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This is a from a forum i've recieved nearly 20 infractions for trying to have fun in the spam section. Even deletes my post for nothing. This actually happens on two forums im on.

As you bring on this topic i will give an example that took place on this board. Sometimes someone is spamming the board with advertisements. This can happen on any board. As a board admin you want to keep those spam post under control and remvoed from public view as soon as possible, mostly banning the member that was spamming.

Once in a while you will have your regular member that, instead of doing what most members do and report such a spam post to staff to take care, finds it "funny" to respond to such spam post. Not reporting it and only bumping, or even quoting, the spam message.

As an admin i can not see the humor of such actions as it only helps the spammer gain more views. As an admin i can also see such a quoted spam post as spam itself, and might be tempted to infract the regular member for spamming also (which would probably ban him/her).

I think you got off very lightly.

Mmmh... nice topic :rolleyes:

I've been scolded more times here on vB than my own Mother :D

p.s. My Mom isn't a Hippy, just a nurturing person ;)

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Never mind, I'll probably get another infraction for posting my opinion on this matter.

If you don't dare today, then WHEN?

Of course everyone has been scolded in real life more than on the internets.

I've never received an infraction on any forum.

I'm a good boy. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/12/15.gif

People who do this are also in danger of getting accidently banned as the spammer, esp on these long telephone spam threads, as its easy to [over] scroll down to the bottom and end up infracting the reply rather than the original post.

This is the only board I've ever had an infraction or even a warning on and I regularly frequent many of them with tens of thousands of posts. They run a very tight ship here.

I had a guy try to sell a "fuel-less generator" on my Chevy truck site. He got quite animated when people on the board responded to him and challenging his claims.

I ended up having some fun, asking him in his spam thread if his generator would be compatible with the FCCM ... the Flux-Capacitor Control Module. Having energy without fuel would be cool when it takes 1.21 gigawatts to travel through time, would keep me from having to deal with plutonium-stealing terrorists who love to drive VW vans.

He never came back after that and only then I banned him, everyone had a good chuckle.

:up: Good times.

If I can I will ban myself :D

I think maybe he missed the point of this thread (but the spam that was posted above is gone now....)

This is the only Forum I have received an Infraction.

There is one really stupid forum -- a large one, and I don't know how --- that refuses to let members post links. They insist you re-write content for their site. For free, of course! They have somehow missed the point that the "web" is called the "web" because of links. HTML = hypertext. Hello?! I had two infractions for posting links to another site that answer the person's question. I left the site, what a waste of time. I feel sorry for anybody posting there expecting to get help.

Ridiculous.

what's this "infraction" you speak of?

HEY !!

Stop making fun of me !~!

Ahh very good point... and I have made smart comments but within 2 seconds of either reporting before the reply or afterwards so I'll keep that in mind although sometimes I just reply w/ REPORTED so it saves others time.

ahh very good point... :eek: :cool:

Ditto HOWEVER it was a misunderstanding of what was meant on my part and since then has been resolved and reversed. True this is a very tight run ship but if you speak and communicate to the staff here you'll see they are just like us... human ;) but sometimes have to abide by certain rules no matter what one time I posted a link to a funny video (very borderline it was) and it was removed but come to find out later half of the staff found it funny... well it might have been removed but at least some found it funny too and that's al I wanted so it was not so bad it was gone just the rules :D.

We are not alone in this ya'll they just have to do what they do and we can keep doing what we do but running off at the mouth as I have seen before does no good even if editing out comments to avoid trouble yet stating such?.... that should never have been posted but again as with everything that is strictly imo.

Mike