Advertisements in User Profile and how to report?

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Advertisements in User Profile and how to report?

When I browsed the "Similar People" links attached to my profile I found one member's profile, where the biography field was cleverly used as an advertisement to describe the service that is offered by the member.

My question: Is this within the rules permitted by the Apple Support Communities, and if not, how to report this properly?

The "Profiles" pages do not offer a "Report" button, and I do not want to use some arbitrary "Report" link attached to some innocent poster.

Regards

Léonie

MacBook Pro, 17'', 2,2 GHzIntel Cor i7, 8 GB RAM

Posted on Mar 17, 2012 4:54 AM

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Answer 1

thomas_r.

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Mar 17, 2012 5:08 AM in response to léonie

You could post a link to the user's profile here and the hosts can take care of it, or you could look in the user's posts in his/her profile and click the report link on one of those and choose "Username or profile issue" as the reason you're reporting.

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Answer 2

léonie Author

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Mar 17, 2012 5:21 AM in response to thomas_r.

Thank you;

since the member profile in question doesn't show any activity other than advertizing their "Magic Dinner Show" I'll post the link here: https://discussions.apple.com/profile/gribbsnshrimp

and contact the host.

Regards

Léonie

There is no "report" button on any of my posts, so I'll borrow your post - please fogive me 😝

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Answer 3

thomas_r.

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Mar 17, 2012 5:35 AM in response to léonie

There is no "report" button on any of my posts, so I'll borrow your post - please fogive me 😝

You don't need to report it when you post here... the hosts keep a close eye on this forum.

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Answer 4

Mar 17, 2012 7:19 AM in response to léonie

leonieDF wrote:

There is no "report" button on any of my posts,

😝

You're not allowed to report you're own mess ups, you have to wait for someone else to.

It's the whole shame on the public square thing, when you make a mistake it has to be visible at least long enough for someone else to notice it! 😉

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léonie Author

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Mar 17, 2012 8:48 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

It's the whole shame on the public square thing, when you make a mistake it has to be visible at least long enough for someone else to notice it!

So you are pilloried, until somebody has mercy with you? I will be twice careful in the future; thanks for the warning, Frank! 😁

Cheers

Léonie

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Answer 6

Mar 17, 2012 9:21 AM in response to léonie

Yep ,lucky they don't give out big red A 's

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Answer 7

léonie Author

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Mar 17, 2012 9:46 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Just to think about it - a scarlet letter as avatar - i spine-chilling thought

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