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[Tintinnabulate]

I have spammed that section before to increase my post count ... maybe disable it in there.

[Meanies]

It already is implemented, see Bolt660's post :S

what post...

[Hecktix]

This has now been sorted.

I would like to bring the following to everyone's attention:




This is posted clearly in this thread.


I think whilst it's lovely to welcome members to the forum, and this should be encouraged, posting simple words/phrases into all the threads is just too easy , and I don't think it would be great if everyone did this.


As Oli said, if you use the post report button, these things can be sorted quicker.

This post.

[Tintinnabulate]

I have spammed that section before to increase my post count ... maybe disable it in there.

Any opinions on that?

[Meanies]

oh somehow i missed that lol

[Hecktix]

Any opinions on that?

I think it appears too strict considering that's the first place new people post and new members often use it to get their post count out of the 5 post captcha limit which I have no issue with.

A member like yourself should know better to be honest although if your posts have some meaning and aren't "welcome to the forum" "welcome" "welcome to habboxforum" "welcome" "welcome" a million times then whether you call it spamming or not, if the posts have a good meaning then it's not - it's just if people post repeatedly with very short meaningless messages which we have an issue with.

[Tintinnabulate]

I think it appears too strict considering that's the first place new people post and new members often use it to get their post count out of the 5 post captcha limit which I have no issue with.

A member like yourself should know better to be honest although if your posts have some meaning and aren't "welcome to the forum" "welcome" "welcome to habboxforum" "welcome" "welcome" a million times then whether you call it spamming or not, if the posts have a good meaning then it's not - it's just if people post repeatedly with very short meaningless messages which we have an issue with.

I have only done it 3 times in 5 years and when I have, its been proper posts and never similar. Its always personalised depending on what the new user posted. Still, its easily used to increase post count.

[Inseriousity.]

I have spammed that section before to increase my post count ... maybe disable it in there.

And did you spam the section with useful, personalised messages designed to welcome the new user in each thread?
If yes then surely that's an incentive to keep the post count abled in that forum. It gives an incentive for members to post in that section (if they actually care about post count, that is) and if the messages are not just 'welcome to hxf, read the rules' then I see no problem with that.

[Hecktix]

And did you spam the section with useful, personalised messages designed to welcome the new user in each thread?
If yes then surely that's an incentive to keep the post count abled in that forum. It gives an incentive for members to post in that section (if they actually care about post count, that is) and if the messages are not just 'welcome to hxf, read the rules' then I see no problem with that.

You have summed it up perfectly

Hell I don't care what reason you people messages so long as it's not blatent spam, it could be argued that every post people make in forums where post count is enabled are to get up their post count