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| Send BeBits an email |
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By Eddyspeeder - Posted on June 29, 2008 - 16:24:27 (#22869)
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I have just sent the following email to the "General Stuff" and "Webmaster" email addresses which you can find on the contact page. I would appreciate it if others will do the same.
Subject: Reporting BeBits abuse (Windows software)
Dear folks at BeBits,
While still enormously thankful for your continued support for "our" beloved OS, it has come to the attention of myself and several other frequent visitors that the latest fad is for developers of software for the Windows platform to add their software to BeBits.
With this email, I hope to convince you to take action by removing the software and deleting the perpetrators, and if possible by banning these users altogether.
An application named EiffelStudio has made its way into BeBits ( http://www.bebits.com/app/4557 ), but there is one user, a certain "bart", who consistently abuses BeBits for this purpose. His user page shows that so far, he has posted five non-BeOS applications on BeBits, of which three labeled with the company name OKSoft. Please see http://www.bebits.com/devprofile/5734 .
The current response from the frequent visitors is to keep giving bad ratings and reported bad links to the software, which from a consumer psychology standpoint (along with the aggrevation now associated to the brand) is damaging to the software's brand awareness. Talkback and said ratings have been removed for two of the pages by deleting the software page and posting a brand new page.
My hope is that other users will follow me in this example to ask you to take more permanent measures so that you will take action. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
[NAME]
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| REMOVE IT! |
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By s_d - Posted on December 4, 2007 - 19:26:44 (#22257)
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Please remove also Windows software posted here earlier, like this entry!
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| Thank-you my BeOS Dev info just arrived |
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By folgers - Posted on April 23, 2007 - 13:59:39 (#21583)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.22 |
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Thankyou - my developer password has arrived
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| Only Windows Developers get Accounts? |
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By folgers - Posted on April 23, 2007 - 10:26:23 (#21582)
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I can not get a developer account for BeOS.
I guess they only send passwords to the windows programmers.
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| rel="nofollow" |
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By NTT - Posted on April 22, 2007 - 00:39:53 (#21581)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.22 |
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Would it be a benefit to include rel="nofollow" in the links to the home pages of these site, maybe for the first month of the account? That way legitimate BeOS/Haiku dev's will still get crawled after the trolls have been kicked.
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| OSDrawer |
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By biffuz - Posted on April 20, 2007 - 14:51:38 (#21574)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.22 |
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Don't forget osdrawer.net :-)
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| News forthcoming... |
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By sculdheizo - Posted on April 20, 2007 - 14:50:46 (#21573)
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Daat at ICO asked about it and I'll probably do an interview with him, vice tooting our own BG horn... but we're going to keep it under wraps for a bit, until we are a little more concrete and have something to show. ;)
Deej
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| Re: Working on a solution |
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By -Meanwhile- - Posted on April 20, 2007 - 14:16:33 (#21572)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.22 |
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Good to hear....details coming up in ICO, BeOSNews, BeGroovy ?
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| Working on a solution |
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By sculdheizo - Posted on April 20, 2007 - 11:41:06 (#21571)
Current version when comment was posted: 1.22 |
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There are a couple of us working hard at a novel new solution for the BeOS/Haiku world. ;) And it will be updated and controlled, since Sean and Greg (was that the names of the creators here) disappeared.
Stay tuned...
Deej
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| Remove app (& account) please |
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By -Meanwhile- - Posted on April 20, 2007 - 02:06:15 (#21569)
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I'm getting sick of this site pollution....!
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| they know it is, they dont care |
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By BeOS Mr X - Posted on April 20, 2007 - 00:53:21 (#21568)
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this site is obviously beos only, even an ant posting an app here would know this. the reason they are doing this is because
#1 we are'nt fighting back. they dont read the talkback here or reply to emails. but maybe an email bomb ? send to dvdsupp@yahoo.com, and maybe loop a wget download on their app ?
#2 bebits has great google rating, so post your app here the homepage goes up the list in ratings.
#3 the bebits admin does not care - he either forgot this site exists or has died
any other reasons why the spike lately ?
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| Windows crap |
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By AlienSoldier - Posted on April 19, 2007 - 22:31:33 (#21566)
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this place is only for BeOS stuff
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