*Note: Unless something controversial happens, this will be my final post about BlogRush.*
Based on my experience, it looks like BlogRush (I’ll call it BR from time-to-time here onwards) is trying to unexpose honest reviews that don’t favor them.
In my opinion, I think I wrote a fair analysis when I posted “BlogRush, Have You Forsaken Me?” last week (if you want to object, be my guest 
). Did BlogRush intentionally block that post? I don’t have a clue.
Normally, BR would pick up the latest post a few hours after it was posted. However, after 2 days of observing, I noticed that BR was still using an old topic as a “flag-carrier” of my blog when it’s not supposed to.
Why did that happened? Was it a BR glitch?
Despite the curiosity itch, I exercised patience. I wanted to experiment a bit so I waited couple more days before I published another post (“You Love Writing, Does Someone Understand?”). As expected, few hours later, it was sent across sites that run BR widget. It has been syndicated a good 134 times in less than a day.
How come my BlogRush review never made the widget?
To get the clear picture of what I’m talking about, look at the two photos below:
Above is a snapshot of my archives. I published my BlogRush Review On 11th of November 2007
It never happened before. So last Friday, first thing in the morning, I wrote a short email to BR Customer Support asking for an explanation as to why. Even though I expressed my disappointment, I did my best to be polite and professional. When I didn’t get any response after a day, I followed it up. I am still waiting for their reply.
Is BlogRush really that busy to ignore my email? I believe they have people who filtered and purged 10,000 “low-quality” blogs, how come nobody from Customer Support even bothered to answer a simple query?
Personally, I think BlogRush is a good idea that will benefit both Mr. Reese and bloggers, and I really hope that the censorship is just a glitch. But if Mr. Reese and his team don’t even bother clearing up this situation, then it is like saying they really monitor and auto-block honest reviews against them. If that’s the case, then we don’t know what kind of posts they will block in the future. Next thing we know, they’ll control political issues (I know it’s a stretch, but a possibility).
For BlogRush members who are reading this, kindly check your BR dashboard and see if some of your articles got blocked – particularly the ones that have honest reviews about them. Make sure you are not filtering your own post, otherwise, it will not really appear in the report. Let us know if you had been censored without your knowledge.
My hope is BlogRush widget somehow picks up this post and sends this article across the blogosphere (I will know in the next few hours upon publishing). However, if BR censors this, I won’t mind. This post will still find its way out.
Mr. Reese is probably laughing his butt out, thinking how a small site like mine could hurt his project. All I can say is everything becomes bigger by the power of the internet. And with your help, we can send this message to the intended parties so they can avoid this kind of mistake again — whether it was accidental or intentional.
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