1.pinreach seems to have died

2…just  read they are cracking down on  spam…and   like facebook   they arent easily available or  explaining  very well… some  reports of   those capchtas…sp???   and blocked pins….the complainer had   many  posts and  duplicate posts and  tons of her own   comments in the comments….  now  she can rarely post even w hen entering the  right  characters  in  the  cap. box….

irts hard to follow the rules when they are  veiled and murky,,,,, i dont want to   do anything wrong on pinterest…i have   lots of   followers…and i do  put my   website on  MY pictures…

i just  read it..guess i was reporting more than asking….   ….  http://llsocial.com/2012/04/pinterest-preventing-users-pinning/

  i  dont often do links..but i tried…. hope its there…..   it was a   heavy users  report on  her problems  …….

@supereb thats  what i thought  too.

.pinterest ils bringing me   mone y  but i dont do what  she was  doing…its  hard w hen they dont outline the   boundaries….

. in  the comments  there was   a  person who didnt  do that at all and stilll got the  captcha and problems……

Pinreach is up for sale I think — but PinPuff is still around.  (I don’t know if they used the same “pinfluence” algorithm.)  Otherwise the article is old by now.

Seems to me that the anti-spam measures are effective, at least in reducing the amount of spam.  I know that serious spammers & malicious sites are being blocked very quickly.  I noticed a potentially malicious site (bestrecipes.com) that was pinning recipe images (a few weeks ago), but instead of taking you to the recipe, the link took you to the site’s main page where they told users to download and install an .exe (!!!!) in order to search for the recipe you clicked on!! OMG!  Spamming for newbies I guess.  I reported this to Pinterest and they blocked access to the site very quickly, in a couple of hours if I recall corectly. (A few days later I noticed that bestrecipes.com site was gone altogether.) Pinterest acted very quickly once the problem was reported, which is really the best they can do as obviously they can’t inspect the link of every pin.  (Possibly the new business accounts will have some pre-certification). Got to keep your guard up, antivirus paid up etc. and report problems ASAP !!  

I’ve been pinning frequently for several months.  I think Pinterest expects you to have a link on each pin, unless it’s something you uploaded (even then, there is usually a link).  Just watch out for dodgy recipe websites  I haven’t investigated the biz accounts, am about to post some of my own stuff (finally) but as I’m not a ‘brand’ I think I’ll stick with a personal account.

Pinpuff was working last week — took a long time to calculate though.  Wish they would let us have stats on all our boards, not just the 1st 20.

@csorengg maybe i didnt wait long  enough on pinpuff…not sure…

.i sure liked   pinreach and hope it gets  revived….. im so interested in pinterest, and hear about it   almost everyday in the store from my  customers,,,,they really use it in  my  world…

I have too many boards  I pin largely for jewelry & related arts, and also for conservation causes (Save the Oceans! etc.).  So the ability to get a simple report of followers, likes & repins for every board would help me toss out any boards that people don’t visit, and also to find the most important/interesting boards where I should focus more effort.  (I did ask Pinterest to let us generate a simple report of these stats, but they are pretty busy doing other things.  Maybe now that the business accounts are up & running we’ll get that capability.)

I think the top of the scale is 100.  (Last spring, pinreach or pinerly showed some top pinners with scores around 85 or a bit higher.)  I checked my score several times and watched it creep up from around 12 to 85 at last check.  So it is a real “score” but we don’t know what the algorithm is….

@atlantarobin

 the parts i use are free….im  not too sure what  the numbers  mean in relation to all users….it took   me a long time to  get  …pinreach  was a lot  clearer  about that….getting to  49  was  hard  and   good…they told  you what percent  was in that  group…

….and on pinpuff we are  71..but  little info past that….  .so???

are  you on pinterest?  love to see… 

All are free for now AFAIK…