Chris Becker says Macrobusiness has devolved into a pit of trolls and vested interests; Claims he lost $100,000 in time and money moderating their astrotufing on the Macrobusiness blog
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Such a blatant and sustained vendetta against a business competitor, I have rarely seen. Quite unprofessional, and would be a very poor look for your business if your identity were to ever become public.
You obviously have little conviction in your position and a lot of skeletons if you require anonymity.
In the past 4 months we have the following threads started by you:
David Llewellyn-Smith of Macrobusiness gets racist Chris Becker says Macrobusiness has devolved into a pit of trolls and vested interests Leith Van Onselen of Macrobusiness deliberately lies and misleads his readers again David Llewellyn-Smith of MacroBusiness lashes out in impotent rage as his gloomy predictions fail MacroBusiness Advertising Overload... obviously the member donations aren't enough More backpedalling by MacroBusiness... Leith van Onselen redefines the 'Slow Melt' Macrobusiness getting hammered in their blog comments... members are fed up MacroBusiness plagiarise forum description from APF! Alex Barton, have they violated your copyright? David Llewellyn-Smith (Houses and Holes) of MacroBusiness attempts to rewrite history MacroBusiness spam members with junk mail, begging for more cash because only 1% of members donated 3D1K banned from Macrobusiness... his rival blog is at 3d1k.blogspot.com.au Cameron Murray (Rumplestatskin from MacroBusiness) turns Property Bull Cost of Living: Leith van Onselen of MacroBusiness can't afford $90 for a night out MacroBusiness Fail... 'No further editions of Macro Investor, Daily Trades service will cease' David Llewellyn-Smith Naked! That's what we'll see if the RBA doesn't cut rates again... MacroBusiness / Macro Investor swindle suckers out of $480 for unsecured, freely available reports MacroBusiness / Macro Investor Leith van Onselen Foolishly Misleads his Subscribers on House Prices Macrobusiness Bloggers are Financial Hypocrites - They ALL Own Houses Leith van Onselen of Macro Investor misleads the public again Leith van Onselen of MacroBusiness fumbles cluelessly with house price to income ratios Another cockup by Leith van Onselen of MacroBusiness - Melbourne house price prediction
Just a little infatuated perhaps
**Disclaimer - I have no connection to Macrobusiness professionally or otherwise**
Such a blatant and sustained vendetta against a business competitor, I have rarely seen. Quite unprofessional, and would be a very poor look for your business if your identity were to ever become public.
You obviously have little conviction in your position and a lot of skeletons if you require anonymity.
In the past 4 months we have the following threads started by you:
David Llewellyn-Smith of Macrobusiness gets racist Chris Becker says Macrobusiness has devolved into a pit of trolls and vested interests Leith Van Onselen of Macrobusiness deliberately lies and misleads his readers again David Llewellyn-Smith of MacroBusiness lashes out in impotent rage as his gloomy predictions fail MacroBusiness Advertising Overload... obviously the member donations aren't enough More backpedalling by MacroBusiness... Leith van Onselen redefines the 'Slow Melt' Macrobusiness getting hammered in their blog comments... members are fed up MacroBusiness plagiarise forum description from APF! Alex Barton, have they violated your copyright? David Llewellyn-Smith (Houses and Holes) of MacroBusiness attempts to rewrite history MacroBusiness spam members with junk mail, begging for more cash because only 1% of members donated 3D1K banned from Macrobusiness... his rival blog is at 3d1k.blogspot.com.au Cameron Murray (Rumplestatskin from MacroBusiness) turns Property Bull Cost of Living: Leith van Onselen of MacroBusiness can't afford $90 for a night out MacroBusiness Fail... 'No further editions of Macro Investor, Daily Trades service will cease' David Llewellyn-Smith Naked! That's what we'll see if the RBA doesn't cut rates again... MacroBusiness / Macro Investor swindle suckers out of $480 for unsecured, freely available reports MacroBusiness / Macro Investor Leith van Onselen Foolishly Misleads his Subscribers on House Prices Macrobusiness Bloggers are Financial Hypocrites - They ALL Own Houses Leith van Onselen of Macro Investor misleads the public again Leith van Onselen of MacroBusiness fumbles cluelessly with house price to income ratios Another cockup by Leith van Onselen of MacroBusiness - Melbourne house price prediction
Just a little infatuated perhaps
**Disclaimer - I have no connection to Macrobusiness professionally or otherwise**
I don't remember any threads attacking them on Macrobusiness.
Naughty blog attract fair the share of a scallywags,
whose fascinate border on the obsess.
It like the stalker,
simply,
because a narrative,
touch the wrong emotion trigger.
Catman the plot thickens
The "naughty "are all checking /spying on each "side" every day (MB& Margs & co)
A few posters with MB familiars evident..
Me thinks not just professional But personal Vendetta.....perhaps $$ involved..lost ?
Nasty shit saga..
Pompous blow fishing
Just Very boring.
Newjerk? can you try harder than dig up another person's blog. My first promo was with Billabong and my name in English is modified with a T, am Perth born but also lived in Sydney to make my $$ It's Absolutely Fabulous if it includes brilliant locations, & high calibre tenants..what more does one want? Understand the power of the two "P"" or be financially challenged Even better when there is family who are property mad and one is born in some entitlements.....Understand that beautiful women are the exhibitionists we crave attention, whilst hot blooded men are the voyeurs ... A stunning woman can command and takes pleasure in being noticed. Seems not too many understand what it means to hold and own props and get threatened by those who do. Banks are considered to be law abiding and & rather boring places yeah not true . A bank balance sheet will show capital is dwarfed by their liabilities this means when a portions of loans is falling its problems for the bank.
It is impossible to sustain a stable of educated, paid contributors on web display advertising alone - something lost on Shadow, who is clearly not at all familiar with how media business models work.
A model featuring subscription fees (which is now becoming commonplace) provides a financial base which provides invaluable business certainty, in what is the most volatile advertising market in the history of media.
In fact, it is these sorts of subscription fees that help prevent the 'content advertising' garbage that the Tele and the Herald are becoming loaded with these days. This is especially endemic in the property and lifestyle sections, and is not in the public's interest. As an aside, it has come to my attention that Fairfax have launched a dedicated 'content' sales and marketing team, so expect to see much more of this in 2014.
I assume people like Shadow wont be happy until all of our media outlets are spewing out 100% paid-for propaganda 24/7.
It is very naive to think Macrobusiness is not a hive of vested interest. A lot of their stuff is to support big developers in their efforts to land grab and bypass environmental legislation. Check out their favorite Demographia guys and their real agenda.
Definition of a doom and gloomer from 1993 The last camp is made up of the doom-and-gloomers. Their slogan is "it's the end of the world as we know it". Right now they are convinced that debt is the evil responsible for all our economic woes and must be eliminated at all cost. Many doom-and-gloomers believe that unprecedented debt levels mean that we are on the precipice of a worse crisis than the Great Depression. The doom-and-gloomers hang on the latest series of negative economic data.
It is very naive to think Macrobusiness is not a hive of vested interest. A lot of their stuff is to support big developers in their efforts to land grab and bypass environmental legislation. Check out their favorite Demographia guys and their real agenda.
Wouldn't surprise me if the MB boys are too busy tryin' ta grub up a buck ta have dug that deep Skamy.
Even as a bear it's been a potential criticism of mine of the Demographia stuff for quite a few years now.
But who ta trust? Who ta trust???
A Professional Demographer to an amateur demographer:"negative natural increase will never outweigh the positive net migration"
Interesting point BG makes about the deep seated, stalker like, personal nature of the bulltrolls' attacks on MB.
For a couple of sad old bulls who couldn't really give a flying hoot about anyone or anything apart from rent increases and CG they feign serious interest in the poor unfortunates who were duped by MB's shitty advice and payment scams.
It seems far too personal to be simply part of an astroturfing campaign. It looks like these guys/girls may have actually been duped by some of the MB bloggers advice, lost some dough and are now howling at the moon about it with tears of impotent rage flowing.
When you look at the anti-MB threads independently its a bit of a yawn, but when they are compiled (thanks to Dr K) it reveals a few things about these guys/girls...all of them are sad, sad tales - but amusing none the less :pop:
Interesting point BG makes about the deep seated, stalker like, personal nature of the bulltrolls' attacks on MB.
For a couple of sad old bulls who couldn't really give a flying hoot about anyone or anything apart from rent increases and CG they feign serious interest in the poor unfortunates who were duped by MB's shitty advice and payment scams.
It seems far too personal to be simply part of an astroturfing campaign. It looks like these guys/girls may have actually been duped by some of the MB bloggers advice, lost some dough and are now howling at the moon about it with tears of impotent rage flowing.
When you look at the anti-MB threads independently its a bit of a yawn, but when they are compiled (thanks to Dr K) it reveals a few things about these guys/girls...all of them are sad, sad tales - but amusing none the less :pop:
Yep, being a bitter 'n twisted sick fuck, isn't a state of mind that either bears or bulls have sole dominion over I reckon Olmule.
A Professional Demographer to an amateur demographer:"negative natural increase will never outweigh the positive net migration"
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