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Strange Blog Comments

TheShowbox.com recently moved away from us to their third web developer in three years.  It was a project I took on at the encouragement of a colleague after I had just decided not to do any more client work.  However the TJLA is a great organization with tons of great data to turn into an interactive website.  Like this site, it was a bit of a labor of love, the new developer is getting more in comp advertising each month than I was willing to charge in a year.

When I realized the TJLA was considering moving this Summer I highly encouraged them to do it.  The new version is a great site with a much easier to understand navigation than the previous and I told EDJE that while assisting in the move.

One thing that did irk me was a blog by Tiffany Nickelson in which she listed numerous features that were “NEW & IMPROVED”.  The issue was that virtually none of them were new and many of them were not only not improved but actually had functionality removed from the previous version.  I was going to do a blog post on that but decided against it.  However, this comment left on my post about SEO last week changed that.


I would have to disagree with your comment on the Showbox website. It looks really sharp and is much easier to get around. It may be missing a few things but I don't think those things were actually needed….

It surprised me for a few reasons…

  1. The comment didn’t make a darn bit of sense.  I didn’t comment on the Showbox website at all in that post.  The only reference to The Showbox was that I saw the ads about SEO in them.
  2. I’ve never had a negative thing to say about the new version of Theshowbox.com.  I've only commented on the comments from the blog and until now that was done via e-mail.
  3. The comment was left by a “Jeff Garrett” with a fake e-mail address.  While the Russian bots that spam my blog every day use fake e-mails, other than that, not a single person has ever used a fake e-mail to leave a comment.  I’ve contacted and had interesting conversations with most people that have left comments on this blog.
  4. There is only one person I DID contact about the new version of Theshowbox.com, Tiffany Nickelson, the woman who authored the blog I mentioned above.  The comment in question was left at 9:30AM the morning after I had e-mailed her to ask what features were “NEW & IMPROVED”

It’s not hard to put 1, 2, 3, and 4 together to figure out who "Jeff Garrett" is.

I promise I'm not trying to pick on EDJE.  I just make a habit of calling B.S. when I see and it tends to come from some places more often than others.