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imnotbob wrote:

alldaykade28471 wrote:

What is Spamming?

These days, the word "spam" means a lot of things. In email, spam means a message sent to try and convince people to buy stuff. On forums, it takes the form of links to commercial sites. What about on Scratch?

On Scratch 'spamming' is when Scratchers post lots of links to their projects so that others will see them and increase their views and love its. There's a fine line between "show and tell" and spamming. Think of it this way: If someone comes to a party and says "Hey check out my new project!" that's cool - it's nice to see what others are up to. But if they say "Hey check out my new project!" every 5 seconds to everyone in the room, it gets old pretty fast. That's a kind of spamming, so we politely discourage it.

But lately there is a new kind of spam that's becoming a problem on our forums. It's called SEO spam.  "SEO" stands for Search Engine Optimization.  SEO spam is when professional spammers create accounts on sites like ours for the purposes of putting links to their company or product. When google sees the link on our site, it thinks that it's probably a good company, so it increases their ranking in the search engine results. That turns into $$$ for the spammers, which just encourages them to make more spam!

So if you see links to other websites that don't really have anything to do with the conversation, especially by "new" Scratchers without a lot of posts or projects, please flag them! In many cases we'll remove the link even if we're not sure, just in case it is spam. It's still ok for Scratchers to link to sites that they think are cool, especially if they are related to programming or Scratch related stuff. But if you aren't a long time member of the community, we might remove the link until we get to know you a little better.

You just copied and pasted something...

I gave credit to Paddle2See. That pretty much is a whole different thing.

imnotbob wrote:

alldaykade28471 wrote:

imnotbob wrote:

You just copied and pasted something...

I gave credit to Paddle2See. That pretty much is a whole different thing.

It doesn't mean you should copy/paste it into your own...

I had the link on there once, but then no body was clicking it. So, I just copied and pasted.

sku2000 wrote:

This should be stickies 

Yes, I know. 
Thanks! 

UrabeT wrote:

I think the most spam I found in this post only because is not just about posting something irrelevant but posting same thing again and again also 

Bump is not spam. Its good stuff. Very good stuff. Stuff that every scratcher needs on their topic.

UrabeT wrote:

I think the most spam I found in this post only because is not just about posting something irrelevant but posting same thing again and again also 

it's called bumping...


@alldaykade28471 maybe you shold add that bumpimg ain't spam


sorry for spelling im a bit sleepy

nightmarescratcher wrote:

UrabeT wrote:

I think the most spam I found in this post only because is not just about posting something irrelevant but posting same thing again and again also 

it's called bumping...


@alldaykade28471 maybe you shold add that bumpimg ain't spam


sorry for spelling im a bit sleepy

Added! 

imnotbob wrote:

alldaykade28471 wrote:

imnotbob wrote:

It doesn't mean you should copy/paste it into your own...

I had the link on there once, but then no body was clicking it. So, I just copied and pasted.

I still don't think it's fair...
And I just found that in Lightnin's topic, not Paddle's

Oh, opps.

Canned meat is spam.

I've given nothing useful to the topic, so this is an example of spamming.

Bump

Bump

nightmarescratcher wrote:

Instead of doing that, customize the bumps like this:



88888888ba   88        88  88b           d88  88888888ba   
88      "8b  88        88  888b         d888  88      "8b 
88      ,8P  88        88  88`8b       d8'88  88      ,8P 
88aaaaaa8P'  88        88  88 `8b     d8' 88  88aaaaaa8P' 
88""""""8b,  88        88  88  `8b   d8'  88  88""""""'   
88      `8b  88        88  88   `8b d8'   88  88           
88      a8P  Y8a.    .a8P  88    `888'    88  88           
88888888P"    `"Y8888Y"'   88     `8'     88  88

That takes awile... I could just copy and paste, but I'm too lazy. 

Bump

I'm gonna add this to my ScratchHelperz site!