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11/14/09
What's just as concerning are what the people around him (his leadership team) are doing to further enable this. His CFO, Mark Vranesh, came from Supportsoft with him. Vranesh's successor and former Finance team at Supportsoft helped them lose a 10.7 million USD class action due to the fact they over-inflated revenues - did this practice start while Vranesh and Pincus were still there?
I'd be highly suspicious of Zynga's revenue statements in the lead up to their IPO. #markpincus
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His comments about that class hardly show him to be cynical about ethics. He's lamenting what he considers to be the disingenuousness of the whole exercise, given that everyone in the room with him was apparently a sociopath. Whatever he may have done, his point of view, based on my reading of the above remarks, is pro ethics.
The use of the twitter post is also strange. If the guy's as bad as you imply you should be able to do better than a couple of tweets from someone who saw him speak once. #markpincus
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You won't believe how much people gets hooked to this shit. And it's even weirder because these are all casual gamers that would pass on the chance of playing games like Sonic or Halo, which look complex but are really simple gameplay-wise. Yet they go and play games like mafia wars which involves lots of strategy (believe it or not) and can take you a long fucking time to get anywhere.
Anyway, I hope these assholes (the people behind the games) get what they deserve: they arent gamers, or game devs, just merely scammers: mafia wars is a rough copy of dope wars, a real game made in......wait for it.......1992! #zynga
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11/06/09
If Yelp truly does care about and want to promote quality businesses, they need to be willing to have discussions with those business owners when issues come up. It's just good customer service.
To be clear, allegedly assaulting someone because they exercised their First Amendment rights is NOT okay. But a company like Yelp, which is explicitly protected under that amendment, needs to realize the businesses they review are more than just data points. #oceanavebooks
11/06/09
11/06/09
What you said simply confirmed that Yelp is NOT a business, and they don't really give a fuck about other businesses. They delete posts and reviews without any explanation, and they don't seem to be willing to tolerate any discussion of their policies. Cowardly. #oceanavebooks
11/11/09
"Last Friday, Oct. 30, after an unsuccessful phone call"
That is a singular phone call, not "multiple contacts", and it doesn't say she was unable to reach anyone. It said unsuccessful as in she wasn't able to get them removed.
"(UNMARKED) place of business"
How odd an Internet business, aka not brick and mortar, would have poor signage.
Also note she got their address from the Better Business Bureau which is there to solve disputes with business. It isn't an address book to go there in person. I've made complaints to the BBB and they have gotten resolved through the BBB. There is no mention she did anything at the BBB other then get the address.
What you said simply confirmed that Yelp is NOT a business, and they don't really give a fuck about other businesses.
Wait you just said they aren't a business and they don't care about OTHER business in the exact sentence line. Isn't that a contradiction?
" They delete posts and reviews without any explanation, and they don't seem to be willing to tolerate any discussion of their policies."
How does this relate to this case? The issue here was things weren't getting deleted. I don't see your point. #oceanavebooks
11/06/09
11/06/09
Dear Yelpers,
Remember that old saying "everyone's a critic"? You know that wasn't supposed to be a suggestion, right? Pretty sure it's okay to put the stop watch and the notebook away there Frank Bruni. The third order of free bread is on its way. Entitled fucking CSI team combing over the ceviche with infrared cameras.
In terms of actual real world usefulness, firing off 300 word missives about the over-salted sea bass you had last night falls somewhere between rubbing one off into a hat just before you put it on and running around with scissors in your mouth the long way. Sure, probably a good way to relieve some stress, but keep that mess to yourself.
[putthatshitonthelist.blogspot.com] #oceanavebooks
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How can I be sure of any of this? Yelp used that MO on my business. And when I finally started hanging up on the Yelp advert sales folks, the good reviews began disappearing, and a whole slew of new, one-star insults began appearing. Complaints about such things go nowhere at Yelp. So my best revenge was outing Yelp on its own website with a 1 star review. Jeremy the owner contacted me, told me how unfair I was being, and generally whined quite a bit.
But, I didn't show up at anyone's house with a laurel branch... or baseball bat.
And on another note: Does anyone else find it "curious" that Sean C. aka nine_lives DESPERATELY feels the need to be interviewed by Gawker/Valleywag? Isn't his 15 minutes almost up? #oceanavebooks
11/06/09
She wanted to "convey the seriousness of what was about to happen to her?" Uh, security!
Lady, it's the internet. If you get a bad review write your own positive one under a fake name, duh. Jeez, it's Yelp, not physics.
Also, stalking is bad. Please keep that on a Post-It where you can see next time you have a "crisis." #oceanavebooks
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So, how's the store look today? #oceanavebooks
11/06/09
I don't care what sort of bush they're holding. That is crazy, wild-eyed stalker behaviour. #oceanavebooks