The Netherlands are fascinating!

Economy of the Netherlands

Planners?

Does this float your wind turbine? Is the Cuyahoga County Wind Energy Task Force looking at this, too?

Realneo has been seeing a new kind of spammer's strategy over the last few weeks.  

It goes like this:

A new user (a real person - ie someone like "sustaino" not a robot - somewhere in the world) logs in and posts something credible - but a little generic - like the above pontoon city material. 

Then a day or two later another "new user" logs in and puts a comment with spam under the earlier post.

The spam comment has a link or two or three which leads to some commercial crap which is unrelated to the original post - but which stupidly in Sustaino's case was on their blog.

This type of multi entry spam strategy tends to pull in legitimate commenter’s - as it did here with pontoon city - which helps conceal and bury the spam comment which was about a grilling fuel – the spam comment with the obnoxious links may come after legit comments or right after the phony post.

 One  problem with allowing spam links to stay on any web site is that Google sees these links and their lack of relevance to the text in the site/post and - in extreme cases - will totally block search results for that site.  The cleaner a site is kept of irrelevant links to the text in the post the healthier it looks to Google.  Google, as a private company, has the right and ability to return searches with whatever hierarchy it decides to give a site.  If you screw around with Google, they can blacklist a site – make a site non-existent – like they did with BMW

Let’s hope Google is  “ethical”.    Google has a forum and process for removing a site from their blacklist.  

If you see what you think is spam in Realneo, please notify Realneo Admin by sending a link to the spam content or comment via the "contact" email just below the Realneo Banner Header image.  Thanks.

Hey Ya'll, happy summer.   Earlier this week after knowing her for several years and reading some of the most rightious content that Jen had spotted and decide to share with the world via her blog...  I suggested the audiences on Realneo.us may also be like minded, receptive, and even interested in some of the unique flavor of things Sustianable that she routinely turns up.

You see Jen / Sustaino is a local  Lakewood girl, not some faceless spammer from Phuket.   From where I sit, and having worked with her accross her previous 2 employers, her heart is as much into the advancement of the movment as those of you I know on this board who are also interested in sustainability. 

We need as many folks working towards the overarching goal of building the global awareness of the next industrial revolution as possible!

I have nothing but the utmost respect for her work, which includes both her own original writings, and also her ability to filter out garbage information and distill the internet via blogs and our comms on facebook... just go look at her blog for goodness sake.  I work 5 days a week in the for profit CSR/ Sustainability / Environmental field, with research resources a plenty yet she still routinely finds new ideas, topics, technology that I have never even heard of... if you dont want that sort of intel brought here... keep on rolling out this caliber of a red carpet for her.

I suggested she cross post (not spam) some of the content and see how it is received here...  1. because I heart realneo, and 2. because there has been so much flamewarfare on here that only make the board less appealing to lurkers like me.  I was also hoping to turn some other folks on to what ya'll have here.

I CANT belive she got called out for the post, when other folks who reply to seemingly every post with nearly useless crazy talk dont get this kind of editorial attention!  IMHO QM's posts are more deservided of the personal emails regarding content than those of Sustaino  (granted her and I have 'ideological' simularities re: our prioritization of what matters in live...    In face QM's posts, and the SK posting about money collection, etc are negitively effecting participation on this board, again in my humble opinion.  I dont like to read bad vibrations.

Please consider starting off on another footing with her or I will be forced to dig up my realneo.us posts that have a direct link (which is in my signature here) to my blog.  None of those past cross posts (its been a while) but none of those ever ellicited any complaints, only lively discussion.

This fact makes me think that the presence of relitvely new, yet prolific posters of content that is more or less devoid of substinitive content have put the editors a bit more on edge..  with perhaps an itchy trigger finger.

Sorry guys and gals but Jen is as green, and as much not a spammer as the best writers on here.... and she works in her day job HARD to intersect the circles of her career field, and what is best for the planet.

Now if Jen was an VC investor in the floating city and was getting some $$$$ out of it... she would be a spammer in my opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-posting

Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple forums, mailing lists, or newsgroups. This is distinct from multiposting, which involves posting multiple identical messages, each to a single forum, newsgroup, or topic area.

Crossposting can be helpful if the message is of interest to a larger audience. However, crossposting to groups that are irrelevant to the message posted could be considered spamming. Moreover, excessive crossposting is generally considered bad form because it multiplies traffic without adding any new content. In the extreme case, if all messages were crossposted to every group, then every group would look exactly the same. A crossposter can minimize this problem by specifying that all responses be directed to a single group.

Terra Prima!

V/R,

ZM @ http://northcoastgreenspieler.blogspot.com/

Do you really think that was a bot that posted that? I do not.

I thought another aspiring journalist/marketing add executive redirecting back to them and thinking of wealth and notoriety…. Shameless self promotion and greed?

Then you have that whole thing about selling links to crap you would not buy yourself, and it was marketed with sexist undertones, as if only men like to grill!

And what is with the plea to come back? All this is highly suspect and reeks of coercions and complicity. I demand a special committee be formed to investigate.

  I agree Zebra Mussel--it's just that REALNEO is on hyper-spam mode.  Both Sustaino and QM need to link to interesting information, not just spit it out here. 

We have all been guilty, to some degree, of taking other ideas and reproducing here without credit.  Sometimes (actually often), it is hard to find the original source to credit an idea.   I would hope that the gate would not come down on Sustaino so fast.  I hope she understands that this site is in siege mode.  It is hard to know your REAL friends :)

What are they teaching our woman these days, ladies the Nancy Pelosi is not a role model! The truth is not something of convenience, correct grammatical structure revolving around a generic populous theme “green” does not win Pulitzers.

This site is three ring circus! C-A-L-A-M-I-T-Y

If no, a Realneo Admin (me in this case) jumped the gun.