If you were reading Waxy yesterday, you would have seen the following:
As I was writing up yesterday's article on The Times, I realized that there's a wide range of opinions from social media founders about undisclosed mass promotion on their communities. (Mahalo's Jason Calacanis doesn't mind, while Matt Haughey drops the banhammer on any Metafilter user who tries it.)I contacted several founders affected by Sitelynx's activity to see their official (and personal) stance on this questionable practice.
Jason Calacanis
Founder, Mahalo
Generally, how do you guys feel about undisclosed mass self-promotion?It's bad form to talk about yourself all the time -- it's obnoxious.
Okay! Hey, now it's picture time!
In all fairness, Jason went on to disclose that "I submit Mahalo links to services all the time, but it's under my name and it says Mahalo. I think people should disclose where they're coming from." And to be clear, I don't have even the slightest problem with his practice of promoting Mahalo across social networks. (If you don't want to see it, you don't have to subscribe!) But given the first statement he made in response to Andy's query, well, 1000 words, dude. 1000 words.
