Your Thoughts On Non-Email Spamming?

[Lee]

I was wondering what you folks thought about the practice of spamming blogs, chat rooms, instant messenger clients etc?

Do you feel, like me, that it is no better than email spam or do you think it isnt as bad?

The only reason i ask is that im noticing a lot of well-known companies spamming places like gay.com chat rooms lately.

What are your thoughts on this, is this an acceptable business practice or is it making all pornographers look bad?

Regards,

Lee

[Jasun]

Spamming of any kind is bad business and much like the way that some companies ruined xTube by flooding it with thousands of 30-second redundant clips, they're eventually going to ruin everything for everyone.

I can see laws in the future about no advertising for porn being thrown about because of it.

You know.. OK.. so I was asked to advertise on Gay.com including a banner in the chat room. I checked out the chat room and there were about 20 names on the list but NO chatting at all. I posted something like "Wow.. talkative bunch" and I suddenly got about 20 PMs pop up... all of which said

"you seem like a cool person. I'd like to get to know you better. I don't know much about this site but I have a profile over at www.7iuwhswfus.com with hot pictures of me."

Which of course meant that there were zero people in the chat room and nothing but bots. So I was paying to advertize to Data, C3P0 and Twiki.

(R2D2 is straight)

pretty annoying, and I'm sure that some lawyer would be able to make some argument that advertising porn is dangerous just like cigarettes and we'll all be fucked.

But of course, just like with xTube, nobody cared until it was too late and then they just moved on to another low-effort way to gain customers.

[TropixxxStudios]

So I was paying to advertize to Data, C3P0 and Twiki.

(R2D2 is straight)

Are you sure? According to "the internets ONLY webpage devoted to Gay Robots", R2-D2 is listed as a "partner" to C3-PO.

http://home.globalcrossing.net/~variable/gayrobot.html

And to answer the original question, as a SURFER I hate it when bots or otherwise spam blogs, chat rooms, etc. and it only turns me off to the product.