Just for ads :(
I dont like how all these people join just to post a ad about their wab site. Or to just for us to review their site. Can we do anything to do away with these people? You people are too busy helping the people who come and go to help the loyal members. Comments?
Renegade posted this at 02:28 — 3rd April 2005.
He has: 3,022 posts
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Sadly, there isn't much that we can do about this problem, and yes, it is a big problem.
The only thing we can do is ask for every other members help and not to give reviews to those who have not followed the rules. As for the ad posters, we are still looking for a real solution.
Megan posted this at 13:49 — 4th April 2005.
She has: 11,421 posts
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THat post you encountered before you posted here should have been moved to the Market Place. It is now. Anything that is an ad should be moved to Market Place or deleted. If you see a post that you think is questionable please use the "report bad post" link.
If you want to know some of the rationale behind our Critques policy please do a search in the Forum Specific Comments area. The topic has come up a few times.
Speaking of the correct placement of posts, this one belongs in Forum Specific Comments, so I will move it there.
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Ashe posted this at 23:46 — 4th April 2005.
They have: 25 posts
Joined: Mar 2005
it may just be a fact of life of majority of msg bds.
you can look at it as glass half empty or glass half full. the website is definitely getting around.
i will keep coming back.
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james.thornton posted this at 20:21 — 11th April 2005.
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Joined: Jan 2005
To be honest, I think the solution is to advertise, and get more quality members. Obviously advertising can be expensive, but with the correct and strategic placement of affiliate ads, this place could easily earn itself some advertising, and hence members of a good quality.
James
farmer_Tom posted this at 02:36 — 13th April 2005.
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Well, do we have a rule asking for three site reviews before you post your own site? I've seen it on other boards, and it really cuts the spam.
Also, you could say that accounts are inactive until you post five posts, that would kill of the spammers
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Renegade posted this at 02:54 — 13th April 2005.
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Yes, we do have that rule here, but, people either don't want to follow it, don't read it or a combination of both
Megan posted this at 13:23 — 13th April 2005.
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It's not a rule, it's a guideline and we have deliberately chosen not to force people to follow it. If you want to know why, try doing a search in this forum. The subject has come up before many times.
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cpellizzi posted this at 03:51 — 13th April 2005.
He has: 57 posts
Joined: Apr 2005
oh yeah, my first post was an ad... but at least I am not just leaving the forum...lol
andy206uk posted this at 14:43 — 13th April 2005.
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It happens on all forums. I moderate a board at talkspeeding.co.uk it's about car stuff and we get loads of people signing up asking a question, finding what they need to know and then never coming back. Very few people actually come back frequently.
Andy
F Stop posted this at 20:34 — 13th April 2005.
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Joined: Jan 2005
I agree, it is annoying, but it happens on every forum I've ever been on (including mine). TWF is more lenient about it than most.
JESSEE007 posted this at 02:42 — 16th May 2005.
They have: 23 posts
Joined: May 2005
Hey, as long as its not spam I'm cool with it...
dojo posted this at 14:15 — 19th May 2005.
She has: 87 posts
Joined: Dec 2004
This is something that makes me snap too. In all boards I post .. and I do post in 50 or more now, I don't even think about asking a review until I have proved I can also give back to the community. I'm not in a forum to promote myself blatantly, but discreetly
Although I think some of these spammers are quite successful into this.
Well .. anyway ... coming straight and placing an ad or a ask for review is if I might say RUDE. So I don't quite like people who do this. Come, review some sites, write some quality posts, make yourself respected a bit and then I'll review 1000 sites for you
andy206uk posted this at 12:20 — 23rd May 2005.
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I don't know if Vbulletin supports it, but in some systems it's possible to disallow certain functionality until a member has posted x number of posts... perhaps we could turn off sig and profile functionality until they have posted 10 posts or something... or do you think that would just increase the amount of rubbish posts we get?
Andy
demonhale posted this at 23:48 — 29th May 2005.
He has: 3,278 posts
Joined: May 2005
Spam are bad, but appropiately named forum like this one would attract webmasters, but most of the time webmaster beginners would be attracted too, which would like also to share something to W3 community. What better way for them to learn from unselfish people some tricks and get some feedbacks to their sites (good or bad). This would help us grow, and who knows maybe one of the forum members site will fly off and will give credit to people who has helped him/her along the way...
Its really cool that there is a seperate Web Critique area, those that would like to critique and be critiqued would directly go there, for those that post ads and never come back, we just ignore them and nothing will happen.
If you dont want to help, dont go to that specific thread, thats as easy as it can get.
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