Aggressive Marketing on the WA Platform and What to Do
It happens from time to time that people will sign up here just to target members and two interesting examples that came to my attention this week are:
1. Someone PMs you asking for donations and giving you a link - well that is out of line and should be reported so it can get shut down.
**If you just block it and report it as spam it could go on a long time and reach many members, so best to report it to the top.**
2. Someone calling themselves sexiemissie leaving her gmail address in multiple places on the dashboard and asking 'can anyone handle me' is out of line too, as it is blatant aggressive self promotion and while not quite politics or religion it could still make some new referrals feel uncomfortable to be hit on by a potential sexworker, who may just bring all her friends - again, that's also one to show Kyle or Carson to see if it needs shut down.
If new members like this are genuine then they'd build websites to promote their businesses, and not hit on members or the platform like this.
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No one should be promoting their products on the WA platform, even if passively... I have not seen either of the above-posted examples.
Thank you for posting this Mary.
Would contacting someone you know for many months here on WA and sharing a referral link be considered helpful or 'Aggressive Marketing'?
When people share opportunities through pm (not like this girl but helpful content), then would you report that person? If yes why or under what circumstances?
Regards,
Kamil
I'd say what you describe is not aggressive, and not the same thing at all
good luck in your networking opportunities!
...and still, someone here had his/her heart made a jump, for seeing a new referral come in... even when it's a sexiemissie... and has hopes that the sexiemissie is going to build a website ....
I understand we are not open for a brothel
well ironically if she built the website she'd do better but breaking the rules with marketing shortcuts goes against her as well as the members...
we all get a ton of invitation accepted signups that don't pan out, same percentages likely apply to all of us, my heart skipped a beat recently when someone signed up because of one of my old WA blogs only to find out they also merely signed up to say something on the platform and advertise themselves and had no intention of taking it further...I know how it feels to have a newbie tease us
btw no one had answered her question in 3 hours before I saw it...and ultimately it was up to Kyle to handle her, in response to her question, as he saw fit
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Yes, there are some things we just can't allow to happen without trying to do something about it.