I can share my experience on the other side of the board.
I run a forum hosting platform (forumcrea.com) and we get spammed a lot. Empty forum creation with just links, profile bombing or just mass posting are hard to deal with. We have advanced captcha, clever javascript tricks, manual cleaning, ip banning... However, when you are dealing with human farms or just a smart spammer, it's almost impossible to keep up. Plus it's only a side thing that I run for free entirely, so I don't want to waste time dealing with it. Some people do use the forums for good though.
Concerning this particular problem, my experience is in 98% of the case, they are not going to carry on with their threats. Almost every emails asking for link removals (and that's a lot!) I've received from site owners is when they have hired a SEO company (or run the bots themselves) that has spammed the forums of my platform.
Something piss me off about these people. It's when they then ask YOU to remove their mess. Without any compensation. I usually not respond (I am carrying on cleaning tasks whenever I want and if I want.) or respond with $150 bill. They should have keep the login/password or keep access to the forgotten password email. I don't know why I will do special treatments.
Funny story. I think the only time I've received a link removal requests explaining their were poor victims of negative SEO, it was from the same people that 2 weeks in the past sent me a email explaining their are the ones who have spammed the forums. They think we are stupid or something. I guess they haven't liked the idea of paying for spam cleaning. Shady once, shady forever.
> I run a forum hosting platform (forumcrea.com) and we get spammed a lot. Empty forum creation with just links, profile bombing or just mass posting are hard to deal with.
This is why I setup http://blogspam.net/ - An API service that you can use to test submissions in real-time. I wanted to abstract the testing from one of my sites that attracted a lot of this stuff.
I run a forum hosting platform (forumcrea.com) and we get spammed a lot. Empty forum creation with just links, profile bombing or just mass posting are hard to deal with. We have advanced captcha, clever javascript tricks, manual cleaning, ip banning... However, when you are dealing with human farms or just a smart spammer, it's almost impossible to keep up. Plus it's only a side thing that I run for free entirely, so I don't want to waste time dealing with it. Some people do use the forums for good though.
Concerning this particular problem, my experience is in 98% of the case, they are not going to carry on with their threats. Almost every emails asking for link removals (and that's a lot!) I've received from site owners is when they have hired a SEO company (or run the bots themselves) that has spammed the forums of my platform.
Something piss me off about these people. It's when they then ask YOU to remove their mess. Without any compensation. I usually not respond (I am carrying on cleaning tasks whenever I want and if I want.) or respond with $150 bill. They should have keep the login/password or keep access to the forgotten password email. I don't know why I will do special treatments.
Funny story. I think the only time I've received a link removal requests explaining their were poor victims of negative SEO, it was from the same people that 2 weeks in the past sent me a email explaining their are the ones who have spammed the forums. They think we are stupid or something. I guess they haven't liked the idea of paying for spam cleaning. Shady once, shady forever.