Having managed to be banned or locked out of more than a thousand real and virtual gated communities during the past quarter century, the slow-moving train wreck of Entrefart is perhaps the most interesting exercise in entropy I've experienced since removing several skin tags from my crotch area a few years ago by using direct application of Dust-Off at close range after coating the offending appendages with Chinese mustard.
As I reported earlier, I was never quite sure exactly what the scam behind Entrefart was and had routinely filed defects with their defective bug tracking system, which is now gone, about a general lack accountability, accounting, validation, or reliability of statistics.
Now the that imaginary community is nearly completely dismantled, the official blog is locked down so that no public comments can be made unless they are pronouncements from on high, which I wish I was smoking a little of.
The forum, which was not simply an unofficial help system trying to do what the official help system never managed to do, but was also what such forums are in most virtual communities, places where members could communicate with each other on in groups of similar if not necessarily like-minded people has also fallen prey to the paranoia of the massa and missus. SpicyBugz, the volunteer moderator who actually booted my thankless out of the forums for yelling fuck in am empty warehouse posted the originally wording announcing the total lock down.
Now the forum is completely gone and replaced with a message that does not inspire confidence in anyone who has dealt with the system for more than a couple of months.
One thing is for certain, though. Whatever accounting by wish system Entrefart uses, it is just as flaky as it ever was. I removed my widget on October 6, when the last ad scheduled on this blog completed its run.
So what's up with these statistics? The top one indicates that drops on my non-existent widgets have never gone to zero and are actually starting to rise again, and although I am not accepting ads and my profile doesn't show up in searches or campaigns, people are still managing to click through from Entrefart to my site.
The most interesting part of the statistics, however, comes when I look at my top droppers, one of whom has managed to drop 31 cards in the past 30 days on a widget that has not been displayed more than a week.
Great work keeping this invaluable service for click-farmers, spammers, and innocent victims alike. My hat goes off to Cindy and pals for proving that if anything can happen, it doesn't necessarily mean that any of it should.
I did manage to get my Entrewas widget working again without destroying the readability of my happy horse exhaust. Some days you just can't lose for winning.