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I hope you don't think we're so naive as to think you censored that comment because of the handle and not the content

Your response to Jays pretty tame comment by personally attacking him speaks volumes

Pretty bland and straightforward comment, right? Nothing overtly malicious about it one would think, and only requires a quick yes or no answer.

MMS response:

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On TBB, Rob says that you blocked him from the site

Censoring the ability to make comments.... is censoring

Million Mile Secrets

I was referring to the previous comments by the commenters, not the current comment. To be clear - Jay hasn't posted anything malicious and we email each other.

kokonutz

Ok, but how do you respond to the question: who wrote the series of posts that appear under your byline?

You seemed to answer commenter 'Jay' by email. How answering the question for the rest of us?

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So he didn't ask anything malicious, yet you still chose to ignore his question?

Also, the woe is me attitude is quite remarkable, as if the people asking you a simple yes or no question are completely unfounded in wanting to know the answer

hotelmotel

The comments are too viscous? Would you prefer they have a water- or milk-like viscosity?

satz

His mother in law told him to ignore the comments calling him out on his bs and keep on pimping those credit cards affiliate links with bigger bs such as the 80 hours he spent on Lufthansa's website.

Aphrodite91

This is crazy. I used to like MMS, but he keeps evading the question and is being dishonest. It actually now puts the whole thing into question and people are going to start wondering if he even wrote the American Airlines award booking series. Once you go shady, that's it. An actor is only as good as his last film.

I say we all go keep posting in his comments (under ONE username each) until he admits to it. It's not spam if it's one comment each. It will be like our own little petition on his blog!

Actually, his site is ranked high enough and is a primary enough source of frequent flyer info that I wonder whether any publications may be interested in him being exposed as a fraud...

at least TPG discloses when someone else did the writing.

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It also puts into question whether all of the comments who play the "I don't care who wrote it. Amazing job Darius!" card into question

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He doesn't imo, but he also doesn't give off the impression in the post/comments that he was the one who wrote it. And if you ask him if he wrote it, he'll give an honest answer.

Assuming that Drew doesn't have the same mother-in-law as Darius, and follows the same mother-in-law rule that Darius does, then this comment....

..... intentionally deceives readers into thinking this is Darius who wrote it

There's plenty of other similar instances where he makes it sound like he wrote it

Aphrodite91

I mean, he has plenty of posts where he writes "So and so goes over Hilton C&P, etc". Maybe not disclosure every time, but he does admit it. I mean, TPG is the shadiest shadester ever and MMS is going further than even him with his latest shenanigans.

hotelmotel

Agree with this. TPG is very clear on when he has a guest author/contributor/etc. During the recent GreenDot series, Brian was nowhere to be found. All comments were addressed by Jason, the guest author.

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Right, like I said, he probably doesn't give as much disclosure as he should (story of his life....), but to my knowledge, he never actively misleads people about who wrote it, and if someone asks him, he openly says who it was

And as previously mentioned, sometimes the hired gun responds directly in the comments

I could be wrong on these matters, as for obvious reasons, I've curtailed my going to tpg.com over the past year or so

jatink129

I'm not supporting either team, and no offence intended to those who are, but what difference does it make who wrote the post?

¯(°_o)/¯

I really don't see what the big deal is. Please enlighten me.

Raffles

The argument is this.

There are 20 bloggers whose click you can use if you want to get this card, and thus earn them $100 for zero work.

Is MMS misrepresenting the work he put into this post in order to persuade people to use his link? Would people be less willing to use his link if they knew he'd just paid someone else to write the stuff?

I think the answer to the 2nd question is actually No, but a big hole has now been dug by his refusal to be upfront. Although, as I said elsewhere, if I wanted an 8-part series of using LH miles on my blog, then I too would be paying someone else to write it because I don't know that much about them - although I would happily be upfront about it.