Posts Tagged spam

I am a PR professional and as such I like to keep any eye on what’s going on in my clients industries.

To do that I read magazines, subscribe to RSS feeds and email newsletters, set up google alerts and also become a member of relevant LinkedIn groups.

What I find with some groups is that the discussion pages get filled with spam.  One group that I am a member of had more spam discussions on their first page than they did discussions that were relevant to the group.

To my mind the value of belonging to a group is to monitor and participate in discussion, having loads of spam on the page prevents you seeing the meaningful stuff and limits the value of belonging to the group.

Group owners could adopt a prevention policy by limiting who can join the group but then that could also limit membership and so limit the discussion.

A far better policy to my mind is for the owners to monitor the discussions and delete those that are not relevant.  That is what I do with the groups that I manage.

I don’t know if there is a better way to prevent spam comments, does anybody know of one?