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Re: Yobit spam on the forum
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o_e_l_e_o
on 20/04/2019, 14:46:12 UTC
You might as well ignore this unless things change and the admins start enforcing those guidelines, but if we do nothing then campaigns like Yobit will take advantage of that.
I understand that, but what I don't understand is why. We already have a framework of rules in place for dealing with this. Everyone who isn't a spammer is essentially unanimous that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and should be condemned. There are entire boards which are essentially unusable because of bounty spam (not just talking about YoBit here). And yet, as you say, it's left to users to report and mods to delete and do these managers' work for them. We are tinkering around the edges banning the odd spammer here and there, whilst not dealing with the larger issue at hand. It's like trying to stop a ship from sinking by scooping out the water with bucket, while ignoring the gaping hole that is letting water in 5x faster.

We need to start enforcing the rules in that stickied thread. If we aren't going to do that, then there is barely any point discussing every spam filled campaign like that one that comes along. Even if we got every user in it banned, 100 more would have joined by tomorrow, and 10 new spam campaigns would have popped up too.