19. May 2007

Truemors or Falsemors—- The bad side of Truemors (inside out)

Since Truemors is launched on 15th of this month. I was lured to check the site every now and then. I submitted some of my articles from my blog which were kinda related to Rumors it was good for first two days i got some 100+ traffic to my site after that i submitted few stories which never showed up. I read their Terms of use but i didn’t find any thing that makes my stories submitted not to show up .

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Truemors is a Guy Kawasaki’s new startup and it can be compared to other social bookmarking sites like digg,deliciou or reddit but it deals about making rumor just those are true ( truemors ) or false ( falsemors ). I checked their alexa ranking the site was doing quite good since it was launched just few days back.

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What made me repel from this site is that it didn’t show up my submitted stories. Its not the only reason the site is repelling . there are other reasons too.

1. The site is loaded with so much of Javascript that when i open it in my firefox the script becomes non responsive

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2.The site takes lots of time to load .

3.It keeps refreshing by itself time to time ( this may be good for the new rumors to show up in the front page but that takes my little of bandwidth and again the javascript problem may come.

4.Truemors is built in wordpress with their modification but the truemors site never shows it is based on wordpress.

5.the permalink to each post is not search engine ( as well as user ) friendly

6.the voting system sucks

7.there may be hundred of rumors submitted every minute but how do they censor which to be published

8.the webpage layout is not like a page in web2.0 era

9. My previous Rumor posts are deleted when i try to access them now it gives me  a funny error message truemors_post_deleted.PNG

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  • 5 Comments

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    1. Guy Kawasaki From UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES) Wrote Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11 on Mac OS Mac OS X on 19. May 2007 at 6:43 pm

    The purpose of Truemors is to enable anyone to post “true rumors.” These truemors should inform or entertain people. Anything that we see that doesn’t do this will be deleted.

    A simple test is this: Everything you read on Truemors should be something that you would tell your spouse, SO, friends, colleagues, etc, “Did you hear that…?”

    All the posts that are “Guy is clueless,” “”Test,” “This site is a joke,” etc don’t pass this test. On the other hand, “Did you hear that Seth Godin hates Truemors” does. Hence it stays.

    I hope this sheds some light on what I’m doing.

    Guy Kawasaki

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    2. hem From INDIA (INDIA) Wrote Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows Windows XP on 19. May 2007 at 6:53 pm

    @Guy kawasaki——–Its nice of u that u reacted to my post . I have posted this link in truemors starting with ” did u know about Falsemors … ” will that make it to pass the test ?

    Anyway there are other technical aspects i have talked about in my post about truemors not only that i m furious at trumors coz it deleted or censored my posts

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    3. AgentSully From UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES) Wrote Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 on Windows Windows XP on 29. July 2007 at 9:20 pm

    interesting points you make. I did notice that the site was loading slow. I thought maybe it was my connection. I think that it could be great if they get more people participating. thanks for visiting my review too.

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    4. hem From INDIA (INDIA) Wrote Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 on Windows Windows XP on 29. July 2007 at 9:33 pm

    At the time i wrote this… the site was slow .. now since then they have improved a bit…

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    5. ssdsd From CHINA (CHINA) Wrote Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Windows XP on 22. July 2008 at 9:41 am

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