What the FRAK are you brits doing?

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Cagerontwowheels

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I mean... are you detonating your kitchens with C4 every day? Why in the name of the Gods do you need so much advertising for cheap kitchens?
 
If only there were some C4 adverts so I knew where to buy it. I'm could destroy my kitchen and build the affordable new one I saw in an advert.
 
Those are just a small example of the cleverest students we have in Britain. Experimenting is good, no?
 
Mr AusAdventure said:
Why are these spam posts not being deleted I wonder? :evil: :(

Because we have busy lives. I just spent an hour or so removing the posters. I don't really see a point in deleting the posts themselves, just makes the process take longer.
 
Trinith said:
Mr AusAdventure said:
Why are these spam posts not being deleted I wonder? :evil: :(

Because we have busy lives. I just spent an hour or so removing the posters. I don't really see a point in deleting the posts themselves, just makes the process take longer.

I understand that everyone is busy, I am busy myself all the time. So maybe the site should put on a few more mods in that case? I am sure that there must be a few other responsible members who would like to put in some time to keep the place clean?

Really? You don't see the point in deleting them? I see them as making the place look crap to those people who are new here, maybe scrolling through the posts to see if it is a site worth joining.

If they see posts all over that are clearly spam, they may choose not to join the community here. That's my thinking anyway.
 
Or it could work the other way. IE: some biker dude is browsing the net for kitchen things in the UK, motovlog comes up in the suggestions because of the spam posts for kitchens, then the guy gets pulled into the motovlog site and forgets all about searching for that new kitchen.

I have to admit however it is quite annoying when the recent topics are filled with crap I dont want to see.
 
Mr AusAdventure said:
So maybe the site should put on a few more mods in that case? I am sure that there must be a few other responsible members who would like to put in some time to keep the place clean?

I agree.

Mr AusAdventure said:
Really? You don't see the point in deleting them? I see them as making the place look crap to those people who are new here, maybe scrolling through the posts to see if it is a site worth joining.
Fair point. I'll get to work on deleting them whenever I get the time. Either this evening, or Monday..

Mr AusAdventure said:
If they see posts all over that are clearly spam, they may choose not to join the community here. That's my thinking anyway.
Personally I'd consider that person pretty petty, and I don't think I'd want them around.
 
Trinith said:
Personally I'd consider that person pretty petty, and I don't think I'd want them around.

I don't think it is being petty, I just know that I would wonder what sort of site I was joining if I saw lots of unrelated topics. I would possibly assume that these types of things were always posted and would have no way of knowing if it was a one off or not. It's just about portraying a professional image and keeping the content related to what people come here for. :)

The reason I care so much about this topic is that I really enjoy this site and being a website owner that used to have a very large and extremely active forum on it, we would be bombarded with spam posts every day. We just automatically deleted the posts and their accounts. We had a filter though, so that user's each first post had to be approved by admin before the user could post again. This meant that 99% of the spam posts were never seen by the community. :D
 
Could I possibly ask that no one actually posts any reply on those spam posts? It just brings them back to the top of the Board Index.
 
Because we have busy lives. I just spent an hour or so removing the posters. I don't really see a point in deleting the posts themselves, just makes the process take longer.

All you guys need it the Anti-Spam Mod and it will have One Click Ban and it will ban them and delete all there post from that user name i have it on my site its the best mod to have and also if you dont have alot of time to delete all the post from the spam ..i would just lock the post so no one else can reply to it.. and come back later a delete them....here a pic from my forum show you what it looks like.....

Or you guys can make a post for all the members to read and in ask them if they see any spam not to reply to it..IMO

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it will show you something like this....
  • Ban Reason

    Please enter the ban reason (private).
    Ban reason shown to the user

    If a message is entered here, it will be shown to the user who was banned.

goodluck
 
What about captcha'ing the flick out of the site? At least for the first 5 post of every new user?
I know a case where captcha avoided all spambots (not idiots spamming the manual way though.)-
 
Shirou said:
What about captcha'ing the flick out of the site? At least for the first 5 post of every new user?
I know a case where captcha avoided all spambots (not idiots spamming the manual way though.)-

Hi -

I've added a captcha to new sign ups so I'll play it by ear on how that goes etc

I'm cautious about putting up walls that could cause real members issues with posting blah blah - However, I think I'm going to add a post limit before people are allowed to link to third party websites. If someone wants to add a link, then you earn that right to be honest.

The same will go for the 'post a video'

Please do shout your thoughts though
 
seomers said:
Hi -

I've added a captcha to new sign ups so I'll play it by ear on how that goes etc

I'm cautious about putting up walls that could cause real members issues with posting blah blah - However, I think I'm going to add a post limit before people are allowed to link to third party websites. If someone wants to add a link, then you earn that right to be honest.

The same will go for the 'post a video'

Please do shout your thoughts though

I think that is a great idea. Most spammers are not going to want to do multiple posts in order to post their links so they will likely go elsewhere to do it.

And most genuine posters are not going to mind having to go through a probationary period first. Many online forums do this and it is pretty acceptable I think.
 
It's kinda tricky though, new users might want to post a link to their channels or embed the video here for other users to watch.
I think a very useful feature would be to add something like a tooltip or, I don't know, a yellow square with text on top of the new thread thing to put your text ehhmmm, wait. Will get a pic, cannot explain this right now, my brain is overloaded.

See pic here:
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Some people are new to forums and even I often forget the correct BBcode to embed youtube since all forums have that piece of code in a different format.
 
Shirou said:
It's kinda tricky though, new users might want to post a link to their channels or embed the video here for other users to watch.
I think a very useful feature would be to add something like a tooltip or, I don't know, a yellow square with text on top of the new thread thing to put your text ehhmmm, wait. Will get a pic, cannot explain this right now, my brain is overloaded.

See pic here:
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Some people are new to forums and even I often forget the correct BBcode to embed youtube since all forums have that piece of code in a different format.

I see what you're saying but on the other hand

Someone who just signs up to post videos, isn't that also a spammer? Really if you think about it?

They sign up to gain something, not give right?
 
Shirou said:
It's kinda tricky though, new users might want to post a link to their channels or embed the video here for other users to watch.
They can spend a little time becoming part of the community first. Anyone who wants to see their videos can very easily click their YT bookmark and run a quick search for their username as well.
 
Trinith said:
Shirou said:
It's kinda tricky though, new users might want to post a link to their channels or embed the video here for other users to watch.
They can spend a little time becoming part of the community first. Anyone who wants to see their videos can very easily click their YT bookmark and run a quick search for their username as well.

Exactly! By the time they introduce themselves and meet a few others, they will have the required number of posts in no time. :D
 
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