yerffej201

FYI to any concerned FTer, I screen who gets the pw. It's not an email blast. Sure you can fake a twitter handle. Doubt any company would do that.

djjaguar64

FT should have a pre-condition, that if you are a blogger you cannot participate on FT!!!

yerffej201

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TheBOSman

If Raffles longhaul wanted in on any private group I was running, I would find someone to kick out to let Rl in. I'm sure Rl has no need to be jealous.

AA_EXP09

In many cases, bloggers can also add information to a discussion.
(i.e. many Muccis are also bloggers, yet they keep the BA board very informed and a fun place to be.)

yerffej201

I don't care how much he knows or does not know, but if he doesn't even know me well and just lumps me with all the other bloggers who kill deals, he could know every single trick in the world and I wouldn't give a f.

scibuff

Sorry I doubted you!

Aussie_flyer

This is absurd. I'm actually laughing out loud that it was even suggested. Copyright a tricked route and sue for it? hahah , how are you going to prove who came up with it originally?

TheBOSman

You'd only be concerned if you were ripping off FT, reread his post . I welcome original bloggers, but they are few and far between at this point.

AA_EXP09

I assume all blogs are innocent until they are proven guilty.
The past, however, shows that they tend to act out of self interest.
(think about the prisoner's dilemma-it is almost exactly the same thing with blogs.)

Aussie_flyer

Stop being so righteous. You are AS bad as the blog without the password.

TheBOSman

It is a dissociative response, similar to the other blogger who posted and then stepped back from it. Blogger basically says, "I'm not one of 'those bad people', I'm Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robin Hood and Lenin, all in one (HT: Pseudo Nim)." The blogger removes the blogger's self from "those people", and then infers that they are lower class than the blogger is, while the "loyal readers" of the blog are not in that class of individuals that the blogger is inferring are not of similar moral standard. This is a pattern that has repeated itself multiple times across multiple blogs, often with name-calling.

This particular blogger, though, like many showed some talent originally, but has since gone to peddling CC links and subpar content. This post is an example of subpar content, there are multiple potential issues with someone booking one of these as he describes (such as needing a visa for a country that is particularly hard to get for a likely majority of his readership). And he peddles CCs in especially poor form, failing to notify people that his offers may not be the best offer available and heavily promoting at least one particular offer that is not the best available offer for the applicant. However, it is the best offer for him. This actually doesn't even bother me, honestly, but it needs a disclaimer. Something like this: "My offers provide me with referral credit. My blog is not free to maintain, and takes a lot of my personal time in coming up with these offers. There may be better offers out there for a particular card. You are clearly not required to use my links when applying, but usage of my links helps to support this blog and myself." It is not that hard to be honest.

wheresmybagba

I don't think you do screen it. A previous time you did a password protected post I was able to find someone else on twitter openly re-tweeting it in just a few clicks without involving you at all.

yerffej201

That was because it wasn't a tricked route at all?...

wheresmybagba

I'm not sure of your point. That post was password protected. The password was freely available without following any of your steps to obtain it.