A word of waring regarding responding to spam posts.

[Signa]

So, with the roll out of the new forum, us mods have a few new options that I'm personally taking advantage of to curb spam. One feature in particular is the ability to select a post, delete it, and choose to delete all other posts and threads made by the same person, and permaban the offender. I think there is a 50 post limit on this feature, but I'm not going to use anyone as a guinea pig on this.

I just wanted to say that if you post in response to a spam post, you run the risk of being part of the cleanup when us mods come around. It is common practice to make the forums look like the spam was never there, so I see posts by regular members deleted all the time because they quoted the spam. What I REALLY do not want to see is me, or another mod selecting a spam post and a post made by a regular member and deleting both as spam. Like I said, I think there is protections put in place, but I really don't want some one to end up having to test that for the worse.

[mountain_rage]

You can test on me, I would not care all that much. Your even assuming the feature works, that is being very optimistic.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

We know they're bots and are just entertaining ourselves.
Go right ahead with that flamethrower. ;]

By the way, you missed one (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=53191). :icon_tong

[mfgbypooter]

this thread is spam where is the report button

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[Signa]

Oh! I found it pooter! It was at the top-right corner of your post! :P

@MR
yeah, the feature definitely works. I just deleted 3 threads from one user with minimal effort. I'm not going to test it out on you without another spambot to delete simultaneously. Honestly, even if this 50 post safeguard doesn't work, there are plenty of opportunities to notice that another user is getting selected in the banning process. Still though, my concern is that with the high volume of spam this place gets, some one could get a little click-happy and not watch what they are doing.

[mfgbypooter]

Oh! I found it pooter! It was at the top-right corner of your post! :P

I'm waring you don't let it happen again :hi


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[Potato]

There's only a handful of people that do it regularly anyways.

[mfgbypooter]

I miss the top posters list.

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[1cooldude]

I miss the top posters list.

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will be revived after Xbox presentation. :tongue1:

[mountain_rage]

^-----So what happens when you respond to a spam bot again? -----^

[1cooldude]

It gets a complete undivided attention from one of the mods and a total nuke from here.

[crymomma]

I have a friend that has his own forum site, he has problem[s] with Spam. My friend will not let you be part of his forum til he check you out for Spam. I do not know if this cause his PC to break down or not.

[YWD67]

You have bots problem?

[crymomma]

You have bots problem?

I do not have a problem, but my friend said that someone he knows hack into his PC. My friend was not able to go to his own forum site. When he got his PC up working again, the PC would would break down again. My friend has a second PC that he use for other things.

[HelenaP]

Hell. I've deleted myself before...

[Vanbrom]

more and more spam around internet~ for their seo, for their money