DO NOT BUMP SPAM

[p1ngpong]

As many regular visitors of the site know we are forever waging a war against spam bots here. We are generally quick to exterminate them and their threads thanks to quick reporting by our members and vigilance by the moderating team and I would like to thank everyone who takes the time to bring spambots to our attention.

However tonight something happened that genuinely made me both angry and disappointed at the same time and also made me question the common sense of some of our most prolific and well known members.

A porn spambot made a thread on the forum with graphic images and links in its opening post. People proceeded to post in this thread not once or twice, but nine times.

So this thread was bumped to the top of the latest discussion tab and given more views nine times with idiotic posts ranging from the usual "reported" to people just thinking they are funny.

Let me make it clear:

DO NOT BUMP OBVIOUS SPAM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS PORNOGRAPHIC!

Just report it!

Thanks.

I am going to take a few hours out to calm down before I take any action if any on the people who bumped that last thread, my immediate reaction being to suspend you all for your stupidity.

 

[Sicklyboy]

I bet you're like one of those old people who call the police when "rascals" cause a ruckus riding on their "damn" skateboards. ;O;

Get off my lawn!

 

[air2004]

Ahem.

There were eight incidents of spam being bumped again today, it made me very sad.

Make it nine now

 

[vayanui8]

we cannot bump spam, but can we spam bump?

 

[UltraMew]

we cannot bump spam, but can we spam bump?

Yes.

They'll have to answer a randomly generated question about temporal physics.

Or how awesome piracy is?

 

[p1ngpong]

We just had one guy necrobumping and spamming all over the place. Lots of people decided to reply to his bumps in order to reprimand him for his actions and so on. So instead of having to just delete his 10+ spam posts I had to delete about 50+.

Thanks a lot for giving us mods five times more work to do than necessary, we really appreciate that.

 

[FAST6191]

spam for you , spam for me , millions of spam , spam for free

You went with that when you had

 

[Ryukouki]

Public reminder to, you know, not bump spam. Even if mods are sleeping, just leave a report and move on. Do not reply!

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Making the sign up process harder probably won't do much good.
These are likely actual people who are paid pennies to sign up to sites and spam to generate traffic. There's not much you can do about that save for requiring admin activation of each new account.

Edit: Thanks Ryukouki you made me necrobump

 

[Ryukouki]

Making the sign up process harder probably won't do much good.
These are likely actual people who are paid pennies to sign up to sites and spam to generate traffic. There's not much you can do about that save for requiring admin activation of each new account.

I know we did that at some point (relatively recently too!) but I think it was a pain in the ass to manage the memberships arriving daily.

EDIT: Waaaait, I never necrobumped. I replied six minutes ago here to remind people because some people decided to post in a clearly spammy topic. >_>

 

[KingBlank]

(was a link to spam here) Spam!

 

[Nathan Drake]

-snip-

You don't report in this topic. You just report the post and move on via the handy report link on each post. And if you made that post believing that spamming a thread saying not to bump spam is somehow ironic or funny, I guarantee that no mod will agree with you.

 

[KingBlank]

You don't report in this topic. You just report the post and move on via the handy report link on each post. And if you made that post believing that spamming a thread saying not to bump spam is somehow ironic or funny, I guarantee that no mod will agree with you.

Sorry no, Its surprisingly the first time I noticed any spam on GBAtemp and it Just happened to be just after I had been reading this thread, thought I would point it out for others like me.

 

[RevPokemon]

Sorry no, Its surprisingly the first time I noticed any spam on GBAtemp and it Just happened to be just after I had been reading this thread, thought I would point it out for others like me.

Same here recently (past week or so) we have gotten a lot of spam and usually at night.

 

[DarkFlare69]

Public reminder to, you know, not bump spam. Even if mods are sleeping, just leave a report and move on. Do not reply!

I'm sorry I bumped spam yesterday :$

 

[evandixon]

Over at Project Pokémon, we auto-moderate posts made by users with just a few posts (5 ish) that contain lots of links and images. It may not be feasible here because of the much larger number of users, but it would prevent pornographic spam from being visible to anyone but moderators.

But still, why do people bump spam made by bots? It's not like the bot sees the replies.

 

[DinohScene]

Over at Project Pokémon, we auto-moderate posts made by users with just a few posts (5 ish) that contain lots of links and images. It may not be feasible here because of the much larger number of users, but it would prevent pornographic spam from being visible to anyone but moderators.

But still, why do people bump spam made by bots? It's not like the bot sees the replies.

They want to feel important.

 

[xdrako23x]

Adblock

 

[RevPokemon]

Over at Project Pokémon, we auto-moderate posts made by users with just a few posts (5 ish) that contain lots of links and images. It may not be feasible here because of the much larger number of users, but it would prevent pornographic spam from being visible to anyone but moderators.

But still, why do people bump spam made by bots? It's not like the bot sees the replies.

Because people like to feel like they are helping the site and the mods

 

[playallday]

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[Arras]

Is there any rules regarding bumping stickies?

I'd assume it doesn't matter, since they're always at the top of the topic lists anyway. Not like bumping them will change that.