Grave digger aka "shootyou", & Spam marketing.

[Cheef]

wow , i got to start checking in more often. that was epic.

[Tkaraoke]

I missed this thread as well! Man, GO TEAM GUS!

[SuperSonic]

Where was I when all this happend? In La La land? I didn't even know this guy was doing all this crap . Gotta keep up to date

[pagemaster1993]

It was weird and amusing at the time but Gus got the job done, and I think since he did such a good job that Ryan should finally release that Jimmy Savile pattern he has been working on.

[mesmark]

I just read this thread as well.

I had been on vacation for a few weeks when this started and then had some private business come up over the last couple weeks as well. I've been popping in, but I think I had skipped it because it said Grave Digger in the title

I was here all spring and summer while we were getting GD posts. Like some people here, I didn't find his initial stuff too bad, but he certainly seemed to be working on SEO. I eventually stopped opening them or never read them through.

Although, just for anyone who really wants to know, hundreds of the same links in your signature on a forum (blog) to the same URLs from the same based domain don't really amount to much. For example, my signature links. If I have 3 posts or 900 posts it won't make much difference. What will make a difference is whether the search engines (SE) find those threads to be valuable information to the Web world. If so, that thread will do well in the search rankings and your signature links or website links will be of value, especially if they are relevant.

Something like a tutorial on how to make a sarcophagus, ideas for an Egyptian theme Halloween party or what's the best way to sculpt and and paint foam for headstones. Those are what people want when they search for things, good relevant, informative or helpful information. But it's not only valuable for the links involved, it's valuable to the site that it's on. So when we post our stuff here, it's very helpful to ZombiePumpkins. It makes this site more of an authority in other areas beyond pumpkin patterns. It gives credit to the site for Halloween decorating, props, eerie artwork and as that authority grows it also increases the pumpkin pattern authority as well.

Point being, even if you are just marketing, it's better to make a few good/helpful posts than 100 fluff posts.

[wookie66]

Just read this post and like some others was clueless about this. Good job Gus by helping the best site on the internet be safe. One thing i was wondering is why is Grave Digger still listed on the member list. If he is spewing death threats then he needs to be out of here. Plus he is giving Virginia a bad name, which by the way is where im from, actually he is about an hour or so from Richmond which is where im from.

I just want to keep this site safe and fun because I love Halloween and this is the perfect site to discuss and see everything Halloween. I have gotten so many great ideas from this site and love everybodys input on here, except a certain few obviously.

Anyway enough rambling, Halloween is just around the corner so lets have some carving fun and im dying to see the new site and new patterns.

[staticfurball]

I actually stumbled on a few of his posts and cliked some links which took me nowhere, but i never though it was a case of serial spaming. I mean, wI didn't realy know what the point of doing that was....just making people hop from one link to the next. What a waste of time

[GUS]

Honest! ,,I wasn't re-opening the casket of this thread, i'd just got some more lambs hearts & thought i'd mention it to Nos, Lambs heart is seriously under rated, cooked simply it is incredibly tastey, so much so it's next on my list of teaching the nipper to appreciate & cook "funny" foods, so she'll be getting handy with the knife & we'll have an anatomy lesson first, cooking lesson & hopefully consumption thereafter, though I think she'll prefer pan frying liver (before she learns what it does!

However as Grave Digger is such a fresh corpse (but has arisen elsewhere many times before, I think we ought to pin this thread somewhere it can help other sites who get spammed by this dubious & seemingly "challenged" fool.

If I hadn't found Kid, Maley & others comments on the guy it would've taken longer, he will continue to haunt other forums, & frankly if come across him he's toast ...we have the law on our side.