I smell
SPAM! :thumbsdow
The above posts [
PREVIOUSLY #x & #y - spam posts now
DELETED by mod - thanks! :thumbsup:] looked a bit suspicious, so I did a little checking. And the more I looked, the worse the SPAM stench got! :sick2:
Virtually every post by user boyankir is link-spam!
For instance -
[NOTE - Spam posts in next 3 links now deleted by mod]
Repetitively spamming the same thread with duplicate content (Posts #21 & #28) -
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=237303
Spamming a positive review of another company's product - with promotional advertising images even! -
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=168602
Even criticizing / link spamming another member's "For Sale" thread! -
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=231520
:tsk:
While I was at first a bit perplexed by his link-spamming for multiple sites, it turns-out that all the sites that he was spamvertising are related and inter-linked together! He keeps rotating which of these inter-linked spamming laser sites he claims to recommend and/or to have purchased from, depending on which thread you read - but each time, he always links to one of this same group of "alias" sites.
A little further digging revealed that all of these cross-linked sites have been engaging in
EXTENSIVE blog / forum spamming, beyond just CPF, all over the Internet!
Just a few examples (people who have ever run a blog should be able to recognize these posts instantly for what they are)...
Link-spamming a cocktail recipe -
http://moxiedesignstudios.com/blog/comments/ginger-snap/
...a new race car -
http://www.viddler.com/explore/theoctanereport/videos/41/
...a ribbon-cutting for a butcher shop -
http://www.goochlandgazette.com/ind...er_hours_with_ribbon_cutting_for_courthouse_/
...a medical article on a woman's health site -
http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/hypothyroidism-and-athletes-oxymoron-or-reality/
...Chicago riots over beer -
http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/morons_to_riot_in_chicago
...a train station in India -
http://o3.indiatimes.com/mytimes/archive/2008/05/30/4922519.aspx
...they're even spamming an article about erectile dysfunction!
http://aofg.blogs.com/the_airing_of_grievances/2007/08/erectile-dysfun.html
(Their link is IMHO
right where it belongs, right in there with the Viagra spammers & other assorted scum!)
And this is just a
few examples, the total spamming by these sites is far too numerous for me to even have time to look through it all!
But I saved perhaps the
WORST for last...
As most of you know (particularly those poor folks living under the Draconian laser laws in Australia), one of the greatest threats to this hobby is from idiots pointing lasers at airplanes. :shakehead
There was a recent article about some idiot who got sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail for repeatedly targeting incoming airliners with his laser. He hit the pilot of a United Airlines flight carrying 180 passengers right in the eye, and in another instance forced the pilot of an Alaskan Airlines jet to veer off-course!
Scary stuff.
So, what does a "responsible" laser company do when it comes across an article like this?
Why, spamvertise your high-power laser sales site of course - with a link directly to green lasers that are powerful enough to cause havoc with an incoming commercial jet!
http://www.gadling.com/2009/11/03/two-years-in-jail-for-pointing-a-laser-at-a-plane/
That's an absolutely deplorable, scumbag thing to do - even for a spammer. :shakehead
And oh yea, that atrocious link was posted just a few days (less than a week) after boyankir spamvertised the exact same site in his post above!
Doing business with the semi-honest chinese companies is bad enough as it is, I wouldn't recommend buying from those that are openly acting like scum already!
I wouldn't order a laser from these turkeys, even if it was for
FREE!
>>> BUYER BEWARE! <<<
:thumbsdow :thumbsdow :thumbsdow
