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'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.

Additionally, we handle bumps in actual topics differently than replies to spam.

Replies to spam get the spam more visibility. It can also make it show up in the "Recent threads" box in the front page, further increasing its visibility. We don't want spam to be seen, we want it gone, so members bumping spam is 100% against what the ultimate outcome is. Report it, don't comment, and just let us handle it.

Actual threads that may just be old, though, if the thread is quite old but a member posts something that actually adds something of value to the thread, we might just leave it open and let the discussion fire back up. Posting in an old thread isn't the problem; posting garbage in an old thread is the problem. If you want to add something that has value, go for it, and we'll either leave it or if there's a better thread we may lock it (and possibly redirect to the new thread). Or ask us first if it's okay to post to it, we'll tell you. But if you're just going to pose some inane bullshit just to say something like "I had that problem too but then it stopped", expect the thread to be locked and depending on the exact situation we may pursue further corrective action. It's all done on a case by case basis though. I can't speak for the rest of the staff or the forum as a whole but me personally, I hate it when forums auto-lock threads that have hit a certain threshold of inactivity (like 90 days without a reply). You know you've seen them and it serves no purpose but to keep old threads old. My 2 cents.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I can't believe this needs a bump, but it seems some of our newer (as in just getting really active these past few months) relatively active members have gone full retard. Hopefully you all read this and understand that you're on the path to warnings if you keep acting like total dumbasses.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I can't believe this needs a bump, but it seems some of our newer (as in just getting really active these past few months) relatively active members have gone full retard. Hopefully you all read this and understand that you're on the path to warnings if you keep acting like total dumbasses.

Hey, some people were genuinely interested in those drugs. Can't call it spam if people are interested in it.

 

[RevPokemon]

Hey, some people were genuinely interested in those drugs. Can't call it spam if people are interested in it.

Yes why yes it is still spam

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Yes why yes it is still spam

SPAM = Stupid Pointless Annoying Message.
It's not pointless if people are interested in it

 

[RevPokemon]

SPAM = Stupid Pointless Annoying Message.
It's not pointless if people are interested in it

Thifjsjsdks
Skskdkdmfkdkde
Ekrofkfkggkxoflf

That is spam even if you like it

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Thifjsjsdks
Skskdkdmfkdkde
Ekrofkfkggkxoflf

That is spam even if you like it

MMMMMMM yes give me those random letters baby

In all seriousness, let's keep EOF material in the EOF. We don't want to disturb the peace of the more respectable parts of the 'temp

 

[RevPokemon]

MMMMMMM yes give me those random letters baby

In all seriousness, let's keep EOF material in the EOF. We don't want to disturb the peace of the more respectable parts of the 'temp

Amen brother
100%

 

[Sicklyboy]

The peace? Worry about disturbing me.

I'm keeping a list.

 

[RevPokemon]

The peace? Worry about disturbing me.

I'm keeping a list.

Question,
Are you serious about a list?

 

[Deleted User]

The only spam I've seen here are those stupid ad's trying to sell us some weird health related product which probably doesn't work.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Question,
Are you serious about a list?

I don't take the rules as a laughing matter.

Spoiler

 

[endoverend]

I don't take the rules as a laughing matter.

Spoiler

Jesus, that's a lot of kilobytes for a text file

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I don't take the rules as a laughing matter.

Spoiler

Is this something you would consider sharing publicly, so that... ya know... we can see which rules we've been breaking when, since it looks like you have every 'temp member and their mother in there?

 

[VinsCool]

I don't take the rules as a laughing matter.

Spoiler

This file is huge

 

[marksteele]

I don't take the rules as a laughing matter.

Spoiler

I can't help but notice you haven't renamed "This PC" to "My Computer"....more to the point that file is ridiculously large, does it have every infraction since you became a mod, I would of thought you folks had a private google spreadsheet or something for that?

 

[Margen67]

This file is huge

I hope it doesn't have that embarassing photo of me at the christmas party

 

[RevPokemon]

I don't take the rules as a laughing matter.

Spoiler

Just wondering as some forum systems I know allow the mods to put the infractions on the users info (only for mods to see )

 

[nxwing]

Just wondering as some forum systems I know allow the mods to put the infractions on the users info (only for mods to see )

GBAtemp also has that, aside from staff, the one that is infracted can also view their infractions I think.

 

[Deleted member 318366]

I remember when that guy made a porn thread in the general off topic section, it was bad porn with saggy tits. Of course we reported it, including myself because of that reason only. Forgot who the brunette girl was but all I know is if you are going to post porn here at least let it be adequate and classy, not saggy and disgusting. Put some phoenix marie in there gosh lol the funniest thing ever was when pingpong was pissing his pants about the whole situation and made this thread about people +1up-ing that thread back then before it got deleted.