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.

 

[8BitWonder]

@Hayato213 @Latiodile

 

[Dionicio3]

@Stealphie

 

[Stealphie]

@Stealphie

but why

 

[Dionicio3]

but why

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.

don't be dumb lol

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

@Der_Blockbuster Don't bump spam, just report and move on.

 

[smileyhead]

@B-alpha That was spam.

 

[8BitWonder]

@jeffyTheHomebrewer @Crazynoob458 @ChronoTrig @DKB
Just report those kind of posts and move on, please.

 

[Crazynoob458]

@jeffyTheHomebrewer @Crazynoob458 @ChronoTrig @DKB
Just report the post and move on.

i did report the post before posting so...

 

[DKB]

@jeffyTheHomebrewer @Crazynoob458 @ChronoTrig @DKB
Just report those kind of posts and move on, please.

We did.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

I reported it too!

 

[porkiewpyne]

@jeffyTheHomebrewer @DKB @ChronoTrig @drgnslayers @ChicoPancho @aadz93 @Stealphie

Look I appreciate those who bothered to report the offending post but there is no need to announce that you are reporting it or that you have reported it or to continue shitposting (and thus bumping the thread). Many of you should know better by now.

 

[ChronoTrig]

I wasn't aware. Now I do for next time. Thanks!

PS. I figured there'd be a filter for that garbage being posted and a faster ban response on it after being reported within 2 minutes of it being posted.

 

[porkiewpyne]

@ChronoTrig That's fine. At least now you know. My post is mainly aimed at a few members who have been with us long enough to know that posting in a spam thread is counterproductive, especially when the users pretend to be dense enough to not know that it is a troll

 

[ChronoTrig]

Haha fair enough. I was also under the impression of if you give it light by everyone else bumping it that it'd possibly get noticed faster for the thread to get deleted (or so I was hoping).

 

[porkiewpyne]

@Axido @linkenski @Rusb @slam2001 @splymb @mrgone @Goku1992A @DarkSeele

Seriously? It is one thing to not report a spam post. I can live with that. But not one, not two, not three but EIGHT of you had the brilliant idea of bumping the thread which means it will be kept in the Recent Threads section.

You know what's the kicker? Only one of you bothered to actually make the report at the end of the day.

To top it off, all of you have been here long enough to know better.

Think, people. THINK.

 

[linkenski]

@Axido @linkenski @Rusb @slam2001 @splymb @mrgone @Goku1992A @DarkSeele

Seriously? It is one thing to not report a spam post. I can live with that. But not one, not two, not three but EIGHT of you had the brilliant idea of bumping the thread which means it will be kept in the Recent Threads section.

You know what's the kicker? Only one of you bothered to actually make the report at the end of the day.

To top it off, all of you have been here long enough to know better.

Think, people. THINK.

What can I say, I thought it was fucking hilarious.

 

[linkenski]

Breath of the Wild 2 leak gets me off.

 

[slam2001]

@Axido @linkenski @Rusb @slam2001 @splymb @mrgone @Goku1992A @DarkSeele

Seriously? It is one thing to not report a spam post. I can live with that. But not one, not two, not three but EIGHT of you had the brilliant idea of bumping the thread which means it will be kept in the Recent Threads section.

You know what's the kicker? Only one of you bothered to actually make the report at the end of the day.

To top it off, all of you have been here long enough to know better.

Think, people. THINK

Yea thats the way to do it.. Blame members for the lack of admins/mods about at the time
/not responding quick enough to spam reports,

TBH i didnt KNOW better, I was under the impression the more negative reply it got the sooner it would get removed
I had to go on to discord to get an admin to remove this one

 

[DinohScene]

Responding to spam only gives it more visability.
Doesn't matter how you respond to it.


Just report and move on, one of us will take care of it as soon as we can.
Сheers in advance for reporting <З

 

[slam2001]

Now i know better ill stick to the reports as you suggested.

Tho a wee lesson in people skills should go to Porkiewpyne, Your supervisor of an online form not a manager in burger king bud, Not everyone knows how these things work. anyway thats my micro rant over lol