Recently I've had some Social Media practitioners attempting to use the community I manage to promote their client's products/websites, and when I've tackled them they've tried to explain it away by telling me that they aren't spammers, but are in fact involved in social media, and therefore want to engage with our members. Bottom line - Attempting to join a community, under the guise of social media, in order to use said community to interrupt conversations, post links and create promotional posts to promote … [Read more...]