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What is Spam?

No, we're not talking about mechanically separated meat products. Spam is traditionally defined as unsolicited advertising in the form of an email or forum post, but on Wetpaint sites it can be a comment or the page content itself.

Examples of Spam on Wetpaint (Boo!)

  • Joining a site solely for the purpose or promoting your own site and bombarding the members with requests to join your site. Spam.
  • Posting links to your site on pages or threads they don't belong on in order to get people to visit your site. Spam. Where's the appropriate place? Read this thread.
  • Unsolicited pages or links advertising, promoting, or otherwise trying to sell products or services. Yes, spam.
  • Sending a message repetitively is also considered spam

Not Spam (Yay!)

  • Including a link to your site because you have a question or want some help with a page
  • Asking a new friend to visit your site in an on topic thread or message
  • Asking a site creator that has a similar site to yours if they want to exchange links

What should I do if I receive a spam message?

  • Via private message - If it is obviously spam, block the user from sending you messages and report the user to the site moderators.
  • Via a discussion forum post - Report the post to a moderator so they can delete the spam and possibly ban the user.



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bobyjack IP block?. 2 Sep 13 2009, 2:35 PM EDT by CaptainSpaz
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there is a spammer on my website. (www.gossipgirls56.wetpaint.com) that just KEEP COMING BACK!
when i ban them, they make a new account or leave rude anoymous threads.
how do IP block them so they cant come on the website at all.?
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Anonymous spam 1 Jun 23 2009, 11:13 PM EDT by andrew30126
 
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all be aware that you may encounter a few messages that don't have a X and it to exit out of it. Be calm
and keep a cool head what you do: If it pops up if they have a yes or a no on the popup press control alt and delete at the same time. your windows task manager will come up. click on the spam and hit end task till it goes away.
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nekowitch417 we have one on twilightmovie.org 18 Jun 23 2009, 5:41 PM EDT by Anonymous
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inappropriate messages repeatedly posted a couple hundred times and they apparantly have a proxy wall and a program running the posts i messaged them and managed to get them to answer a few questions
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