Post Spams

[Agesilaus]

I think it's fine how it is; Person spams, mod gives them an infraction.

No no no no, we do not give infractions or warnings for spamming/pointless posts. There was a time when the spam forum was closed and at that time some smods gave out warnings for pointless posts instructed by the forum management, but only until the spam forum was open again, so if you got a warning for pointless posting on that day, that's fair.

But, if you've received a warning or infraction by a moderator recently for pointless posting, post in the Report Infraction Problems (link in my signature) and we'll look into it and remove it if that's the reason you received it.

They continue then they get banned.

Indeed. Repeated amount of pointless posting can result in a temporary ban, by pointless posts, I mean posts that aren't saying anything towards another post or about the thread topic. For example, saying "LOL!", "Yeah." "No. "Hmm".

Here is the rule with more examples:

B2. Don't post short or meaningless posts / spam - We don't want replies like "i dono" or "why" or "yeah". We have set the forum so that any message must contain at least 9 characters, do not try to get around this by adding meaningless characters.

If you notice someone spamming a lot, when you report a spam post, mention that they've been doing it a lot or private message a smod and we'll review their account's posts.

[sierk1]

I think it is hard to be stricter against people posting a lot of short messages. Some short messages are with the best intentions, we can't ask our moderators do decide which people should be punished for posting a short message, and which not.
Maybe it would be nice if we could set a limit to the amount of short post one person can make per day, but this is not an option in vBulletin. We can only set a minimum lenght per post for everybody, and I think this is already set up fine.

[Hitman]

No no no no, we do not give infractions or warnings for spamming/pointless posts. There was a time when the spam forum was closed and at that time some smods gave out warnings for pointless posts instructed by the forum management, but only until the spam forum was open again, so if you got a warning for pointless posting on that day, that's fair.

Ah they don't get warnings for spamming? I thought they did. My mistake!

But as I said it seems fine now.

[Agesilaus]

Ah they don't get warnings for spamming? I thought they did. My mistake!

They used to do it, I believe, but it's changed since, so yeah.

[Mentor]

A post count limit? Maybe you should think though your suggestions just a wincy bit more...

[---MAD---]

Spam is annoying definitely (if its done in the wrong places). Spam forum is for all the spam.

We could increase the minimum characters per post, thats a good idea however we cannot do any of the other suggestions on vBulletin.

The best thing to do is report any users in the Report rule breakers forum and an smod/admin will take care of it from there. Its very important you supply links as well.

[zeJosh]

Spam is annoying definitely (if its done in the wrong places). Spam forum is for all the spam.

We could increase the minimum characters per post, thats a good idea however we cannot do any of the other suggestions on vBulletin.

The best thing to do is report any users in the Report rule breakers forum and an smod/admin will take care of it from there. Its very important you supply links as well.

Thanks.
Good to know something might be done

[Hitman]

We could increase the minimum characters per post, thats a good idea however we cannot do any of the other suggestions on vBulletin.

Only problem with that is say the limit is 20, somebody would do this:

Lol............................................... ................................................

or something similar to bypass it, which is leaving the problem unsolved.

[Agesilaus]

Only problem with that is say the limit is 20, somebody would do this:

Lol............................................... ................................................

or something similar to bypass it, which is leaving the problem unsolved.

Lmao, ways around everything?

We edit for stuff like that as it is against the rules.

[today]

I would like to see the character limiter higher really Only thing is your allowed to avoid the limit in the forum games by doing

"four..........................."
"apples............................."