Entrecard controversy

Posted by multippt

My earlier post on Entrecard didn’t capture much attention - it was a plain old boring post about a few Entrecard contests. The second one did better (technically the third one, but since the first post was rejected anyway for being too controversial…) - funny to think that Entrecarders will feel so uncomfortable at having suggestions for them to lower their drop rate. What inspired the controversy was none other than a post from John Cow (not John Chow), who decided to temporarily drop the Entrecard because they feel that it isn’t appropriate for them.

I have to agree with John Cow*, even if that meant taking a stance against Entrecard. While Entrecard gives a large amount of traffic, what good would it do if they just went to your site so as to click on “Drop”? Entrecarders are too concerned with optimising their Entrecards, the EC market, etc. Others spend hours dropping cards, in the end actually forgetting about their blogs they were meant to promote.

Entrecarders themselves also feel the pinch. Everyone is so obsessed with dropping that if you were to take a day-off from dropping, the value of your card will fall tremendously (and so will the Entrecard rank).

Naturally, most Entrecarders will not comment on a post that says otherwise. They’ll prefer to stick to the topic of Entrecard/community optimisation (seriously, even if the Entrecard blog were to have hundreds of those same-old posts, it won’t matter since the community will read them anyway).