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Message to Spammer
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MoodyMoody
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Message to Spammer
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To the Spammer:
Please stop posting advertisements on ESL Printables. It is a waste of your time and our time. I �m sure you don �t get enough sales through our forum to make it worth the time of setting up sock puppet accounts and posting your ads of overpriced designer garbage that most teachers can �t even afford. Even if I could afford the stuff, your ads make me (at least) so angry that I would boycott the designers listed from ANY online vendor. Your ads display here for a couple of hours at most before they are removed as the deplorable spam that they are. Please go away and never come back under any name. Good riddance! |
10 Jun 2015
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agagug
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Woah! The 30 minutes I had been stuck with the spam were the worst... Now, it seems to be back to normal. Please keep ESLPrintables addfree. |
10 Jun 2015
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MoodyMoody
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I �m just happy the spam is gone. I doubt my diatribe will do anything to discourage the idiot who keeps messing up our forums, but it felt good to express my frustration. I even left it as a PM, although my guess is that the account has been deleted or in process thereof. I really mean it; it �s a waste of the spammer �s time to post here. Has ANYONE ever ordered something from those posts? I seriously doubt it! I wish there were a practical way to keep the sock puppets out. |
10 Jun 2015
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cunliffe
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Well done, MoodyMoody. I couldn �t get on to the page. It was horrible! Would any of us ever want to buy that stuff? No! |
11 Jun 2015
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MoodyMoody
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Another member pointed out to me in a PM that the spamvendor may be doing it in order to get clicks and redirects back to the website in order to get a higher listing on Google searches. I admit I hadn �t thought of that, but I still think it �s a waste of the spammer �s time. I KNOW it �s a waste of our time! I was able to get on and post yesterday, although I had long waits. In fairness, those waits were not the spammer �s fault but my Internet provider �s. I had a five minute wait to get on Facebook yesterday, and I use a different browser for that! (I usually use IE for ESL Printables. I don �t know if that made a difference yesterday or not.) |
11 Jun 2015
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cunliffe
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That sounds right - and he had five or six hits from me.
Lynne |
12 Jun 2015
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