have any posts, aside from this one ironically, that even deals with only “new worthy” or “internet marketing/SEO” topics. I’m not selling anything so I don’t need such a service for my personal blog site.

And Darren, yes, you’re right. I’ve accepted that I can’t have a Sphinn account so I can move on now that I have some answers to my confusion.

By: Matthew Henrickson

Matthew Henrickson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:26:52 +0000

I think a great point that was made here was that delores was never answered about her “spam”, but within an hour of the post being published on Sphinn, she had a very detailed response as to why her account was closed from an admin.

On that point I don’t agree with sphinn. Being banned, closed door, with no response seems a little much for me.

By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:44:38 +0000

Oh well. Just remove your “Sphinn This” button and move on. Such is life, after all.

By: SlightlyShadySEO

SlightlyShadySEO — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:11:33 +0000

@delores: No one has a problem with you submitting your own posts. That’s allowed. I do it all the time. You can’t submit posts that have nothing to do with internet marketing/seo. Which yours did not.