Generic messages on the Paid Services forum [#154030]

Some companies post generic one-suits-all comments on threads to the Paid services forum. When this happens when a user explicitly asks to be contacted by email or happens months after the first post, I wonder whether said companies see this as an advertising opportunity.

As such, I feel it would be prudent to treat such generic messages as spam. Not directly worth blocking, but certainly worth a warning.

Any thoughts?

example user:
http://drupal.org/user/156028 with http://drupal.org/node/145616#comment-244488 and http://drupal.org/node/151879#comment-244983

Comments

Comment #1

Gurpartap Singh commented 23 June 2007 at 06:19

http://drupal.org/user/131474
See his tracker: http://drupal.org/user/131474/track
The day he registered, in a few seconds he had a post-for-all comment in paid services forums.

http://drupal.org/node/131683#comment-217628
http://drupal.org/node/131322#comment-217631
http://drupal.org/node/131772#comment-217632
and several others.

There are several other such, posting those generic messages suiting most type of requirements. Moreover, don't think they dedicate themselves to Drupal development, rather come from companies which some day had developed with PHP, or other CMSs like Joomla/Mambo, etc. I mean to say, they are presenting their big portfolios of Joomla and other CMS development on Drupal services forums. How is that presenting that your skills are Drupal "compatible". hehe.

A sticky post on the paid services forum should help everyone posting there.

In brief: spam.