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I'll draft some new rules that'll hopefully help prevent (or at least tone down) these spam-like behaviors - regardless if you're human, bot or a cybernetic organism with living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
Bots! I thought the ban was on bobs.. phew!!
How long will that take? Will you share it with us here?
From what i understand posting is already limited to at most 5 posts per minute, which might be a bit much but to be honest if such a limitation was tried as an actual counter measure to automated posting it would still be mostly meaningless to automated posters when it's already heavily affecting ordinary humans for the longest time. Sadly i don't think that would be a promising approach.
Yeah this not lowendbots this is lowendtalk
Same spamming is going on in https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/190499/b-l-a-c-k-i-s-h-f-r-i-d-a-y-s-a-l-e-fiberstate-mega-sale-giveaways-kaboom#latest
Well... As a different level spam...2k comments in total where the purple thread single person 12k comments
Why "humans only" instead of "bots forbidden"?
Dogs have the right to be on the Internet just like humans.
Lmao.
That's true as well.
No.
Very much like i hate when my cat tries fixing my code. He's not half as good of a programmer as he thinks he is. Dogs being even less able i don't want them here. Specicism ftw.
Well, this is what my cat does most of the time.
But, two very scary guard dogs are an essential component of a basement host.
Since one of the dogs got sold, they went downhill fast.
Perhaps there should also be a rule for threads that create a lot of spam, such as a maximum duration limit of 15 to 20 days ?
There a lot of Human robots provoked by some providers with endless the same replies in awaiting for a miracle.
Like:
DOUBLE MY DISK
I WANT FREE PSP4
How about this?
Good boy(?)! To fair the code fixing mostly happens when i'm violating SLA. Table isn't much of a place of interest in general but he's smart enough to know that messing around there will force me to increase urgency on complaints leveled towards management of bowl contents.
Robot ChatGPT powered spam detected, please ban.
We are considering this and plan to make a duration limit on giveaway threads.
That's true. Never sell your DDoS sniffer, otherwise... Well, we know how that went.
Yeah, boy, and he's a fluffy "senior".
12 (cat) years old, so that's like 65 for humans, and he weighs 8 kilos
If anyone is offering any rewards including physical rewards it would be nice to request a report. Or any of the results of the drawling.
Mine is probably about 14-15 now. One eye had to be removed due to a fighting injury and the other is badly damaged from a resulting infection (he's basically blind), teeth had some kind of exotic disease that caused them to disintegrate from the root outwards and had to all be removed to stop accompaning inflammation (interestingly cats don't seem to be bothered by this much at all in regards to industrial food - he's just always a bit confused when he tries to bite me and it just doesn't want to work) and he somehow managed to contract kitty flu. Still he's jumping around quite happily (navigating known areas or climbing stuff surprisingly works mostly flawless despite being blind - going outside is obviously no longer an option due the fact that he'd get lost). We make quite a good match (just don't ask how much i've payed in vet bills...)
How will duration limit help on spam? Providers will just move to 'points based system' for prizes and to get a big one you will need to spam on 3 threads rather than 1. Nothing will change
If a human posts 1k posts about proverbs or colors in a thread. Should he be banned too?
Giveaways are randomized based on limited responses, which is better than unlimited comparison of the number of posts.
The user with the most posts gets a super giveaway, the reason for 1k posts. Put some restrictions on this.
Other rule changes are also under consideration.
Us robots are always getting discriminated against... just you wait!
Ello guis! Nice meetin ya! No ban me, OK?
I am all up for free speech but frankly over the years I have seen people trying to plug in their affiliate links via signature in every hole they can find. This apart from thread bumping takes meaning away from good discussions and usually derails threads. I think only providers & host reps shud be allowed links in their signatures. This wud immediately stop a lot of pointless comments.
Yea, some members the new rules will see as a direct challenge... Mods, admins, do not engage into discussion before rules are updated. There is some very dark and ominous lurkers in this forum which may feel trigerred.
don't forget that one dude who always post their aff in every request thread, regardless their chicken is fit to the thread starter or not. forgot the name, but i recall the active members are calling them out on it too