a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?

[Voigtkampf]

Gentlemen, I agree with you wholeheartedly...

[JAG]

I have to agree, I have spammed these boards in the past, but even I never took it this far, it is getting out of hand in the frontroom especially.

Maybe the time between posts should be upped to a minute like it was before? That might help.

[Voigtkampf]

I have to agree, I have spammed these boards in the past, but even I never took it this far, it is getting out of hand in the frontroom especially.

Maybe the time between posts should be upped to a minute like it was before? That might help.

GAH! Even though I rarely agree with you, JAG, and you have the highest post count at the Org, I never recall i to have seen you really spamming. Your posts have been numerous, yes, but they always made sense, even when they were comprised out of only one sentence.

This spam issue has gotten out of control. Spammer's good fortune that more tolerant people run this site, I would install a far longer flood control than only a minute.

[Templar Knight]

I honestly don't know how anyone can get a post count of 2000 in a couple of months - its not healthy

[SwordsMaster]

I suggest banning spammers from the subforum the like to spam.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I agree, the spamming is getting way out of hand. In one day the Frontroom got to almost three pages of new/active threads, this had never happened in all of my relatively limited experience here at the Org. Banning spammers such as Drisos and allowing only a couple of threads like the One Word Story thread should help, but I can see no other way to stop Drisos because all he seems to do is make increasingly pointless polls and threads.

[Monk]

I would have to agree. I really don't understand why some of the patrons there actually WANT to spam the forum and brag about it. Spamming can be fun when at low levels and controlled, but at this level it's pointless.

[Quietus]

I agree, the spamming is getting way out of hand. In one day the Frontroom got to almost three pages of new/active threads, this had never happened in all of my relatively limited experience here at the Org. Banning spammers such as Drisos and allowing only a couple of threads like the One Word Story thread should help, but I can see no other way to stop Drisos because all he seems to do is make increasingly pointless polls and threads.

First of all, drisos is a good contributor here in the forum. You only need to talk to the guy to reduce the number of polls and he'll listen.

The same can be said to Umeu and Craterus. (These guys are regular contributors here in the forum as well. In the EH (greeting new members), Coloseum (helping others), Campus Martius, Mead Hall, etc.)

What happened yesterday with PLK was an isolated incident since the guy doesn't regularly post in the frontroom as the others.

Prompted by events during my absence, I'm am now going to pursue this program ruthlessly So stop spamming. Please.

BKS, just a suggestion. Maybe tone down the wording. Instead of 'pursue this program ruthlessly', it could be:

"Prompted by increased spamming in the Frontroom, this new spam policy will be enforced accordingly. Please limit spam threads ".

'Speak softly and carry a big stick' as Teddy Roosevelt and Bugs Bunny would say.

[King Henry V]

Yes, me too. What on earth is Drisos trying to do? With things like pointless polls and "Doy you think Drisos exits?". It's just stupid.

[R'as al Ghul]

Yes, me too. What on earth is Drisos trying to do? With things like pointless polls and "Doy you think Drisos exits?". It's just stupid.

Actually there are others.
One calls himself spammer wannabe with a postcount of 8.5 per day.
That's twice as much as drisos has.

R'as

[CrayolaCrayon]

Myabe a special place could be made in the tavern, called 'the spam room' where you can spam to you're hearts content. Then, we tell all the spammers to gothere and spam, so we can quite easily just forget about them and bring the frontroom back to some degree of normalness?

[Ser Clegane]

Yes, we should definitely cut down the spamming to a less annoying level ... and while we're at it we should probably also weed secondary accounts of banned patrons...

[CrayolaCrayon]

Eheheh...uhoh...erm....i'm sorry? Heheh....crap!

~runs away~

[Divine Wind]

I agree with most of the comments. I look at some of the spammers post counts and theyve joined for what say a month, and theyve already made 500-1000 posts already. Thats ridiculous.

For some particular members too, this just does not limit itself to the frontroom (im sure youve noticed this as well), and have led to some good threads in places like the Rome Singleplayer forum being hijacked. Thats what annoys me.

Im not going to say names but its pretty darn obvious who these lot are, so why not just give them a warn level or limit there forum access to say just the frontroom and the entrance hall?