instead of using a bot to determine what gets deleted - why not actually look at the posts? the ones being deleted should not have been deleted... after all, you are paid for what you delete, right? should take the time to make sure it is correct and not just some flawed bot logic.
As I've mentioned in my previous post, I manually look through all posts the bot finds before I (manually) delete them (twice actually; once in the bot itself and then on Bitcointalk).
I deleted lots of "thankyou" from newbies and don't see rank or type of signature making any difference.
Actually it does make a difference. And that is, a newbie saying "great project", "thank you for the great project" etc. is part of a group of spammers / shillers which are interested only in bumping an ANN. In Collectibles board, those expressing their gratitude for a free raffle are not shilling anything; are not spamming; are not forcing to bump the respective topic etc. They are simple people, which were part of a raffle and,
being polite in their nature, are expressing their gratitude for being offered the chance to win something.
So, yes, there
is a difference between your mentioned newbie and another user from Collectibles board, especially inside a raffle topic. And the difference is
huge: one wants to spam the forum, while the other is a polite person. This is the difference.
The end result is similar - clutter. You're free to express gratitude as part of a larger post or through a PM.
@mprep
Why is this bot being used to remove posts on self moderated threads? Doesn't self moderated mean self moderated??
The bot doesn't remove posts - see above. As for self-moderation, see my post SFR10 already quoted in this thread (emphasis added by me):
is it now an offence to be courteous in our own self-moderated threads?
Help me understand please, these were all deleted from my self-mod thread....
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See rule 1:
1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads. [1][e]
1. Such posts as "SELL SELL SELL", "I agree", "+1", "Support", "Watching", "Interesting", "LOL", "SCAM", "LEGIT", "FAKE", other one word posts, posts consisting mostly of swearing, quote pyramids, useless introduction threads, threads about a topic already recently discussed in several other threads.
You're free to be polite and thank other people
in addition to providing something else of substance that would take the post out of the territory of "low value".
Not sure why you mentioned the thread being self-moderated since that doesn't change the dynamic here. Self-moderation doesn't override or substitute the rules and standards according to which the forum is moderated by its staff - it's another layer of moderation where the user can also decide which posts can stay and which should be deleted (though he isn't bound by any rules or standards the forum staff are).