The Robots added some new terms to RobotScout’s programming so there’s been a slew (over 1000) new goals to vote upon. As usual some NWatchers can’t be bothered to give an explanation for their vote so all we see is a thumbs down or up followed by:

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Others have taken the approach of flagging every goal with a thumbs down and a vote of:

“spam”

While I’m not crazy about Replica SEOs myself I have a problem with people blanket voting everything down or up solely based on the volume there is to vote upon. You need to take time to actually read the goal and think about whether or not there is a value to it. Some goals that have been marked spam include:

find designer replica lingerie
build a hermitage that is a replica of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden
get a hotel coupon
create a coupon book for your significant other
be the best SEO I can be
figure out what SEO means
select an SEO company by March 31
buy a replica of Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman outfit
optimize my keywords for SEO
I will be an SEO expert in 2011 by the grace of Allah.

Can anyone explain to me without looking at entries under these goals how you could define any of them as being spam? This is where the context of the entry helps to determine the meaning and intent behind the user. I know when I first started seeing tweets about SEO I had no clue that it meant search engine optimization and I was a Director of Information Technology at the time. I could’ve seen myself adopting that goal because after seeing it for a while I had to Google to find out what it meant. At least with BI, I was working in that industry when it started being bandied about but I still school boy chuckled about Business Intelligence actually being code for bisexual the same as all those tea partiers not knowing that teabagging is something that involves a scrotum.

So again, let me implore that those of you who take the time to vote on NWatch give actual feedback instead of empty feedback (a simple Ctrl-V will paste your saved text). And actually think if this is truly a spam goal like the URL ones, or could someone truly have a no violation of terms of use in building their replica SEO coupon folder.

Oh and if you don’t understand the following goal:

calculate yield to maturity for a zero-coupon bond

Then how can you vote it down because this is common stockbroker lingo and no violation of terms of use.

And props to jameszhuzhu for having the balls to have this public goal: Cheat on Tiffany Hwang with Seo Juhyun