Isles Tech

Entrecard had been very good for a lot of blogs (more here, here, here, and here). (There had been, of course, some problems - alleged censorship at the forums*, some members leaving, the Great Fire, etc., but generally the network had been great.)

Unfortunately, the general consensus among the membership and the top honchos is that only blogs and webcomics are to be accepted into the network:

our general rule of thumb is sites that are updated regularly. thats why blogs and also web comics, and some forums.

we don't want sites with static content in our network, because once you've seen it, you've seen it and there is nothing new. that would significantly devalue the dropping experience, which is all about finding new stuff.

Ignoring this injunction, I put the Entrecard widget in the Education in the Philippines Forum, a forum for stakeholders of Philippine education, and transferred some credits from my main account (the one for this blog) to that linked account so that I could buy some advertisement. Within three days the administrators disabled that linked account.

I had to explain to Phirate why I thought forums should be allowed in the network. I was unable to convince him though, but instead I followed Evil Woobie's advice: I created a blog for EduPhil, which will contain highlights of the forum, profiles of members, and other noteworthy things. Of course, the main purpose of the blog is still to convince visitors to become members of the forum.

While Entrecard has not yet opened itself to websites other than blogs and webcomics, this is an acceptable compromise.

P.S. I would like to thank Phirate for reimbursing my 5331 EC credits which was deleted along with the old EduPhil account :)

(*I could not state much about this event because I was "on leave" from the forums when it happened.)