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Spammers!
Posted by zokissima on Friday, July 16, 2004 7:39 AM
I don't mean to sound rude towards any member here, but I'm getting a little angry at some, and one in particular, members. I can see the administrative team taking an active role in regulating posts and threads and content and so forth. However, there is another form of abuse that has apparently been allowed to continue undebated. Spamming!!!
I understand that some people will post a quick reply or whatever for the sake of raising post counts. I can't lie, I've done it too on some occasions. However, today I signed on and to my disgust, there was a swarm of one member posting one and the same idiotic reply to every single applicable thread. This is not being a productive or even non-productive member of our community. It is simple and irritating spamming.
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Posted by ajlafleche on Friday, July 16, 2004 8:27 AM
I just can across this troll. Disapprove [V]
Admin/mods, can you deal with the poster who goes by the name "likewowmanthatscool" then posts the same line, "Like wow, man, that's cool!", repeatedly?
Thanks.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:30 AM
Taken care of. I'd been watching him earlier in the week, and he appeared to have lost interest in the game by Wednesday. Then this morning there was a whole slew of new the messages. We're not sure what he was trying to accomplish beyond being annoying.

Whenever you see something like that, feel free to zip me an e-mail about it.
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Posted by ajlafleche on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:39 AM
Thank you!Approve [^]Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 11:07 AM
Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

That's like, so appropriate man.
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Posted by zokissima on Friday, July 16, 2004 12:32 PM
lol, good oen Peridexion Smile [:)]

Thank you Lawrence!!!
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Posted by J-Hulk on Friday, July 16, 2004 12:44 PM
Yeah, that was getting kinda sickening. Thanks, Lawrence.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 1:34 PM
I agree 100%. This person signed up on July 10,2004 that was just 6 days ago. I did not know that we could e-mail admin about this kind of thing. My hats off to you for taking care of this problem. He has avg. 15 post a day all being this same line.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 2:45 PM
It's obviously a prankster, and I don't think there's any way (or professional spamming reason) for automating something like this. So somebody has to be taking the time to generate these posts manually. To deal with the problem, we have to take the time away from (1) producing a magazine and (2) doing maintenance or enhancements on the website. I guess it's the only way he feels he can have some sort of impact on the world.....
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 8:26 PM
A quick fix for admin to do is go in and lock out this screen name. This should stop this person from doing this and I bet if there were a poll taken on this matter most if not all members would say the same think. LOCK HIM OUT!!!!!!!! And that is my My 2 cents [2c]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 16, 2004 8:38 PM
I second the motion. All in favor say eye. Bailiff....
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, July 16, 2004 9:11 PM
Well he/she was irritating but fairly benign as Trolls go. Probably a 12 year old kid desperately in need of Ritalin.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:19 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Peridexion

I second the motion. All in favor say eye. Bailiff....
eye. Bailiff.....

thanks Zok for posting this thread.....

thanks Lawrence.......hated to see this place get trashed by mindless drivel.
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Posted by fightnjoe on Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:36 AM
fsm staff, thankyou.

joe

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:41 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by fightnjoe

fsm staff, thankyou.

joe


what he said!

It sure was getting annoying (I was about to report him myself.... )
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Posted by M1abramsRules on Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:38 AM
thanks Lawrence, i was about to send an email to either you or david today about him.
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Posted by David Voss on Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:17 PM
Whenever you spot something you want someone to take a look into, just email Lawrence Hansen, Michael Ellis, myself, or even to webmaster@finescale.com (for the webmaster account make sure to mention it's for FSM just in case -- it dumps to a multi-site account). Just look for the Email icon and send a message. Before they did the upgrade to our email systems, I even had messages from here being forwarded to my home email.

We do appreciate it when members contact us about problems on the site. Thanks!
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Posted by roadkill_275 on Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:40 PM
Is it gone? God that was so annoying!!
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Posted by fightnjoe on Saturday, July 17, 2004 5:52 PM
its not gone. the last six threads i looked at had it.

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Posted by ajlafleche on Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:05 PM
Whenever there's a troll infestation, two things are helpful, billygoats, >:-)~ and a can of Troll-B-Gone (tm) to spray on your monitor. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by David Voss on Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by fightnjoe

its not gone. the last six threads i looked at had it.


The account is locked so there shouldn't have been any new posts.
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Posted by fightnjoe on Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:58 PM
cool. i must have hit a few threads with older posts.

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Posted by yw18mc on Sunday, July 18, 2004 7:34 PM
I just can't understand what goes on in the minds of clowns like that!!!! thanks Dave and Lawerence, and forum members for ousting this parasite.
mike
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 19, 2004 10:41 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by yw18mc

I just can't understand what goes on in the minds of clowns like that!!!! thanks Dave and Lawerence, and forum members for ousting this parasite.


Actually, I believe it was Michael Ellis ("mellis") who locked out this particular offender.
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