Squidoo should be closed down!
By timasma
@timasma (123)
Poland
February 7, 2010 2:07pm CST
I hate Squidoo now, they have deleted over 50 of my lenses in fact all of them just before pay day. They kept all my money, how nice! They make up some excuse and take lenses away just like that, no respect at all for all the hours we dedicate to our lenses. First they tell me to remove links, once is all clean they acuse me of exchanging comments with other lensmasters, don't we all do that? If that is a fair reason why send squidocasts to other lensmasters to visit our lenses, no one toldo me we couldn't comment on eachothers lenses and rate, it's pathetic! One year of wasted time down the drain. I feel sick after they did this. Only now I found out is a good trick of them, I'm not the only one, if you have lenses keep them safe before you lose them. It took me so long to get a good rank, once I go it they take it away from me. I found another place for articles but now I'm scared to waste my time and money so I'm just waiting for a website. I don't need them, I have cursed them all. I Hope they feel all I have been feeling after a year of wasted time. I wish wealthy Affiliate never told me to use Squidoo.
1 response
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
7 Feb 10
The Rules were changed some time ago and Lensmasters were given good warning. There was also a good deal of timely advice on how to deal with it from other Squidoo users (especially PotPieGirl) so I'm sure that you had plenty of opportunity to modify and save your lenses. If you didn't take notice of the changes, then you really only have yourself to blame.
@timasma (123)
• Poland
7 Feb 10
It wassn't because of spam or links, I cleaned the only two lenses they told me that had a few extra links and needed work, I did not do spam lenses. Acording to what they say was because I rated someone other lensmasters lenses and they rated mine, they acused me of exchanging comments, but that is what we all do, you comment on mine I comment on yours, right?
I left over 1,300 comments I didn't know they would delete my lenses for it.
They told me your account has been locked because it is violating policies for
star-rating fraud, this means that accounts that purposely did so for each other, were rating each others lenses 5-stars.
I don't understad, I gave 5 stars to lots of lenses, they are there to give, if it was a good lens I would rate it 5. I can't see what is wrong with it, don't we all rate lenses?
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
7 Feb 10
"Note: Squidoo does not endorse or recommend ratings swaps. And, in fact, if you spam people asking for them, you'll assuredly lose. Building a so-called business on ratings swaps or traffic exchanges could mean you did a whole lot of work for a whole lot of nothing."
If you left any comments at all asking for return ratings, then that is counted as spam. I imagine that you are not the only person whose lenses have been deleted.
@timasma (123)
• Poland
7 Feb 10
Yeah well like I said... "I DID NOT DO COMMENT SWAPS" I didn't even know people actually did that, I rated lots of lenses, but never comment swaps, Squidoo is just not worth trusting. I would never write a lens for a website that cant be TRUSTED. It's not fair. Plus doing it just a few days before pay day, very convenient for them. LIARS it's all I can say they are.
