Reply With QuoteSuch a lazy lot of modsOriginally Posted by MikeH
I didn't see these but if someone's a spambot we delete the posts as spam and ban the user, taking the option to delete all their posts and threads with them. This is trivial if someone has less than 50 posts, over 50 posts it's harder. So (sadly?) we can't delete most of you lot as spam.
Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
We've got both kinds
Such a lazy lot of mods
More like "very efficient" mods. A spam bot can be banned and all posts and threads he started deleted with a minimal fuss... removing the need to check all the other forums to see if there are tons of threads or just the one reported/found. It's a GREAT feature and very useful
Keep on Civin'
RIP Baron O
I was referring to deleting the rest of us as spam.
Problem is when people start replying to the spambot, or quoting them (and their links). For threads that the spambots start, it works great. For threads where the spambot replies with some crap, its a (little) bit more work.More like "very efficient" mods. A spam bot can be banned and all posts and threads he started deleted with a minimal fuss... removing the need to check all the other forums to see if there are tons of threads or just the one reported/found. It's a GREAT feature and very useful
Current spambot fetish is to post soemthing like:
Thanks for your reply. Very informative.
with the actual advertising in the signature. Pain in the arse. Ban all new accounts from having urls in the signature is the best bet.
a.k.a. ainwood, CFC Forums Co-Administrator
Some Ainwood guy is so up his arse that if he ever had haemharroids (sp), he'd have to take the cream orally! What a total dick!
Did Wezil and BK just get banned?
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.
ben just posted something in the abortion thread not half an hour ago.
Why do you ask?
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Nope. The two of them stopped going at one another and I stopped caring. We're all one big, happy family.
Uh, I've been posting fairly steadily all morning.
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"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies." - Trotsky.
"I don't consider any of them authoritative" - Kidicious on Scripture.
Thanks for your reply. Very informative.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier
The 'serious' thread tag is absurd.
We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
So what? It's in good company.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Why's that?
Because no one pays any attention to but you.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
I appreciate the intent of the tag but it's doomed to failure.
We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
Who would support creating a subforum either for "serious" threads or for "anything goes" threads?
I support creating a subforum for Ben Kenobi.
All Ben and only Ben.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Given this forum's attitude, that would fit perfectly in the "anything goes" box.
That was considered many times and it was always laughed down because..
1. How could you tell the difference on a lot of threads.
2. Someone would have to judge every thread to make sure it was in the right place.
But times are different.
I'd still say no.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
I have no idea if this is possible with the forum technology that exists today, but I'd love to see a way of tagging threads (nsfw, politics, spam, etc.) and letting users sort and filter the threads they see.
First... it would creat more work for the mods. And from seeing how much the mods "like" work, probably not a good idea.
Second, there are many users here who would purposely mistitle threads just for the "fun" of it.
While there are some that are or act like children here, the bulk of the users are adults, and they can filter what they see just as easily without no stinking tags
Keep on Civin'
RIP Baron O
I personally guarantee you that I'll mistitle for the fun of it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Actual tagging is a feature; it was enabled for a short period of time a while back, shortly after the upgrade. However, it's hard to maintain and lends itself to substantial abuse.
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.
I thought that was the purpose of the tag.
JM
Jon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
Do we have any recourse if we are trolled by a moderator?
That's never stopped me from going all out. And look at me!
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
Loin for president?
JM
Jon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
I prefer not to get into heated debates/arguments if I can help it, but when Lori displays such a complete lack of neutrality and even goes so far as to taunt one of the participants of such a discussion then it seems clear to me that somebody else needs to step in. Will PMing Plomp do any good, or do the current owners treat the OT as a ghetto (with which they'd rather not be bothered) like the previous owners do?
Plomp does not get involved with the OT
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