11 replies to this topic

[DDemon]

I find it quite distracting having them spam around in the forums, However they are taken care of swiftly by the forum mods.

It's quite easy to prevent 90% of this spam however... Make the forum check the number of battles one has played using that account, and allow people to only be able to post after x battles. Not only would it reduce spam, but limit the amount of modding the forum mods have to do as-well. I do realize one can work around this, but obviously it would take more effort and it's not as easy as an automated script.

[eat3reat3r]

good idea PS gamespy picture?

[Gohibniu]

Good idea
I would like to put a gold round right up their wazzu sometimes!

[vonKrimm]

Cannot do that as people that are legit new players would not be able to ask questions until they have played a fight....and one of those questions could be a "how do I...." type that gets WoT running on their PC.

I do not know what the answer is,but locking-out potential new players from the forums may not be the best idea.

[W4lt3r]

They should make the Catchpha bit harder, along with add maybe some basic math into the catchpha..
Ie - Word catchpha and after that a math cathcpha.
Would stop the bots at least.

[furcalor]

I think how fast the gold spam posts get deleted should be an example to a lot of other forums out there.

[DanH]

vonKrimm, on Apr 18 2012 - 10:39, said:

Cannot do that as people that are legit new players would not be able to ask questions until they have played a fight....and one of those questions could be a "how do I...." type that gets WoT running on their PC.

I do not know what the answer is,but locking-out potential new players from the forums may not be the best idea.

It is a pretty simple idea and you could have a special subforum for newbies questions. That way the mods only have one place they have to keep a real close eye and the noobs can still get help

Dan

[tony81]

Have new players that send a burst of posts flagged and have mod notified. Maybe in place.

[Sabertoothpython]

Rather than limit posts, I think limit topics

[tony81]

Good point

[SMScannonfodder]

And maybe limit posts by those who have large negative reputations as they tend to be trolls anyway.

[death666grim]

furcalor, on Apr 18 2012 - 10:53, said:

I think how fast the gold spam posts get deleted should be an example to a lot of other forums out there.

I never see gold spam in WoW forum...