I signed up for a basic packaged. Two of the users started posting stolen and copywrited verbatim material from other sites. I've requested them to stop posting and refund immediatley. Beware of using them unless you want to get into trouble.
Hello Noah, We at ForumElevation are doing everything we can to resolve your problem. We are investigating your compliant; however you still have not provided us with any evidence to back up your accusation. However, once we get to the bottom of this we will, of course,refund you according to our Refund Policy in our TOS which you agreed to when signing up. We are, at this moment in time, talking to the poster that was assigned to your forum about this. We are in constant email contact so I do not see a reason for this thread.
Copyright content can land people in very hot water, not to mention the fact it does the site no good whatsoever. I believe the point he is trying to make is that the posters have not been screened properly or their work checked thoroughly. Now I do not know the nature of the complaint, or whether or not he has evidence to back it up, but if he does, then I for one appreciate the warning.
We appreciate how serious this is, however, we have still not received ANY evidence of this. If and when we do we will take the appropriate action. I do not wish to further comment on this case as it is between ForumElevation, the poster involved and Noah. Lastly, I would like to say that this is an individual case and we have had many customers that have been completely happy with the service provided. Thank you.
Hi, I just placed a big package with you guys as well. Reading this thread is a big concern. Are you going to be screening your posters more carefully? Can you guarantee this will not happen in my forum?
We can absolutely guarantee this will not happen to anyone else’s forums as the poster, for the time being has been suspended and ALL our posters are being re-screened. I would like to reiterate that this is a one of incident and the claims have no been substantiated. You and many future potential customers have no need to worry.
Hey guys I work for ForumElevation and I want you to know that all of my posts are 100% MY POSTS and I would never steal from another site. Also it wasn't me that posted on your sites, I have only posted for one and it was a trial package.
Stop WASTING MY time. You sent me this message this morning so you know the users in question " One of our posts made the two usernames 'Jerlene' and 'JBizzle'. However he has informed me that these two username were deleted along with their posts. Is there any reason for this? Look forward to hearing from you, Luke" Please stop wasting my time. The posts have been deleted and the users have been removed. I had to remove the posts in question quickly because everything was brutally stolen from sources. The posts made no sense and I took simple lines into a google search with " " Sure enough, every post... included useless and stolen, copyrighted information from sources I wouldnt want to mess with. Stop wasting my time. here is the Info for the user who registered twice, with different names from the same IP! It gets even better. Edited: I found the post and search I did on my laptop. Although because I've did a hard delete. I cant restore. The post was in a section called E-Commerce. And the thread was called "E-Commerce Canada" lame. This was the exact post "Canada's conservatism does not seem to be exclusive to its dealings with foreign investors. It is also reflected in its slow embrace of the now ubiquitous Internet commerce technology . The largest hurdle in setting up an online business seems to be the lack of support and/or ability of Canadian financial institutions to accept credit card transactions over the Web. Canadian banks even go as far as asking business owners to sign a statement declaring that they will not accept Web-based transactions if they are granted merchant status. The reason behind Canadian banks' reluctance in embracing e-commerce lies in their historical conservatism, mainly attributed to the high levels of regulation in the Canadian banking industry. In contrast, U.S. banks are much more open to Internet business transactions, and almost any small business owner can set up their own online transactions However, Canadian businesses are slowly coming about. Some banks have begun to make the transition to accepting e-commerce ventures, and Canadian merchants are finding more options available. The potential for Canadian businesses to achieve a market share of the online business boom is there, but they must first find willing and supportive financial institutions to back them." I was reading it and was thinking.. WTF is that? That is a weird thread. So I took the first line of the search in google and there it was. So the user managed to find something with the words ecommerce canada and took out the authors names. This is one of 5 posts I had to remove. All using various info like this from various sources. IF YOU have used forumelevation in the past or present I highly suggest you check all your posts by them very carefully. This could end up getting someone into a lot of hot water and possibly even far worse than that. When it comes to copyright issues, I'm not sure you'll be able to go out and say "well, I hired forumelevation they did it." a court might see it as someone that you've hired to work for you.....
Luke has resolved the issue with me. He has refunded my money and apologized. I still stand by what I've said in my post about checking your posts if youve used them or plan on using them. But otherwise, Luke has resolved the issue for me. This for me has left a very sour taste in my mouth and I will never use a paid forum posting service again. I have dealt with Copy infringement issues before and believe me its not fun being on either side of the coin. You have to realize, people on the Internet , a lot of people actually, make a LOT of money and aren't afraid to spend it on infringement issues.
Good work and well spotted lindmar, glad that you got to it before somebody who actually took the time to write that did. I understand from a posting service's point of view that occasional posts will slip through the net and remain unchecked, but it is clear that this happened on several occasions from the same poster who has been deliberately taking credit for other's work. I too have had the same misfortunate to hire somebody that chose to steal content from various sources, so understand the frustration and anger that somebody should attempt to cheat you out of the service you paid for. I think this should just be a reminder to all those that purchase paid posting from ANY company.
Yes and I apologize to Luke if I freaked and was angry but I came home (from the amazing tigers win ) to notice my forum had plenty of real traffic and real registrations last night, only to be filled with these weird post from a user which I assumed to be forum elevation. I quickly searched and found all the stolen content. I removed all the threads, posts and even deleted the users.. Just really got me off gaurd.
First impressions arent the last impressions. You cannot judge the "Paid Posting Business" with one bad experiance. You might be totally pissed off, since you had some problems regarding copyright issues before and wouldn't want to face it again just for something you tried first time. However, it is your wish But... I am really sad when I notice the first time paid posting buyers getting turned off Paid Posting Business by 1 bad experiance. Anyways, I won't say more as this was between sims2 and lindmar. Good luck in future!
As lindmar has said we have resolved the problem. I have given him a full refund and have fired the poster in question. I have personally gone through all the other posts this poster has made on other forums and have found no other suspicious posts. All I can do is apologise and assure you that this isolated incident which has never happened before. We are also going through the process of re-screening all staff and all posts made on all of our client's forums. We would like to assure the many future potential customers have no need to worry as we are changing the way we monitor posts, so this will never happen again. If any other companies would like the posters details to stop him from just moving company please feel free to contact me.
I'm not sure forumsolutons. From my experience... I've spent a lot of money on outsourcing for sites, scripts, programs, services and I've made some broad conclusions. Yet being me, I made the same mistake again. 1) You always get what you pay for. Always. Especially true in coding. Sure somebody in India will do it for basically nothing. but 9 times out of 10. You end up with the end result of nothing. There is very low quality of work being coming from other parts of the world, to get quality you really need to be careful about the services and service providers you choose. If you want "Quality" You need to real pay for it. For example, there is one company from India on e-lance that is ttoally brilliant! They do 100% quality work every time. But they are also one of the most expensive providers on e-lance. What I'm getting at, is anyone could start a writing business right now for paid forum posters... but 90% of the time, they are outsourcing the work to somebody who can do it for basically nothing.
Just a piece of advice Sims2. Its free. yup! I am only giving this to you so that you do not turn off any other customer like this. It doesn't ruin your company's reputation but as well as for "Paid Posting Business", like Lindmar said "I will never use a paid forum posting service again". Whenever you hire a new staff, take care to check its' posts, because it is only the new comers that commit mistakes and not trusted writers. Good luck once again, and please do not commit such mistakes, It not only harms you but all other Paid Posting Company Owners. Yea! Edit : - You should remove the IP add, of the person from that post as it will not be good to outsource security informations.
That would be helpful, particularly as more and more posters are choosing to offer their services Freelance - the name in the E-Mail address rings a bell, but I will wait in anticipation of the person in question to be revealed. The main reason that I ask is because I have started taking a few of these "Freelance posters" on here up on their offers, and since I don't want to have to check every single post, any heads up on potential rip-offs would be much appreciated.
We do check posters past posts before they sign up with us, however this individual poster had never done anything that before we it was completely out of the blue when lindmar contact me. I hope this will not affect other paid forum posting owners.