Nirvanix Watch

Wanna Get Newsvine to Remove an Article? Just Ask Them!

Autor tombassett

Recently, I posted some information critical of MediaMax and Nirvanix to Newsvine.com. I wanted to expose the truth about those websites, and what they’d put their users through in the past year.

I did not, however, enable comments, because I believe that they would send their minions to deface my article with spam.

I later got an email from Newsvine saying that MediaMax/Nirvanix/Streamload had complained, and demanded the right to comment on my article. Of course, I declined! I then got ANOTHER email from Newsvine saying that if I didn’t allow Nirvanix/Mediamax/Streamload to comment, they would delete my article. What makes this so ironic is that Mediamax had an official blog, and turned off the ability to leave comments on it after too many complained - so basically, they were saying “Comments for us, but not for you!”

So, I complied with their demands and allowed comments. Almost immediately, I got over a dozen comments from former and current MediaMax users, complaining about how they’d been treated.

Surprisingly however, Streamload/MediaMax/Nirvanix didn’t comment! I believe this is because they thought they’d be the only one commenting on the articles. Then they saw that some of the people they’d digitally defecated on would be there to pick apart whatever crap they’d spew, so they decided not to reply after all.

I wrote Newsvine back and told them “Hey, I turned on comments like you ordered, please write MediaMax/Streamload/Nirvanix and tell them to put their money where their mouth is!”

The next morning, my articles were deleted.

I emailed Newsvine to ask why. Here is what they said:

Thus far, we have been contacted by both you and the company that is
the subject of your writings. Since we have no way to determine
which party’s claims are legitimate, and Newsvine is not in the
business of arbitrating such disputes, we recommend that you (and the
company you wrote the articles about) take your dispute elsewhere.

In other words, Nirvanix/Streamload/Mediamax merely ASKED them to delete the article, and because they couldn’t decide which party was correct, they just deleted it!

So if anyone posts an article you don’t like on Newsvine, just tell them that you disagree with the facts. They will promptly delete that article the very next day! Expect thousands of articles critical about George W Bush to “disappear” when the White House finds out about this Newsvine policy.