Thakadu aka Neville Newey self submitted muti.co.za to StumbleUpon
Posted on October 18th, 2007
Yeah!
The same people, Neville Newey and David Duarte, who banned Guy McLaren from muti for submitting his own site urls DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING THEMSELVES.
Thakadu’s twitter showing his name as Neville Newey
Gentlemen, you’re screwed! You have been caught red handed!
Now I’ll inform you HOW IT WORKS because both of you, Neville Newey and David Duarte, need some basic educating because you’re not SMART enough to figure it out for yourselves.
People are self-absorbed. They mostly care only about their own interests FIRST. This means that they are motivated to submit their own articles to social networking sites in order to get traffic. They are not particularly motivated to submit other sites UNTIL they have first taken care of their own business first.
This applies uniformly across the board – it even applies to YOU TWO, because that is in fact what YOU DID.
The whole point of a social network is to get your own articles in front of people who are interested in reading it.
That is the ENTIRE DEAL.
The problem to solve is how to create such a system which allows people to zone in on what interests them and filter the rest.
StumbleUpon seems to have figured that out, above all the other social networking sites, because their system gives the MOST traffic.
StumbleUpon doesn’t have to ban people who self-submit. They simply impose a limit on the number of times a user can stumble their own site, and they lift that restriction if the person is prepared to pay $20 per annum. Plus they offer various other advertising options.
Stumble users see only the sites that they’re interested in because Stumble provides them with a system to filter out stuff that they have no interest in. A user is only shown sites which belong to categories that they are interested in. Then as they are presented with sites, they can give a site a thumbs up or a thumbs down. A thumbs down tells Stumble not to present sites like that to the user again.
The bottom line is that they have an automatic system that individuals use to decide what they want to see and what they do not. Blanket bans on sites or people are bad because they deprive people of choice.
Just because a whole bunch of people aren’t interested in seeing someone’s blog postings, does not mean that EVERYONE feels like that. Why should EVERYONE be deprived because a bunch of irate punks don’t like it? This is precisely the situation on muti. And both David Duarte and Neville Newey are buying into this insanity.
Muti is bad. Neville Newey and David Duarte have designed a crap system. Furthermore, their attitude is crap. They’re typical patriarchs – they’re men who rule with an iron fist giving no-one a choice.
In short, they’re hateful human beings. I give them all one BIG THUMBS DOWN.
This is NOT the South Africa I subscribe to.
I DEMAND individual choice. I refuse to allow either the majority or a minority to decide for me.
So get that straight right now.
Tags: David Duarte, muti, Neville Newey, Social networking sites, StumbleUpon
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13 Responses to “Thakadu aka Neville Newey self submitted muti.co.za to StumbleUpon”
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candy Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 08:55Richard, I stumbled this article because you make a valid point. Surely South Africa can produce facilities and offer services that are at least equal to those offered by our international counterparts. If we want to play in the first world, we have to start behaving appropriately. Your argument has my vote.
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Richard Catto Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 11:45Want to know what the value of a UCT Graduate School of Business MBA is?
Take a good hard long look at David Duarte.
The GSB MBA produces gutless fags.
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Dave Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 14:24Lol. “In short, they’re hateful human beings”
^^^
check yourself for that one
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Neville Newey Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 15:07Richard
It seems that you (and a few others) still don’t get the point about self submissions. I have always said, and continue to say, that self submission is okay as long as its not repeated self submission of all your posts. (Go back and read all my comments on muti if you dont believe me, I have been saying it from the start) Why is the distinction so difficult to understand?
Here is my point again: If you are a new blogger or have a new site its fine to self post it as a way of introducing the site or yourself. Even if you are a known blogger, and you feel you are making an unusally strong point, such as your post here Richard, and noone else has posted it then its fine to post it. What is NOT acceptable is to post each and every one of your items over and over again and NEVER post anything to any one else’s site. This is just plain selfish.
Regards
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JBagley Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 15:42Great linkbait,
if thats all its worth. -
Guy McLaren Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 16:39Agreed there are a wunch of
Bankers on MUTI -
Richard Catto Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 17:17I trust in Candy, and she says you suck.
That’s good enough for me. -
Nic Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 23:21Agree with JBagley, 100% linkbait. This post in worth nothing more than that. But nonetheless, good linkbait. End.
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Richard Catto Says:
October 19th, 2007 at 00:59Here’s a newsflash for you Nic, JB and others – I write every posting hoping that it will be widely read, appreciated and commented on.
Your criticisms are groundless. Every single publication leads with stories designed to grab people’s attentions. That is precisely the way I write.
However, I neither manufacture stories nor publish fiction.
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Guy McLaren Says:
October 19th, 2007 at 14:52I don’t get these boneheads,
why write if you don’t want it read? -
Nic Says:
October 21st, 2007 at 15:44Doesn’t make them any less of a linkbait. Guy, how bout you chill out with the lame insults such as “bonehead”? Thanks, mate.
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candy Says:
October 22nd, 2007 at 08:44I don’t really understand the hostility among you guys… I am assuming there is a valid reason for it. If there isn’t, why don’t you just cut it out? You attract more bees with honey than with vinegar.
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Richard Catto Says:
October 22nd, 2007 at 09:21Well, Candy, it seems that you want to give them honey, but Guy and I prefer to offer them a brown eye.
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