Anteck,
First of all, I can see that this is your first post so welcome to our forums!
As I can see that this is your very first post on our forums, I'm making an assumption that you've actually been through the 30DC in it's entirety to check out what we teach before you came along with your opinion?
The first thing you should read is our Forum Rules [which can be found here:
2009 30DC Rules & Procedures :-) ] which outline what type of posts are acceptable and what are not.
With regard to your post, no one is going to delete you from the forums, however, you seem to be completely missing the point of how Traffic Bug is being used as part of our process.
The Thirty Day Challenge is a process which involves a variety of different web 2.0 properties and articles all inter-linking back to your niche site to promote it. Traffic Bug is used as part of the 30DC process to speed up indexing of all these articles and content - nothing more, nothing less
It's used as part of the 30DC for indexing and always has been.
At no point in any of the 30DC training do we say you should only be using Traffic Bug for all your bookmarking needs, feel free to go back through the 30 days training and check for yourself.
And as far as you quoting Ed's video, as you pointed out he says "if you put up a 30DC type site" - this would involve doing all the steps in the 30DC to get it indexed and ranked which includes a heck of a lot more stuff.
As we show people in our pre-season training, you can use Social Marker to do this yourself if you don't want to use Traffic Bug, so feel free not to use it if you feel you're not getting benefit from it.
We're really not concerned if you (or anyone else over at the Warrior Forum) are trying to spend time verifying backlinks and calling out Traffic Bug as a waste of space, we're not using it for the purposes you're talking about so you're trying to compare apples to oranges.
Traffic Bug is one small process in a larger 30 day process, and that's the point all the people seem to keep missing.
As a general note to all:
I've posted many times before at how trying to verify your backlinks made by
any tool is a waste of time, and if you do a simple forum search on my name you'll see what I've said previously.
In a nutshell: You're measuring the wrong metric.
You should be concerned at where your sites are ranking, what visitors you're getting and what conversion rates you're achieving (how much you sell).
Trying to verify backlinks is a complete waste of your time and effort, and rather than just taking my word for it please take five minutes to read this blog post from the guys over at SEOMoz:
SEOmoz | Google Link: Command - Busting the Myths
Cheers,
Jon.