(12-10-2015, 01:54 AM)Romulator Wrote: [ -> ]I doubt spambots are capable of finding a "spam" section. I also don't think that's the greatest of ideas. Too much traffic coming in could result in a server overload and make things pretty nasty for a while.
It also makes the "View Today's Posts" and the "View New Posts" on the top of the forum a lot more messy and more difficult to weed through.
Then you could bring up the rule:
Every newest member must wait for approval of moderators for his every first 10 posts.
(12-12-2015, 08:28 AM)brus Wrote: [ -> ]Then you could bring up the rule:
Every newest member must wait for approval of moderators for his every first 10 posts.
Or something like it.
Our form of "approval" is generally dictated by your ability to click a link in the email address you provide when you sign up. Since you can be a registered user or a Guest and still spam (albeit, the spam on guests is tougher with the captcha software), there's not much stopping a user from advertising brands which are outside of the scope of the forum's acceptability until a moderator reviews it once it has been posted. If, of course, the advertising is beyond such scope, then the user is banned and their posts are removed.
Pretty much every forum and many internet sites will follow similar protocols unless there are specific websites which allow advertising - which are more susceptible to flooding, traffic, server downtimes and maintenance depending on how aggressively coded a bot is. This is something we want to avoid.
As a user who was recently introduced to how moderating works, I've been told to pretty much remove all spam and/or advertising posts which aren't suitable for the forum's scope and similar projects. Hence, I have not removed things like these, since such topics prompt discussions about SOMA's themes and questions which arise in the plot and background.
Yet, of course, I end up spending time removing these:
I think the "Fallout 4 stinks" was just a joke, over something that happened in the video. Now I don't know what video it was from, but perhaps a bug happened, and he went "Haha, Fallout 4 must really suck since that bug appeared".