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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Anyone else think this is spam?
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/comment/2123471#Comment_2123471

     :/ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I don’t think so, no actually link to a business. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hmm he’s made two posts ... both with the name of the same business ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    looks life self promotion at the very least. 
    Devon.
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    Lyn said:
    I don’t think so, no actually link to a business. 
    Sad how people just go out hunting for so called spam and telling tales on people 😢😢😢😢😢
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2019
    To explain ...

    This forum is free for us to use because advertisers have to pay for adverts. Without those payments the forum wouldn’t exist in its present form.

    If some people get away with advertising for free that is, in effect, stealing from GW and is unfair on business who do abide by the rules.

    The GW website team introduced the Flagging system in order that posters can alert them to breaches of the terms and conditions. It helps the Mods who don’t have the time to monitor every post.  

    We don’t go out ‘hunting for spam’ but if we see it we flag it up to the Mods ... they expect it. 

    To think of it as ‘telling tales’ could be seen as a bit childish  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Also, it's good, harmless sport🎯
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    BirminghamMarc1972 said:
    Lyn said:
    I don’t think so, no actually link to a business. 
    Sad how people just go out hunting for so called spam and telling tales on people 😢😢😢😢😢
    With the exception of the occasional mob spam from China the individual ones could just be ignored and soon fall off the bottom of the page never to be seen again. No harm for either approach I guess.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The problem with that approach is that when folk do a search up they pop again ... that’s what the spammers are counting on 🙄 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I saw that too @Chivetalking, and thought, at first, it was a new member of the tech team, but they do a proper announcement. Very odd.
    Sometimes we get these random posts though.  :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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