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We want to reduce the spam in the offers category - share your ideas!
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Simple solution: always put bot/spamming sales threads BELOW the clean sales threads which always come first.
Nice side effect: motivates and rewards providers to run clean sales threads.
this has always held me back. is a second account allowed for something like this?
The forum needed weighted approach, based on certain weightage, new deals, may be ranked higher, non provider posts will have lower priority for the home page. One of the top navigation should have link to offers, then LEB, discussion etc follow through.
Simple solution in Vanilla? The best you can do is manually sink a thread every time.
There's nothing simple about Vanilla. It's more effective to simply forbid that crap in the rules and be done with it.
No, of course not. But it's a tech community where people discuss servers, VPNs, etc... so who can really stop you if you want to do it? Not that I encourage it, of course.
No they won't...
Providers could just offer 2GB RAM and 2TB b/w from the start, without offering 1GB RAM + 1TB b/w and then this "spam our thread to get 2GB/2TB" noncery
That's the VirmAche Way ™️.
VirmAche figured out this advanced bandwidth doubling technology since 2019.
so closed threads have been reopened? business as usual then
The attempt was made by a moderator, seems like without consulting others and this led to the action being struck down and here we are
Anyone hoping this will ever change is living in an alternate reality
well im not a huge fan of the double my bandwidth stuff since YABS dont use all that much but it works well for racknerd, and he did give all those giveaways for engagement.
I don't know how repeat forum traffic works, but analytics should be much better than before this started. ads revenue etc.
so unless there's an alternative method to replace traffic organically, this aint going away soon.
but my main point is
looking forward to the next megathread
MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
You are making many assumptions here. Please wait. Once the gate is open, it's very hard to close it again. So many of you have waited this long, just give it a few more days. It's not business as usual. Someone took the first step, let's not be so quick to strike it down.
Threads that are locked in place say for 2 weeks regardless of posts could be a temporary solution. Sort of like a ort by date opened per 14 days instead of sort by newest post. This is just a temporary example.
I hope whay you say is true.
I have put it b4. The previous thread was opened by the Owner @jbiloh , and nothing hapoened. Infact in April 2024... he posted things were finalized. There was hope and light at the end of the tunnel...
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3944318/#Comment_3944318
And here we are.
How does one define a few more days? Without a set end date this is nothing more than fluff.
It is what it is.
If changes do happen, I am happy for the community. If not, I am still going to be happy.
If you are asking for my suggestions, and I am not here to criticize any moderation:
I am quite fed up with the gamification topics that ask for “respond with some kind of sentence and maybe you will win something.” When I see a topic with 143 comments since the last time I have read it, I expect a major thing happened at the provider.
But what I also would really appreciate: clear rules. As soon as this topic was opened, a lot of questions were raised. I’d vouch for making clear rules. Give examples of what is allowed and what not. I do not like the “go try and find out yourself”-way. After all, we want a constructive community and want clarity of what is allowed and what not. Most of us would like to avoid receiving any warnings. It would be nice if we can just build a list. The annoucement about the sales rules would be a great example of what I would love to see.
After all, we have a big community with a broad diversity of users. One is willing to take the risk, others are more risk averse and try to stay clean on the warnings.
Traffic is here cause of some really nice deals provided catering to a niche market.
But that has also led to providers coming and making unsustainable offers and scamming people left and right leading to them either deadpool or being banned.
The cycle continues every few months. So definitely the level of engagement stays high organically
I think there is some disconnect with whay community wants and what the forum owners want.
$$$ comes in play and overshadows many things.
Post crap to win a giveaway.
It just works... causes more users to sign up and post.
It looks good to show how popular the forum is with active users. Whether the content generated is questionable or constructive, does not matter.
i would imagine in the past any flash deal links could be reposted elsewhere, without the real need to come here.
now with double my xxx engagement its a whole bunch of metrics improved; (active) new forum members forum posts etc. all the once dormant members and lurkers are now called to action
then comes all the other giveaways, megathreads, after party transfer requests etc.
this is definitely not by chance.
Simple solution: threads move down as they get replies
A possible option that came to mind (maybe already mentioned, not sure):
Add the ability for people to hide threads in the offers forum from showing up on the index page.
That way if someone is in the market for a service, they simply click the Offers category from the sidebar on the index page.
If Vanilla has no functionality to do that, maybe there can be an browser script to do it, hosted publicly on GitHub where anyone can review the source code, possibly maintained by LET staff?
But which thread goes down and which doesn't?
Every thread goes one step down for every reply
Yeah and the weird part is, most of the double xx engagements are geared towards bandwidth. I recollect seeing providers post that hardly 10 - 15% of network capacity is utilized.
Many users will probably never even hit a few 100gbs let alone couple tbs or unlimited.
Sure, it's more like a flex option, I got xx for same price. But nothing else.
And for thr most part as we all know
Thay would be an awesome feature. Good luck with this forum existing any more.
I’ll start a petition.
How?
As soon as someone replies to the thread in offers section, the mod will need to manually push the thread sink button?
If the answer is yes, then once again, it's reinventing the wheel as it's more effective to simply forbid that crap in the rules and be done with it.
No, instead of a reply bumping a thread up, it lowers it down one step. I can code this no worries.
Ok.
Will you sign the petition?