Comments on: Screw you MalcWhore

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By: Velvet

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By: Sara Lynn

Sara Lynn — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:51:30 +0000

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By: Gerrman K

Gerrman K — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:31:04 +0000

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By: ErichD

ErichD — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:06:34 +0000

Just to pipe in on Erik M’s comment,

I’ll continue to read MacApper as long I have chance of getting free apps.

I’ll also continue to read it hoping I’ll eventually find a review on here worth the effort to read it in the first place. They’re improving, but not quite there. I do find out about apps and products I didn’t know about previously.

By: Inside Stretch » Malcor Is A Fake

Inside Stretch » Malcor Is A Fake — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:52:11 +0000

[...] from MacApper [...]

By: Boycott Mac Heist. It really is that simple. - Someone Else

Boycott Mac Heist. It really is that simple. - Someone Else — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:36:05 +0000

[...] of the "attacked" websites, MacApper, got far enough into the stunt that they posted a very strange and very angry post claiming that they were hacked, no really they were, honest.Today, the story of the [...]

By: Erik Mallinson

Erik Mallinson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:07:53 +0000

I’ll continue to read MacApper until the articles aren’t interesting to me. IMHO if you’re so outraged that you can never trust this site’s reviews of software for OS X again you’ve already spent too much time thinking about this.

By: peterb

peterb — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:40:10 +0000

On the one hand, I had never heard of macapper.com before this whole heist.

On the other hand, now that I know you were part of this sophomoric little hoax, I won’t be visiting your site — or trusting news or articles that you post again.

It’s called “credibility,” and you have just squandered any you might have had.

By: Erik Mallinson

Erik Mallinson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:17:06 +0000

ZOMGZ WordPress’ reputation is forever stained by a stunt I forgot about five minutes after I thought it was real.

By: robinadr § Oh, the Idiocy

robinadr § Oh, the Idiocy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:02:52 +0000

[...] Someone posing as “malcor” (blog since removed) claimed to have hacked Glenn Wolsey, a reasonably prominent Mac blogger, and replaced his site with a page linking to the Malcor blog, with a picture of a rotton apple with a worm crawling through it. Next, MacApper was posted on Malcor’s blog as the next target, and soon thereafter it was brought down, too. [...]

By: Woops I did it Again | MacApper

Woops I did it Again | MacApper — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:19:04 +0000

[...] holes in it. This was when I made a really bad and stupid mistake for which I feel awful about. In a blog post I tried to justify the hacking by blaming it on my WordPress install. This was a really stupid [...]

By: Jamie Diamond

Jamie Diamond — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:12:02 +0000

As you guys probably know by now…it was a stunt by MacHeist…I don’t know what to say to you guys except that I’m sorry for questioning some of you guys. Most of the MacApper staff (including myself) wasn’t told about this beforehand or even after the fact. Most of us are finding out that this was a stunt right now for the first time.

By: Jamie Diamond

Jamie Diamond — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:42:57 +0000

A: We’re launching an “investigation” into matters in light of recent news as we speak, so stand by kids.

B: Wolsey Watcher…a man once said “Credible men do not shamelessly self-promote.” You’re already in danger of being banned due to this flame war. Don’t push it.

By: Wolsey Watcher

Wolsey Watcher — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:53:35 +0000

Glenn Wolsey is currently getting free hosting from Media Temple. By perpetrating this hoax he has cast a very negative light on the people who are gracious enough to host his site at no charge. Would you sign up with a host that can be hacked so easily?

If you answered no, they you should let Media Temple know that as well. Contact them at http://www.mediatemple.net/company/contact_us/ , and address your comment to Mr. Demian Sellfors, CEO.

I blogged about this at http://wolseywatch.blogspot.com . Check it out!

By: Richard Neal

Richard Neal — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:38:47 +0000

Wow. Talk about unprofessional. Blatantly denying accusations that this was a PR stunt and attacking the integrity of your readers?

By: shadownight

shadownight — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:57:59 +0000

Lame. Very lame. Lost all respect. Better come out late than never.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:07:24 +0000

Seems this stunt pissed off the folks at EE which is what started the downward-spiral?

http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/65867/P0/

So just how much $$$ did they offer you? It is time to come clean or accept that you will have absolutely no credibility.

By: KÃƒ¥re

KÃƒ¥re — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:21:26 +0000

Mac1 was right! MacHeist paid the “hacks”

So long MacApper and MacHeist..

By: Steve Tsuida

Steve Tsuida — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:07:45 +0000

Wow. This was how _not_ to market. I’m going to contact every single advertiser on your site about this.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:23:29 +0000

Unsubscribed from the MacApper and AppleMatters feeds as of now. It’s a bad publicity stunt that nobody will care about in 2 weeks, but I won’t be back as a reader and wouldn’t trust either site for a while.

By: djones

djones — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:19:44 +0000

This was just a ad campaign limited to their own sites.

Except that it also implicates the hosts and the software these sites run on. Liability for this idiocy extends to Media Temple, EngineHosting, WordPress, and ExpressionEngine, all of whom were not in on the “prank”. They and all of there users being subjected to security and support scares from the blatant lies perpetrated by this “prank” cost real money, and puts everyone who was in the know at risk of civil and legal suits.

By: Asherdude

Asherdude — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:02:28 +0000

Wow. I should have known it was a fake. First all of the Apple hate sites disband, and then John C. Dvorak goes all Mac last summer. Everybody thinks it’s cool to have a Mac now. There just aren’t any Mac haters left in the world that could pull off such a stunt.

I’m a bit disappointed, but I’m still reading the site. This was just a ad campaign limited to their own sites. It’s not like the ATHF Boston bomb scare.

By: crunch

crunch — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:51:06 +0000

So, when can we expect your public apology to the makers of WordPress?

By: Tedious

Tedious — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:46:56 +0000

IT’S A HOAX!!!!

Well, this is MY last time here.

By: Jason Healey

Jason Healey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:32:55 +0000

I second that Jimmni! This is just pathetic. The MacApper staff should be ashamed of themselves. Glenn Wolsey as well.

By: Jimmni

Jimmni — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:07:32 +0000

So according to AppleMatters it was all a PR stunt. Pathetic.

MacApper just lost a reader.

By: ErichD

ErichD — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:13:45 +0000

Why not report it?

http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm#cc

By: Asherdude

Asherdude — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:50:37 +0000

Actually, that attack was some of the best free publicity that you’ve ever got. I’m getting an iMac in the next few months, and I’m looking for Mac sites. If it wasn’t for his current attack on Applematters redirecting me to his blog, I wouldn’t have found your guys link. Now I’ve got you guys bookmarked.

Besides, I doubt that it will last. He’s bound to hack a site that Steve Jobs cares about. When that happens, it’s going to hit the fan! I hope Malc whoever enjoys prison.