This just blows me away. I always wondered why I never got so much as one hit to my site(s) from all the work I’ve done at EF and SEXIS. It’s really disturbing to learn that one’s colleagues, people I’ve trusted, were not playing fair. If I hadn’t ended my association with them over a month ago, I would certainly do it now.
Thank you for bringing all of this to our attention and for your copious documentation of their unethical behavior. In the end, there is always karma.
The pres has responded. Even a non-techie like myself can see that it is pure crap:
Fred Fred
(EdenFantasys)
Dear contributors,
I want to address recent concerns about EdenFantasys’ linking practices.
I am talking about multiple links placed on our website by thousands of contributors: reviewers, forum participants, manufacturers and general users.
Thousands of users post daily on EdenFantasys. These are posts on the forum, reviews, commentaries, personal profiles and today we even opened up our video platform EdenTube. This is all user-generated content (UGC) which requires special handling to assure our website is not damaged with malicious software that could compromise our commerce operations, credit card security compliance procedures, and overall could shut down the website.
It is a common practice on all user-driven websites, including giants like Facebook, MySpace, Yelp or any of the others. You read from time to time about disastrous outbreaks of trojans – virus software – inserted this way into platforms. When it is detected that the posted content contains scripting, linking or other coding symbols beside just alphanumeric characters, the standard coding procedure is to raise a security alert flag. Then there are two ways to handle this: a program can erase / delete all coding from the content or encapsulate it into a separate module that won’t be able to interfere with the rest of the website.
EdenFantasys uses high efficient and the most advanced Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX with DotNET and JQuery frameworks to handle this technical problem. As a matter of fact, our server logs detect over 1,000 daily attempts to insert malicious software on all available user-submit forms. These technologies allow us to be a safe and reliable place.
Some helpful examples include these sites, which do the same JavaScript-based encapsulation:
CNN: link
USA TODAY: link
Gizmodo: link
LifeHacker: link
Dead Spin: link
Io9: link
Kotaku: link
Jalopnik: link
Celebitchy: link
The indy Channel: link
Those are just a few of the millions of sites who utilize this linking practice as means for protection of user-generated content on interactive platforms.
All linking within SexIs Magazine, on contributor profiles, and elsewhere on EF have always been encapsulated. This allows us to be able to display all of the content instantly without pre-moderation and to share traffic with our contributors.
If there is anyone here whose promise was not met, please contact us and we’ll address the problem immediately. We all appreciate your patience here. The allegations made by a few individuals are misguided, misinformed and surely confusing to most people. This is the stuff of highly experienced programmers and it is easy to twist such information out of context. I wanted to address it here for your reassurance. We care deeply about our community, and as you can see, this is another way we endeavor to make Eden a safe place to play and shop.
Eden is my greatest passion, watching this community grow and seeing people interact with each other on so many levels has been a dream come true. There is no other place like this, and I truly feel that we have the best community out there. We are looking forward to even better times and more exciting features in the future. Thank you to every person who has made Eden such a special and welcoming place!
It’s on the forum, but I won’t link to it.
Surely the owner realizes that everyone can see through his prevarication. The sites he mentions make no promise of community and reciprocity. His does.
This just blows me away. I always wondered why I never got so much as one hit to my site(s) from all the work I’ve done at EF and SEXIS. It’s really disturbing to learn that one’s colleagues, people I’ve trusted, were not playing fair. If I hadn’t ended my association with them over a month ago, I would certainly do it now.
Thank you for bringing all of this to our attention and for your copious documentation of their unethical behavior. In the end, there is always karma.
The pres has responded. Even a non-techie like myself can see that it is pure crap:
It’s on the forum, but I won’t link to it.
Surely the owner realizes that everyone can see through his prevarication. The sites he mentions make no promise of community and reciprocity. His does.
Unfuckingreal.
….HOW are these guys still in business when they suck so hard?