Of course that's spam.
However, here's the deal, some ET members have been getting away with such for many years because some moderators or ET management itself believe the poster falls in the category of
posting good content eventhough the good content has a fee-base link posted within the message post.
That in itself attracts other spammers because they think discussing their services is ok considering others are allowed to do so as none sponsors.
In addition, some of the ET members that have been spamming for a long time have cleverly buddy up with some of the moderators and TraderZones himself.
Simply, I've seen guys like TraderZones openly share trading interests with another member (he gets along with the person) and then intentionally turn a blind eye when that person spams. :eek:
It's a private club at ET...you're either in the "allowed spammer club" or not in the club and only a few have made it into the "allowed spammer club".
That club have privileges like the following...
* Warning only and you will never have your account deleted regardless how many times you plug in your website link or describe your business.
* Thank you posted publicly by ET management when the allowed spammer turns informant about another spammer.
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I myself stop notifying ET management about the typical first post spammer because the best spammers are under the radar here at ET via doing the following:
* Post links in their messages to their fee-base site...within a message that contains good content.
* Describe themselves as "we work with traders" or describe their business without posting links.
* Post charts here at ET with an annotation on the chart to their fee-base site.
* Gather email addresses via free subscription service to daily alerts or something like that. However, the gather email address is then used at another website for marketing purposes that's never mentioned at ET and that other website is fee-base.
* Provide free content or freely share methods here at ET that gets a very large following (members treat you like a guru) while openly denouncing spammers and vendors. Yet, at the same time, buddy up (promote) with another vendor to sneak that specific vendor in the backdoor within the so called free sharing thread under the facade the vendor is not like others.
However, ET is not alone here because this problem exist at other forums too like Traderlaboratory, T2W et cetera...
If I like you, you're not a spammer because you're such a good guy/gal that's helpful. If I don't like you...you're a spammer.
P.S. I got nothing against vendors especially if the vendor provides good content or helps improve trading.
I just got a problem with spamming considering there's more efficient ways to market a business for free without having to spam.
Mark
