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Daroach1 wrote:

superplane wrote:

commercial spamming was one of the reasons the new scratcher status is here.    

Recently someone got demoted for spamming servbot topics after he made an official one and had one closed he copied the topic and harakou demoted him for spam.

I didnt know mods could demote o.e

just seems weird 

RedRocker227 wrote:

axwe8 wrote:

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Axwe8

It's ironic that someone would post spam in a "Do NOT Spam" topic...

Kind of predictable really.

Yes, do not spam.

Bump

This is a great guide on spam! A suggestion in the message, when you had the [/i]bla bla[/i], that's not the currect BB code for italics, it should be (without the dashes) [-i-]bla bla bla[-/-i-] Hope that helps and you have my support for this getting stickied!

plb36 wrote:

fungirl123 wrote:

This is a great topic! There was information there that I didn't even know! It should be stickied 

+1

It is great but the OP is/was a copy/paste, so I honestly don't see the point 

Last edited by imnotbob (2012-01-10 16:40:40)

alldaykade28471 wrote:

Do NOT spam. Spam is bad. Many Scratchers get annoyed by spam.
We can get spam in email.
It really annoys people, no matter what type of spam it is. If you are wondering about what type of comments/posts are considered as spam on Scratch, look here:

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. And if you're wondering, "Bump" is NOT spam. 

Scratch On!

Credit to Paddle2See and Lightnin

i vote for a couple more mentions of the word "spam" in your post

troll.jpg

mostly lurking here, but couldn't resist, on a serious note I agree with what you said

Last edited by bizou25 (2012-01-12 21:23:12)

epilecticdisco2 wrote:

The ammount of times spam has been mentioned, this is like that Monty Python sketch! :-)
On a serious note, spam and in fact any violation of the guidelines should always be avoided. Recently, my main account got banned because of some very harmful comments in retaliation to some even more harmful comments!  You may think that if you didn't start it it is fine, but you'll still get banned. Don't do it. :-(
<if><{<( spam <=>true  )> }><play sound[ban :-(]

Yeah, I don't like spam either. 

Daroach1 wrote:

TheSchiffelman wrote:

Daroach1 wrote:

Recently someone got demoted for spamming servbot topics after he made an official one and had one closed he copied the topic and harakou demoted him for spam.

I didnt know mods could demote o.e

just seems weird 

Well, I can do it on my forum, which is punBB. And guess what? This forum is punBB, too. So I expected it.

Mods can't demote. Only ST members can.

really thank for this great forum.

SPAM. It's not so bad. You mainly just ignore it. Like email spam (Win a free iPad 2!). You can always download Norton Internet Security/Spam blocking Software.

bizou25 wrote:

alldaykade28471 wrote:

Do NOT spam. Spam is bad. Many Scratchers get annoyed by spam.
We can get spam in email.
It really annoys people, no matter what type of spam it is. If you are wondering about what type of comments/posts are considered as spam on Scratch, look here:

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. And if you're wondering, "Bump" is NOT spam. 

Scratch On!

Credit to Paddle2See and Lightnin

i vote for a couple more mentions of the word "spam" in your post

troll.jpg

mostly lurking here, but couldn't resist, on a serious note I agree with what you said

(First Quote) Also there is another definition for spam. As in that meat thing.
(not trying to spam)