When self promotion goes to far

There's been quite the shakeup in the blogidohexiweb the past couple of days. Nope I'm not referring to the OSM boondoggle, I'll get round to that eventually, you know once everybody else has taken their turn beating Roger, Charles and the rest of the gang with the proverbial whiffle ball bat.

What I’m referring to is how the HBIC (Head Bear In Charge) of the ecosystem has made the call, a wise one in my book, to discount trackbacks as links for ranking purposes.

Really I don't get why folks are up in arms about it. Why should a self promoted link to another site count in the standings? If the folks that're all huffy are only trying to "promote their blogs", let them continue to place trackbacks until their hearts are content. When other bloggers find their content interesting they'll link to it in a fashion that is counted by the NZ Bear’s ecosystem.

Taking the, that it's not fair or it's your site do what you want even if it's wrong approach is childish at best. Just a quick poll, how many of y'all picked up your ball and glove and went home when you got caught cheating or were getting beat in grade school?

If you don't think the shameless self linking has gotten out of control I've removed open trackbacks from several sites we designed. Other bloggers have also removed the open trackback feature because they were being abused. It's one thing to trackback to a related post. It called being a slut when you get out of control and abuse the system. Common courtesy and decency is what it's all about, yet some people seem to have forgotten how they were raised.

Just remember it is his site and his routine. If you've got a better system, write it your damned self. Nobody ever said life was fair (if they did you've been lied to). Keep playing games, I imagine it'd be fairly simple to drop your site from the scan and the ecosystem all together (I damn sure would) and that my friends would be Game Over.*

To prove that great minds think alike Madam Sadie and Confederate Yankee both have similar views, I'm sure there are others out there, so feel free to post a trackback, oh, wait...

* My words not The NZ Bear's. If you wanna bitch, whine or moan about the suggestion please do so in my comments or feel free to contact our complaint department.