09-10-2011, 07:23 PM
Over the past few day's i've been noticing the spammer trend for the feather increase. And without any mods around because it happens more frequently now, something usually doesn't get done until the today's posts thread query fills up with 2-3 and sometimes even 4 (on my count) pages worth of junk one liner posts on old threads. Some of which were even as far back as 2008. Some spammers just don't care, and it's gotten to the point where even if the feather does do good for the forum's activity, what good is it (for how silly it looks) when you end up banning %60-%80 of the members trying for the award?
Just because the award exists and it's becoming more popular for HF members to get, you need to have either:
A) Super active moderators
or
B) More moderators
And that's just to account for the feather to try and maintain the quality of the forum here before it turns into a dusty old archive of LQ posts that don't make any sense, are irrelevant to the Original post, or don't do any good for the thread itself (which is almost about the best you can get with this kind of spam). You only get maybe 1 or 2 out of every 8-10 spammers from what i've seen that are decent members who don't spam because they actually have the time to read the rules instead of focusing on that feather goal.
Very very silly, and now more than ever something really needs to be changed. Over the past 3 or 4 days, i've came back and noticed the today's post link full of 3-4 pages of spammers, and unlike before, now it's usually a combination of 2-3 spammers consistently.
This can't be ignored anymore. No excuses as I see it, it was manageable a while back when the forum was less noticeable, but now that it's becoming more noticeable to that HF world, you can't keep using the same old methods to better this site, because it seems to be doing more bad with the increase in spammer flow here.
~Ace
Just because the award exists and it's becoming more popular for HF members to get, you need to have either:
A) Super active moderators
or
B) More moderators
And that's just to account for the feather to try and maintain the quality of the forum here before it turns into a dusty old archive of LQ posts that don't make any sense, are irrelevant to the Original post, or don't do any good for the thread itself (which is almost about the best you can get with this kind of spam). You only get maybe 1 or 2 out of every 8-10 spammers from what i've seen that are decent members who don't spam because they actually have the time to read the rules instead of focusing on that feather goal.
Very very silly, and now more than ever something really needs to be changed. Over the past 3 or 4 days, i've came back and noticed the today's post link full of 3-4 pages of spammers, and unlike before, now it's usually a combination of 2-3 spammers consistently.
This can't be ignored anymore. No excuses as I see it, it was manageable a while back when the forum was less noticeable, but now that it's becoming more noticeable to that HF world, you can't keep using the same old methods to better this site, because it seems to be doing more bad with the increase in spammer flow here.
~Ace