Re: raising awareness about some madness here

What makes you think it was mprep? As far as I'm aware it was Badbear doing the banning (and possibly others). mprep just seemed to be giving you guys a friendly warning there which is probably more than what most of the other mods would do. I'm not sure whether individual users were given a warning prior to their ban or not, but if they werent I'm sure a warning would've been a better option first, but I guess the users who have been banned for a week or so can consider that as their warning now.

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.