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.

 

[Meteor7]

well im not gonna do it now, but ima screenshot the post

Try and record it so we can all hear it.

 

[zoogie]

Whenever this thread is bumped, I think everyone on the site should get a notification whether they follow it or not.

That will get the message across.

 

[Meteor7]

@AsPika2219

 

[Vipera]

They are increasingly humans actually. It's that profitable.

Either way, it encourages them. Either by AI recording click totals (boosted with your bumps) or a human recognizing that fact.
And read this please:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/auto-kill-spam-threads.476775/#post-7436401

considering that it takes us (the staff) less than 1 second to obliterate spam posts & accounts thanks to an all-powerful "spambot" button, there's no need to add further countermeasures

That would be true if the staff was around more often, which isn't the case. Didn't they get enough money already to expand the mods? Or will the same few people still attempt to do everything?
There wouldn't be any threads like that if at least one mod would be checking the forum during the european morning time. It's not that difficult.


EDIT:

Stop complaining about money lol

Not even going to address this retard.

 

[Dionicio3]

That would be true if the staff was around more often, which isn't the case. Didn't they get enough money already to expand the mods? Or will the same few people still attempt to do everything?
There wouldn't be any threads like that if at least one mod would be checking the forum during the european morning time. It's not that difficult.

Stop complaining about money lol

 

[AsPika2219]

@AsPika2219

I am not spamming some thread?

 

[Deleted User]

That would be true if the staff was around more often, which isn't the case. Didn't they get enough money already to expand the mods? Or will the same few people still attempt to do everything?
There wouldn't be any threads like that if at least one mod would be checking the forum during the european morning time. It's not that difficult.

Just because they have money doesn't mean that they're going to immediately, magically get more mods who are fit to be mods.

 

[Dionicio3]

I am not spamming some thread?

You bumped a spam post


I feel like this thread should be ranamed to "Dont reply to spam threads"

 

[Meteor7]

I am not spamming some thread?

Being tagged in this thread is a reminder to not bump, which means reply to, spam.

 

[Vipera]

Just because they have money doesn't mean that they're going to immediately, magically get more mods who are fit to be mods.

Right, gotta keep those parts as fewer as possible so each of them get more

Even though the vast majority of the userbase here doesn't fit the role, there are at least a hundred people that could do the job well. All they need to do is to check the reports. Again, not that difficult.

 

[The Catboy]

That would be true if the staff was around more often, which isn't the case. Didn't they get enough money already to expand the mods? Or will the same few people still attempt to do everything?
There wouldn't be any threads like that if at least one mod would be checking the forum during the european morning time. It's not that difficult.

The staff members are humans too and they are also not paid for their services.
There are very rare times when we don't have a member of staff online, people just need to report the bots and leave the rest to the staff.

 

[Dionicio3]

Right, gotta keep those parts as fewer as possible so each of them get more

Even though the vast majority of the userbase here doesn't fit the role, there are at least a hundred people that could do the job well. All they need to do is to check the reports. Again, not that difficult.

"Not that difficult" you know this from experience?

 

[dimmidice]

You bumped a spam post


I feel like this thread should be ranamed to "Dont reply to spam threads"

What thread did he bump?

 

[Vipera]

they are also not paid for their services.

Gonna need a source about that.

 

[Dionicio3]

What thread did he bump?

That yahoo support thread (now locked)

 

[dimmidice]

That yahoo support thread (now locked)

Ah odd, that didn't show up for me. I agree with what you said about renaming the thread. "Don't reply to spam" is much more clear.

 

[Deleted User]

That yahoo support thread (now locked)

There was actually another one that was in the off-topic section that seems to have been deleted. I guess certain levels of staff are allowed to delete threads only if they're in certain sections.

 

[The Catboy]

Gonna need a source about that.

I am the admin over at filetrip and I used to be paid when Costello had the extra money to do so.

 

[AsPika2219]

Being tagged in this thread is a reminder to not bump, which means reply to, spam.

OK! Sorry for that. Anyway, the other spam thread was removed safely by staffs! Let's continue for this thread!

 

[Dionicio3]

There was actually another one that was in the off-topic section that seems to have been deleted. I guess certain levels of staff are allowed to delete threads only if they're in certain sections.

Yeah, I know Chary can only lock threads, but I have seen other reporters delete threads