Quote from: howzar on May 03, 2014, 08:34:20 AM

Quote from: hilariousandco on May 03, 2014, 08:31:09 AM

Just a warning to everyone: It seems quite a number of users were banned yesterday for making unsubstantial or spam posts and there's more bans to come. Most of them seemed to be on Ritz's deal but there was at least one PD user I know of. I'm not sure if the bans were permanent but some are apparently just for a week or two. It seems if you make lots of unsubstantial posts in off topic or reply to others continually with vague and pointless responses - even if they were on-topic - there's a good chance you might get a ban, so I'd be a careful or weary of the content of your posts. Maybe a few bans will be good for the overall system if the quality of posts increases, especially if people make a conscious decision to make their posts more constructive or only reply to threads they actually have something worthwhile to say in.

Quote from: BadBear on May 02, 2014, 02:33:37 PM

Quote from: phantastisch on May 02, 2014, 02:24:58 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on May 02, 2014, 02:20:00 PM

Quote from: BadBear on May 02, 2014, 01:54:54 PM

Yeah there's a ton of garbage being posted in off topic lately. I suspect it's paid sig spammers giving themselves threads to reply to.

I've suggested posts in off topic shouldn't count towards post count.

Hmm, not sure if the people behind the bots are from the paid sigs or not, but a lot obviously just jump at the chance to post something in a nonsense thread as soon as it's posted. Maybe having certain boards that don't affect your post count would cut the down the spam a bit, but I think it'd also just move a lot of it to somewhere else and we'll then see stupid discussions in the politics section or whatever.

I think we should disable the postcount feature entirely, don't you think ? We have activity , that should suffice.

I've actually suggested that too in the past, but it would still be relatively easy to determine posts, knowing there are 20 per page. I've resigned myself to the fact that we're going to have start banning people, didn't want to but it's getting out of hand. Banned a dozen this morning alone (1 week/2 week duration to start), with a dozen more under review, and I'm just getting started.

Quoting this for future reference. Thanks hilarious, I don't post that often but for others this is important.

What's the problem?
We won't get paid for spamming anyway...

PS. is my sig good now?