spamming Internet Marketing Singapore forums

[andreww38]

While participation is highly encouraged on the IMS forums, spamming, especially upon first joining is highly frowned on.

I have helped a new member who has just joined the forum to reflect on the consequences of their actions by giving them a 3 day cooling period.

We'd like you to choose to adopt a healthy line of forum participation when you return.

ps: tks jhong ren for the notification

[herman]

just curious,
was my first post do you consider it as a spam ?

[andreww38]

which post are you refering to?

if it was mentioned, then i suppose not.

99.9% of posts here are not spammy.
we want to make it a pleasant experience for the others.

[jhong ren]

hey andrew...no problem...cos i feel at home in this forum too...

literally check 4 times per day..once after wake up, lunch time, dinner time and one time before sleep...

I LOVE THIS FORUM!!!

[herman]

how about this,

you metioned that 99.9% are not spammy
it means 0.1% are spammy.

can you show us which one
you consider as spam ?

[jhong ren]

i thinking spamming means...posting 3 similar threads or more to various discussion topics...repeating the same thing, phrased in the exact manner and telling members to click on their links so that they can selll something or advertise something...

this is how i define spamming la..

of course, stuart and andrew are the best person to answer

my two cents worth

[andreww38]

spamming =
1) repeating the same topic in multiple categories
2) posting unrelated content (eg. posting the URL for your custom made jewellery shop in the business building section, --unless you have a strong internet marketing component).
3) blatantly promoting some seminar or inserting your affiliate product.
4) URL spamming/linkbaiting - unnecessary insertion of URLs into your posts for SEO or other dubious purposes.

All the admins/mods here have at least 10 years of experience with dialup BBSes/IRC/IM (instant messenger)/forum/MMPOGs spaces.
Though we're not psychic (or at least we won't confess to it now), we are able to deduce the intentions of most posters.

so we probably have seen many of the 'tactics' employed by spammers.
[and posts like "oh, i was recommended to this site by my friend and is it interesting, so i wanted to share with you [insert affiliate link]... is quite a lame tactic too]

If you want to promote something, do it first to help your fellow IMS members, then if you do make some affiliate income as a bonus, all the power to you.

If you want to establish yourself here (or on another forum/blog/website), you might find it useful to read:
--> Build up your Internet Marketing Goodwill Bank

[JamesP]

Or may I simply put it this way...

If you are posting, contrary to the general cyber environment, with the intention of benefiting yourself, that's spamming...be it single post or multiple posts.

[tofumonkey]

well,
an example of a spam post are those posts tat says:

Hi,

It is my first time in this forum and i am so interested! ha ha! I'm making 10,000 per month thru <affiliate link>. It's really great! you might want to check that out at <afiliate link>

[stuart]

Originally Posted by JamesP

Or may I simply put it this way...

If you are posting, contrary to the general cyber environment, with the intention of benefiting yourself, that's spamming...be it single post or multiple posts.

Ha... James - THANK YOU for this definition.