I ran across a blog today while bloghopping that had a cute little, custom made graphic that says "I'm sorry entrecard uses this widget for advertisements I don't agree with." I'm sorry but I find this incredibly tacky. First it is put down for the advertising aka traffic exchange in this case. Second it is telling your readers while you don't agree with the advertising you will pimp your blog using it anyway. Now you can't have it both ways. Readers have a reasonable expectation that you agree with and third party content on your blog. Openly saying you don't agree with the content while using it anyway loses credibility in my eyes. If you don't agree with the content then either don't use it or reject the portion of the content you don't agree with!
Quite frankly as a former user of entrecard I can find nothing good to say about it. You won't find that widget on any of my blogs and two of them never had it in the first place. As much as I dislike this particular network, it's mindless clicking that generates high bounce rates and pretty much everything about it, I would not take my time to make a cutesy graphic to say so. This philosophy applies to any blogging network I don't agree with. If I don't like what the network is doing or what it stands for I simply don't use it.
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