Listen to your mentor. Sometimes the best treatment is to leave irritated skin alone. You just proved that with your client's results.

Yeah, we just switched to direct transfers too after that happened.

Man, that's like saying my fence company can't turn away a guy who wants us to build a fence out of wet cardboard. It's not censorship, it's stopping a bad product. Same with these groups. @nguyen.angela has it right with clear rules and bots. My main crypto chat has a rule against posting wallet addresses for "help." The bot zaps those posts instantly. Letting scams run wild just wrecks the place for everyone, and then your token tanks. You gotta protect the group so real talk can actually happen.

What was the last thing you had to cut by hand?

Seconding the professional ORM route. Trying to do reverse SEO by yourself is incredibly difficult now because Google heavily favors aged, established domains. You need an agency with established media connections to get articles published fast.