What the heck is up with new Ciao members today???
By Paula1966
@Paula1966 (1102)
United States
November 27, 2008 10:16pm CST
I have seen a LOT of first posts with an amazing similarity in IDs... There is a first name starting with An... annette, andre, etc.... there is usually an abbreviation for a US state in the name... and many of them have numbers...
e.g. annetteid09, then a couple of minutes later annettemn10 (I think that is what they were)
This is just a sneaking suspicion... I'm sure the mods will catch it if it is something incorrect. I feel like I should report it, but other than the similarities in naming conventions, I can't point to a specific TOS they violate.
Anybody know the appropriate way to handle this with Ciao?
2 responses
@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
30 Nov 08
Oh! I did not notice that kind. I am also a new member of CIAO but I don't care what other people are doing. I just go on with mine. the only thing that pissed me off in there is that, people's request to be added as friends and then keep on sending spam message to read and rate their reviews? It is pretty much annoying. I read that it is against the rule to do that. Why is it that they are not the once whose account would be closed? I don;t like that spamming thing. They keep on telling people to read and rate their reviews but they don;t do the same to others.. they just want to take and take.. without giving.. Oh!! what a greedy people. I am not rating their reviews anyway. I just choose those who are courteous hahahaha....
@Paula1966 (1102)
• United States
30 Nov 08
It seemed like it was just that particular day... of course I was off work, so I was online more, so maybe similar patterns are always happening. Maybe what irked me about it is, before I noticed that pattern, I had gone to read one of the reviews and realized it was not for the movie it said it was. I sent a message "Hey, just wanted to let you know before someone else was mean about it..." blah blah blah. So, here I was trying to be helpful to someone who may be trying to play the system! :p
I hate the spammers too. My status now says I am deleting anyone who does that, and I send out an e-mail with each new friend I approve that explains I appreciate not getting those requests, and not to request I add you to my CoT because I don't expect you to add me, etc. The things you gotta do, LOL.
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@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
30 Nov 08
But hey!! you are doing pretty good here. I am was not able to check on my email notifications yet if I have notified about your new posts here. I on my notifications to some of my friends here and yours is included but I was not notified for your new posts? anyway, I was not able to check it all yet. Well, about CIAO, I'm glad I had my first request of payment last night. But I love to be here in mylot because I love this site. I have never missed pay out here. This is a good site to share everything we want to. Good luck.
@sirrob (4108)
• Philippines
28 Nov 08
Just let them be, if they are the same then it won't be hard to catch them even they have different email add, paypal account or any other information but the IP address won't lie at all. And if they are not caught with it then there's one more that they won't be able to prove themselves that they are not only one. Let's just leave them that way and before you know it, Ciao is looking into this situation already.
