[PSA] FlavorWiki is no longer allowed to be posted on our subreddit

Hey everyone,

I hate to have to make this post, but we will now be blacklisting FlavorWiki from being shared on our subreddit. As many of you know, I made a post about a few of their opportunities the other day. Multiple users reported being kicked out mid study, and my fellow moderator has been in contact with their CEO to try and figure out what happened, and to see if their team wanted to make an account to explain the situation better to everyone here.

Turns out, the reason people were getting kicked out is because the tests went over quota. I'm sorry guys, I posted this study 3 days after they invited me via email, and I had absolutely no way of knowing that it was going to end so soon.

 

TL;DR of the CEO's emails is that

1. I made a post about something that "probably didnt even exist by the time they posted it."

2. FlavorWiki didn't need nor even want the traffic that our subreddit brought. Having posts like this is a problem for them, and they especially dislike traffic from Reddit since "Folks on Redditt tend to be more those trolling for easy wins (we have seen)."

3. People, including myself, only make posts on "these types of sites" (Reddit) "when somebody is trying to game our site to make excess cash."

4. They absolutely did not screen anyone out mid study. "anybody who screens in before the close is able to continue, we never bait and switch. The people who are complaining either did not make the screen in and heard about it late, or they bought the product without properly screening in." These people just "blackmailing" FlavorWiki to try to get into a closed study.

5. They don't have to compensate people who bought the products, nor do they have to extend the timer for people who got timed out, but they are doing it anyways. So if you legitimately got timed out mid test due to no fault of your own (which supposedly cannot happen), send them an email.

6. He thinks it would be best to blacklist his site from our subreddit and remove all previous posts.

 

To keep things short, seeing the emails from the CEO is just... shocking. I understand there will be fraudulent users, but to say that every user who is reporting having problems is just doing it to blackmail them... I simply can't believe it. I have found some similar reports recently on small, invite-only groups - places that have no merit to bringing up an issue on a site. I've also been on this subreddit for over 6 years now, and I'm not sure I've ever heard these types of "false" accusations about a different site. So, in order to prevent something like this from happening in the future, and to protect all of you, we will now be blacklisting FlavorWiki from our subreddit.

 

TL;DR: FlavorWiki has made it clear to us that they do not want to be posted on our subreddit, and in order to try to prevent this from happening again, we will no longer be allowing them to be posted on our subreddit.

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