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Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: What constitutes "spamming" a discussion forum? (Diana)
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, at 5:34 p.m.
> Someone else - a moderator, I assume, but not the owner of the board -
> questioned the poster about spamming the board, asking the original poster
> if he/she was a regular, previous poster. The message would be okay if
> they were a "regular" but considered "spam" if they
> were not.
I don't usually ask. If it's somebody who has been a participant in the past (i.e., back-and-forth discussion as opposed to a bunch of self-promotion), I'll usually leave it up if it seems sincere. If not, it's toast.
If it seems like a good thing and I'm not sure if it's a sincere desire to provide useful information or just an excuse to post an affiliate link, I'll keep the post and the link and remove the affiliate part. If the person comes back and joins in again, that's a decent indication that they're sincere, but not always.
> I realize it's up to the moderator, and there may not BE a set
> "rule" of what constitutes discussion board spamming, but I'm
> curious as to what rules YOU go by. (Like how you define "blatant
> advertising"...)
Blatant advertising is posting just for the purpose of plugging something.
A drive-by post is generally an ad disguised as information (or it could be an article with a link at the bottom) which has been posted for no reason other than to include a link.
Off Topic:
I see your link at the bottom. Whoa doggy!! Were you really the Diana who posted a reply to Rob Jean when he posted about the SearchBigDaddy thing? The IP was different, so I figured maybe it was a fake reply.
One thing that bothers me (besides the fact Rob Jean's post was clearly a drive-by ad) is that the amount of $6400 after (12 days?) seemed utterly ridiculous.
Back On Topic:
Sorry I can't be more clear. Sometime a post's right to life depends upon whether it makes my nostrils twitch.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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