January 09, 2005
Our Site Critique From "unhappy"
Every few weeks we will publish some email we receive along with our response. We generally redact the senders name and email address to protect their privacy. We have chosen not to enable the Comments feature of our script since it lacks adequate controls to prevent Spam and abuse. We hope you enjoy this regular feature.
Email received:
Hello,
A lot of your writing is way to opinionated for my taste. It's almost like you are preaching to children and you seem to thrive on inflating your ego.
Please tone it down!
Our response:
Hello unhappy,
Points taken on your comments. They are valid and we appreciate your input although we aren't going to change. We hope the following provides some insight into exactly what we are trying to accomplish.
Our mission is to provide a unique perspective. After all, their are literally thousands of useless sites who either steal other folks content or just quote an article on another site. Why would you want to read the same dribble across multiple sites. The mainstream Internet news sources generally do a pretty good job but their mission is not to yell and scream when they see abuse. Also, they don't offer the kind of "street level" commentary that we do. We both serve a purpose and that's why we insert their RSS feeds on this site.
Next we have sites that post articles that really amount to a self promotion pitch. Since we don't run adverts or try and sell you anything, we are uniquely positioned to document issues without a conflict of interest. Yes, we do have an agenda! Educating you and others about Scams, Abuse, Fraudsters, and Criminals. Using our own extensive real world experience, contacts in the industry, and our friends in law enforcement.
Finally, I'm not hiding under a rock and if you Google me you can read tons of stuff which date back to 1997.
For example:
Google Steve Shubitz
Search for posts by User Name of Steve_S on GeekVillage
Whois on this site
Thanks again for taking the time to write me. I do hope you continue to visit this site and please tell your friends and associates about us.
Posted by Steve_S at January 9, 2005 12:43 PM