A little bit from an email from Ray!!! Take it for
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I have considered spending time investigating these idiots to find out
exactly who they are and see if we can hit them with restraining orders, but I just been so busy…If enough people complain, Ihub seems to take action. At least for the real bashers, which are actually very few...Unfortunately, I happen to know that hub employs many of the bashers because the controversy is what creates page views, and page views sell advertising. There’s no way to know if
the user you mentioned was a real person or an iHub employee who was simply told to shut down the account and start a new one in order to placate us. Likely a new basher will immediately rise from the ashes now and start in, because he/she still works for iHub, but we will have to see.
I am sure that they are not telling advertisers about the hired bashers, so with proof, ihub will be in big big trouble for fraud, or at the very least, sued by their advertisers. I know employees bash because I happen to know the founder who is no longer with the company. Bashing to create page views has been Ihub’s business model from the beginning. This is why its important NOT to engage them.
The more people fight back, the more page views are created and the more their strategy is working. If nobody responded, they will focus on other company’s where people do respond…
Thanks again for spotting the basher and taking action. Nice job.
RB