Some people are taking the advantage given to them by Entrecard and using it to abuse the system. How they do this is very easy.

The goal of every Entrecard user is to give and receive as many drops as possible and use the Entrecard Credits gained for blog promotion or income generation. Some people abuse the use of Entrecard by creating what Entrecard as termed “Quick Drop Pages”. A QDP ((This is my own TLA ( 3 letter acronym) for Quick Drop Page)) is a very light page with very little or no information, at times just the Entrecard badge only. If I create a QDP, that page will not help me drop faster on other blogs but will help other bloggers drop faster on my page. If hundreds of people create such QDPs, many bloggers will bookmark about 300 of such each and drop their cards on daily. This will be very fast since they don’t have to wait for a long time for a page to load.

Quick drop pages are very advantageous to the selfish bloggers who use it but detrimental to Entrecard. It does not only reduce the quality of services Entrecard gives, but trains bloggers to develop a bad habit of never reading content by other bloggers. Entrecard is not all about drooping. It is about blogs, content and networking. When I visit a blog, believe me the Entrecard Badge is the last thing I go for. I want to know who a blogger is, read at least one post (and if possible, comment) and drop my Entrecard only on my way out.

I am very happy Entrecard is planning to take action against users of QDPs.
This is a mail I received from Entrecard today explaining the situation and what they plan to do in the next few days.

Greetings,

This message is to inform you that effective July 1, 2008, Entrecard will be purging from its system the accounts of all members currently operating “Quick Drop Pages”. We have assembled a massive list of all quick drop pages, and starting on the above mentioned date, we are going to go through the entire list and close the accounts of all the owners.

To avoid having your account with Entrecard permanently removed, you must take down your quick drop page before July 1. If we open a quick drop page with your widget on it, your account will be removed from Entrecard without warning.

What is a Quick Drop Page?
Here is an example:
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Quick drop pages are single pages with your Entrecard widget, made to load quickly and display your widget and not much else. Many quick drop pages have just a widget, and maybe an ad or some other type of widget. If you have a quick drop page, you must take it down immediately.

Why are Quick Drop Pages bad?
Quick drop pages devalue our network as a whole, by motivating members to drop on the same, quick loading pages, en masse to gain credits quickly and efficiently. Their traffic is going to these quick drop pages instead of being dispersed among quality blogs. It goes against the spirit of Entrecard, and is essentially a scheme to gain credits quickly.

How will you find them?
Luckily for us, people running “quick drop”, or “powerdrop” pages have listed themselves all over the internet, and we’ve amassed a list that we believe includes every power drop page in existence. Additionally, members dropping on “quick drop pages” may start receiving stiff credit penalties for every drop they do on quick drop pages, as it is not a visit to a blog and thus an illegal drop.

For more info see our blog:
http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=399

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