There now follows a short letter from my own fair hand to the peoples of Blog.co.uk
Someone is using our lovely site for a commercial ripoff - and they're crazy tarot card, moon goddess types, too! Natrurally I could not let this tomfoolery stand :D

I hate to be the snitch and everything, but...

I went looking for stuff tagged with `travel` to compare with my work, and found the following sites.
Quite apart from the pointless catch-all tagging when it has nothing to do with travel; each one is just the same business advertisment; is this kind of use within the terms of service?

At least 4 different users/blogs and 5 posts all trying to redirect users to a commercial site:

http://myastrosagar.blog.co.uk/2008/03/21/teen-age-child-guidance-article-3916747

http://angel-love-us.blog.co.uk/2008/03/21/article-counsel-to-teen-age-child-3917034

http://sonyentertainment.blog.co.uk/2008/03/20/teen-age-child-guidance-3911669

http://warnerbrothers.blog.co.uk/2008/03/20/teen-age-child-guidance-3911605

http://myastrosagar.blog.co.uk/2008/03/20/20-discount-on-counseling-services-based-3908188

You might have noticed by now that two of them could threaten intellectual property rights from a couple of rather large players... even if not, that's misleading and some kind of misrepresentation doohickey is going on - using Sony's and Warner Brothers' names to advertise for something unrelated must be against the rules somewhere down the line.

I only report this because astrology gets on my nerves - people are entitled to whatever opinions they like of course, but advocating, promoting, directly making money from, in fact, something as baseless as astrology is ridiculous, and they are abusing blog.co.uk in doing so, in my view.

Moreover it is immoral and exploitative to try and do so as a solution to serious psychological problems - it all seems very underhanded.

I mean, come on. Tarot cards and star signs to solve failing marriages and `talking to angels` to make your pubescent angry teen daughter stop rebelling - please.
Anyway, I hope not to see these clown around again - I'll be complaining in my usual fashion on my blog soon, so if you can't remove them, I am at least going to point out their wicked ways to anyone who reads my stuff.

Cheers all!
Best regards,

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Now. I was going to add a short note about the sheer bloody ridiculousness of astrology and the truly terrible way that people in serious trouble can be exploited like this, but, in case anyone is actually into that, I shan't. My opinion is but one way of looking at the world, so fair enough, love to know why, but fair enough.

I am just going to remind everyone of this little event undertaken by the reknowned magician, skeptic, and soon-to-be personal hero of mine, Mr. James Randi.
You see, there is an easier way to get money, Mr/Mrs scamperson - all you have to do is be able to prove that anything you pretend to do actually works, and you've got a million dollars - that's £500,000 - for just one day's work!

And it's hardly new, although they are stopping it. I mean, they are giving any would-be paranormal types another 2 years to claim the prize so someone should step up if it's not a load of exploitation and wishful thinking. Mind you, they've only offered it for only ten years straight already :roll:

Amazing.
If I was an astrologist or tarot reader I'd certainly have a try ;)