Site Owners Spamming Members w/ Invites via Messaging & a few other things

Starrfire Price
posted Oct 5
in PaganSpace Admin Announcements

Hi All,

I wish this was one of my more pleasant postings but it is not. I am quite fed up w/ site owners joining this site and then mass messaging invites to the members, via private messages, using the forums and by using the comment feature. This is prohibited and just yesterday I banned a member for this activity and I will continue to ban people who do this.

I have said this word tired, and quite honestly I'm fed up because I shouldn't even have to address this because it's common courtesy not to join a site, friend request a bunch of people and then attempt to pull members based off the hard work of others. When I created this site I never went onto anyones website and asked people to join this one; I linked to this site via my own website WitchesWay and my personal profile pages.

The members here did not join this site so they can be barraged with invites to other sites; if you want people to join your site then do some actual work and bring people to it.. The advertisers on this site pay for their exposure and it's not fair to them when people come onto here and freeload off of what others do the right way (ie: paying for their advertising). Want members? Then advertise your site like the respectable site owners do!

If you receive invites in your personal message box on this site (or in your comments) then please forward me the information, because from here on out if this takes place I will ban the person without warning. I tried to be nice about this but apparently nice is not working so well, so now I'm going to be an ass. I've never had a problem with people placing their site info onto their page or their blog but all the other things stated have and continue to be unacceptable..

Another issue, the events calendar is for actual events, I have been steadily deleting supposed event postings because they are not events. Again, this is misuse of the site and an attempt to get free exposure on the front page. So, if you have an event, which is a gathering of people on a specific date; in a location then please post it but if it's not an event then do not place it into the events announcements or it will be deleted and you may find yourself deleted as well.

Last issue, this is PaganSpace not Sexspace; I'm sure we all enjoy sex but this is not the place for that type of discussion/exchange (and no I'm not in the mood to split hairs about what constitutes sexual exchange etc., use your brain and I'm sure you can figure it out). Now, I'm not a prude by any stretch but just yesterday I deleted a group that had been formed on this site relating to nothing more than sex. The network is very strict about this type of thing and I'm not risking loosing my site so people can discuss their sexual fantasies. So, if you want to form a group or talk about your detailed sex life or fantasies then more power to you; go create a website, or find one for that type of activity and get with it but I'm not going to have that going on here! To the gods, I really can't believe I'm even having to state this...

I know none of this pertains to most of you, so I apologize for unloading this; as this is not directed at you but it is very much directed at those who are involved in these continual issues.

Much Love & Big Hugs!
Starr

*stepping down off my soap box* lol

Comments about this article:

Araelus the Stormwolf commented Oct 9 ...: Just raise your wand, and the next spammer to try it on, better start looking for a princess with a frog fetish.

Khazam!!! instant green and warty

shikha commented Oct 21 ...: Thanks Dear Starr, for saying the necessary to the few
that forget in community.

mysticpagan commented Oct 27 ...: More power to you Starr~This is a really good site lets all try and keep it that way~BB~Mystic

Qui a le coeur brise commented Nov 4 ...: I noticed some spamming when I was wishing happy birthday today. Nothing on my page though, if I see anything more I'll pass on for you.

blessed be
Erica

Persephone commented 3 hours ago ...: I believe with Ning deleting the invite availability this has created a unwanted way for Ning
Creators to invite. This being a social network it has stopped being that and now is everyone
out for themselves, I myself do not send out invites via inbox but now have to pay for an ad
in Facebook to get any members whatsoever. Members do not have the emails of their Ning
friends and apparently this is the only way to invite according to Ning, on Ning.com they have
eliminated the friends list completely therefore we don't even have that accessible to us. I do
understand you as I myself have had this occur on my own site but I do give them a warning
first as I only have 1000 members but I believe Ning has created a monster with their
decisions and virtually cut out the smaller sites trying to make it or those that do not have the
money to advertise their sites.