Spammy Groups

January 24, 2010 · 77 views · 0 comments

Spammy Groups
taken by : Dedric Mauriac on Nowhereville (36, 219, 21)
Group Notices and Archived Notice text showing multiple entries about Haiti Fundraiser and performance message by Vincent Merricks

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From time to time, I'll join a group. Group slots are pretty limited. Sometimes, a group will turn out to just be spammery. One such group is SLevolution. Today alone, I got roughly 10 notices of bands playing to raise funds for Haiti. Call me cold hearted, but after a while, it gets old.As strongbad would say ... DELETED.This is one of the reasons why I prefer subscribe-o- matic RSS feeds. I'm not badgered with notices or in-world messages about events. Notices and instant messages also have an affect on your IM cap (15?), so you may not be able to get all of your offline messages due to spammy groups.Another group like this was the relay for life groups. It seems that any group related to charity is going to be pretty heavy on group notices. It would be preferable if there was only one notice with a notecard of a schedule of events, and a landmark. There is also an event listing on this plat!

form that you can use to attract the whole user- base, rather than targeting just your own group. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com