SPAM

[Deer Thistle]

I've had to leave several groups due to not just group notice spam, but the chat spam accompanying it. I think the worst form of spam is when an individual uses more than one bot to advertise the same store so they don't get in trouble for spamming more than once an hour like many of the groups' rules state "One notice per hour" so that's their workaround, and it becomes pretty obnoxious.

It can get frustrating to reach out to so many people about a cat they may have interest in at your shop but I think it's the wrong approach to potentially irritate your prospective buyers by trying to compete with the flood of other spambots in these groups. In my opinion, utilizing the forum sales section is a great way to not irritate people (assuming you don't bump your thread every 2 seconds LOL) and reaches out to people of all time zones with using one post versus an overabundance of 2983487234 notices in-world.

A bot reminding me every 30 minutes that its owner's fantabulous 8-traited salt & pepper is for sale or for auction with a ~*~*super exclusive & special opening bid*~*~ isn't going to make me buy it any faster, it will probably make me less apt to make a purchase. Anyone who is investing money into KittyCatS is most likely on Second Life for more than an hour a day and will see these notices quite a few times like myself so it gets a bit silly for these bot owners to feel it's necessary to spam even once an hour or every 30 minutes, they will reach everyone anyway even without so much excessive spam.

I was going to include a picture of what my Yahoo! spam folder looks like for all of these KittyCatS groups and the frequency of some of these spammers but I didn't want anyone to be offended if they saw their bot or store listed in my screencap LOL It's pretty ridiculous though and very, very unnecessary. I highly doubt the spam will stop flooding though and ultimately it will take the leaders of these KittyCatS groups to change their rules to "one notice per every two or three hours" from "one notice every hour" to make staying in these groups more tolerable.