…if you know what I mean.
I can’t stand Flixster for obvious reasons. And I do have reasons besides also running a Movie Recommendation Site myself. I hate the fact how they are showing off the amount of users constantly. Yeah, it huge! But how do they get this huge? Well for once they make some new users think that parsing their Gmail is part of the sign up process and have everyone who is in your mailbox an flixster invite sent. And they are constantly in your face at Facebook. But I guess Facebook is the place to be in your face, on the other hand.
The real dislike started when friends of mine started sending me Facebook invites and take these Flixster Facebook Quiz invitations. I am pretty tense about getting Super Poked, Vampire Bites and quizes and all these Applications Spam invites on a daily basis. ANNOYING! One more Super Poke and I snap!
So yesterday I noticed that two of my friends were taking the "Who of these stars are faggots" Quiz from Flixster (They call it "Guess who’s gay quiz") Which I think is ridiculous. Wo the f cares? What does that have to do with movies? Yeah, I can see generating a viral interest (109894 quiz takers) can be very good for your website. But what’s next?
- Who of these stars are in real life retarded ?
- Who likes to xdress?
- Farted in public?
- Is Straight?
Yeah, these are question I would like to know myself … but COME ON!
… super giggle, poking screech, fantastico!
P.S. Sorry for the rant.
Are you on Facebook too? Feel free to add me as a friend with a short note that you are a RGS reader. And in return I might send you an Criticker Application invite. Oooops .. I am not a cent better than Flixster, lol!
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Joe From Flixster wrote,
lol. Fair enough Juergen – sorry to hear you are not a fan of our site. But at least you seem to have a sense of humor about hating us.
(For what its worth – I assume you know that the quiz above was made by a user – not by us – and i definitely think its inappropriate.)
Anyway, i think you guys have done some great stuff with criticker and am a fan of your efforts. Particularly like the blog widget for ratings and the TCI.
I just added you as a friend on facebook.
Best,
Joe G
Link | December 5th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Blevin wrote,
Yep, I totally agree. As I remember one article I read “Flixster = Equals a big fat spammer”
Link | December 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
RGS wrote,
Blevin,
thank you for the comment.
As a webmaster you are always in the moral conflict if you are a spammer.
For me a website has to be for me personally ok. So you will never see too annoying things (like pop ups) on any of our sites.
I actually find the article you are talking about:
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-flixster-a-big-fat-spammer-are-they-hacking-your-aol-or-hotmail-address-book
Link | December 5th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Ali W. wrote,
Flixster was the application that pushed me over the edge, and lead to the creation of http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7230287089 – Block Facebook Spam.
I am just not interested in any of the star worship trivia culture that occupies the unbalanced majority – I use facebook as a point of contact since everyone else is on it – and all this other crap is just ruining it – my rant on the topic
– http://www.gethan.com/2007/12/04/facebook-becomes-spambook-the-backlash-begins/
Link | December 5th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Adam Yo wrote,
Lately I’ve just about had it with Flixter constantly invading my feed. Is there an option yet to disable these notices/challenges/SPAM? my whole feed some days is just flixter. Today I took quiz as part of looking further into the app and after i finished i was TWICE given option to challenge my friends. One after the other. The first having all my contacts preselected. After looking for an official Facebook group for Flixster for awhile it occurued to me. Of course they won’t have a group. It’ll just be full of people complaining.
Link | January 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm