Monthly Archives: December 2008

You Are Living Under My “Hosting Platform Roof”

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You’re living under my … well, you know how it goes back in the day. Anyway, here’s full disclosure…

About a week ago, this blog used to be hosted at freeadlists.wordpress.com, but I had to move it to a server where I can control the censoring of content.  What happened? In a blog post, I harshly complained about the data entry, ad postings, paste ads spammers (The “*jobs for you* “.” com” type spammers — I think you know who I’m talking about) because their affiliates were incessantly spamming FreeAdLists.com. Well, WordPress banned me for my efforts. I’m fairly certain the ban was inadvertent and systematic; but apparently, naming those spammers was ill-advised since they were probably banned terms.  I emailed WordPress.org to plead my case, but they didn’t even acknowledge its receipt.  I think the ban was BS but “Live and Learn.” It was free platform hosting…what did I really expect?

By the way, before I moved the blog, I received about 35-50 visits per day. After I moved it to the server, I receive about 2-5 visits per day – no big surprise.  It was stumbled earlier so the aforementioned statistic was a surprise.

Happy Holidays!

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Do Not Play the Fake Check or Money Order Games

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Here is an astute seller. As I have warned repeatedly, DO NOT deal with persons who are not within driving distance, especially “buyers” from overseas. Why? There is a great probability that these distance “buyers” are low-life scammers. Don’t get taken by these fake check or money order scammers — do your own due diligence.

By the way, I received this particular email because it was inadvertently sent to the FreeAdLists.com no reply email system. 

Here is the seller’s comment: “hi there the MGB IS STILL AVAILABLE WILL SELL IT FOR $4400 USD CASH IT RUNS GREAT AND JUST NEEDS PAINT ALL THE BODY IS COMPLETE PLZ DONT PAY THE FAKE CHECK OR MONEY ORDER GAMES. I AM REALLY TIRED OF ALL THESE PEOPLE SENDING ME FAKE CHECKS. I DO CHECK EVERYTHING OUT, THANKS”

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20 POSSIBLE REASONS CLASSIFIED ADS ARE ARE TAKEN DOWN

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Yesterday, I received this email from a FreeAdLists.com poster.  I am not sure, yet, what was the infraction, but here are 20 possible reasons for the classified ad removal.

Contact form on FreeAdLists: posting ads
Monday, December 1, 2008 9:20 AM
From: “Freeadlists.com” …@freeadlists.com
To: WEB..MASTER AT freeadlists.com

Email sent by: FreeAdLists Poster who can be contacted at: AdLists…poster AT gmail.com

I don’t understand why you keep taking my ads down. I am not over posting. Please advise.

20 possible reasons for take down of classified ad — not all inclusive list:

1.  classified ad has been over-posted/cross-posted
2.  classified ad is clearly adult but not marked adult
3.  classified ad is mis-categorized
4.  classified ad has been flagged as spam by community
5.  classified ad is related to online ad posting scams
6.  classified ad is a blatant keyword stuffing attempt
7.  classified ad has banned keywords
8.  classified ad is a 419 scams
9.  classified ad is electronic spam
10. classified ad is a data entry scam
11. classified ad is a pyramid/Ponzi scheme
12. classified ad is an online form filling scam
13. classified ad is posted by a known scammer
14. classified ad is an envelope stuffing scam
15. classified ad is a loan scam
16. classified ad is a duplicate
17. classified ad promotes hate or racism
18. classified ad title is inappropriate
19. classified ad is a typing scam
20. classified ad is threatening or harassing

As any reasonable person can surmise, classified ads related to the aforementioned list add absolutely no value to the site.

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