Do you guys think spam is a bad thing? I my self hate spam, whats you appionion?
The forums on Ice's Zelda Central is flooded with it. We get all of these guests with some really weird names (and crappy jokes) trying to sell us some kind of medicine. A couple of them were women trying to hook up with a guy (a stupid thing to do over the internet, really). A few are very inappropriate. I wish Ice would give someone like Princess Zelda or me the power to delete them. Well, I hope it's me, because I reply to some of them, ridiculing them. Some of the spam has been fun to ridicule, especially the one with bad grammar.
It sucks, I think there should be a spam forum here and try to keep less in the chatboard.
I went over to medlis forum, It was jack full of spam. I couldn't find a thing, what makes a forum good, is a board that allows spam. Not the entire thing. Because the admin has to go through all that work, and delet it all, and thats realy not fair to the admin.
Spam is evil. I hate it when I'm looking for something and can't find it because of spam. It's usually quite pathetic.
I kinda hate spam. There is more than one type of spam though. When i first became a mod, I'd bust people hard for spamming, but i got easier on em cuz off-topicness (a form of spam) is common and happens by mistake.
The other form of spam, i got no mercy for if its outside the spam forum. Like Hi no Seijin said, on some forums there are people selling medicines. Those i lock up.
spam is one of the most annoying things that can happen on the forums. It gets in the way of ACTUAL discussion.
Well, a good amount of the spam on Medli's forum is courtesy of Evilbob.
yeah, spam takes away from the whole forumy thing we have going here...
butttt, i enjoy a little spam, just every once in a while...
Yah yah. It can be fun but it gets in the way.
And it does NOT taste good.
Spam Spam Spam. It is fun to say though. Spam Spam.
Spam is evil and very annoying (usually)
I second that thought.
Spammers just want to ruin topics and forums.Really,they're getting 1 warning closer to a ban. ::)
And my fellow cohorts, Jack and I will be there to stop them every step of the way.
That sounded cliche.
Quote from: Sora on August 24, 2006, 09:05:35 PM
Do you guys think spam is a bad thing? I my self hate spam, whats you appionion?
spam is nothing more then meat bi-products.
Yeah, a bit like corned beef. But not quite.
With a name like Spam who would want to eat it. :D
Oops thats kinda Spam isn't it.
Spammers suck! (what they suck we do not know)
Sorry Spam again.
I'll just stop talking now...
I'm glad Jack made it so they can't post here. For the love of God, look at all the spam-bots that are signing up. All of them are trying to sell prescription drugs online. I don't want Tramadol! I don't want Xanax! I don't want Phetermine! Geez!
Yeah seriously at least half of the regular posters aren't even 15. And the other half aren't over 25.
Who do they think they are selling to.
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on August 26, 2006, 09:33:15 AM
I'm glad Jack made it so they can't post here. For the love of God, look at all the spam-bots that are signing up. All of them are trying to sell prescription drugs online. I don't want Tramadol! I don't want Xanax! I don't want Phetermine! Geez!
Wait, wouldn't it be a good idea if Jack incorporated a sort of Numbers system to prevent the signing up of all those bots? Hmm...
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on August 26, 2006, 09:33:15 AM
I'm glad Jack made it so they can't post here. For the love of God, look at all the spam-bots that are signing up. All of them are trying to sell prescription drugs online. I don't want Tramadol! I don't want Xanax! I don't want Phetermine! Geez!
maybe this should be in general discussion, and I totally agree, I don't even know what Phetermine is for the love of wayne grady.
I can move this over to the General discussion. It is discussable so it will probably be ok there.
Ehh I thought it was better in the chatoard but whatev....I mean we all think it is bad.
Man, I'm certainly glad you get banned for it. :)
Yeah this is a good topic for discussion...
Spam is such a bad thing any many ways, I can not think of, but I get spam mail all the time, and it drives me crazy, I even get spam in non junk mail. :o
I have my email set to get rid of all my bulk.
I hope to go down in history as Jack the Spam-Slayer for my valiant efforts as slaying spamming. And how I did so is quite ingenious. Because all spammers are just programs designed to apply to forum with phony email and real username/password, login with said credentials, and then automatically post spam topics, I decided to put a kink in the process they utilized. By requiring all new members to log in the first time with a randomly generated password that's emailed to them, and because robot spammers can't check their email, there are no spam posts!
Now, I just have to take a day and delete all the spam accounts.
Though, they do make the forum look much more popular, geh heh heh.
lol yeah that may bring the count down.
Quote from: Nabooru on August 26, 2006, 01:19:29 PM
I have my email set to get rid of all my bulk.
You....have....bulk? :-*
Anyway, splendid, Jack!
You know the folder for all the spam? That is what it is called it just automatically deletes it now.
I'm still confused on what spam is. :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X
How do you bulk spam on email?
haw?
Longer posts, PM when you read this, you said you had your email set to get rid of all your bulk, how do you do that in other words, PM me.
Well sorry I had nothing more to say. ANd I will put it here so other people can see it. If you have yahoo mail you go to the first page. Over on the side above inbox it says folders: add- edit. Click on edit. Go down to bulk and off to the side click options. On the top it says spam filter read it and then click on the first bullet. If you have ?s you can pm me.
Oh, ok, I'll do that, thanks. :)
Quote from: Link104 on August 26, 2006, 02:12:12 PM
I'm still confused on what spam is. :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X
Spam is a meat by-product. However, we're talking in interent lingo, meaning spam is a pointless post. It can be getting off topic, posting one word, or posting multiple times in a row. Spambots are programs that join forums or make posts as guests trying to sell us something we most likely don't need, such as Viagra or phentermine, which seems to be really popular these days.
Quote from: Sora on August 26, 2006, 01:01:57 PM
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on August 26, 2006, 09:33:15 AM
I'm glad Jack made it so they can't post here. For the love of God, look at all the spam-bots that are signing up. All of them are trying to sell prescription drugs online. I don't want Tramadol! I don't want Xanax! I don't want Phetermine! Geez!
maybe this should be in general discussion, and I totally agree, I don't even know what Phetermine is for the love of wayne grady.
Phentermine (I screwed up the spelling) is an appetite supressent used to control obesity. I did not know that off the top of my head.
Pardon my English, but if Jack hadn't updated the security when he did, all Hell would be breaking loose right now with all of those ad-bots signing up.
Yep and I didnt know what phentermine was either.
Quote from: Gamefreak on August 26, 2006, 07:57:35 PM
Pardon my English, but if Jack hadn't updated the security when he did, all Hell would be breaking loose right now with all of those ad-bots signing up.
Unfortunately, all hell is breaking loose over at IZC. :(
What is that? Is it anything the Spam-Slayer can help with? :D
If he can get Ice to get some kind of anti-spam software for his forums, then yes. Or if Jack can convince Ice to give someone the power to at least delete the spam, then that would work too.
What is the website?
How, whats going on? Major time spam?
I was lookin at stuff and this random forum popped up, not going to recamend that one.
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on August 26, 2006, 08:17:34 PM
What is the website?
It's Ice's Zelda Central; the link is on the side.
One way might be to require one of those visual code confirmations. Programs can't work around those.
How sad is your life when all you do is put ads for drugs on a site directed at teens.
well, then almost 10% of the Internet population is sad then ;D
I won't deny that, although I think maybe you're underestimating the Internet.