Evil Advertiser takeover on the horizon
Evil Advertiser takeover on the horizon
This is to raise a concern...
With the whole For Sale section being locked to stop spam, it seems to have become a more prime target for our loved advertisers...
Would it be possible to implement an option of only allowing users with 50 posts or more to post in the for sale section? Or that you at least have to have been a member for 3 months before gaining access...
If 1 or 2 people did it it would be fine, but the amount of people joining just to pimp their items (And there are a few these days that expect higher prices than the item will cost new) on the forum, it floods the "chill out relax" area on the left bar and thus makes it non-fun to go looking for current topics up for discussion...
Just a thought to admins / Cameron...
Idea of thread : Discuss your feelings towards not allowing people to 1) put items in sale if they dont have enough posts...
Also another little gem - It is amazing how useless locking a sale thread has become. Now all the users do is recreate their thread each morning, effectively still bumping it up and yet their thread remains clean and unspammed...
With the whole For Sale section being locked to stop spam, it seems to have become a more prime target for our loved advertisers...
Would it be possible to implement an option of only allowing users with 50 posts or more to post in the for sale section? Or that you at least have to have been a member for 3 months before gaining access...
If 1 or 2 people did it it would be fine, but the amount of people joining just to pimp their items (And there are a few these days that expect higher prices than the item will cost new) on the forum, it floods the "chill out relax" area on the left bar and thus makes it non-fun to go looking for current topics up for discussion...
Just a thought to admins / Cameron...
Idea of thread : Discuss your feelings towards not allowing people to 1) put items in sale if they dont have enough posts...
Also another little gem - It is amazing how useless locking a sale thread has become. Now all the users do is recreate their thread each morning, effectively still bumping it up and yet their thread remains clean and unspammed...
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Re: Evil Advertiser takeover on the horizon
You noticed this too, huh?Slasher wrote:It is amazing how useless locking a sale thread has become. Now all the users do is recreate their thread each morning, effectively still bumping it up and yet their thread remains clean and unspammed...
Re: Evil Advertiser takeover on the horizon
Hell yeah...schase wrote:You noticed this too, huh?Slasher wrote:It is amazing how useless locking a sale thread has become. Now all the users do is recreate their thread each morning, effectively still bumping it up and yet their thread remains clean and unspammed...
Was aware of that from day 2 (Seeing as they could only recreate it on Day 2...)
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Re: Evil Advertiser takeover on the horizon
I like this idea, and since we won't have individual post moderation until we get phpBB3, this will do.Slasher wrote:Would it be possible to implement an option of only allowing users with 50 posts or more to post in the for sale section?
30 seconds of searching the phpBB modifications database brought up this, which looks like it may do the job. I have no idea if it's compatible with the PHP-Nuke port of phpBB though (which is what is used here).
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Can point you to hundreds...
http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... 158#723158 was taken care of...
they pop up daily... putting it in the rules wont stop it... Only putting some sort of posting rule in place will...
Here is another one. Bloody expensive sale at that too...
http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... ic&t=25518
http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... 158#723158 was taken care of...
they pop up daily... putting it in the rules wont stop it... Only putting some sort of posting rule in place will...
Here is another one. Bloody expensive sale at that too...
http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... ic&t=25518
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And another
http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... ic&t=25483
Honestly, you can delete till you are blue they will just reappear...
Lots exists, lots will still be created...
http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?n ... ic&t=25483
Honestly, you can delete till you are blue they will just reappear...
Lots exists, lots will still be created...
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Mkay...
I am bored at work okay... felt I had to raise the sale spam issue...
Do I need to make my sig shorter? Just say so and I do it...
Check the second link 2 of my posts up... that one still exists as well...
I am bored at work okay... felt I had to raise the sale spam issue...
Do I need to make my sig shorter? Just say so and I do it...
Check the second link 2 of my posts up... that one still exists as well...
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Thing is, they dont 'bump' their thread... and if you delete it, they just create another one... hell, why not?lancelot wrote:7: SPAM and BUMPING will result in Thread being deleted
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Actually, I think the current bumping thing isn't a problem, their old post is deleted, and a new one made, thus no increase in post count firstly.
And if you want to sell something you actually want people to see that you are selling something, not everyone browses the for sale section permanently, and not many even visit page two.
Dunno if that made sense, don't care
And if you want to sell something you actually want people to see that you are selling something, not everyone browses the for sale section permanently, and not many even visit page two.
Dunno if that made sense, don't care
i agree with having a minimum amount of posts before you can advertise anything, this also prevents ppl from scamming others like what happened to me, i got my cash back luckily but someone else might not. This will enable only trusted ppl who we know and have been on for a while to advertise anything.
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lols I dont think I've visited page 2 since I've joined the PCF forumsWiK1d wrote:And if you want to sell something you actually want people to see that you are selling something, not everyone browses the for sale section permanently, and not many even visit page two.
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