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Maybe some mods for the weekend?

by lgibbon Banned
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Pretty sure this has been brought up before,
but still for long periods of the weekend
the spammers are having a free run on the forum.
Surely someone must of noticed this?
How about doing something about it?
#mods #weekend
  • Profile picture of the author Zodiax
    Did you see the Google Sniper review spam?

    To be honest- I have no idea why anyone still promotes that outdated program.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Zodiax View Post

      Did you see the Google Sniper review spam?

      To be honest- I have no idea why anyone still promotes that outdated program.
      That's easy. There are still a lot of sucker- naive people out there looking for easy money, and the sellers still pay commissions on outdated products.

      Lots of spam today, though.
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      • Profile picture of the author lgibbon
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        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post


        Lots of spam today, though.
        Not to mention the overdose of articles again.
        All in all, not much hope of a normal forum returning any time soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Regional Warrior
    As this is an Australian site now they have to pay double the rate for Sundays FYI

    Jason
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by Regional Warrior View Post

      As this is an Australian site now they have to pay double the rate for Sundays FYI
      Hardly; I'm sure that's only for resident employees.

      Even if it were true for Third-World freelancers, double nearly-nothing is still nearly nothing.
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      • Profile picture of the author Zodiax
        Originally Posted by David Beroff View Post

        Hardly; I'm sure that's only for resident employees.

        Even if it were true for Third-World freelancers, double nearly-nothing is still nearly nothing.
        Why are you offering voice-overs?
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        • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
          Originally Posted by Zodiax View Post

          Why are you offering voice-overs?
          {scratches head} Urm, to earn a living?

          Maybe I'm not understanding your question, Zo.
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    • Profile picture of the author agmccall
      Originally Posted by Regional Warrior View Post

      As this is an Australian site now they have to pay double the rate for Sundays FYI

      Jason
      Not if they outsource

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  • Profile picture of the author lgibbon
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    Well three months on and still nothing has changed.
    The junk posters are having a free for all.
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by lgibbon View Post

      Well three months on and still nothing has changed.
      The junk posters are having a free for all.
      They're working on it.
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      • Profile picture of the author lgibbon
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        Originally Posted by David Beroff View Post

        They're working on it.
        And you can tell how often they look in here
        by the amount of time the thread about "keywords" has been waiting
        for someone to notice it's in the wrong place.
        It really is time they got some proper moderation here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    It seems what mods are doing is telling posters to "add more" to the threads to get them approved, etc. "improving quality" seems to be micro managing first posts in threads - but the crap posts that quickly follow are ignored.

    Meanwhile, they are approving ridiculous threads about topics such as the stock market - which are quickly spammed. They are ignoring one line, unintelligible posts from a horde of new members from non-English countries - and link spam is doing very well.

    Where are the guys who rubbed elbows at the live event? Do they see those big improvements in quality? There is a tone deaf quality to the latest changes being made.
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    • Profile picture of the author lgibbon
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      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post


      Where are the guys who rubbed elbows at the live event? Do they see those big improvements in quality? There is a tone deaf quality to the latest changes being made.
      If anything it's got worse since then.
      There certainly seems no interest in removing the junk posts
      or the source of them.
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      • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
        Originally Posted by lgibbon View Post

        There certainly seems no interest in removing the junk posts
        or the source of them.
        If they had set up some simple barrier even a very tiny fee most of the spam bot's would not waste their time to pay. Even a basic math problem to login would be a help. They have no interest to curb it, last night a male enhancement ads kept popping up. Frustrating to even try to flag the poster down.
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        • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
          Originally Posted by DWolfe View Post

          If they had set up some simple barrier even a very tiny fee most of the spam bot's would not waste their time to pay.... The[y] have no interest to curb it....
          Correct; their primary obligation is to their shareholders, to whom they're telling that they've reached "~20 million users", with a tiny footnote that "User... data includes all users... from acquired marketplaces."
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    • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post


      Where are the guys who rubbed elbows at the live event? Do they see those big improvements in quality?
      Notice after the one thread about that event, the biggest cheerleaders for them, have not come back and posted. All hype no action on either side.
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