Asylum-ET™

This post is going to tick a lot of people off but that is seriously the majority of it’s purpose. I am so sick and tired of getting no shit 500+ spam a day. It is seriously pathetic. All day long I get these same losers who post comments linking to garbage sites with less then appropriate content on them or the ones I cant stand the most are the how big is your… and well you know the ones. We never allow your comments through so why do you continue to eat our bandwidth? This is costing us money and once it totals up enough we have each of your ip addresses and various other details to identify you and we will be seeking restitution as soon as the cost mounts up to an amount that is criminally punishable. Think about that one the next time you go to post your rubbish comments.

So anyway without further adieu we are going to present some of the comments here as we have done in the past only we will be altering the links they included to link to things we chose instead so thank you spammers for your content. Maybe this time you get the hint?

We call this one the freelance special. This has appeared in our comments about 600 times so far under different user names but the same series of ip addresses.

Hi! Good site respect! Visit [junk link was here] and [junk link was here] Thanks!

This type of comment is believed to be generated by

freelancer

person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer.

type websites that allow jobs to be posted where a website is searching for x amount of one-way pr x links for x dollars. The takers of these jobs fire up their spammer software with a list of urls and smash the internet with junk to hundreds and even thousands of websites that allow comments to be placed and the sad part of this is that I’ll bet that 85% of them do not moderate the comments.

This is what we like to call the dumb teen

Like! Thank you!
[Like Uhm I pasted links here but I'm not cool enough to figure out why they aren't showing]
I am glad to find this forum! [This isn't a forum you twit]
[Like uh I wish I had a real life then maybe they would show my link]
Like! Thank you!
[Don't they say if you try something the same exact way more than once and it still fails you should probably give up or you would be considered insane?]
Thank you! I delighted!
[Like uh… This sux I think I'll do it some more]
Good stuff, very nicely done!

The tickle my ego approach. This one has appeared about 500 times so far.

I agree with the author.
[My junk links won't show]
Very nicely done
[I keep banging my head on the desk and it hurts]
The Author, you – genius…
[I am still doing it]
Excellent work, added to favorites!
[I don't get it. Why do I have a headache?]

And then there is this one most odd of all. I am not sure if this is spam or not. The comment was literally a whole book more or less. The posters name looked suspicious like taxsomethingorother and the posters web address included with the post seemed to be a female named Sonja who has a blog that allegedly allows users to post about deals making it even more suspicious but what made it most odd is that this post the poster actually knew how to make a link. Like OMG! Anyway the content of it I read every bit and it was surely very interesting. The originator claims to be a man who is in love with Mary who is his girlfriend and he wants to marry you Mary! He wants that so bad he has told millions of people by spamming their blogs telling the blog owners to email this message to as many people as they can that he wants to marry you in the worst way.

Surely an interesting approach if this is legit but hey who is to say what is romantic I mean in a geeks world you never know. Heck at this point I am starting to think that I want to marry Mary if she is such a geek that she actually would find such a proposal (JK). Anyway so he included a poem to Marry that goes like this.

Mary, please forgive me, as you know English is not my native language. And I am not a poet. But I mean it from my heart.
My angel,
Five years ago, I will always remember the day When fate made us meet, blissful Alaskan moments in May Earth spun around us and a journey began Love, warmth, happiness, enough the years to span.
The longer it lasts the more grows our bond And with 80 still – of you I will be fond Whatever happens, I will stay at your side Through good and bad, together let us stride
No second with you was ever wasted
You are the sweetest I have ever tasted
We have spent so many years – why not a life?
Mary, will you marry me – and become my wife?
Mary, if you have received that and have recognized me, then give me a sign so that I can continue with the romantic part of my proposal…

Well that’s sweet now isn’t it? So Mary if you are out there and you see this marry this shmuck proposal to mary . I mean dang, he has registered a domain and dedicated a website to this cause of pure fate. Hey reader, yea YOU! What do you think his chances are? Leave us a comment and tell us and if you want go ahead and pass his story along as well because he surely needs all the help he can get and fast.

Earlier on this week I had read an article describing how Google has recently started dropping websites PR due to paid links being located in the websites yet Google themselves offer pay for link services. Right off the bat that hits a nerve with me. So then I started to wonder why do they have such an issue with this? I’ll tell you the only reason I could see is money. The more sites that run their own advertising campaigns the less money for Google and in an event like this we all would get the idea that they want a monopoly and would ultimately phase every one of us out if they had their way about it.

So now with thinking about this and the ramifications that will come with it we take a look at our own advertising methods. We ourselves run our own advertising campaigns and we do sell links and other space on our websites. The reason we handle most of our advertising in house as we do is this.

How many times have you gone to a website and found that they have advertising running on it and low and behold guess what that advertising on your (family oriented) website is showing. Viagra!!! Or some form of adult content that believe it or not is against the TOS of the advertising agency in the first place yet the ads still show. This is not entirely the fault of the advertising services since the good ones do offer an adult filter, which however never really works either.

So now with all these issues with using Google and other services like theirs we have had to drastically limit what shows with the adult filters and even had to remove some advertising agencies advertisements altogether. So now what do we do with all the negative results and loss in revenues? Simple we sell our own advertising. We offer it for less than it is worth ultimately giving the advertiser a huge deal since we eliminate the middle man and price our links below their worth.

And now you may wonder what is the point? That is simple.
A: We get to monitor specifically who is or is not allowed to run advertising on our website making the ads that do show much more relevant than they would be using a 3rd party.
B: We get an accurate record of what ads were clicked. This is serious here. According to our records for clicks on ads there are ad services that owe us a heck of allot more than they have record of or plan to make payouts for.
C: We control the look of the ads therefore we are able to stop them from breaking our pages layout and causing validation errors.

Now after reviewing why we handle the majority of our advertising in house and not finding any issue with it since it is no different than an advertising block purchased in a newspaper which the biggest ads or the ones in higher read areas cost more then the ones that are read less or in the back of the newspaper we made the decision to continue with our methods as they have been and worked for us and if Google and or any other search engines have an issue with this may they be forewarned. Stop while you are ahead or suffer the consequences. We the people of the web are what made you and we can break you in less time then it took you to get where you are now! Oooooh, sounds like a threat… Well it is not, it is a solid promise. At this point we do not really even give two cents about pr or traffic ranking. That is all made up nonsense anyway. We have been receiving a minimum of over 1000 viewers for a slow month on Asylum-ET alone and the majority are not coming from any of the big search engines anyway. Instead they come from online communities that send us traffic that want to find us.

Just the same though after taking a look at this and then going to Google to read their page about pr and then also noticing that our pr has not dropped but instead spiked up not only on this website but 3 others as well which we use the same methods on, I think it is safe to say that the person(s) who wrote the article where way off base and yes their website may have lost some pr but it had nothing to do with selling links directly.

What is very well likely though is that it could have had something to do with just whom these links were sold to so I recommend doing as we do and do not just sell links to anyone. You should only offer them to those who have relevant content and purpose. I mean seriously this is our whole purpose for being here at Asylum-ET.

We are working to give viewers a place they can come and find entertainment related items such as bands or djs so unlike some of our competitors who have a dui lawyer link right next to your entertainment businesses listing we have entertainment related listings only. Also by being selective of who you allow listings to the value of your listings goes up because they are not diluted with irrelevant garbage.

Recently I had been out of work in desperate need of any little bit of money I could scrape up. I had been searching high and low to find something when I happened upon Scriptlance.com

I was so excited to find a website like this that appeared to be legitimate and user friendly. After about 30 minutes from the time I signed up I found a job that I placed a bid for $75.00 on. I think it was a day later I was awarded the bid on it and my work commenced. I completed the project in an extremely short amount of time and the Webmaster who needed this work done was so impressed that he even threw in a $25 tip so he paid me a total of $100. Not to bad. Or so I thought. So here it is over a week later and I still have not seen payment from scriptlance who is holding my payment.

When I tried to make a withdrawal the website told me that I would have to wait 7 days since I have a new account. For what purpose is really beyond me except for this one thing. They want to hold your money as long as possible since for every day it is in their account and not yours it is interest in their pockets at your expense. I contacted Scriptlance and 3 days later I finally get a response asking me what method of payment I would like to use. That’s it. Nothing else so it is as if they did not even really read the email I sent them but rather just browsed it and saw oh “payment issue” and didn’t read anything else. So I sent a reply telling them to please use paypal.

It has been a few days since then and I have yet to hear back from them. I dropped them another message in their support ticket area yesterday and have not received a response from that yet either. I have noticed that the website now says that payments made via paypal take 3 days to process. I personally use paypal as a payment gateway and I have never seen such a thing in all the payments I have sent and received. After all this I decided I had better go back and take a very close look at their TOS to find out what the deal is. So what do I find in the Terms of Service? Something altogether different from everything else the website has told me.

The TOS states “New members cannot withdraw funds within 30 days of their first project payment.” If I had been aware of this in the signup process I would not have even bothered with signing up. After dealing with Scriptlance over the past few weeks now I have to say that my review of them would be that the website looks inviting but it appears to be a one man show and the one man just can not handle the workflow that running a website such as this requires. They appear understaffed and their professionalism when it comes to expediently processing support requests or anything else for that matter seems to just be non-existent. I would not recommend using the services provided by this site and furthermore the webmaster that I had done the work for and myself will never use this website again after this.