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"I visited your site.It's very nice. I had clicked on your ads. I hope you do the same. [url here]

please keep in touch. development together. thanks a lot!"

Oh really? They clicked on my ads? How kind of them. Now if only they could overcome their hallucinations and realize I don't have ads on my website instead of spamming my shoutbox with vapid attempts to get me to become an accessory to fraud.

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  1. Friday13
    Yeah, they are dumb.



    By the way, I ki$$ed your invisible ads. Ki$$ mine!
  2. aspotofblog
    They're dumb and they can kiss my ass.
    1. voodooKobra
      And that wasn't a typo.
  3. Deray28
    I got one today that said: I clicked your ads TWICE...blah blah

    I don't have ads either! jajajajaaja
    I hope they collect a lot of spam reports!
    1. aspotofblog
      @deray

      'I hope they collect a lot of spam reports!'

      That's what they deserve for being dishonest, greedy little piggy fraudsters.

      @voodoo

      Of course it's not a typo.
  4. crazyTsu
    Someone kissed my ADDY and wanted me to kiss hers

    I said you can UNKISS my ADDYs
    1. crazyTsu
      Update: She said I cant UNKISS because there is no such thing - LOL

      I said KISS again and it will become UNKISSED
  5. timethief
    Did you guys read what thegoodknife said in the earlier thread on this subjecttoday?

    [quote]thegoodknife
    BlogCatalog removes about 5-15 of these ad clicking spammers a week, but there seems to be no shortage of them. If you receive a shout from someone asking you to click ads or telling you they clicked your ads, please report them to webmaster[at]blogcatalog[dot]com. we will permanently remove them, as we have no tolerance for this kinds of fraudulent activity. [/quote]
    www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/clicking-got-my-google-account-suspended-...
    1. voodooKobra
      I just click "spam." It always solves the problem on my end.

      However, I like to engage in public mockery of all things stupid, and this definitely qualifies as stupid.
    2. Deray28
      Clicking spam takes a few less minutes than sending an email. I'm sure the admins are wise enough to remove someone if they get reported as spammers without an actual email.
    3. voodooKobra
      I tend to agree, and I'm sure they would get sick of me if I emailed them every time someone spammed me.
  6. crazyTsu
    Just refuse to click back, I say... then it will stop happening

    Or say I clicked yours.. what's to lose? Eventually they will wisen up. Nature's play

    And why lose members by reporting?
    1. timethief
      And why lose members by reporting?

      Why would we want to retain members who are into fraud? Why wouldn't we do as Daniel says?
    2. voodooKobra
      Quality > Quantity
    3. crazyTsu
      Well I won't cast the first stone

      These are actual humans, and they run blogs too! We just gently INCLUDE these young people in our fold, not send them to prison
    4. timethief
      @crazytzu
      My understanding is as follows:
      BlogCatalog is a privately owned company.
      Every member here agreed to the BC TOS, and by doing so also agreed to abide by all of the BC policies.
      BC Admin have posted guidelines in a sticky post at the head of this forum so all embers can access them and be aware if the contents.
      If any BC member has a need for further clarification then they ought to contact Admin www.blogcatalog.com/contact/
    5. crazyTsu
      Thanks, you reminded of me of a theme I meant to blog on for some time
  7. sorcerer
    recession is that bad?
    1. voodooKobra
      Apparently it is.
  8. MadameX
    I disagree that it's stupid. It's seedy and dishonest and gives bloggers a bad name and all that, but for what they're attempting to accomplish, it's much more efficient to cut and paste the same message to everyone than to attempt to establish real relationships or actually check to see whether or not someone has ads on his blog. It's a hit-and-run proposition...one AdSense account gets shut down and they move on to the next, after collecting whatever short-term profits they can for little or no work.
    1. voodooKobra
      I meant that the situation (them saying they clicked on my ads) is stupid (because I don't have ads).

      Yes, it is more efficient to cut and paste the same message than it is to write an individual message to each person, but do you know what is even more efficient than that? Building up a blog with a reasonably high reputation and a readership base who might be interested in the products advertised in the first place.

      tl;dr version: Semantics shemantics.
  9. DailyBeerReview
    Clicking on my ads gets me nothing except bigger numbers in my report. I don't want to deal with adsense fraud so these clickers need to actually buy something.
  10. Sheila
    Today and yesterday:

    ??? has posted a new private message to your shoutbox:

    I visited your site.It's very nice. I had clicked on your ads. I hope you do the same.???.blogspot.com/ development together.


    This has arrived several times now - and from different accounts. I'm getting sick of it.
    1. ThriftShopRomantic
      Yeah, the same one hit me twice this morning. I've reported both.
    2. bettieblogger
      lol .. I received that one yesterday as well.
    3. voodooKobra
      I think we should ask TheGoodKnife to ad a filter that checks for "I have clicked your ads" or "I clicked your ads" and make it an auto-ban that automatically adds their account to a list of Adsense abusers.
  11. Agit8r
    here's my reply to ad-kisser shoutbox:

    www.blogcatalog.com/user/Jennie500
  12. Timesobserver
    Great reply, Agit8r. The best part was the stupid fool didn't bother deleting it!
  13. bettieblogger
    Hmmm now her account saying "pending approval" that is the person that has been spamming me.


    dayum you, Jennie500!
    1. ThriftShopRomantic
      That means BC's probably said it was time for Jennie to hit the road.
    2. gtally
      Well, I am sorry that none of you appreciated my alter ego profile of Jennie500. Adki$$ing was simply my way of spreading the love around BC, although I do think I contracted a cold sore and a lingering head cold by being so friendly.
    3. bettieblogger
      Well good, I hope the door hits her arse on the way out ...:)
  14. voodooKobra
    [14:05] cr4kobra: would it be possible or practical to add a few lines of code to the shoutbox processing script that redflags any account that consistently sends shouts that contains the words "ads" and either "clicked" "kissed" or "ki$$ed"?
    [14:05] thegoodknife: we already do that
    [14:05] thegoodknife: its died down lately
    [14:05] cr4kobra: awesome
    [14:05] thegoodknife: we removed probably 100 people through automation

    Looks like they're ahead of me on this one.
    1. jonathan666
      Okay, I have been on here a good few months now but have been inactive for a long time as It seemed like too much hard work when I started because the only messages I got were about viewing sites, clicking adds etc. I was interested in more traffic to my site, but this seemed so false and involved me going to sites I wasn't interested in. So for a long time I stopped using it. Just recently I received some more of these messages and thought this must be what people do on here! So I returned the compliment, even put a link to one on my site. I just noticed this thread in the profile of someone who had sent me an add clicking message. So even in this thread, there is someone saying they agree and at the same time sending out messages! So from now on I ignore them and become friends with the sites I enjoy ....???
  15. computersavenuez
    Yeah, they are dumb.
    1. OnlineBlogger
      What are you talking about?
      You put that same message to my shoutbox about an hour ago.
    2. PetLvr
      YEAH - THAT WAS FUNNY

      YOU ARE THE DUMB SPAMMER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ..// Please do not spam my shoutbox with your kissing messages
  16. legbamel
    Today, I had one that claims to have "tapped into" my ads and asked that I return the favor. Nice dodge, but you're still a spam artist. [rolls eyes] Unfortunately, they can come up with an awful lot of synonyms and euphemisms that would be difficult to catch with automation (without catching a lot of perfectly legitimate shoutbox messages in the process).
    1. voodooKobra
      All it does is flag them for inspection, I think. Then the moderators go take care of business.
  17. diyah83
    I think it is not a realibility. I'm not agree with it
  18. sukmama
    Next time that someone tells you that just reply that you also clicked 7 times. i think it will let them know you are not into that when they see zero clicks in their google adsense account.
  19. Zpoet
    I warn them. Then I report them.
  20. anthony9910
    "Now if only they could overcome their hallucinations and realize I don't have ads on my websit" ;D

    YEah, they are pretty stupid! already reported 23
  21. Shiley
    I don't even have adsense I got hit with two the same person before I blocked them.
  22. morgantj
    Kiss my ad!

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