gosh Aaron... you are attacking me for mistakes two companies ago! funny.<p>Actually, we didn't know were selling text ads to people selling page rank back in 2005... just like Tim O'Rielly didn't. We both turned those ads off when we found out.<p>so, we actually did the RIGHT THING and you're still trying to paint me as some evil spammer.<p>to this day Joystiq, Hackaday, Engadget, TechCrunch50, This Week in Tech, This Week in Startups, Open Angel Forum, Blippy, Gowalla, GDGT and dozens of other brands/projects I've been involved with/invested in are doing great work.<p>You're making me into this black hat who is trying to cheat... it's not how I operate. I true to make and support great products and improve them consistently.<p>A lot of folks I know like the brands I'm involved with and I'm very proud of those brands.<p>Have I made mistakes over the last 15 years of building brands? of course... but i'm always honest and engage folks who point them out. in fact, i thank them.... like i've done here.<p>your attacking me for what you think are my weakest points just gets my team focused on fixing them--and for that I thank you!<p>Honestly, thank you! if there are things we can do better we want to do them. We're in it for the long-haul. We want to make a great brand and we don't want to do it by cutting corners.<p>I know you were hurt when I said "seo is bullshit" a million years ago, but back then that is what i thought. I didn't know anything about SEO back then and I really don't know much about it now. i was wrong when i said it was bullshit and I have said that it was an off the cuff, uninformed statement many times.<p>what is it going to take to make you happy?