Memory Bank Threatened..!

Voice in Colombo started questioning Memory Bank on, how it's posts coming top in Kottu. It was very polite questioning and Memory Bank had no delay in answering. Within an hour the question was answered. Also the Achcharu admin stepped in and clarified how 'future posts' come top in the list. He also clearly explained that he had stopped such scenarios taking place in Achcharu. He too added his comments to Shehal's blog, on this:

"a) future posting is a legit technique which allows a post publish to be delayed. WordPress and MT allow it, blogspot does not. Blogspot will happily publish an entry, even if it is dated in the future."

I wanted to thank Shehal, a guy who never wants to accept something till he has a proof, for his experimental findings. In his blog he says,

"there was a blog post by a self proclaimed voice of Colombo... who i personally think needs to clear his/her throat... and this voice had accused another person of "Stealing Traffic" from kottu.org... 'cos it seems like he/she lives off advertisements in his blog... and probably get a bit upset to find that someone had managed to very easily stay at the top of the list... and since he obviously had no clue of how syndicated content polling works... he felt a bit "unfair" that his posts didnt appear at the top of the list..."

So, for all my blog readers, I would like to say, as correctly pointed out by Shehal, Memory Bank never depends on 'ads' (like the other), so never goes after popularity.

Usually Memory Bank drafts it's posts near mid night and publishes them for the next day - that is, readers won't feel they read something stale when they see those next morning. As per Achcharu admin, this is called "posts publish to be delayed".

I have no objection to have a discussion of this type. But unfortunately some idiots (very few), who were hurt by Memory Bank's previous posts, try to exploit the situation to harm it's image. They have already started their work by putting anonymous comments on some blogs. Also, being unable to add Anonymous comments in Memory Bank it self, they have started to send me threatening emails to my Yahoo account. They use all the bad words they know in those to criticize me & my parents. Also, they threaten to remove Memory Bank from Kottu.

But, I believe they can do none of those they boast about.

At the same time, I hope Kottu will do a sort of modification to it's post listing algorithm, so every post will get a fair chance to be at top.