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Ad Kissers are dumb
Posted by voodooKobra • 10/06/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: ad kissers, community, people, stupid
"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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I got one today that said: I clicked your ads TWICE...blah blah
I don't have ads either! jajajajaaja
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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]
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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?-
@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/
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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Hmmm now her account saying "pending approval" that is the person that has been spamming me.
dayum you, Jennie500!
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[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.-
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 ....???
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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).
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