What is SPAM?
You could ask this question to 10 people and probably get 10 different answers. There will always be a debate about what is spam.
APSense is very good about giving you the option to refuse a comment if they are commenting to receive credits. You can, also, remove a comment from you blogs or advertising pages. One of the reasons you can deny a comment is "advertising with or without a link". You see you can still get an advertisement in without leaving a http url link. For example, recently someone posted on one of my blogs something like Great information, for more great information check out my blog. To me, this is SPAM. It is an attempt by that person to get them to navigate away from your site to their site. There was really no attempt to engage in the conversation.
As I mentioned, everyone's interpretation of SPAM is different, I reported an "advertising with or without a link" recently which really sent the person in to a frenzy. This person sent me 2 messages telling me they had not spammed and they were very disappointed in me. Without giving me the chance to respond, I was promptly blocked. Unfortunate, because it wasn't her whole comment which was spam, just the last portion. This person had engaged and then put in a plug, I will call it.
For those of you who know me online, I try to give respectful comments while engaging in the current conversation. I am really enjoying APSense as a community of networking individuals who I will be able to learn a lot from and hopefully help some people along the way. If you don't want to be reported for SPAM, don't do it. If your comment encourages the person to leave the current page and navigate elsewhere, in my opinion, this is SPAM.
Blog posts are made for engaging a conversation with others. Opinions are what make the world go round and how we learn from each other. Express yourself respectfully and people will navigate to you naturally.
APSense is very good about giving you the option to refuse a comment if they are commenting to receive credits. You can, also, remove a comment from you blogs or advertising pages. One of the reasons you can deny a comment is "advertising with or without a link". You see you can still get an advertisement in without leaving a http url link. For example, recently someone posted on one of my blogs something like Great information, for more great information check out my blog. To me, this is SPAM. It is an attempt by that person to get them to navigate away from your site to their site. There was really no attempt to engage in the conversation.
As I mentioned, everyone's interpretation of SPAM is different, I reported an "advertising with or without a link" recently which really sent the person in to a frenzy. This person sent me 2 messages telling me they had not spammed and they were very disappointed in me. Without giving me the chance to respond, I was promptly blocked. Unfortunate, because it wasn't her whole comment which was spam, just the last portion. This person had engaged and then put in a plug, I will call it.
For those of you who know me online, I try to give respectful comments while engaging in the current conversation. I am really enjoying APSense as a community of networking individuals who I will be able to learn a lot from and hopefully help some people along the way. If you don't want to be reported for SPAM, don't do it. If your comment encourages the person to leave the current page and navigate elsewhere, in my opinion, this is SPAM.
Blog posts are made for engaging a conversation with others. Opinions are what make the world go round and how we learn from each other. Express yourself respectfully and people will navigate to you naturally.
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Comments (3)
Vishwajeet Kumar14
Blogger
You are absolutely right Catherine, Spam has its own definations & dimension,its is way that people define it differently.
Andy Anderson10
Owner Yuma Bloggers
Every non government entity refers to SPAM as something different but the law is very clear. Electronic delivery of a solicitation for either commercial product of free service in a manner not in compliance with the acceptable use policy of the service provider, or in violation of the provider's privacy policy.
This would include comment spam even without a link where a path to the site could be assumed, posting of non related content that bolsters or implies the offer, or delivery of any lin
Joseph Botelho15
Working on one project at a time.
Well written Catherine, l totally agree with your remarks and where it leads too. Yes APSense provides us all with that feature for that simple purpose.....NO Free rides on my article....leave a good comment or move one.
As l wrote today regarding the STATUS Bar how it has been miss used. We all thinking differently when comes to this horrible practice of posting useless, comments, copy and paste and article, another what you want to call them..........pre-written articles to help you promot