Zwielicht
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- Aug 31, 2013
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I want to know, how do you feel the structure of this platform tricks new users? As far as I'm concerned, we don't have any manipulative structures in place, although I do want to know what you're referring to.
I wouldn't say that considering this thread is 3 pages long after being up for only an hour. That's 3 pages after I merged your all of your back-to-back responses (speaking of which, please use the multi-quote feature going forward).
Edit: Now we're on the fourth page.
It still looks active in there. It's not as active as it used to be, but that's because only premium members and Jr. VIPs can respond to those threads these days.
If you're referring to the casino spam network, they created the accounts between August and November, and it wasn't thousands of newbie accounts. They also mainly hit marketplace threads in specific sections, some of them intentionally, and action against the sellers ordering those bumps is being taken this week.
I'm sure most members here have noticed that we managed the block the spam in the middle of last week. However, I'm not going to go into more detail about any of it because giving away how we combat spam is just asking for trouble.
I don't see any reports from you about this. I went ahead and looked at your sales thread, and there were replies from the casino spam network, although I removed them for you already.
This isn't indicative of anything. We have a lot of lurkers here who then sign up and follow members they're interested in immediately. I was a lurker here for months before joining and I did the same thing.
I hope you're not suggesting that we, for whatever reason, would recruit spam accounts to lower the value of our forum.
Hey @BassTrackerBoats, remember all that work I've been putting in the last several weeks to identify patterns in these spam networks and the discussions our team has had on how to prevent this spam in the future? Well, I wish I knew THE TRUTH beforehand that we were just ordering it ourselves, otherwise I wouldn't have wasted so much time on that.
That was sarcasm, because I feel like that's going to go over a certain someone's head.
For anyone else reading this, the marketplace works just like anywhere else: you have to advertise yourself correctly. You can't just say "BUMP" and then wonder why customers aren't flooding your sales thread.
To put this another way, you can't just list something on Amazon and expect to get thousands of sales.
We also have guides on how to do advertise your marketplace thread by members and staff. Here's a link to one of them: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-advertising-your-marketplace-thread.1247005/
