It Is Not My Fault... I Swear...

Liz & Bill - yes, I was in massive "edit" mode. I find it funny, as broken links on AR do not do AR any good, at least, this is what I thought, and I thought that it is in my interest and in the interest of AR that we fix the broken links when we change IDX or websites.

Gabe - I am afraid this is one of those pesky problems, which is the result of AR "fixing what ain't broke" (I am quoting Karen Ane Stone old blog post).

We are now in a situation where AR "fixes" one thing that we do not see (for SEO) and breaks two, that we see, like in this case. I have a long list of things poorly working or not working, which used to work perfectly before. But AR might not want to see it

Jill - I believe there was a discussion a year ago, or, maybe, even two. I thought that it had been resolved, but I might be overly optimistic

Thanks, Mark. Statistically, it turns out it is easier to become very active by editing (LOL)

Lenn - my idea behind it was to make links from authoritative Active Rain/Trulia to my personal and un-athouritative website. Plus, I did not like the idea of people reading old blogs, which they still find on the internet, and deal with broken links, so I figured I would try to do it with the most prestigious condos at least.

The rest was pure fun :)

Than - you are so right. But I must admit that so often I am tempted to open a link, and then stop myself with your question. In some instances, I would send the agent an email asking to confirm whether they sent me an email, and every time the answer was "no".

You were nice trying to warn people, many don't do anything, and when you write to them, they would acknowledge that their email was hacked. So inconsiderate...

Dick - and it was not easy to figure it out. I wouldn't have done it on purpose, but it just how AR marked them, and they started coming, and coming, and coming... :)

Andrea - I will call AR tomorrow and talk to them. I am a bit surprised that they seem not to have a tester. Someone who reads and blogs, and who can tell them about the problems. They could have created a group for this particular purpose, and people would be reporting problems and inconveniences.

It seems so logical, that I can't figure why they would not do it.

Liz - I called AR relatively recently, and complained on a bug. A young lady (anyone younger than me is now a young person) listened to me and did not hear me.

She was telling me how it would have been possible to circumvent a problem. I was trying to tell her, that the problem was created by them, so why teach us how to circumvent it instead of not creating?

But again, she listened to me, but she did not hear me