Over the past 24 hours there have been numerous spam postings for painting contractors. When multiple accounts are set up in the same hour and their very first post is recommending the same painter it is suspicious. Not even an introduction to the site from the new member(s) before making a recommendation. Over the past 24 hours I have removed a couple of threads that were suspect of this nature AND I also have emailed AND sent PM to these individuals some are specifically in this thread and I offered to discuss further over the phone if they had further concerns regarding the reasons why.
Remember there are businesses that are legitimately paying to sponsor on the site. While recommendations from good contractors and services are always welcome we will be diligent in sorting through the legitimate ones and the ones that are for a commercial gain. We will not always get it 100% but would rather error on the side of protecting the small local business owners who are legitimately contributing to the site. When a member has been registered for a longer period of time or has history of contributing posts then it is highly unlikely that a recommendation would ever be removed. But if you register and in that same day you are making a commercial recommendation on post #1 along with several other users that registered that same day and their #1 post is the same commercial recommendation, then that thread will more than likely be removed for the reasons listed above.
I hope this provides further clarity to this issue.
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