"A Pinterest Spammer Tells All"
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This article concerns me for both short-term and long-term reasons.
Short-term, obviously Pinterest has a fire under their ass to "clean things up." They already felt the spam/bot pinch. But now they have social/VC pressure to make new rules and limits. (just like the skimlink social pressure)
But long-term i'm more sensitive about the increased visibility on this forum. This website (DailyDot) is not the biggest site in the world, but it got picked up by some VERY big communities I will not call out by name. But LOTS of traffic, and lots of very sophisticated, big $$ people and tech geeks. People who are smart and developers who WORK at the places we write about here every day. While these ppl are very sharp, they were maybe a little bit naive/ignorant about IM in general (just another world.)
And I saw in some of these other forums, genuine surprise about this site, and IM.
An unfortunate turning point. I hope neither side goes nuclear
Short-term, obviously Pinterest has a fire under their ass to "clean things up." They already felt the spam/bot pinch. But now they have social/VC pressure to make new rules and limits. (just like the skimlink social pressure)
But long-term i'm more sensitive about the increased visibility on this forum. This website (DailyDot) is not the biggest site in the world, but it got picked up by some VERY big communities I will not call out by name. But LOTS of traffic, and lots of very sophisticated, big $$ people and tech geeks. People who are smart and developers who WORK at the places we write about here every day. While these ppl are very sharp, they were maybe a little bit naive/ignorant about IM in general (just another world.)
And I saw in some of these other forums, genuine surprise about this site, and IM.
An unfortunate turning point. I hope neither side goes nuclear
TheKingGeek
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LakeForest
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lol gimme4free's bots have just gained some publicity. I hope his sales go through the roof. JackSparrow even got a mention
. I'm starting to hate this site dailydot, and I just heard of them today.
Some fool named Josh Davis (maybe his actual name) ratted the threads to Pinterest's baws. There seems to be a LOT OF RATS ON BHW LATELY, HUH?
I hate you Josh Davis, whoever you are.
EmpireQuality
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man, we all know that true BH'ers DO NOT reveal ANYTHING if they are making $1,000 a day, especially not their amazon affiliate id. i severely question the realness of that interview!
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Pintrest just got more free advertisment
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Or maybe just Firebug (change a few numbers and PrtScn...) + Amazon Affiliate account + kid needing ego boost
Who knows how intelligent/on-point with fact checking the 'interviewer' was!
I'll reiterate - I have no doubt at all that it's possible and feasible to make that much per day with Pinterest, but I don't see any reason why the guy would potentially give up 1k/day for an interview.
Exactly!
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Madruga
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Exactly. They could've created a fictive person based on certain characteristics that would reflect his image as a "professional spammer". It's pretty weird if you get to think about the fact that he (if he does exist) was smart enough to settle some puzzle pieces and reach to that amount of income, yet he was such a dumb ass not to realize that he is "chopping the tree on which his house was placed". I mean he is hurting himself, just for the sake of some ego fueling. And the Amazon aff. ID part.. that just made the whole story plain stupid.
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Gizmodo has the story as well. I'm wondering if this guy is full of shit. It does not matter as Pinterest is going to start cleaning up and start plugging some holes.
Not going to post it here but there is a easy way for Pinterest to find linked accounts after they find one spam account since they are using the invite method to get people signing up.
I hate the fact that you need to sign up with twitter or facebook (and then unlink).
Not going to post it here but there is a easy way for Pinterest to find linked accounts after they find one spam account since they are using the invite method to get people signing up.
I hate the fact that you need to sign up with twitter or facebook (and then unlink).
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There are still some working direct invite links where you can bypass the invite system.
blackouts
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Man this all sounds very fishy to me, seems like someone is very very pissed at BHW and some botcreators ... why would you give up a 1000$ method and attract lots of unwanted attention, just doesn't make any sense!
In the near future nothing is going to be shared here anymore because of that possible heat ...
In the near future nothing is going to be shared here anymore because of that possible heat ...
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What a f'ing idiot! I doubt his numbers are any real though. Like meathead mentioned in this thread, people actually do keep this stuff secret.
He probably got raped by some other spammers and needed something to calm his d'baggery back-end.
Just lame.
That being said, it won't effect any of my operations.
He probably got raped by some other spammers and needed something to calm his d'baggery back-end.
Just lame.
That being said, it won't effect any of my operations.
Wonder how long until his Amazon ID gets banned. What a dumbass move showing the whole world that.
He could probably have hit some pretty good numbers if he just kept quiet for a while
I have a few sites doing $1000/day right now and I would NOT tell anyone about them or how they earn.
I'm not involved in pinterest, but you gotta be a complete fucking retard to expose your money making method to everyone.
Gotta be a complete social reject to need the attention that bad that you do that interview.
PS. I shoulda gave pinterest more attention earlier!
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gimme4free will receive a ton of guest...
theadultsplayground
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Ah, but after I use the direct link will I then need to wait for "P" to accept my invite (which could take hours or days).
