Dear Accoona

Stop spamming my forums with your worthless pathetic attempt at viral marketing.

Innovative search is it? Strong debut eh? Clinton helped?

Worthless bunch of pants.

Accoona forum spammers - go tell your dumb corporate marketers to at least learn something about online communities, not least how they work, before thinking it’s big and clever to go about forum spamming.

That webmasters might try it on is one thing, but for a corporate body to try it? Sack your marketing team - they’re a bunch of idiots.

Do you think us forum admins haven’t seen that sort of thing before?

It’s a daily routine of being a forum admin that you get clueless morons who think they can get a blatant ad to stick in a moderated environment. Some of them can even be clever or innovative about it and it can even work. But you are not that clever.

Simple rule of most communities - advertising is easy to spot, and easy to get rid of.

I admin a string of forums with a few thousand members across half a dozen subject areas - if I see one more spam attack from your clueless “marketers” then I ban the name across them all.

You may find yourselves getting your name censored in other forums, to.

How successful will your internet will your attempt at viral marketing be if the major internet forums blacklist the word, leaving your team promoting the www.*******.com search engine?

I expect this sort of behaviour from webmasters. But from a corporate body?

You are so sad. :)