Spammers and Trolls

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  1. Loading

    Loading Regular Member

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    Do you tolerate people who spam? What about trolls?

    People who spam just to catch the attention of the administrator thinking they will have a better chance of earning a position in the moderators team really annoys me. I don't tolerate them.

    Trolls can be funny in the beginning but trust me, it gets really annoying after a day. Trolls tend to make fun of others, but after some time they run out of "jokes" and start being offensives. I don't tolerate them.
     
  2. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    Spammers I give a warning, trolls I just ban... dont tolerate them at all.
     
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  3. Sakura

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    Same as what Terrorz said. Except about spammers if its a spam bot it would be a instant ban. :P
     
  4. Loading

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    Spam bots are IP banned from my forum, those are so annoying.
     
  5. Kaiser

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    I agree, luckily any spam bots havent joined because of xenForo's way to block them.
     
  6. BlazingBlue

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    Yet another reason XenForo rules. Usually I'll have a hard time with Spam bots but with Xenforo thats all taken cared of.
     
  7. Loading

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    That's nice, I hope MyBB develop a way to block them too.
     
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    On vbulletin you see them allover the place, 1 day of forum open you see 500 on your forum im like wow wtf.?
     
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    The same happens with MyBB forums with no email activation. My old forum used to get 5-15 posts each day from these spammers :(
     
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  10. Kaiser

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    Yea when I had my mybb gaming forum open about 23 members were bots. Very annoying,
     
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  11. Loading

    Loading Regular Member

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    That's why I have email activation enabled :)
     
  12. Kaiser

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    I also had it enabled too, but it dosent stop them from joining, they just cant post.
     
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    Loading Regular Member

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    That's true. Some of the bots did some good quality posts on my old board but some made threads about viagra :(
     
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    Haha same here, and some would make threads about how to get legal weed and stuff like that :P
     
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    True, some just had some weird letters and links on their signatures :p
     
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    Well see, for me it depends on the type of spamming being done. I don't want people spamming the crap out of my forum with porn, illegal, or explicit things, and I don't want them spamming as far as advertising goes either, but I have a board strictly for Spamming Called the Spam Zone, it's for forum games and stuff like that it's the only place that kinda stuff is allowed.

    Other than that, I don't tolerate any kind of spamming or flaming.
     
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  17. Kaiser

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    Well said :) Spam is very annoying.
     
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    Indeedio ;P
     
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    I get annoyed with email validation, becuase some forums tend to abuse that and constantly send newsletters regardless of your contact options =\
     
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  20. Kaiser

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    I agree to, I also never read them.
     

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