Setting Some Standards

14 spam threads in the Mods forum in 12 hours? That's just ridiculous...! :shock:

 

Some spam bot must have this forum pegged. Least it's easy to avoid clicking on them, since almost every thread in the mods forum that's not spam is a "hot topic" and thus has a Curly icon rather than Sue.

 

14 spam threads in the Mods forum in 12 hours? That's just ridiculous...! :shock:

What spambots? I don't see any.

 

I was gonna post about this earlier, but my post got mucked up somehow and I didn't feel like re-typing the whole thing out >_>
Would it be worth getting one of those spam-preventer thingies and installing it on the forums? I think it would prevent a lot of work in the long run. It might even be needed only in the Mods forum, the way things are going currently.

 

What we need is to add captcha verification to the registration page and delete all of the spambot accounts. Though we would need SkyeWelse for both. I just sent him an email about it.

 

Least it's easy to avoid clicking on them, since almost every thread in the mods forum that's not spam is a "hot topic" and thus has a Curly icon rather than Sue.

But not all non-hot topics will be spam topics. Suppose a new mod pops up?

 

Well, I said easier. You're not gonna accidentally click it, but you still have to read the title to know if it's spam. I did say almost after all.

 

Ya know, I just looked through this entire thread, and I'd hate to be a thread zombifier or something, but couldn't we solve the colored text problem by adding a switch to the user CP that changes all text colors to one default color? So if somebody gets tired of having to highlight everything he reads, he can make it so that all the text comes out black. Rather than enforcing rules about how people can talk. It's the internet, free speech rules.

 

That would involve editing the stylesheet and the template, I believe. Which basically means that Skywelse is probably the only one who can do it.

 

Ya know, I just looked through this entire thread, and I'd hate to be a thread zombifier or something, but couldn't we solve the colored text problem by adding a switch to the user CP that changes all text colors to one default color? So if somebody gets tired of having to highlight everything he reads, he can make it so that all the text comes out black. Rather than enforcing rules about how people can talk. It's the internet, free speech rules.

Sorry but that makes it annoying for people that only colour a few words out of a post for emphasis and makes coloured posts pointless since only a few people would have the filter turned off. I would also like to point out that fully colouring a post has nothing to do with free speech. I could write this in coloured text or in default colour text, it still doesn't matter because it says the same thing either way with the only difference being that the coloured text would annoy anyone with a different skin to me.

That would involve editing the stylesheet and the template, I believe. Which basically means that Skywelse is probably the only one who can do it.

He would have to be fairly good at PHP too.

 

Oh, well it was just a thought. Thanks though.

 

Oh my – the whole first page of the Mods forum is flooded with spam...

At least I'm pretty sure it's spam.

 

Super-bumpa-rooney
New rule idea: No "reaction images". This is a forum, not an imageboard.

 

No what images?

 

Super-bumpa-rooney
New rule idea: No "reaction images". This is a forum, not an imageboard.

The forum's bandwidth that is.

 

No what images?

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I bet somebody's already posted one just to tick me off.

 

Super-bumpa-rooney
New rule idea: No "reaction images". This is a forum, not an imageboard.

 

Seriously?

No.

DoubleThink, I don't really like that idea.

It's kinda fun to do it, IMO.

 

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<Oversized image of somebody making a stupid face with little to no actual word content>

I bet somebody's already posted one just to tick me off.

The funny thing is, all the pictures that were posted had word(s) on them.

 

Personally, I don’t even know why we still have this thread. There are plenty of sites that pretend everyone is perfect, nice, and willing to cuddle with each other. Mirai Gamers should not be that place.