A few thoughts on the spammers cluttering the site

I could use some help

This is a great site. It's been around forever, and though there's little moderation done, for the most part it's become a worldwide writer's forum, where beginners and experienced writers can entertain, help, and support each other. Once, we had a discussion area, where people could ask questions, register opinions, or just chat with those who share our interest in writing.

That area was invaded and destroyed, and I'm concerned that it's going to happen again.

As I'm certain you've all noticed, a small group of spammers are cluttering the pages with crap advertising for car leasing in Philadelphia, divorce service in Australia, and other crap that's not targeted to the people who use the site. It's just spam. For the most part the spammers get paid when someone clicks on the link they provide. They don't care if they annoy every user on the site. All that matters to them is that maybe, someone will click on the link and make them a few pennies.

I hate people like that, who have so little regard for others. And because I do, I've begun responding on their posted pages, so that the advertiser who checks to see what was said in their name will know how unwelcome it is. This site sells advertising, but they would rather drop in page after page of crap, for free, no matter that it has nothing to do with the reason we come here, or that they're annoying users and making the site less fun to use.

My problem is that it's easy enough for them to block me. Sure, I can create other accounts, but a better thing is for all of us to reject them. So instead of passing their posts by, take a moment to open the page and post a "Go away, you're not a writer and have no place here." That will tell their advertisers that the adds are having a negative effect.

It only takes a minute to do that, and to flag the one posting as a spammer (top right corner of the page). And, spamming the spammer will annoy the hell out of them.

It's OUR site. So let's keep it our site. Anyone with me?

Reviews

[apennylate]

Also... Here, JayG...
Since you are so keen on enforcing "professional" critiques on writers who literally did not ask for them...
https://www.reddit.com/r/poetry_critics/?rdt=58594
That is a link to a reddit page with MANY avid critics, like yourself!
Plus, your behavior is not only encouraged, it is mandated to even post/join!
So why stir up all this trouble, if you TRULY aim only to help less fortunate writers than yourself...
Pages that writers actually ASK for your critiques exist! GO TO THEM!
It might just be one of the MOST PRODUCTIVE ways you could go about doing... Whatever it is you believe in your heart of hearts you are accomplishing by trolling new writers on a dead poetry site.
God bless, and cheers!

[Spamalot]

You have to be really lost to think someone would care about crap you dump into a five year old spam thread. What will it do, encourage spammers?

Take your meds, child. You've become your own worst enemy. You're obsessing over what you fantasize me as being. In reality, you know nothing more than that I critiqued one of your poems and was right. Had I not been, you'd have ignored it. But because I critiqued one of your poems, you're now obsessed with me, and following me like a puppy-dog, your foolishness doing nothing but make me shake my head in sadness over the loss of a human being.

Does a normal person spend their time obsessed with revenge because someone dared not to love their work?

Take your meds. You'll feel better.

[apennylate]

Also, why pay for therapy when we can literally chase dopamine by dunking on old racist men who have made a hobby out of tormenting younger writers?
(Assumedly because you have middle management energy and wish to make sure everyone you encounter in life is JUST as miserable as you!)

[apennylate]

Also... Dance...Doggy...Mo'effin Dance.

[apennylate]

Last also (for this comment)
Could you perhaps get back to bolstering my view counts and review numbers on a public profile I specifically use FOR that purpose?
Yeah?
Thanks!

[moon@bookstore]

i have some very unusual suspicion from my room as in grabbing a burger or asleep that some one or others are using my room as their kick it place as well some claimed my stuff and to be their room. The authority does not mind because i will not be able to prove. These guys seem like terrorists i know it is one world but i am very new to the future after 9/11/01 i have very weird intentions of what threats i have already received

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

I flag them all the time I see any

[Delmar Cooper]

At one time I flagged five spammers every visit, but I gave it up as useless. Hell who knows, I might move to Newfoundland and need double glazed windows one day. It could happen.

[Jolan H]

I had no idea this was going on...what's the deal with religious nuts? Did you make them mad or something

[Spamalot]

Anger them? That's pretty easy. But I have a problem with people claiming to speak for invisible, magic, people, who tell me how I must behave to please this invisible being.

[Jolan H]

Well here is hoping they stop doing it.