To all spammers - screw your jerseys!

[Blackford Oakes]

You're ruining this forum with your crap posts.

[fredgarvin]

You're ruining this forum with your crap posts.

UTS fret not, as Gus' super moderators will have it cleaned up by 'morn and banish the spammer to hades!

[Maria de los Angeles]

Fred thanks for the heads up on Twitter. Belle has been banned.

[Matt Meltzer]

What happened here?

[Jess]

I'm going to leave this very strange post in as obviously the offending spam post has been removed.

But please spammers... we couldn't really care less about your Heat jerseys. Yes, Lebron James is coming to The Heat. Yes, we have 3 All Stars now. But guess what? MiamiBeach411 does not care! We don't want your spam clogging up our forums. NO ONE WANTS YOUR FAKE ASS JERSEYS!!!

Oh, and we'll keep deleting you and banning you until you get the message, comprende?

[Michelle]

Wow, such strong language so early in the am.

We do HATE spammers; it is a waste of everyone's time.

We are happy to have 3 all-stars on the Miami Heat. But, we don't need info about your jerseys. We live here; I think we can manage to get them ourselves.

[Maria de los Angeles]

What happened here?

Late last night a former member named "belle" left nearly 30 spam messages with links about an online company selling jerseys. These messages were spread out over random threads with no context related to the threads. Fred alerted me on Twitter and I came in an deleted them all plus banned the member.

[Blackford Oakes]

What happened here?

I was actually pissed the Ron Artest jersey was not being offered

[fredgarvin]

Fred thanks for the heads up on Twitter. Belle has been banned.

Social media, new uses every day!

[Gus]

Spammers,

Thinking of dropping your link spam? Consider this. Seriously, STOP & READ.

WARNING! If you spam this forum, we will report your link to Google, which may result in your site being penalized or dropped from search listings. Are you really sure you want to take that risk? The link is a nofollow anyway, plus we a have a team of moderators who enjoy reporting you. So you got to ask yourself. Are you feeling lucky?

I'm moving this thread to the "Site Feedback and Help" category.

[Matt Meltzer]

For the record, I am NOT happy to have Lebron on the Heat. And I'm getting on ordering that Artest Jersey. Not from any of these Spammers, though.

[vomito]

Spammers,

Thinking of dropping your link spam? Consider this. Seriously, STOP & READ.

WARNING! If you spam this forum, we will report your link to Google, which may result in your site being penalized or dropped from search listings. Are you really sure you want to take that risk? The link is a nofollow anyway, plus we a have a team of moderators who enjoy reporting you. So you got to ask yourself. Are you feeling lucky?

I'm moving this thread to the "Site Feedback and Help" category.

Seriously ( If you spam this forum, we will report your link to Google,) This is not correct you cant do this for just posting on a forum . Read the google guild lines here Reporting spam - Webmaster Tools Help

I hate spammer also but please do not submit people to our site unless they don't meet our webmasters guidelines. Just Ban them please

[Gus]

Hi, vomito. Thanks for posting.

When I said "we'll report you to Google", I was referring to sending an email to a friend who works in the web spam team. Your post makes it sound like you also work there. If so, perhaps you can shed some light on your Quality Guidelines. The Guidelines state:

Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

If that's the case, wouldn't spamming our site be considered a link scheme?

[Jess]

Seriously ( If you spam this forum, we will report your link to Google,) This is not correct you cant do this for just posting on a forum . Read the google guild lines here Reporting spam - Webmaster Tools Help

I hate spammer also but please do not submit people to our site unless they don't meet our webmasters guidelines. Just Ban them please

Vomito, I am confused by your post. If you feel this way about spammers, please explain the Private Message you sent me regarding your 'friend' that I banned yesterday. You asked for a second chance for him. Why is that if you feel all spammers should be banned?

[Christy]

If that's the case, wouldn't spamming our site be considered a link scheme?

I wrote about JC Penny getting caught doing this, and now they're very low in the search order.

[Playchess]

Mods are the key to building a successful message board community. It ensures that we keep guys like these away.

[Jess]

Banning people is my fav part of the job

[Playchess]

Banning people is my fav part of the job

[Jess]

Exactly... they think they are so clever. But I have been doing this long enough that I know how they all work. You get the spam bots, the ones who post a couple of times then put one in, or the lurkers with their links... and links are always removed...

[Matt Meltzer]

Playchess, what is that picture? Its beyond creepy.