If you click on her user name and read old message board posts, there are a lot where she white-knights her blog. Weirdo.
This is weird considering she started on the nest under a blog-related name. Did she get outed on the nest before this?
Yep, it looks like she started off as ambowe86 and her posts were either a link to her stationary etsy store or a link to the blog. That girl knows how to market herself, I guess
She should have never given GOMI any reaction at all. She had a good blog going. The comments on the OHA facebook page are getting kinda ugly now.
The more I look at the screenshots from the nest and the nat name, the more grossed out I am by the AWing.
As far as safety is concerned, YHL does make it harder to be found by not revealing their address and even obscuring their house number. They've also written about talking to their alarm company about their profession and how they can better protect themselves. I'm not saying I wouldn't be worried when people mention things like how the steps up the hill go into the state park. That'd make me feel a little icky. But Amanda's read enough YHL to know what they do and what they've put up with.
Post by bunnymendelbaum on Oct 28, 2012 15:54:05 GMT -5
NGL is not gonna lie. GOMI is get off my internets.com a forum/blog critiquing other blogs.
OHA needs to step away from the Internet for a while. Honestly. That whole thing is so messed up. She lost her sense of right and wrong somewhere a while back.
She was posting on the nest making fun of YHl and then pimping out her own blog pretending it wasn't her..."Oh I like this blog better" sort of thing.
And at the same time, requesting a reader feature on YHL. They featured her room makeover, while she was going around the internet trashing them and urging people to read her blog instead..but pretending not to be herself.
What a douche.
YHL is a super annoying blog but at least they don't trash other blogs and make fake screen names. Gah. They should be mad at what she did to them. She also always commented on their blog posts with links to her blog. And got a ton of traffic from using their site like that...and was trashing them all the time all over the internet.
Post by hesitantbride on Oct 28, 2012 16:07:55 GMT -5
Someone on GOMI said that YHL listed OHA as a favorite blog in their book. It is horrible on OHA's part that she did that to people who listed her in their book!
Someone on GOMI said that YHL listed OHA as a favorite blog in their book. It is horrible on OHA's part that she did that to people who listed her in their book!
I really hope Amanda feels like shit for being two-faced, but she probably doesn't.
NGL is not gonna lie. GOMI is get off my internets.com a forum/blog critiquing other blogs.
OHA needs to step away from the Internet for a while. Honestly. That whole thing is so messed up. She lost her sense of right and wrong somewhere a while back.
Apparently that's not going to happen per this quote from a second email sent to a GOMI member who commented on OHA's now defunct FB.
NGL is not gonna lie. GOMI is get off my internets.com a forum/blog critiquing other blogs.
OHA needs to step away from the Internet for a while. Honestly. That whole thing is so messed up. She lost her sense of right and wrong somewhere a while back.
Apparently that's not going to happen per this quote from a second email sent to a GOMI member who commented on OHA's now defunct FB.
I'm glad I just wasted 15 minutes reading the rest of that thread. She really is a sack of crap. And I did wonder what Jen of i heart organizing feels about this. She also is a YHL fan.
I hope for Amanda's sake that she steps away from the internet for awhile... She made some really bad choices, and doesn't seem remorseful at all. If she reopens her blog, I will not longer be a reader.
Post by puppydoggie on Oct 29, 2012 17:00:29 GMT -5
Ok- so can I get a full summary please? She made a fake SN on the knot/nest, pimping her blog (FFS that is HOW i got to her blog! it worked!), got caught doing it so she shut her blog down. Then, she admitted to it? She might re-open it? She used YHL when she was hating on them the whole time? What else did I miss
Ok- so can I get a full summary please? She made a fake SN on the knot/nest, pimping her blog (FFS that is HOW i got to her blog! it worked!), got caught doing it so she shut her blog down. Then, she admitted to it? She might re-open it? She used YHL when she was hating on them the whole time? What else did I miss
It basically went like this: -a thread started on GOMI about Our Humble Abowed asking how did they afford this new house and trashing some of their new renos/decor. -Amanda created an acct as herself to post on GOMI to answer any questions anyone has -she also created a fake account (NatS5122) to defend the blog and tell people off -Administer/moderator at GOMI outs Amanda as creating the fake account by her email address used to create the acct -Amanda shuts down the blog and makes it private saying something about privacy and the safety of her family -then someone (maybe the same Mod?) googles "NatS5122" and it leads back the Nest and every post is her posting about OHA with links back the blog and insulting YHL in a few posts -the OHA facebook page starts getting a lot of posts from people telling her she sucks and not very many people defending her -the main thing is that she was commenting on YHL posts everyday with links back to her blog. so she was using YHL for traffic to the blog and at the same time bashing them on the Nest. -YHL apparently mentioned OHA in their book so people on GOMI think she will open her blog again to "cash in" on the traffic from YHL book readers. -the OHA facebook page is shut down now but it got kinda nasty
Ok- so can I get a full summary please? She made a fake SN on the knot/nest, pimping her blog (FFS that is HOW i got to her blog! it worked!), got caught doing it so she shut her blog down. Then, she admitted to it? She might re-open it? She used YHL when she was hating on them the whole time? What else did I miss
It basically went like this: -a thread started on GOMI about Our Humble Abowed asking how did they afford this new house and trashing some of their new renos/decor. -Amanda created an acct as herself to post on GOMI to answer any questions anyone has -she also created a fake account (NatS5122) to defend the blog and tell people off -Administer/moderator at GOMI outs Amanda as creating the fake account by her email address used to create the acct -Amanda shuts down the blog and makes it private saying something about privacy and the safety of her family -then someone (maybe the same Mod?) googles "NatS5122" and it leads back the Nest and every post is her posting about OHA with links back the blog and insulting YHL in a few posts -the OHA facebook page starts getting a lot of posts from people telling her she sucks and not very many people defending her -the main thing is that she was commenting on YHL posts everyday with links back to her blog. so she was using YHL for traffic to the blog and at the same time bashing them on the Nest. -YHL apparently mentioned OHA in their book so people on GOMI think she will open her blog again to "cash in" on the traffic from YHL book readers. -the OHA facebook page is shut down now but it got kinda nasty
Yes, I followed this way too closely
Ooooohhhhh, thanks for the summary!!! I was way too lazy to try to read through GOMI to figure it all out
how did Jen get dragged into this? Her blog is my #1 favorite.
She is not really involved. Posters on GOMI have just been watching to see who has dropped OHA from their blog roll. I Heart Organizing and Bower Power both removed it.
how did Jen get dragged into this? Her blog is my #1 favorite.
She is not really involved. Posters on GOMI have just been watching to see who has dropped OHA from their blog roll. I Heart Organizing and Bower Power both removed it.
They're also blog BFFs, sponsor each other and co hosted a get togethe. On GOMI someone posted that a commenter asked Jen about OHA. She just said personal reasons, but honestly I really want to know what she thinks. If I were Jen, I'd feel a little grossed out by that behavior if I didn't know about it prior.