Seriously, there were 2 or three posts that didn't "fit" the topic so much, but did it really derail the topic? The last post was even on-topic. Take a chill-pill, please. A vacation perhaps.Slipped off to spam - as always. Rolling Eyes
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- JonathanSmith
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No vacation. The moderators should be taught, how to remove the writing permissions from some forum accounts immediately.Misjbar wrote:Seriously, there were 2 or three posts that didn't "fit" the topic so much, but did it really derail the topic? The last post was even on-topic. Take a chill-pill, please. A vacation perhaps.Slipped off to spam - as always. Rolling Eyes
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You don't know how often I have to delete spam.LifeWonder wrote: Instead of punishing everyone because a few persons are spamming, how about punishing the few persons who are spamming and leaving everyone else be?
Those persons notice that not even, I fear.
I can ban them from the board, of course - but now I 'll do it with YOUR help. Perhaps they listen to you if they don't want to listen to me.
All those who are innocent should act on the spammers and flamers that they stop it - and I'm never forced to close a thread again or to ban a poster.
I'll give it in your hands now - shall I ban them without indulges or do you want to assist me?
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How do we "help"? This isn't kindergarden Arien, we can't point at them and go "DUNCE! HAHA." And they'll feel ashamed and cower in a corner and behave nice.Arien Edhel wrote:You don't know how often I have to delete spam.LifeWonder wrote: Instead of punishing everyone because a few persons are spamming, how about punishing the few persons who are spamming and leaving everyone else be?
Those persons notice that not even, I fear.
I can ban them from the board, of course - but now I 'll do it with YOUR help. Perhaps they listen to you if they don't want to listen to me.
All those who are innocent should act on the spammers and flamers that they stop it - and I'm never forced to close a thread again or to ban a poster.
I'll give it in your hands now - shall I ban them without indulges or do you want to assist me?
No, just ban. With moderation.
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This IS a kindergarden sometimes.
Arien, closing threads should be the last instrument. Why not simply remove the WRITING rights to the complete forum from the children's forum accounts? First time, for 1 week, second time for 1 month, third time forever. No warnings needed. No large explanations needed. We have the OOC section for useless and unsubstantial postings. Don't waste our time by forcing us to look over a large amount of unsubstantial postings. This also includes postings from moderators like "stop spamming", "last warning, or I close the thread", etc.
WE can't help with this. This is the task of the moderators, in my opinion.
Arien, closing threads should be the last instrument. Why not simply remove the WRITING rights to the complete forum from the children's forum accounts? First time, for 1 week, second time for 1 month, third time forever. No warnings needed. No large explanations needed. We have the OOC section for useless and unsubstantial postings. Don't waste our time by forcing us to look over a large amount of unsubstantial postings. This also includes postings from moderators like "stop spamming", "last warning, or I close the thread", etc.
WE can't help with this. This is the task of the moderators, in my opinion.
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there are some other moderator tools in a forum. for example you can use the "split" (don't know if it's split, in german it's "Teilen") tool and take the spam posts in off topic.
i postet about this before in german for some month. i think also it's very annoying if you close so much threads. i think closing threads is totaly wrong in the case of spam, sorry.
i postet about this before in german for some month. i think also it's very annoying if you close so much threads. i think closing threads is totaly wrong in the case of spam, sorry.
My point exactly.Ivar Kraftimarm wrote:there are some other moderator tools in a forum. for example you can use the "split" (don't know if it's split, in german it's "Teilen") tool and take the spam posts in off topic.
i postet about this before in german for some month. i think also it's very annoying if you close so much threads. i think closing threads is totaly wrong in the case of spam, sorry.
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Or not. Why does Illarion have to pay for your bandwidth so you can write "blah blah fart cock monkeys" on a whim? This isn't 4chan and it shouldn't be. If you want to spam, 4chan is still there for that.
My suggestion stands at:
Ban the worst offenders. First start with a temp board ban, work up to a full ban including a ban from the game.
Chill out otherwise. Too much locking, post edits, and hollering will cause rebellion and trolling.
My suggestion stands at:
Ban the worst offenders. First start with a temp board ban, work up to a full ban including a ban from the game.
Chill out otherwise. Too much locking, post edits, and hollering will cause rebellion and trolling.
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I'm pretty sure phpBB supports disabling writing priviledges to some extent, it may require some work but I do not see how this isen't do-able. A better answer is "This would be possible, if we had the time to stop developing the game to upgrade the forums, which do you want?"Nitram wrote:there are no writing rights that could be removed for single persons.
We can:
Remove the writing rights for everyone
Ban a single one from the entire board
Nothing else.
True Story.Keikan Hiru wrote:This might suprise you, but most Spammers are only forum lurkers who are not actually playing.
On the other hand, a hostile forum with trolling, flaming and spamming, infact does turn away players.
Es würde vielleicht auch helfen wenn der Moderator der den Lock vornimmt,
die Englisch geschriebenen Aussagen genau verstehen würde.
Ich fühl mich nicht schuldig und kann gerne per PM eine Übersetzung und Erläuterung der betroffenen Posts anbieten die schnell klärt wer genau "zu bestrafen" wäre.
Edit vom Beitragsschreiber: Asche über mein Haupt, ich hab die zweite Seite weiter unten garnicht gelesen und dachte es dreht sich um die 2 Beiträge die ich verfasst hab. Ich ziehe diese Nachricht hier zurück.
die Englisch geschriebenen Aussagen genau verstehen würde.
Ich fühl mich nicht schuldig und kann gerne per PM eine Übersetzung und Erläuterung der betroffenen Posts anbieten die schnell klärt wer genau "zu bestrafen" wäre.
Edit vom Beitragsschreiber: Asche über mein Haupt, ich hab die zweite Seite weiter unten garnicht gelesen und dachte es dreht sich um die 2 Beiträge die ich verfasst hab. Ich ziehe diese Nachricht hier zurück.
Because text takes a lot of bandwidth? Text with very little formatting tools (like BBcode) doesn't use up a lot of bandwidth. I think a picture is heavier on the server then most of the forum.Aegohl wrote:Or not. Why does Illarion have to pay for your bandwidth so you can write "blah blah fart cock monkeys" on a whim?
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Lets put it this way.
Someone starts a topic. People spam. Who's getting angry? The person who started the topic and anyone who's serious about it. Right?
So the solution is OBVIOUS, lock the topic, therebye making the above mentioned people even MORE angry. And obviously the spammers (who wouldn't really care about the topic itself) go off to find another topic.
This is like amputating your nose when you have a cold.
Seriously, unless the topic turns to flaming, spam isn't hurting anyone, especially if its KEPT IN A SINGLE TOPIC.
Discuss?
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I don't like it when people assume I go on 4chan because I express myself in images. ;<Aegohl wrote:Or not. Why does Illarion have to pay for your bandwidth so you can write "blah blah fart cock monkeys" on a whim? This isn't 4chan and it shouldn't be. If you want to spam, 4chan is still there for that.
My suggestion stands at:
Ban the worst offenders. First start with a temp board ban, work up to a full ban including a ban from the game.
Chill out otherwise. Too much locking, post edits, and hollering will cause rebellion and trolling.
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It could well be alot of work to change the writing permissions to be editable by mods. The forum software is nearly seven years old.Olive wrote:seems to me the simplest solution is just to delete the offending posts
and it IS possible to add and remove single forum category permisions, you just need to have the motivation to do so
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