Trust is something that you have to work at every day. Yesterday I got some comment spam referring to a Squidoo page. I use the Squidoo service and have created a few lenses, so I thought I’d forward evidence of the spammer to Squidoo’s administration. They quickly responded:
We’ve reviewed and locked these lenses, along with the accounts responsible for them.
Squidoo has a zero tolerance spam policy (http://www.squidoo.com/pages/tos) and we appreciate your help keeping a few bad actors from ruining the web for the rest of us!
I now trust Squidoo to take action on spam. As it becomes more difficult to hide on the Net (for better and for worse) it makes sense to be trustworthy through your actions. The latest Carnival of Trust reviews ten excellent articles on the issue of trust:
In each Carnival of Trust, a theme emerges; in this one, it’s policy on trust. Issues of policy and trust in health care, in direct marketing, in marketing, in leadership.
Harold,
thanks for the link to the Carnival of Trust. I too think there are some good articles highlighted there.
And thanks for the info on Squidoo–that’s quite a good recommendation for them, their quick response.
Squidoo has always been good to me. It’s good to see that they care about what their lensmasters do, it shows they are taking a real responsibility for their community.