Think it's time for a general discussion on this topic. Seen it here a few months ago and a lot this past week. Some spam threads here that have been locked or moved or killed. Not just here though, not by a long shot. It's on other boards too, just about all the other boards in fact, where there have been recent blowups and or bans or censoring or chaos too. In short, seems to be prevelent everywhere in the past few months and more so since Internext.
Marketing reps or glorified posters or sig whore's who have no clue as to what they're saying. They don't participate in threads, or they do drive-bys, or they are so see-thru and lame in their posting that it's alternately laughable, pathethic or majorly annoying. Or posting solely when their "keywords" pop in Boards Scanner or Board Tracker or whatever, usually not to return after.
In short ... WTF are these companies thinking??? It's pretty damned obvious that these various folks nowadays are pretty damned sub-calibre. They create more anomosity then they do affiliate joins or sales; in fact, if they don't actually create loss of business it would be shocking. They make the companies they repesent look bad, just plain bad. The adage that even bad publicity is good has been easily disproven by these folks.
Not naming names, not companies, not reps. We all have our own list of names in our minds, so why bother. I just want to know what the hell are the managers or owners of these companies thinking??? Do they get these folks from McDonalds or their wife's nephew or their girlfriend or what?
What kind of training do they give them before letting them loose? Apparently none. What are their qualifications? And mostly, why when they see them out there making fools of their companies, of their livlihood, do they not only let them continue doing it, but they often, either in front of everyone or behind the scenes, go defend these undefendables???
Has everybody gone nuts? What happened to the days when people were taught how to post before they post? How to market as oppose to spam? How to know the political landsacpe, who is connected to who and who is the adversary of who, and to keep those things in mind when they open their mouths (or type out their pixels)? All of this seems to have gone down the drain of late. And why has this spread like a plague where it's gone from the occasional clueless poster to cadres of "posting undead"?
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