Much has been written about the “Shoemoney Affair,” in which the blogger known as Shoemoney banned from the service, despite the fact that — as Tony Hung here, someone else had posted something about the same exploit over a month earlier (although it was on a French blog, and therefore might have been missed).
This all comes in the wake of several other MyBlogLog stumbles involving spam, which I wrote about here, Eric says:
“A lot of people I respect immensely have written in to tell me that I screwed up, and after a point, it becomes impossible to avoid the truth. We banned Shoemoney originally to keep him from updating his list of User IDs on Wednesday night, which I think was the right thing to do. But after fixing the exploit, I should have unbanned him and thanked him for finding it. But I didn’t. I screwed up.”
Although there is still debate about whether Shoemoney just showing off, not being malicious), Eric’s post is the kind of thing I like to see. With a small startup — albeit one that is now part of the giant Yahoo empire — it’s inevitable that mistakes are going to happen, as Caterina Fake points out Comments
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