Reason: Wrist Slap
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Don't be a smart ass
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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).
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.
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.
I've been scolded more times here on vB than my own Mother
p.s. My Mom isn't a Hippy, just a nurturing person
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.
11-15-2009, 09:52 PM
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