Comments on: Newsvine Sucks

By: World Hero

World Hero — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:48:17 +0000

I’ve moved over to Associated Content and posted this article on Newsvine, take a peek…….. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2640337/top_3_things_not_to_do_or_say_on_newsvine.html?cat=9

Here’s another interesting note… right before I was banned from Newsvine, the person who runs their Twitter account tweeted me that my article was “awesome”. The same day, Banned by the Code Of Honor toads.

By: grrace

grrace — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:04:51 +0000

I think I figured out why we’re all getting booted. Do your comments spur a lot of discussion? Isn’t that the basis for PAYMENT. They don’t want to pay the contributors.

By: World Hero

World Hero — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:31:05 +0000

After less than 24 hours on newsvine and two (2) brilliant articles I contributed, I was given the boot. They claimed they would have considered reinstating my account had I not started calling people Nazi’s, which is a complete untruth. I wrote a satirical article ABOUT Newsvine and their “Code Of Honor” after I had been reprimanded for seeding a link and beefing up the headline for them. I simply compared their Code Of Honor personnel’s actions to that of a Nazi, in a piss your pants humorous way. They did not laugh. I had no idea that I would EVER be banned from a website and because of that I did not in any way save my articles elsewhere, and now they are gone forever. They were fucking blasting straight up the vine and getting Large Votes within only a day! I’m filling full of anger and hatred just thinking about it. Please respond or email me with a site that I can post my articles without a goddam War Hammer coming down on me because the site managers can’t take a joke.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:15:08 +0000

I was banned from Newvine by “Tyler” (supposedly for five days, but they never reinstated my account) for “pretending to employ Newsviners.” The article about which I posted regarded the state of Health insurance in the U.S. Of course, the Newsvine comments on political subjects draw the ignorant bigots out of the woodwork. I targeted a few of the most hate-speech-riddled posts with replies in which I pretended to be the posters’ employer, threatening them with firing and the loss of their insurance benefits if I ever caught them posting on company time again.

My posts were comical, related to the subject of the article, and obvious satire. Even some of the targets of the posts seemed to enjoy it, playing along and criticizing my oversized paycheck and lack of skills as if I truly were their boss. Others just wrote me off as a loon. For that bit of quality satire, Newsvine handed me a permanent suspension, yet they turns a blind eye to all manner of hate speech.

Oh well, I banned them back along with any site that does business with them. They were a useless time-waste of a site anyway, so poorly organized that following a thread beyond a couple of hours was impossible.

By: grrace

grrace — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:04:28 +0000

I spoke to my friend yesterday, who also posts on newsvine. She had some trouble as well, without violating any COH rules. She had requested information several times, but had no response or explanation.

She CANCELLED her account on newsvine yesterday.

There are many other sites to be a part of, without the intimidation and unusual treatment by this little creep who calls herself “Tyler.”

By: grrace

grrace — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:12:49 +0000

I am really glad to see Newsvine being boycotted. Their comments are way down…so perhaps they’ll wither on the vine.

My account was deleted and I had no COH violations. Just a difference of opinion. They use articles like “HATE SPEECH” then get mad when you make jokes about “hate speech.” Boom, deleted. They seed articles about “Racists and Racism,” then get deleted when you use the word “racist” in your post.

A truly disfunctional site.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:36:54 +0000

Newsvine sucks! Love your post. They shit-canned me too for a post that they felt violated their Code of Honor. I am in the midst of starting a news/blogging site. The rules will be simple: (1) No threats/criminal harrassment, (2) No terrorism. Everything else is game. If you want to totally slice and dice an idiot, go for it.

By: ARCADIAN

ARCADIAN — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:37:49 +0000

Newvine has the worst CoH rules on this planet.
I dont understand why they even exist, since you make a comment about a certain user or about a certain comment they delete your account, while reading thru all the blogs and comments, I see there were more stronger words on the other post, but they seem to be staying there on the newsvine reports. I knwo they can set there own rules on who can post and who cannot. Once you make a comment againist GOD or a ceratin user like TYLER you get deleted!
Newvine sucks.

By: Gin

Gin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:47 +0000

Thank goodness I found this, now I don’t feel crazy or alone.

I recently started a Newsvine account. I hadn’t ever heard of Newsvine before, and the account seemed like a good way to make use of the fountain of knowledge I collect everyday off my RSS feeds.

I posted ONE link, to a story about commercial truck emmissions not being as bad as previously thought, and came back the next day to find my account disabled.

The story was not mine, was not printed by any association I am affiliated with, and did not link to any advertising, or do anthing else that might be considered a violation.

My account is disabled, and two weeks and three emails later, no one at Newsvine has taken even a few seconds just to bother telling me why.

It’s a good thing, for me, that I hadn’t yet reached the point where I might have wasted some of my own original content on their site.

Words do exist to describe what I think of Newsvine, but they aren’t words suitable to being published anywhere.

By: Frank Black

Frank Black — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:33:42 +0000

I concur- SnoozeVine sucks! I recently had a tongue-in-cheek opinion piece removed by the NewsVine thought police. The title of my brief run (one hour?) piece was “Do Conservatives Have Primitive Reptilian Lower Brain Functions?” Who says the liberals control the media?