Spam in comments

We don't like spam in Panoramio at all. Spam in comments will lead to account deletion without previous notice.

Comments to photos from other users are considered to be Spam if they are posted:

• with identical or very similar content,
• at an excessive frequency,
• including links to the photos of the poster. In Panoramio each comment automatically includes a link to the user area, therefore adding explicit links is unnecessary in most of the cases,
• intending to promote photos for the contest. If you want to win the contest, do not start a campaign, but just upload great photos and add them to the tag "contest",
• posting repeated links, specially to your own external website, also counts as spamming. You can add a link to your website in your profile page in Panoramio.com.

Some people send spam in comments without realizing how disturbing it is, many are newbies and don't know the etiquette at Panoramio community. If you get spam I recommend you to add a comment to one photo of the spammer including a link to this question. I don't recommend you to post a comment in the photo that received the spam, because the spammer will not always go back there and adds noise to the conversation. I rather recommend you to delete the spam in your own photo and post a comment in a photo of the spammer, so he can get your comment via e-mail notifications. Normally after receiving one or two comments a user doesn't spam anymore. In Panoramio we prefer community self-regulation than administrators acting. However if you the user continues spamming, please send us an e-mail to spam@panoramio.com with the username of the spammer and some links or screenshots of examples, that will help us to act quickly. In the near future we will add a feature to report comments and users.

The only exception are comments in your own photos. You can add any kind of links there, except for links to advertise a business.