Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
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.
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
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.
Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
Sorry folks, I've been on holiday. It appears some patrons have taken advantage of this, which I find rather distasteful. Everything wil be sorted out.
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
*a ray of sunlight breaks out from the clouds as BKS makes his entrence. voices raise up from the .org all at once declaring "Here he comes to save the day!"*
sorry...couldn't resist.
Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
"Distasteful" - excellent word choice when talking about spammers. Welcome back Sunshine! (nods to Monk)Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
Yay! Let the crusade against spam begin!
Welcome back BKS!
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
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.
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.
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
His Holiness BKS calls for a crusade against the Infidel Spammer, who have chastised him mightily. All true sons must answer his call.
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
Drisos was not contributing in a helpful manner when he made tons of extremely pointless polls that were all pure spam. I stand by banning Drisos if he continues, maybe only for a week at first, but if it continues he should be banned permanently.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
Two polls aren't 'tons'?
Pantsless Poll (5-30-05)
Pointless Poll (6-02-05) (He forgot to put the actual poll option on the first and same one). If you wish, you can list all these polls you're talking about including the date it was originally posted.
Secondly, there are rules in place. I don't know exactly how much warnings it will take to ban (and there two already banned for other reasons: Bizzie and Mikeus).
It was Prince Lairadus Konivaich who dug all the old posts yesterday not drisos.
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Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
PLK is not a guy...
I may have been mistaken, I thought some of the polls were made by Drisos that were not, sorry.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: a bit too much spam in the Frontroom ?
Honest mistake, just like Princess Lairadus Konivaich's spam posts....(you are absolutely sure of this right?)
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