I didn’t make a post yesterday, but I did re-organize the Anvil a bit more; hopefully for the better. And the day before that I worked almost all day and created a mirror site of the Anvil at Foehammer.com for safe-keeping of future articles that I post here, and also to accommodate those readers on slow connections. It’s also Digg-able, unlike Foehammer.net itself. You can just call it Foehammer, or how I affectionately like to refer to it, Foehammer Lite.
I’m making an extra effort this morning to filter out many of the pro-Islam and Islam proselytizing ads that have been randomly placed on the Anvil for months. I think I’m seeing results. I know that more than a few of you will be happy to see them gone and this will mean even more relevant and hopefully useful advertising for the majority of my visitors.
I couldn’t exactly push a successful Boycott Islam campaign and continue to unwittingly send traffic to Islamic businesses, now could I?
Well, I can’t honestly say I ever really believed this would happen. I mean, I’m just one guy with a blog amid over 100,000 rivals, literally. But as of tonight I received an email for the 3rd time this month informing me that my usage limits on my shared server are far over the allowed range. The numbers aren’t worth posting here because they are technical and even too abstract for me to make any sense of (CPU usage, memory limits, etc.). Suffice it to say, I’m between “a rock and a good place”, because I’m so happy that I’m seeing an average of over 350 unique hits per day from last week and will undoubtedly see somewhere around double that from this week, if not triple. But the reality is this means I can not stay on a cheaper shared server.
Well, approaching DEFCON 3 here at the Anvil with regard to the recent censorship of my site by Digg.com. First the highest traffic article in the history of the Anvil was completely squelched by Digg, and then Digg implemented a block on all articles from my site from being Dugg at all.
I suppose that any private company is within its legal rights to pick and choose who gets through their system, but isn’t it interesting that a user-driven website should be so quick to censor based on the flimsiest of excuses imaginable? Like this one:
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