Have You Been Blog Slapped?
About a month ago, John Reese launched BlogRush.com to a big old fan fare. It wasn’t anything new or different, but it was John Reese doing it, so ya kno’ it’s gotta be good, rite?
Well, it didn’t take long for people to start abusing the system, abuse that John claimed was “unforseen”. Que a very long email rant about protecting his investment and his employees livelihoods (very noble of him) and going after anyone found to be defrauding the system.
Now a few weeks later, John’s wrath has been realised in the great Blog Slap (it’s like a Google Slap, but from BlogRush.com). The Blog Slap means that thousands of blogs have been deemed to be unsuitable for the network - this blog included.
The backlash to this has been fierce - some people claiming they’ll never buy from John again (yeah, wait until Traffic Secrets 2.0 comes out!) so this is either a calculated risk from Mr. Reese or one great big mistake.
Some people, that own massive blog networks have turned the tables by stating that “BlogRush didn’t meet our quality standards and has therefore been dropped by our network” - convenient given that they had already been banned by BlogRush 
You can read more about the BlogRush fun and games in this thread on Warrior Forum (it’s since been locked as people got a little nasty against John):
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=192405
Over on the Income.com blog they had to lock the comments too because people were flaming and all sorts.
John had to expect some sort of reaction to this audit. After thousands of blogs pumped up BlogRush.com when it launched only for it to bite the hand that fed it a few weeks later, no wonder it’s pissed a few people off.