Do people online ever call you a spammer?
Do you think you are one at all? Spam is sometimes a matter of opinion.
How do you respond when they do?
Well, there may have been one point where I may have been called such because I did forward a lot of emails. When a person unceasingly forwards random non-personal communications that is what I call a mild spammer. My mom does this all the time. When that person (such as my mom) continues to forward such non-personal emails after you ask them not to, then they are a true spammer.
Nope, I've never been called a spammer. I try to be very careful about not sending tons of messages to anyone, friends or strangers, about my hubs, jewelry listings, blog posts, etc. If they want to find them, they know where to look.
Yes, but I do not think it was fair. After all, I was just positing an informative article (hub) about the topic at hand, and not trying to sell anything. The message board I was called a spammer on is full of a lot of actual off topic spam, so to call my on topic article spam seemed unreasonable.
Here's the thing. If you join a website you need to participate in that website. If all you do on a site is throw links to your hubs in there. . . .then you really ARE a spammer. I know - because I used to do that on some really good websites, and I got kicked off and banned from them.
All you have to do is comment things that are not yours, and be friendly - then you can link your hubs, and everyone will be okay with it unless it's just against their TOS.
by CASE1WORKER 14 years ago
I have flagged this up to hub pages- remember dont answer or comment on his posts or they will stay around til the hub pages team can exclude him
by Carisa Gourley 16 years ago
I have received at least two separate e-mails that were supposed to be from HubPages that I know were not. These e-mails look exactly like the ones that HubPages send out that tell your stats and features a Hubber. The reason I know that they are not from HubPages is because my stats...
by crisps 14 years ago
As I was putting together a computer from old parts, I found a hard drive that someone didn't erase. It was full of the owners emails. I felt a wrong reading them. But this passed quickly as I found them to be truthful, funny, romantic and touching. It's a real love story unfolding before your...
by Susannah Birch 13 years ago
As mentioned in this thread: http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/75200There are many spammers who still have thousands of hubs up, even if they are on probation. Obviously flagging an account doesn't work so for those of us who are still trying to help Hubpages in any way - adopt a SPAM account and...
by Sychophantastic 8 years ago
If this private email server is such a big deal, worthy of prosecution and jail time, then shouldn't the FBI pursue charges against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/geor … 97373.htmlWhy was there no outrage about private emails servers when this happened?Are...
by archdaw 15 years ago
L@@K, SPAMMER
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