BS Posts, Old Post Revivals and Useless 1 Liner Posts

I hate useless one liner posts.

One of the worst offenders was reported yesterday:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post4206293
They were still posting freely today again.

As far as i know you cannot bump a WSO with a post..

Part of the gig refers to WSOs...

So there must be something else.

Cheers,

~Gary

With sigs disabled in the WSO section, it seems
likely that much more focus will be placed on the
actual offer (and the social responses to it). That's
bound to have an impact on the success of the WSO,
because it is less likely that someone will be pulled
away from the page by an enticing sig...

With images in the sigs, WF has helped to stimulate
the onslaught of questionable comments.

With that said, I like the sigs in the WSO section and I
have found many helpful solutions hidden behind those
sigs!

- Rick

Depends on how sincere the comments are. Some are sending using blackberry's and not so type friendly like I'm doing now. And maybe a dislike comment should be included to discourage spamlike post. Its should be a work in progress

That would probably encourage even more one liner posts as people try to get their post count up so they can have their signature turned on.

This is a public forum. As with any other type of public forum there are always going to be a small percentage of people who want to try and take advantage of things. It is up to all the members of this forum to keep an eye out and report those people you think are not playing by the rules.

You can change and add rules as many times as you like but so long as the forum is open to the public you will never get rid of all idiots. They will come and go. It is our job to make sure they come and go nice and quickly.

Considering the amount of people who use this forum I don't think it is too bad. The percentage of people causing the problems is tiny in the scheme of things.

I also post "1 liners" sometimes but disable sig.... (well when i don't forget )

I believe that "1 liners" should only be allowed if sig is disabled for the specific post.

Cheers,

~Gary

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sig pumping one-liner?


Look, any system that allows free discourse is at risk of being abused. We're all human beings (presumably) having a conversation.

Do you want a free exchange ideas between personalities or a "forum" so riddled with rules that it becomes less of a community and more of what amounts to no more than a help desk?

For me, it's simple. I want personality!

I'm fully capable of determining what a useless post is -- including plenty of "reviews" in the WSO threads -- and I don't need new rules to weed them out for me... just scroll baby!

It's a trite saying, but let's be careful about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I thought the hot thread icon only showed up after a certain number of posts? If that's the case, then I can see the connection - user submits 20+ useless posts on various accounts and the hot thread icon lights up like the 4th of July.

One liners are usually just link spammers.

The ones like in the ad are usually 3-5 lines - don't say much. Unfortunately I think someone(s) acquired multiple WF accounts and many of the scammy posts are on older accounts that were inactive for a long time and now become very active in bursts. Accounts are usually from 2009-10.

Their reviews must have been written in gold...

If Mark Zuckerberg was writing a review of my FaceBook app, I would have paid that much or more...

But a "well-established forum member" may be suffering from the "big-fish, little-pond" syndrome and is mistaking "post count" for "influence in the community".

I am sometimes guilty of one-liners, and I am frequently guilty of writing a novel in response to a post.

But if you don't report them - they like them just fine. :p

Dont worry. Ill bump it next year for you

No, but there is this:

If enough people click it, then most jackwads disappear quickly.

ramone_johnny and everyone who added to this post.

Thank you!!

I have been hesitant to click "Report" or whatever the icon is, because I didn't want to appear petty.

But honestly, these "great post dude" or "I agree" posts are such a waste of time and space that it is truly annoying. So thank you to everyone who feels the same and has expressed it.

Now that I know you guys are reporting posts THAT HAVE NO VALUE WHATSOEVER, I'm going to get report-happy.

I didnt want to report that one. Im beginning to feel a bit "trigger happy"

Do you mean that a one liner cannot be useful?

One-liners can be useful, IF they are offered in context and they say something more than babble.

I use a lot of one-liners to inject humor into a thread, by pointing out things that others may be thinking, but they don't want to say themselves.

Sometimes I insert one-liners that get to my point quickly.

And too often, I write huge, long responses.

One-liners are not bad in and of themselves, but one-liners that don't require any thoughtful consideration to create are a waste.

Thus the reason I targeted your first post in this thread. It said exactly what the thread title says, without adding anything of value to the storyline.

Obviously the mods agreed with me, because your original post was deleted from the thread.

Wow JD!! You actually took the time to look it up... :p

John,

They get reported, we delete them. That's the only realistic option, other than going back to approving every post by hand until someone hits a specified threshold before allowing them to show publicly.

Been there, done that, not going to do it again.

Norb, That's part of normal conversation. Well, as close to normal as we get around these parts.

CC, That would backfire, quickly. The autoposters would just run up their counts to the desired level and then insert the links in their sig files.

Kierkegaard, If that ever happens here, let me know. They'll get one of our extra-special vacation certificates.

Kay, Not against the rules. Yet. I personally would love to see the domain added to the banned words filter, along with all URL shortening services.

Rick, That's like saying the inventors of email are responsible for spam. It's technically correct, and misses the point entirely.

General response:

The problem is simple enough to explain, and every one of the people who promote the automated placement of backlinks on anyone else's sites is guilty. Maybe not here, but guilty nonetheless.

It's an old model online. One or more people (in this case, a community) create a resource with value. That attracts the attention of the parasites. Said entities figure out how to drain some of that value for themselves, at the expense of the creators. They then automate it and sell the system and/or tool(s) to others, who turn it into an "industry."

Said "industry" grows to the point that it poses a threat to the value/existence of the resources from which it derives its sustenance. The people who have an interest in the resource fight back. The parasites find new and bigger ways to suck the life out of their hosts.

It's an arms race, and this one is fueled by automated backlinking. (I consider the people who post the same way to be human automation.)

The more annoying, if somewhat smaller, problem is twits who think conversation is an appropriate venue for advertising. Like the person who resurrected every Paypal thread they could recently, posting ads for a "Keep your Paypal account" product. Or the "gentleman" who posted a thread this morning asking what page rank means, while advertising SEO services in his sig file.

With computer prices dropping and Internet access reaching more and more people in developing countries, the number of spammers of these types is going to increase even more quickly.


Paul

There is a lot of useful information in this thread about how to identify spammers/reportable posts. Many spammers are so obvious about what they're doing, it's ridiculous. It's not that hard to stay under the radar, but they get greedy.

My pet peeve is the copy paste spammers. They copy some article from EZA or wherever, without the author bio, of course. This is followed by posts (often from other SEO spammers) thanking them for the great post. So not only are they stealing content, they are taking the credit for it.

Dan, once a thread drops more than a few pages deep, the number of views it gets drops fast. So keeping that thread on the first couple of pages is one way to encourage more views, especially if you do get the flaming icon.

In his case, sig spam could just be a sideline...:rolleyes: