SG Speaker Corner

[syko5150]

but is that much different then a bunch of people making an account just to make a topic about the same thing someone else just posted 10 minutes earlier?

 

[Domination]

Yes because you'll see posts just like the poster before or pointless posts every ten minutes. They don't need much time to spam to get 10 posts or whatever.

When we were holding competitions, thepeople who didn't have 100 posts spammed the shit out of us. Topics were revived, topics that were freaking old. It will be worse if its on a daily basis now.

Just let the noobs get what they want and get over with it.

 

[syko5150]

so make it like 50-100 posts minimum and make a warning for ban if you spam random junk or do bumps on peoples threads.
Edit: you could even have a waiting period for new members between posts.

 

[Domination]

50 posts will only make it worse... 51 posts per noob.... Mods are not around all day you know. When the people spammed the hell out of the forum, they only got suspended after they finished. Some of them spam fast, one or two words posts and they can egt 100 posts within half a day. Elixir should remember the damage during the competitions too right?

Plus, they wouldn't care less if they get suspended, they will just make duplicate accounts.

 

[elixirdream]

of course i remember!
admins should give up some privilege for trusted members that can spend their time to help them moderate the forum!

 

[syko5150]

I'm just going to use this as an example but on the Major League Baseball message board when anyone signs up they require an email confirmation and 24 hour waiting period for 1st post. I'm not suggesting something as extreme as 24 hour wait period just like say for new members in the first 24 hours they can only post like 1 time every 10+minutes. just an idea.

 

[Domination]

LOL.

I always help out by reporting the spam posts I see. I'm on the temp almost the whole day anyways. I see lots of spam topics, really. Every member should learn to report.

Though if they made 50 posts mandatory, I don't think there would be anything members can do, reporting them over 50 posts? The mods probably can't do anything. And around our time's afternnon, they are not so active too.

Edit:

That could help.

Though they will just post their noob topics after the time passes, and it ould prove to be a barrier to potential community additions.

 

[syko5150]

so there isn't a way to make restrictions on a new members account?maybe even IP Restrictions so they cant make multiple accounts from the same computer(at least not in the same day).

 

[elixirdream]

IP is not a good idea! it can be dynamic

syko,
the admins could just close the forum from registration and allow registration for certain hours only!
like i had said many times is depending on they want to do it or not

domination,
reporting spam post is bloody useless
if thats useful some of the members should be banned by now!

 

[syko5150]

oh ok it was just an idea =) what about post limitations for new members for first 24 hours? is that possible?

 

[mrfatso]

i don think ip ban would be a good idea, since like elixir has mentioned its dynamic and also, i don like wantin to register for a site only to found out for some retarded reason i got banned.

edit: nah, that wouldn't work, it just means that they have to wait 1 more day before spamming the fk out of said forum, in the meantime they will still spam as much as they can.

 

[elixirdream]

that is possible! still i think mods should be strict

they are pampering them
gbatemp mods are the most lenient mods in the world
infact i am doing this on my forum we set it as 30 minute

 

[Domination]

Elixir,
Our mods don't ban people, they may suspend the spammers, but I have never really seen any bots banned by them except the more drastic ones, like those that spam pr0n or whatever.

I think noobs are impossible to not have in a forum like this. Suspensions and bans won't help. Just let it pass.

Edit: not to mention only Supervisors and above can ban ppl.

 

[elixirdream]

you can't be banning everyone

that is true

restricting access is the key but admins won't be doing it...

 

[syko5150]

Well what i meant was like say i sign up for an account first thing i do is go to the topic im looking into and post...then with newbie restrictions i cant make a post for like say 10-20 minutes just make a restriction between posts. for like a 24 hour period(or long like a probationary period)

 

[mrfatso]

that is possible! still i think mods should be strict

they are pampering them
gbatemp mods are the most lenient mods in the world
infact i am doing this on my forum we set it as 30 minute

which i feel is better than being too strict, just a tad mistake/spelling typo = ban or worse, see your nick not happy = banned

 

[elixirdream]

yes.. i get what you mean! quite a number of forum i visit they practice that to stop spamming
at the end of the day, there will be some people complaning about it!

 

[Domination]

Well what i meant was like say i sign up for an account first thing i do is go to the topic im looking into and post...then with newbie restrictions i cant make a post for like say 10-20 minutes just make a restriction between posts. for like a 24 hour period(or long like a probationary period)

Noobs just need to post one topic, and they just wait for replies. Then never come back. Unless they have more questions.

And you should bear in mind, not only noobs are newbies, some lurkers or some people who want to join the community also join as newbies. It'll just lower our traffic, again.

 

[syko5150]

but there is less spam less noob questions(there will always be noob questions)

 

[elixirdream]

i know quite a number of lurkers
they don't post on gbatemp
LOL

actual fact i don't mind answer n00b question
as long the n00b contain brains