No way, my friends! Behind the scenes of Facebook group administration. Part 2
Facebook group admins can see a lot of weird pending posts.
But today I noticed the following attempt in our Fans of Design and Architecture Community.
DOUBLE SPAM :)! Identical texts! Even the punctuation is equal!
Let me tell these guys: no way, my friends!
What did the spammers expect? Maybe they hoped I'll press the "Approve" button? Oh no!
I have no idea? And you? Feel free to share your comment.
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UPD: spam activity is growing. Before publishing this post in our community I got the following pending post in the admin panel.
If rules against spam exist, then violators are blocked in my groups... to protect the membership over the self-advertiser who searches for traffic instead of integration. No room for this type of blatant disregard for the community.
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right, Duane! I just surprised how dumb is this "spam system" or whatever it called :)!
DeleteBTW: Duane has a great group on Facebook for sharing 3D models, renders, and tutorials. It is called CGShareNet. Highly recommend joining it!
For anyone who may be interested, here's a list of the 3D groups I admin:
Delete- THEA RENDER (SLUG - Shade and Light User Group) 1766 members
- SLUG 3D Art & Design - 4,460 members
- SLUG Organic 3D - 2,865 members
- SLUG 3D Collective - 3,691 members
- Trimble SketchUp - 29,074 members
- SketchUp - 30,529 members
- SketchUpArtists Community - 12,182 members
- CGShareNet - 4,641 members
- Architecture Ideas Community - 7,624 members
There's more but, these are the fundamental 3D groups
Fact is, being an admin for 10 years, I have simply lost ALL patience with phishing tutorial posts by members searching for only traffic but DON'T comment on members' works or posts, Self-promotion posts by members with telephone numbers as advertising (like business cards), unrelated spam/phishing and scam (financial gains) garbage.
It is VERY easy now, just deleting the posts... but, without deleting the members, the groups remain compromised by such wasted space. Without deleting the members who post the garbage, it forces admins to repeat the same work again and again! All a waste of time.
Here, you've done well to SHOW members what is not acceptable... but, they ALL know what is good and right to post. Then, there's the audience that doesn't care and they just don't READ warnings or take deletions as a message. This is normally because they are mass posting and can't remember where they posted, showing a lack of engagement, integration or concern about the place they poop this stuff. So, building fences to keep the poop from being placed where we walk is what rules are for. But, if new poop is on the yard, the source is from those who KNOW they will be banned anyway... and just don't care.
That is why blocking members of this nonsense keeps the yard clean for all REAL members the peace of appreciating the contributions of the community.
Yevhen, you are doing a fantastic job as admin. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Duane! And thank you for sharing your 3D groups! Everyone interested in the various kinds and aspects of 3D graphics can join these communities.
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