Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: nickthird on February 03, 2013, 06:25 pm
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If you want people to get to know the forums, use a test, which I'm sure a lot of older users would fail.
This is equivalent to requiring 50 hours of Grand Turismo play time to get a drivers license.
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go for the 50hours of spam this n00b forum
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zzzz
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mmmmkay
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nope
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If you want people to get to know the forums, use a test, which I'm sure a lot of older users would fail.
This is equivalent to requiring 50 hours of Grand Turismo play time to get a drivers license.
The 50 post requirement isn't intended as a way to force people to "get to know the forums" -- although that would be the best way to use your time here. The 50 post requirement is in order to give us time to identify and delete the "virwex" aka "bitkoin" aka "bitcointalks" scammer's spam before it floods the rest of the forums.
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so when you catch him will we be able to use the main forum normally or is there still a post threshold to be reached?
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so when you catch him will we be able to use the main forum normally or is there still a post threshold to be reached?
When the spammer hits the forums, he is able to post over a dozen new threads within 60 seconds. As soon as we spot the posts, we delete them and the spammer's account. When one of us is online, we're usually able to catch and delete the spammer before they've reached the 50 post threshold, so he doesn't succeed in spamming the main forums. On the rare occasion that one of us is NOT online when the spammer hits, yeah, they might be able to post over 50 spam threads that then spill over into the main forums. For the most part though, we're able to catch them before this happens.