Article-gems REMOVES ARTICLES LINKING TO KIMKINS
UPDATE
ARTICLE-GEMS HAS DECIDED TO LISTEN TO ALL OF US AND HAS REMOVED THE ARTICLES. WOOO–HOOO!!!!
Article-gems is one of the many viral marketing sites we have contacted concerning the Kimkins Diet Scandal. Here is his reply:
Alastair Harris, Chief Editor of Article-gems states the articles are the responsibility of the authors - not article-gems. We accept no liability for the content of articles as clearly stated in our terms of service.
I don’t promote the program as far as I am aware.
We promote freedom of speech here at article-gems but have removed articles in the past when we received sufficient evidence
- e.g. some medical articles were removed because they were not the authors own work
Mr Harris, I beg to differ with you. The simple fact you are refusing to remove the articles means you promote it.
The viral marketing techniques utilized by these so called “article” sites are nothing but glorified spam. I for one an sick of all of them.
We ran into the same opposition at EzineArticles. Yet they finally removed all the offending articles.
I urge each of you to contact Mr Harris with the link above and let him know we don’t give up easily. We will keep contacting him until something is done.
Filed under: Kimkins Scam | Tagged: scam, lies, fraud, legal liability, viral marketing, consumer activist, article-gems, Alastair Harris
thanks for posting this. I’m linking a page on my blog to here hoping folk will come click his addy and send him a message.
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I would appreciate if you would put up the second email I also sent you.
The two articles were removed -
1) One for failing to comply with out terms of service (namely it had links in the body of the article)
2) The second one because it had an untruth - even the real “promoter” of the kimkin diet - i.e. the truth about how much weight she lost - therefore also in breach of our terms of service.
I am and also will be a supporter of the FREEDOM OF SPEECH - as I believe it is in also a shining principle of the U.S. Constitution - although personally I am an Australian citizen. However in this case the articles were removed for reasons as outlined above.
We approved at this time some 200 articles daily at article-gems.com We rely on the authors of those articles to comply with our terms of service. Our terms of service clearly points out that we do not “promote” one particular article over another - other than the 244 of which I am an author myself. There are articles on numerous topics, some I agree with, some I do not. Although a Christian I have articles in the religious section on Islam, Kabbala, myticism, astrology, etc - most of which on a personal level I oppose - however if I am going to be true to my principles of respecting the freedom of speech of others - I approve articles that I don’t always agree with.
I hope your readers, supporters, etc will visit and support our website with your own article submissions, or read the now nearly 50,000 articles present. If you are so concern with the dangers of this diet, then why not submit an article on why you believe the kimkins diet is dangerous. As long as it complies with the Terms of Service it will be approved.
yours sincerely,
Alastair Harris
Chief Editor - Article-gems.com
Be advised that an article directory spams no one. Visitors come to our sites of their own free will or at the whims of search engine results.
As for the “huge profits” I make - at this time I make less than $2 a day - for an hours work. I don’t do it out of greed, but out of a service to the wider internet community.
Articles are not spam - much of the information is informative and very useful - why else would search engines keep coming back to article directories.
P.S. seeing you freely engage in libel - i.e. your post “Article-gems Supports the Kimkins Scam” - It would be appropriate for you to publish a formal apology here.
Thank you for removing them.
To see just how “spammy” that article is do a google search for faux dieting and see all the places that have picked up that article as a true article about dieting with links back to that site. The proliferation of it is staggerring. Those articles are being used as viral marketing by kimkins. Under a group of pen names those articles are writen with false information and placed on sites like yours where they are picked up by others that scrape content and soon there are hundereds of sites quoting your site’s article as source cause we all know “an article on the net has to be truthful” as your TOS says.
An article on the internet doesn’t have to be truthful. Heaps of false things are published on the internet. An article on article-gems though is expected to have a certain level of creditability and comply with our terms of service. Though you must realize that some topics are always going to be opinion - e.g. our categories on politics, religion, - you get the idea. Even ones on a commercial products benefits versus another e.g. viagra versus levitra for sexual dyfunction - we have articles on both - but promote neither and you would be very foolish indeed to take either without visiting a doctor first. However you may get an idea of some of the benefits/disadvantages of both before you make a doctor’s visit.
Instead of bemoaning how the internet works virally - and this is only increasing with RSS feeds, ezine notifications, blogging comments and more, why not use that to your advantage. If you’re against the diet write and submit your own articles. Surely you don’t suggest we censure the internet? They have a place like that - its called Communist China. I am for one am happy to live in a democracy.