Comments on: Inflating Your Subscriber Stats Hurts Everyone! http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/ A virtual notebook of streaming pith. Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:14:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Shawn Anthony http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1892 Shawn Anthony Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:13:38 +0000 http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1892 Rick, thanks for the extended offer of support. The Feedburner support person that helped me out (Matt) was awesome. My own server move messed up my feed, but Feedburner helped me fix all self-inflicted technical issues. Again awesome support! I'm happy to hear that the issues surrounding false inflation are going to be addressed on the corporate blog. Good for Feedburner for tackling these discussions head on and straight away. I'll be reading the upcoming series of posts, for sure. Feedburner is an awesome and very useful service for blogger and advertiser (potential advertisers) alike. It would be a terrible ashame to let a few unscrupulous people render it less than reliable. Thanks Rick. Rick, thanks for the extended offer of support. The Feedburner support person that helped me out (Matt) was awesome. My own server move messed up my feed, but Feedburner helped me fix all self-inflicted technical issues. Again awesome support!

I’m happy to hear that the issues surrounding false inflation are going to be addressed on the corporate blog. Good for Feedburner for tackling these discussions head on and straight away. I’ll be reading the upcoming series of posts, for sure. Feedburner is an awesome and very useful service for blogger and advertiser (potential advertisers) alike. It would be a terrible ashame to let a few unscrupulous people render it less than reliable.

Thanks Rick.

]]> By: Rick Klau http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1876 Rick Klau Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:33:21 +0000 http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1876 Hi Shawn - Sounds like you're in touch with our support team about redirecting your old feed, but just in case you need any help - feel free to drop me or anyone else on the publisher services team an e-mail at publishers@feedburner.com and we'll lend a hand. Regarding the numbers issues that have bounced around the last few days, we will be posting a series of entries on our corporate blog (http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner) in the coming weeks that lay out in more detail how we capture the info, what it means (and what it doesn't), and hopefully address any questions people have. Stay tuned! Regards, Rick Klau VP, Publisher Services rickk@feedburner.com 312.756.0022 x2012 Hi Shawn -

Sounds like you’re in touch with our support team about redirecting your old feed, but just in case you need any help - feel free to drop me or anyone else on the publisher services team an e-mail at publishers@feedburner.com and we’ll lend a hand.

Regarding the numbers issues that have bounced around the last few days, we will be posting a series of entries on our corporate blog (http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner) in the coming weeks that lay out in more detail how we capture the info, what it means (and what it doesn’t), and hopefully address any questions people have. Stay tuned!

Regards,

Rick Klau
VP, Publisher Services
rickk@feedburner.com
312.756.0022 x2012

]]> By: Shawn Anthony http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1873 Shawn Anthony Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:58:29 +0000 http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1873 Ben, that "disappearing Chicklet" remark was directed toward the site which caused this brouhaha. I didn't notice yours missing ... though it proves my point in a way. You had to say "I didn't because ..." You shouldn't even have to say that much. Ben, that “disappearing Chicklet” remark was directed toward the site which caused this brouhaha. I didn’t notice yours missing … though it proves my point in a way. You had to say “I didn’t because …” You shouldn’t even have to say that much.

]]> By: Ben http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1870 Ben Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:26:17 +0000 http://www.lofitribe.com/2007/01/07/inflating-your-subscriber-stats-hurts-everyone/#comment-1870 I totally buy that many sites are artificially inflating their subscriber numbers. I took the feedcount chicklet off my site for other reasons but I wouldn't doubt that we see them starting to disappear. I totally buy that many sites are artificially inflating their subscriber numbers. I took the feedcount chicklet off my site for other reasons but I wouldn’t doubt that we see them starting to disappear.

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