Comments on: Android Community Gets Hacked & RickRolled

By: AndroidTapp.com

AndroidTapp.com — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:29:25 +0000

This type of reply is typical of Vincent an the Android Community camp. They have a “superiority complex” towards any site/owner who is not large enough to benefit them. Igornance is Bliss!

I’m not at all surprised at his idiotic response when someone is simply trying to help him remove flamatory remarks which could offend their readers.

We know first hand as we’ve received replies similar to this and even retaliation from their website when we first launched AndroidTapp.com (37 Homosexual referenced Spam comments). There’s even evidence left on their website they forgot to delete when we asked them about it. See the link below where they banned us and changed our profile to the same references they left on our website and lied about never doing such a thing: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/members/androidtapp/

By: Susan Helander

Susan Helander — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:21:33 +0000

Michael, as the community manager for Android Community, I wanted to drop by and thank you personally for looking out for us. That was very kind of you. As soon as I was aware of what had happened, I immediately tried to correct the problem, but was unable to as the person who did this had also locked me out of the site, therefore rendering me virtually helpless. Thankfully, I was able to contact Ewdi and he was able to quickly remedy the situation.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:38:34 +0000

The Android Community posted an apology this morning – http://androidcommunity.com/apology-from-android-community-20090303/ – but didn’t get into specifics on who and why probably under advisement by their attorneys.

By: Abdel

Abdel — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:11:56 +0000

Was anyone able to get word out to the AC admins? And is there any proof if it was Shawn?

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:41:20 +0000

Is this purely speculation or do you have evidence of this?

My limited communications with Shawn were always professional and he seemed to know his stuff IMHO.

I just don’t like to expose a person’s name unless there is some undeniable facts behind an accusation.