People using OcUK Forums for advertising

VeNT · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:32

recently I've noticed a few people gleening MSN/ICQ addresses from these here forums then contacting me with their websites asking for me to "Have a look at their website for them".
I'm sorry, but I'm REALY fed up with it, you KNOW who you are, its NOT polite to just add people to MSN and straight off ask them to look at your site, if you feel you want feedback about your new omghaxhardwareoverclocking4thewin.com site ASK SOMEONE YOU KNOW ALREADY! NOT ME.

the last thing I want to do in the evening is read ANOTHER site thats nothing but google ads and a forums with 0 users and 0 posts.

Drake5 · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:33

VeNT said:
recently I've noticed a few people gleening MSN/ICQ addresses from these here forums then contacting me with their websites asking for me to "Have a look at their website for them".
I'm sorry, but I'm REALY fed up with it, you KNOW who you are, its NOT polite to just add people to MSN and straight off ask them to look at your site, if you feel you want feedback about your new omghaxhardwareoverclocking4thewin.com site ASK SOMEONE YOU KNOW ALREADY! NOT ME.

the last thing I want to do in the evening is read ANOTHER site thats nothing but google ads and a forums with 0 users and 0 posts.

I also had some guy ive never even heard of on ocuk to add me, and ask me to look at his site and sign up on it :eek:

omg the cheek!

- Denic

Mic · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:33

Name and shame to be honest.

Sirrel Squirrel · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:35

Got one of these the other day, they said can you help with my website, so I thought ok fair enough, wants an opinion or something but no, they just say can you sign up the forum or something, how about **** off

that was idiot hardware too

pyro · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:36

Yes clearly clicking to view a website is a violation of your human rights

Mic · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:36

Sirrel Squirrel said:
that was idots hardware too

I beleive its idiotshardware
The s stands for stupid.

Drake5 · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:36

VeNT said:
edited

SAME!

Mic · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:37

pyro said:
Yes clearly clicking to view a website is a violation of your human rights

Its the farming of msn address thats the problem.

da_mic_1530 · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:40

VeNT said:
edited

he added me n all, asked me to look at the site, if i want extreme hardware i will read OCUK. its annoying and i agree with all said

ArmyofHarmony · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:42

why does he want you to look at his site?

you some sort of reviewer or something?

Mic · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:43

ArmyofHarmony said:
why does he want you to look at his site?

you some sort of reviewer or something?

To sign up to his forums id imagine.

iCraig · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:44

He added me aswell, but at the end of the day its hardly a huge inconvienience, it took 30 seconds to look at his site and give a basic opinion.

Don't tell me you can't spare 30 seconds, because it probably took that long to post a thread all about it.

VeNT · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:44

its annoying, I've got my MSN on here so members of OcUK can contact me about OCUK STUFF, not so they can spam me up.

Mic · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:45

iCraig said:
He added me aswell, but at the end of the day its hardly a huge inconvienience, it took 30 seconds to look at his site and give a basic opinion.

Don't tell me you can't spare 30 seconds, because it probably took that long to post a thread all about it.

So if you get a spam email do you think the same?

Arcade Fire · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:45

The guy was registered on here as Robbo123, but he's now permabanned. I should have saved the conversation I had with him, it was great

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Sirrel Squirrel · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:46

H edidn't want an opinion, he wanted you to sign up to the forum

Just a thought, I remember someone did this before and I think its the same guy, just using a different email addy and has changed the website name, think it was ******* before or something similar.

edit/ just seen post aobve, it is the same guy then

VeNT · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:46

iCraig said:
He added me aswell, but at the end of the day its hardly a huge inconvienience, it took 30 seconds to look at his site and give a basic opinion.

Don't tell me you can't spare 30 seconds, because it probably took that long to post a thread all about it.

what he wants is people to use his site to get revenue/users.

iCraig · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:49

He asked me what I thought of his site from a design POV.

Which took only a few seconds.

" ****ing boring mate "

Bes · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:50

Has anyone else had some vile little cretin from here add you to their MSN and ask if you want to see their **** and spam your inbox with filth and smut?

[email protected] is the address. (Tim Gibbons) No idea what the user name is but I know he got my details from here.

Sirrel Squirrel · 22 Apr 2006 at 19:50

Well that's ok iCraig, I wouldn't have a problem with that, in fact that's why I thought he was talking to me, not to get me to sign up to his crappy forum.