Reminder: Short posts are NOT always spam

It's been brought to my attention that a significant number of the reports here are regarding members posting short messages in a single forum section, or relatively short, one-sentence posts. This is a reminder that so long as the posts are on topic, and that short, one-word posts don't make up a signficant portion of a members postcount, there is little reason to report them. Members are more than welcome to stick to one or two forum areas they feel most comfortable in, provided that they post constructive material. There is nothing we can, or should do, to punish members that are not verbose or do not yet feel comfortable straying out of the Welcome forums.

That being said, please do feel free to report repeat offender necroposters (posting on unofficial threads with no replys for 1 month+), as well as phishers and actual spammers (repeated and nonsensical, off-topic messages). I will be more than happy to take care of these members.

In other news, I'll be tweaking the forum archiving settings soon so that necroposting shouldn't be much of an issue anymore.

No more gravedigging? YES
Although I love how you put it...

[ADMIN] Faded Wings wrote: necroposting

XD

What about introduction spammers?

Ok

Broeder wrote:What about introduction spammers?

If they're mixing it up and are somewhat constructive in their introduction replys, I don't have much problem with them. The main thing to realize is I'm not going to ban someone for welcoming 30+ people to our forums. They might get a verbal warning and at worst, a two-day ban. But nothing permanent. Unless it's a significant problem or they're copying/pasting replys, there's little need to report it.

Please don't make it remove guides when they get old. The guides don't get less useful for that.

Cool, thanks a lot! This will be very helpful to Guest too!

*waits for the next update to spam on the first page*

»Mîkäd¿« wrote:Cool, thanks a lot! This will be very helpful to Guest too!

*waits for the next update to spam on the first page*

What about the people that post nothing but things like "Gl" and "nice" on threads? Or the ones like the post above yours?

Edit: Oh, and thanks for lowering the chances of a thread being gravedug.

Calvin & Hobbes wrote:Please don't make it remove guides when they get old. The guides don't get less useful for that.

I can incorporate different limits for different forum sections, don't worry

ok

[ADMIN] Theta Zero wrote:

Calvin & Hobbes wrote:Please don't make it remove guides when they get old. The guides don't get less useful for that.

I can incorporate different limits for different forum sections, don't worry

Thanks, good to know

I wish i'd seen this topic before, as there are several people on here who are getting confused with short posts that are being accused as spam. I think these are the same people from the troll catagory. You know, the ones who constantly flame, troll, and attack other members.

`Sonic` wrote:Cool, thanks a lot! This will be very helpful to Guest too!

*waits for the next update to spam on the first page*

lol..

this clears things up a lot lol

^ what he said. lol.

and what am i doing wrong sonic? if you see how i have replied on threads, its not excessively, or even off topic. so idk what the problem is.

dom1 wrote:^ what he said. lol.

and what am i doing wrong sonic? if you see how i have replied on threads, its not excessively, or even off topic. so idk what the problem is.

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It's a code to say the forum name of whoever is reading the post/thread. The code is {username} but "username" has to be all caps.
Ex: Guest has been spamming these forums forever!

Precor wrote:

dom1 wrote:^ what he said. lol.

and what am i doing wrong sonic? if you see how i have replied on threads, its not excessively, or even off topic. so idk what the problem is.

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It's a code to say the forum name of whoever is reading the post/thread. The code is {username} but "username" has to be all caps.
Ex: Guest has been spamming these forums forever!

Right well if i have spammed im sorry il make more of a effort to check over my post a few times before posing.

so am i in any trouble about makeing guides and reseving space

yddet wrote:so am i in any trouble about makeing guides and reseving space

If by reserving space you mean posting "res" or "reserved" as a post then no, but try and keep it within an understandable amount depending on what your guide is about and what you could really use/need those spaces for.

Example: If you posted a guide about Firemaking and made ten "reserved" posts, that would be major overkill.

the ff13 cieth stone mission guide im makeing atm cant get anywhere near all on a few posts i just seem to keep maxing out the letters limit half way thru a part.

but ill try not to reserve to much space in the future if i can

ok

Precor wrote:

dom1 wrote:^ what he said. lol.

and what am i doing wrong sonic? if you see how i have replied on threads, its not excessively, or even off topic. so idk what the problem is.

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It's a code to say the forum name of whoever is reading the post/thread. The code is {username} but "username" has to be all caps.
Ex: Guest has been spamming these forums forever!

Thank God for your explanation haha. I was like for a minute there

Theta Zero wrote:

Broeder wrote:What about introduction spammers?

If they're mixing it up and are somewhat constructive in their introduction replys, I don't have much problem with them. The main thing to realize is I'm not going to ban someone for welcoming 30+ people to our forums. They might get a verbal warning and at worst, a two-day ban. But nothing permanent. Unless it's a significant problem or they're copying/pasting replys, there's little need to report it.

Hi i have gotten 2 warning now about this and i would like to ask what the problem is? as you can see in this quote i have done nothing but help the new comers. When i first joined i was indeed copy and pasting a reply (but if you took it upon yourself to check what i was actually copy and pasting, it wasnt a simple line of text, it was a fat chunck of text with nothing but useful,on topic, information about sections of the forums that i, myself, experienced in my first few days of becoming a member, i pointed out that SM offers free guides and gave information on VIP and what it has to offer (as i bought VIP within the first day of joining the forums). It was not mindless spamming; the replys i gave, im sure, helped a lot of the newcomers. And now again im getting warnings about this same topic (this time it is just normal welcomes that are not copy and pasted and if you would again take it upon yourself to look through all of them you would see they are all different in content but are all on topic and are just simply to welcome unanswered intoduction newcomers to these fine forums. As you can see i am already a VIP (going into my second month of membership) therefore i am not post hunting as i already have access to all the tiers and what not, i am doing this out of pure friendly-ness towards newcomers!

if i may quote a quote "The main thing to realize is I'm not going to ban someone for welcoming 30+ people to our forums." ~Theta Zero

Why am i being punished or warned for taking it upon myself to help the newcomers when no one else is answering their posts. It does not do them justice and frankly from my point of view is kinda messed up that no one at all is greeting them. And because of this (again from MY point of view) may be deterring most people to staying a part of this forums because they think it isnt really active or that they might feel that no one cares for their presence. Again this is all from my point of view at the time of writing this post.

Posting on introductions is not a bad thing to do, most people limit themselves to 2 - 3 a day (was sort of an un-spoken rule) but from what I have seen a lot of your introduction posts have been on 2 week+ old threads where the Thread poster has either never came back to the forums OR the thread poster has already been around for a while and has already gotten their post count up.

PS. I made an introduction thread when I joined and no one posted on it.

Like i said in the last post, no one greeting them may have been the reason they didnt stick around, it might have given them the impression that this forum isnt very active or that the higher ups dont care about little old them. This is just my opinion and the way i am looking at it right now. Im sorry if this is indeed spamming, but in no way shape or form am i, or will ever be, sorry for my kindness towards newcomers or in general. It doesnt seem right to have them ignored, after all every rank here in SM was a newcomer at some point... Imagine if they felt the same way after being ignored or having no one take interest in the fact that they joined seeking help.