IMPORTANT: Few important changes to fight Spam - Page 5

Originally posted by: roxthefox

Amazing post, Caro, and I wholeheartedly agree. There are a lot of loopholes within this new idea, andi t's going to be difficult to work around if. If anything, the DEV team should be working to tackle important issues that are tarnishing the environment of IF and the real cause of why substantial discussions aren't flourishing.

 

This is a DISCUSSION forum, for crissakes! It's bad enough that we're so restricted that we have to think twice before using the word 'hate' or risk the tomato pelt, or the DEV team running after us, that now we have to be told how to post, what to post and how much to post.

 

I'm here for discussions; not to be controlled.

Exactly!!! that sentence is 47 characters (with spaces) but it says everything I wanted to say!!!   👏
Edited by stingray - 14 years ago

My two cents:

IF may very well be unaware of the meaning or at least the kings and queens are fo sho!   

First I believe that if your intention is to have this forum carry scholarly discussions, be it positive or negative, then eliminate your biased moderators. It's not my fault that I am not best friends with them or text them on their cell phones 'xoxo' 24/7. I have a life you see.  I visit this place that has little or no sanity left to catch reviews, participate in discussions, or watch videos; not to find my future spouse.

Thirdly, spamming should be your last concern. Since when did having 150 characters to a post qualify it to be scholarly? I tell you spammers are wise and they will end up adding only 3 other LOL's and ROFL's to meet the requirement.

Lastly, freedom of expression is deprived from this website and some intellectual minds wouldn't mind at all if it's brought back.

Thanks!

 

Edited by zainab25 - 14 years ago

priya

I have a huge question!

I am an avi maker and I make avi of a particular show...
my avis have been reported for being "abusive"

maybe because  I do NOT make romantic avis... I make comic avis..


and the avi was just a clipped video of the show...doesnt it directly merit the statement that the scene of the show is abusive?

Iam not sure where I should table this concern

People reporting not because they think it is abusive but because they dislike the poster/post is not a valid reason!

I am not sure what can be done.. or who is incharge..if the AVI forum thinks the specific avi was abusive i will be glad to remove it...

but who controls the statement of defining if the avi is abusive or not? the avi forum? or the show forum?

SUGGESTION: something has to be done about people misusing the Report button! maybe warn them for abusing it unnecessarily :)

REASON FOR POSTING THIS IN THIS TOPIC: ABuse of IF rules is a bigger crime in my opinion than spamming..

thank u
Edited by carolinecj - 14 years ago

Originally posted by: carolinecj

SUGGESTION: something has to be done about people misusing the Report button! maybe warn them for abusing it unnecessarily :)

Originally posted by: HUMM

This is one very good feature to control spam posts. You guys can also enable image verification to prevent post padders. Image verification slows down replies.

You can also add a limit like 10-15 sec limit between each posts. :-)

If I think of some more ideas, will add later.

Twitter Fan? 😊  Are you a member of a Chat Club on IF? I think 10-15  sec limit would kill the chat clubs   

Originally posted by: Gur.N.cool

150 characters are too much.
sometimes we are playing games which require only one or two words.

The 150 rule should only apply to members who are tagged by the dev team as spammers.

Yeah that sounds great!!! 😊

Edited by stingray - 14 years ago

i know i already agreed with the idea but i went to read it again and i agree with some stuff...like the tfs thing..it is annoying...love the idea of hall of fame and the like button..also the tagging a member with the spam thing but what i disagree on is 150 characters....i'm a siggy maker...people comment in my shop and i reply by telling them thank you/thank you for visiting/thank you for liking and other stuff...when i write ....i don't need 150 characters...so that means that in order to reply to ones who come to my shop...i should write them a whole essay...doesn't make sense...it would be better if you keep 150 character for the ones who have been tagged as spammers not for every member...because it will be hard

Ok, I fully agree to everything else EXCEPT the 150 characters limit!
I mean we could mean million things in less than 150 characters!!!
Please don't do that, ppl will hardly post again!

Originally posted by: stingray

Exactly!!! that sentence is 47 characters (with spaces) but it says everything I wanted to say!!!   👏

 

It would be better if this entire idea was scratched alltogether and the DEV team focused on tackling the real issues that are tarnishing the environment of IF.

its really annoying to see thanks post and look at all pages in a topic to really find out meaningful discussion.  but 150 characters are too much.  the main issue is that the so called spammers just type in 1 or 2 words to increase their number of posts to get a new rank as it is.  one solution could be that the rank is given in response of how much time a user spends on the forum and stop using the post counts.  there used to be an IF addict contest before so no new feature needs to be implemented.  Moderators could just monitor the amount of time spent on the forum and after a certain limit designate a new rank.  I think that could solve the problem of unnecessary posts.  I hope that the 150 character limit will not be imposed since this will really cause a block and many users might stop using the forum.  I participate in the games regularly and in most posts its just 1 or a few words nothing more so this could pose a problem there.  I thing i dont like is that when there are pictures or long messages, the quoting technique also uses a lot of space.  look at the iifa pictures for example so many users quote and express their feelings. it is good that users can express their emotions but it takes too long to see each and every pages and long long quotes.  i dont know what to suggest as a solution but maybe a quote limit!!!


Edited by lightjo - 14 years ago