Dear Marty and friends (1 Viewer)

[Martin]

We get a couple of new spam threads everyday. You boys close them up and so when I look for new posts, I see two or three closed threads in the list. Threads that shouldn't be on the list, that shouldn't exist. When a spammer registers on the forum to spam, he knows he has a short window of opportunity to work in. Once you ban him and he can post no more, all that remains is the thread he opened. A thread which is still there, which bugs everyone. Instead of closing the thread, in which the spammer has no intention of posting anyway, and leaving it there for all of us to see and step around, how about say.. hm.. deleting it? That way the spammer's exposure is much reduced and the forum is cleaner? It's also much faster than going into the thread, editing out the links or whatever, to un-spam it.

You know it makes sense.

 

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[mikhail]

Yeah, as it stands, we edit the post, so the spammer gets no benefit, but we should really move the thread to the test room or delete it too.

 

[flieeeekke]

but what about the witty remarks we leave after editing?

 

[Azzurri7]

test room?

 

[mikhail]

test room?

One of the private sub-forums. Mainly for new mods to try out stuff without pissing off everyone. Doubles as the rubbish bin.

 

[ReBeL]

That makes the forum much more tidy and clean...

And it gives newcomers and guests a bad impression if they find many threads with sexual references...

 

[Martin]

but what about the witty remarks we leave after editing?

Struck a nerve didn't I

 

[Martin]

One of the private sub-forums. Mainly for new mods to try out stuff without pissing off everyone. Doubles as the rubbish bin.

You know what else doubles as the rubbish bin? Reliable old /dev/null

It's never let me down! :wink:

 

[Azzurri7]

One of the private sub-forums. Mainly for new mods to try out stuff without pissing off everyone. Doubles as the rubbish bin.

int:

 

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Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
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Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?
Homer: (Looks around) Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.

 

[Zlatan]

Yeah, as it stands, we edit the post, so the spammer gets no benefit, but we should really move the thread to the test room or delete it too.

Thats what I always did. Keep it for evidence in the test room but take it out of the public eye.

 

[swag]

Oh, but it can be so much fun to publicly ridicule them -- changing the URLs, changing their post to comments about cutting off their own fingers, etc.. That's the part that I'll miss.

 

[Rami]

Thats what I always did. Keep it for evidence in the test room but take it out of the public eye.

Zlatty Balty? You are back??!!!!


Welcome man, great to have you back....

 

[JCK]

I used to edit posts just for the fun of it, but I can't top Fliakis' "I'm a coffee can". Martin happened to suggest this to me a day after I was out of inspiration to edit a spam thread. I have already deleted two spam threads by the way.

 

[Slagathor]

That makes the forum much more tidy and clean...

And it gives newcomers and guests a bad impression if they find many threads with sexual references...

By your reasoning we'd have to ban Elvin

 

[JCK]

By your reasoning we'd have to ban Elvin

Actually Elvin should have been banned way long he opened these threads for some ugly racist remakrs he's made.

 

[Slagathor]

Actually Elvin should have been banned way long he opened these threads for some ugly racist remakrs he's made.

Elvin racist? He's Winnie the Pooh :undecide:

 

[mikhail]

Elvin racist? He's Winnie the Pooh :undecide:

You know, I seem to recall some accusations of racist connotations in Winnie the Pooh, though I might be confusing it with something else.

No, really, I'm not kidding!

 

[Slagathor]

You're gonna have to back that up with evidence or I'm afraid I'm going to have to demand a formal apology

 

[mikhail]

Nope, I can't seem to back it up. Sorry. :smile: