This is not a Pearl District related post, this is a freedom of speech post. There is something going on in the real estate blogosphere, that really needs more attention. I won’t go into too many details of what happened, that can be found here, but in summary Vlad Zablotzkyy did a paid review of a product called e-perks. Here is his account to what happened. The comments from users of the product followed, and they had nothing but bad things to say about it. Shortly thereafter, Ben Behrouzi of e-perks sent a Cease & Desist letter. From there, the bullying began. Including ridiculous attempts to to smear Vlad’s name.
Much of the information has been published on the web, and I will help spread the links:
Bloodhound Blog
Russell Shaw at agentgenius.com and his other website.
Mary McKnight, from RSSPieces.com wrote this summary here on herReal Estate Blog
Andy Beard wrote this post and a follow up here that does a fantastic job of detailing what is happening.
The best thing we can do is to get the word out there. Spread the word. Donate to the legal defense fund.
Support Vlad Zablotskyy’s Defense Fund
Defend your own right to free speech!
#1. Trace, June 17th, 2008
Thanks for taking the time to support Vlad!
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#3. Mitchell, June 18th, 2008
If VLAD wants to end this just send the attorneys this link. - Look at the areas I boxed in Red.
http://www.interiorliving.com/eperks.jpg
For those who need an explanation.
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq/prevent.html
How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
The quick way to prevent robots visiting your site is put these two lines into the /robots.txt file on your server
I would estimate they did this around October/November and didnt change it.
Now ejerks go fire your webmaster and stop the stupid lawsuit its your webmasters fault not anyone elses.
Mitchell
InteriorLiving.Com
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