Members marshallspaul Posted February 26, 2006 Members Share Posted February 26, 2006 has anyone else noticed that the HC classifieds are getting more and more cluttered with spam that is irrelavant to music gear in the past i have found a few people abusing the classified section, but it seems (at least to me) that its getting worse the last one i saw a minute ago was a company in india trying to sell Dental Gear???? just an example: Dealer Ad: Dental equipments Asking Price: US$N/A Condition: Mint Age: N/A Description: Manufacture & Exporter for all dental Equipments. We assure high quality and competitive cost. Mr. David Address 368/3, MES Road, Jalahalli Industrial Area. City Bangalore State Karnataka Country India Zip / Postal Code 560013 Telephone No 28381345/2838443 Fax No 32451264 Web Site URL www.asiatental.net E-mail adcd@vsnl.com Seller: kayle laichi, E-mail: sarmisthasaha90 (Profile) Post Date: 2/25/2006 does anyone moderate this anymore? or are more and more people posting bunk ads and they are not getting filtered out untill the next day/week/month should the classifieds be briefly screened befor they are posted? seems like a waste of bandwidth and really looks trashy. is this what is considered acceptable for the "other" catagory? SHOULD there be an "other" catagory? I love the HC community but i really hope that with the massive traffic accumulating here does not change the same old standards from remaining intact and are not deluted with the mamoth amount of BS found rampant on the net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted February 26, 2006 Members Share Posted February 26, 2006 > I hear ya. Success sometimes brings its own problems. If there was a city of 2,000,000 people, how big would the police force be? A couple thousand? Well, that's the "population" of HC, and I can tell you we don't have anywhere near a couple thousand cops. Not even a couple dozen On the other hand, success means an increased ability to monitor this stuff. We hired Dendy Jarrett full time to take care of "customer service" and to monitor the forums, and I'm sure he's not the last new hire we'll have. Thanks for the heads-up...we'll add it to the ever-increasing "to do" list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted February 26, 2006 Members Share Posted February 26, 2006 Oh man cool. I was just looking for a dental drill and tooth cleaner. Trying to get that Van Halen sound...and it'll give me something to do in my spare time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marshallspaul Posted February 26, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 26, 2006 well maybe i stand corrected as one could use dental gear for all kinds of unintended ways.... like that one time in tijuana me and my college buddies ran into these girls and......... or not but if i read another classified listing for cell phones ..... maybee doing away with the "other" catagory in the classifieds would be a good start just to let this be known: Mr. Anderton, i wasn't necessarily criticizing the HC staff just pointing out a potentially growing problem and suggesting a solution wasn't trying to be a forum biach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted February 26, 2006 Members Share Posted February 26, 2006 just pointing out a potentially growing problem and suggesting a solution wasn't trying to be a forum biach>> No worries, I didn't take it that way at all! We DEPEND on feedback from members to be our "eyes and ears" because we can't do it all ourselves. Comments like yours are appreciated. We want this to be the best site in the universe, but we'll settle for being the best one in the music industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted February 27, 2006 Members Share Posted February 27, 2006 Originally posted by Anderton We hired Dendy Jarrett full time to take care of "customer service" and to monitor the forums, and I'm sure he's not the last new hire we'll have. Wow. Now if we can just get MF to purchase CMP Entertainment Media, Inc., and roll the MP forums into the mix, we'll be good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted February 27, 2006 Members Share Posted February 27, 2006 > MF isn't really interested in purchasing the CMP group, but it would be nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted February 28, 2006 Members Share Posted February 28, 2006 Actually seems like a good idea. Just think how much they'd save in advertising! And then the journalistic integrity bunch could really get their panties in a wad over reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted February 28, 2006 Members Share Posted February 28, 2006 They really should branch out. In my professional opinion, diversification is key to expansion and rapid growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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