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(Message started by: SMQ on Apr 15^th, 2009, 6:40am)

Title: Users w/ commercial links in their sigs
Post by SMQ on Apr 15^th, 2009, 6:40am

Anybody mind if I start tracking these one-time posters with commercial links in their sigs and deleting the posts after a day or two if they don't post anything more substantial?

Should they get a warning first, maybe by PM to avoid further spamming the board?

Or should we be even more aggressive: e.g. create an FAQ thread on commercial links and just delete the "hello" posts on sight with a PM to the user pointing them to the FAQ?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

--SMQ

Title: Re: Users w/ commercial links in their sigs
Post by JiNbOtAk on Apr 15^th, 2009, 6:51am

And here I thought the mods are simply ignoring this flood of spammers, assuming they'll die a natural death (similar to what we wished when spams appeared in our emails )

Frankly guys, I'm getting more than just pis*ed off at these adverts posters. It started out as a nuisance but it's beginning to be really bothersome now. I'm all for the more aggresive stand, just nuke posters with commercial links in their sigs out of the board. There's enough junk as it is around the net.

Title: Re: Users w/ commercial links in their sigs
Post by towr on Apr 15^th, 2009, 7:10am

I wouldn't call it a flood. But I'm ok with deleting them after a few days. (If I didn't always forget in a few days, I'd do it more often myself.)
It's a shame really our board doesn't have the option to simply delete/ban someone's signature.

Title: Re: Users w/ commercial links in their sigs
Post by Eigenray on Apr 15^th, 2009, 9:56am

The ones that don't even pretend not to be spam I just delete on sight. And a real person should have more sense than to include a commercial link in their first (completely vacuous) post, so I don't see a problem with stripping such urls. But that still leaves the annoyance of remembering to delete the posts later, not to mention the annoyance of everyone reading them in the mean time. So yeah, [link=http://www.google.com/search?q=donjoaoresortgoa.com+%22posts%3A+1%22]obvious spam[/link] should just be removed. Or do you feel like writing a Greasemonkey script with a button to : strip url, send pm, and delete the message automatically after N of your earth days? (Actually this looks like it would be so easy as to be a vulnerability :-/)