Talk:Broadcaster.com
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I have been getting email spam from this site at a handful of different accounts, including a couple of honeypot accounts, all purporting to be from users of this site and acting as if they know the me, asking me to watch their videos. I have not followed any of the links, of course, so don't know if they are from the "site" or from abusive users of the site, but this article does not seem to say anything worthy of a wikipedia article. If the site is a big enough phenomenon that it deserves mention then please ignore this, or add something to the article to make it clear why it matters. Keep in mind that I am admittedly ignorant concerning this site. Thank you --Fitzhugh 04:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
"I have not followed any of the links, of course, so don't know if they are from the "site" or from abusive users of the site." It is inappropriate to flag a page for spam if the facts have not been substantiated.
"this article does not seem to say anything worthy of a wikipedia [sic] article. If the site is a big enough phenomenon that it deserves mention then please ignore this, or add something to the article to make it clear why it matters." The page states that the site has seen a phenomenal increase in page views.
Accordingly, the flag was deleted. Happy Edits 20:30, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
- Neither of those references supports the claim as to how many page hits the site got. As a claim of notability its useless until properly sourced.--Crossmr 16:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
The page sites both Alexa and a Yahoo Finance article that verify the page hits claims. However, I checked Quantcast as another publicly available source and added that link. Happy Edits 18:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- Nowhere on the yahoo article or alexa page does it give a page count. The yahoo article references the rank that Alexa has given the site.--Crossmr 23:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism
Broadcaster has been criticized as having limited geographic range settings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.85.133.174 (talk) 16:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Spammer
I find this most interesting, I've run across two articles today claiming the same thing:
In 2007 Broadcaster launched an international social & photosharing youth community called thephotodiary - http://www.thephotodiary.com/
In 2007 Odnoklassniki.ru launched an international social & photosharing youth community called thephotodiary - www.thephotodiary.com
I think it's fairly obviously that neither are true and someone is attempting to spam another social network. So, I am going to remove this reference until an actual source can be provided. --Anthonysenn (talk) 22:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC) (forgot to login the first time)
