Who made you the Spam Cop?
Let me understand the new spam system.
I send someone a message and they click the report spam link. Now not only can I look to see who clicked the complaint but it cost me 10% in the spammer’s rating?
When you click Add me to your contacts you agree to receive email from this person no matter the quality or content. You did agree.
Now if you don’t like what the person has to say simply block the member from sending you further messages. (I did have had one member that sent me a message and must have thought he was on a dating site - I simply put him in his place by blocking him)
I think we have gone a little too far with making everyone a Spam Cop. This kind of negativity may hurt more than it helps. What do you think?
Thanks
Valerie
Comments (71)
Kowgirl
6
I can't say that I hate it because one of the best opportunities I have ever
joined was from a guy who sent me "spam ". Half of my email box at Yahoo is spam. I don't consider messages from people who are members of the same programs as I ,as spam. There is no way to avoid it so I just go with the flow...
John Bassett
5
Common sense is the basic criteria for an effective advertising campaign whereever it takes place. The main point being with APsense if you have invited somebody to your group of have accepted their invite, you are now obliged to communicate with them as a professional associate, not as a target for unjustified blatant advertising.
Personalising messages to individuals is a priority not an option. In the times passed people wrote letters in hand writing and those letters had a certain etiquet
Kristian H.
10
GOT Team Cofounder
Valerie, regarding the spam button in the Contact messages... truth is, myself and a few other Apsense admins said the same thing before the spam control system was added. And we are actually still very iffy about it right now. Personally? Well personally I agree with you, I don't think it should be there mainly because of the fact that recipients did optin and they can easily opt out. But lets give it little time while we monitor it, that's the only way to make the best decisions. Not to
Eric Smith
7
Online Professional
I hate SPAM religiously. I do not condone it.. PERIOD!!
But Valerie has a point. We have given members permission to contact us by adding them to our contact list. If we don't like what they send us we only need to block them from contacting us.
Thea mentioned how she dedicates an hour or so to apsense each day. It would not be possible to get through everything without contacting the same person a few times within an hour or so...
Cindy Battye
3
Entrepreneur
Ha, yeah - I am fairly new here too. But it's my hope that messages that I send out are from people who want to read them. It is totally optin though, so I don't think that spam bans should even apply. If you don't like the messages - just remove that friend.
Mike Hunt
6
don`t think you got the right idea about the spam rating Valerie & Inaka, it`s a wakeup call to get people to create worthy content for all, as far as the messaging between one another ... lol ... didn`t even realize there is a "Report Spam" button in the messages.
If someone sends out a promotion message, that`s fine and if they`re reported for just one message, well that`d be pretty harsh but I doubt if anyone will report anyone for one promo message. When I first joined, someone repeatedly
Kristian H.
10
GOT Team Cofounder
Hi all..
Thank you for posting your concerns... the new spam control system in my opinion may not be perfect but it is neccessary. Do we need to tweak it like we do everything else until it suits is best? Absolute! Keep in mind that it is new to apsense as well as relatively new to web 2.0 communities as a whole. So we will continue to monitor the system and see how it goes for at least a few weeks. Then we will make the needed adjustments. So please don't be too hard on this new system...
Thea Westra
12
Adding Wings To Our Unique Life Journey!
Phillip says that two messages from the same person in the space of 30 mins is too much.
That is a shame.
There are times when I allocate an hour to do my work at Apsense, and in that time I may post a blog, post a bulletin, add a new subject to each of my personally created groups, allocate points to my adverts (banner and other), add something to my Business Center etc.
Phillip, please do not tell me that now I must reschedule my personal online timetable, simply because I'll be hit with a
Thea Westra
12
Adding Wings To Our Unique Life Journey!
P.S. Here's how I determine when something is spam:
When 6 or 7 posts, group subjects, bulletins, mails are all carrying the same information and it is a blatant advert, not personally written i.e. obviously cut/pasted from a website and there's no personal 'voice' to the message.
When a post is not one teensy bit related to the topic e.g. I have a group titled 'Practical Tips For Business Builders' and in there is a subject titled 'Article Marketing'.
Then someone comes along and posts a fu
No longer an active ...
12
Agree 100% Valerie! Thank you for pointing out this change in spam control.
The beauty about a social network is that spam control evolves into a social activity. The group teaches the individual what is accepted behaviour. This goes beyond the limitations of rule based control, and into the evolved realm of group etiquette and social awareness.
So if a person abuses their privileges with me, all I have to do is block that person. If he or she does the same with another 100 people, then 100 pe
Philip Low
5
Taxi
Hi Valerie,
As I have just got my Apsense Express downloaded, I enjoy every incoming message. This is permission given platform for showing messages to all.
However, when I received 2 written messages from you at a span of merely half an hour, I would consider too much information from the same person. This would agitate me a little, I would not read on anymore from this same writer (however good is the content)
Hope this give you why some people edged up and complain.
Best Regards