Crime and Punishment - Guantanamo for spammers?
Public stoning for ActiveRain members who plagiarize posts? (a members only post yesterday)
Tar and feather for the comment spammers who promote themselves or their products on our posts?
On Facebook... do you recognize TIMU?
Edit - Missing commas cause confusion. Read all about it in the comments!
TIMU is Matt Heaton founder of ActiveRain's newest project.
TIMU is Matt Heaton's newest project. Matt Heaton was one of the founders of ActiveRain. Matt is a member of ActiveRain.
Understand? Now back to your regularly scheduled blog post.
TIMU must be doing something right if spammers are trying to use it. Congrats to Matt and TIMU on the success not the spam.
I have always been amazed at how virtually spam free ActiveRain is. In comparison to elsewhere. Personally I am more frustrated with the internal spam than the crazy comment spam from Aliens, or the IDs set up on ActiveRain a "real estate network" that are travel spam, prom dress spam, packers and movers from India spam.. or movers and packers from India spam etc.
The comment spammers among us, the fungus among us bothers me most. Very few of us do it.
My post Ohio College Grads - a carrot for you was written to Ohioans.
How can you tell? It says so... It is not posted to an ActiveRain group where I am looking for "Great post thanks for sharing" comments from ActiveRain members or advertisements from vendors.
The person making a comment is a vendor selling something to real estate agents. He is not an Ohioan, not that it matters. A Ohio vendor spamming on my post selling his product would not be welcome either.
The dirtball ActiveRain member started his comment with "Thanks for the info Ill pass along to my Ohio Realtor Partners."
I guess that is to let me know he is influential. Ooooh I am impressed, he has Ohio Realtor Partners... great more power to you dirt bag fella. Have you stopped to read the ActiveRain guidelines? The ActiveRain Guidelines are on the bottom of each and every page and YOU are subject to them same as everyone else. Notice the guideline about not using another members comments to promote yourself, your product..
It really is just common sense.
The ActiveRain member's spam comment goes on...
"If you want to see the best FREE realtor tool on the planet let me know..I can help you increase your business for free..."
hmmmm what does that have to do with my post? Why would a post to Ohio college grads make you want to try to sell me your product?
"It is a marketing system using single property websites to attract more listings, more buyers, keep more listings, and increase peoples impression of your tech savy. I hope to hear from you..you will be sold nothing it is soooo incredible...
Thanks, "
I used the ActiveRain "Report a Concern" link on the comment.
I don't contact comment spammers and try to reason with them. I am so done with reasoning with spammers who are members.
Both time I discovered this spam comment (in July and a couple of days ago) I hoped ActiveRain would tar and feather this member or draw and quarters him... or I thought the firing squad? No incarceration in Guantanamo is probably more fitting the crime.
Crime and Punishment - Guantanamo for spammers - options
Vendors you have YOUR ActiveRain blog to sell your product on. You can do a yellow post (featured sponsored post on ActiveRain) , or an ActiveRain sponsored ad. You have options, lots of options. The vendor is a Rainmaker, he has an ActiveRain Outside blog too that he is NOT making use of. Why, why, why would he choose to try to sell his product to me in a comment on my post?
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