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Blazer is currently offline  Blazer
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Listen up all you Plecos-Posters. We (the moderators and most of the forum-goers) are sick of seeing you poop all over every post that is made.

Crimson tried giving you a spam forum, in hopes that you would go there to post your "funny" pictures and leave it out of the rest of the forum, but apparently your goal is not to share funny pictures, but rather to ruin conversations in the other forum sections.

Thus this is malicious and willing disregard of the forum rules and so I'm stepping in. You cannot say you had no warning as I have posted several warnings and locked several threads. Seriously, I am fairly surprised that you guys even spam the Hot Topics forum, the one place where people are expecting halfway intelligent conversation. Crimson, I, and the moderators are tired of having to warn, move, and delete pictures of plecos, llamas, and such every 4 hours from the forums.

That being said, since you subtle warnings are obviously not enough, the first people that are currently banned are:

Canadacdn: 1 day [Edit: He thought he would be a smartass and PM me plecos pics...extending ban to 1 week. Have a nice day.]
RenX: 1 day


I will increase the ban time depending on the amount of spam and previous bannings or warnings. You are still free to spam in the Spam section of the forums (note that it will be periodically wiped so doesnt count towards postcount).

Note: I'm not saying nobody can ever post an image. I think we all, in our collective common sense, know exactly what is spamming and what is not. To clarify, if you are talking about race cars and want to post an image of your car, that's fine. If people are talking about how religion has touched their lives and you post an 8MB picture of a damn fish, that is spam and you know it.

This "policy" is not set in stone. If you don't like it, take it up with Crimson, but I doubt she is going to say "Oh sure splatter the forums with Plecos's" Razz

[Updated on: Thu, 24 January 2008 17:20]

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Re: Spammers [message #313376 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 17:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In my most humble opinion, I think the bans are a little bit overreacting. The pictures had a purpose that they served for a while. Then the rest of the forum caught on and basically stole the whole thing from Canadacdn. That's why you've got the spam of it.

People see something even remotely unrelated and pick up on the opportunity to make some giggles and posts it.

tl;dr it used to be good, but faggots ruined it.

Edit: Upon reading your edit, it seems like Canadacdn feels a little the same way.


yeah

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Re: Spammers [message #313378 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 17:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Its not overreacting to put a stop to people spamming EVERY post that is made with fucking fish pictures, most of which are 4-5MB in size which takes most peoples browser a long time to load (compared to the rest of the forum text).

Due to a lot of work by the mods, the rest of you don't see most of the spam, but we are tired of cleaning it up.

I personally have tried warning people, locking threads, deleting the spam + sending a warning PM, moving spam to the spam forum...what do I get? More and more spam including sending them to me in PM.

So guess what....Ban hammer. If you don't like it, then just post a plecos and I will make sure you take a break from the "oppressive admins".
Re: Spammers [message #313379 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 17:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There's no sympathy from me here. I made you guys a spam forum for that shit and you still insist on throwing spam in every damn thread. You're making people not want to come here and not want to read threads and that's NOT acceptable, period.

I'm the bawss.
Re: Spammers [message #313381 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 17:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Whoa whoa, I'm just saying, it wasn't all those two. Pretty much half the forum contributed a little. I see it's a problem, I'm just a little suprised.

Regardless, thanks for the 'cleaning' that you've been providing, I guess.


yeah
Re: Spammers [message #313388 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Not long enough.... if you ask me. Neutral
Re: Spammers [message #313389 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I hear ya...sadly for the 2 that got banned, they were the last straw so to speak, so they are now being used as an example and warning to the others. I realize this isn't necessarily fair, even though they had multitudes of previous warnings, which is why I made the ban length only 1 day (for all I know they only visit every other day anyhow).
Re: Spammers [message #313391 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I agree 100% with you Blazer, banning seems to be the last thing you can do until they learn to stop.

Well done Thumbs Up


Re: Spammers [message #313394 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It's a start. Smile Good work guys Thumbs Up



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Re: Spammers [message #313398 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Blazer wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 17:14





Canadacdn: 1 day [Edit: He thought he would be a smartass and PM me plecos pics...extending ban to 1 week. Have a nice day.]
RenX: 1 day[/color][/size]



lol
i have a present for ya

http://www.aquascapeonline.com/Thumbnail.asp?Image=../ProdImages/Fish_Plecos/L-63%20serratus_pleco.jpg&Width=55&AutoRotate=false


http://www.roleplay2.com/downloads/siggy.jpg

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Re: Spammers [message #313399 is a reply to message #313398] Thu, 24 January 2008 18:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Do you want to get banned?
Re: Spammers [message #313400 is a reply to message #313399] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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R315r4z0r wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:50

Do you want to get banned?

Make it perm too.


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Re: Spammers [message #313402 is a reply to message #313400] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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sadukar09 wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:07

R315r4z0r wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:50

Do you want to get banned?

Make it perm too.

I second that.
Re: Spammers [message #313403 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I want to post a pleco pic in the thread so bad ...

Also, if you want pics posted in the spam section maybe you should set it up so you can post pics like normal.


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Re: Spammers [message #313404 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Finally, thank you.

Re: Spammers [message #313406 is a reply to message #313404] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What made plecos so funny anyways? They're just fish. >.>
Re: Spammers [message #313410 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hey guys, I'm back!

Also, Blazer... I never PM'd you PLECOS pictures, so I don't know where you are getting that from.


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Re: Spammers [message #313415 is a reply to message #313410] Thu, 24 January 2008 19:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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actualy i'm the one who told blaze to ban people for 1 week if they spam plecos again


http://www.roleplay2.com/downloads/siggy.jpg
Re: Spammers [message #313416 is a reply to message #313415] Thu, 24 January 2008 20:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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ferkhat wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:52

actualy i'm the one who told blaze to ban people for 1 week if they spam plecos again



I'm sure they'd listen to you. Sarcasm


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Re: Spammers [message #313417 is a reply to message #313415] Thu, 24 January 2008 20:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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ferkhat wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:52

actualy i'm the one who told blaze to ban people for 1 week if they spam plecos again


I'm pretty sure that multiple people told him to do something. >.>
Re: Spammers [message #313418 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 20:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Blazer, I think you misunderstand the goal behind posting huge pictures of Plecos. The idea isn't to spam or to cause brower lag--Those are just unfortunate side-affects. Because the moderation cannot be everywhere and review everything, Plecos "Spam" is a sort of citizen's lock. Once a topic reaches the point where it's just "lol no u suk" back and forth between Surth and Troop, something has to be done, and that something is Plecos. Neutral

But, eh. Rules are rules, I suppose.


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Re: Spammers [message #313419 is a reply to message #313402] Thu, 24 January 2008 20:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally Blue wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:32

sadukar09 wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:07

R315r4z0r wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 20:50

Do you want to get banned?

Make it perm too.

I second that.

I third that.


Re: Spammers [message #313422 is a reply to message #313373] Thu, 24 January 2008 20:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Could you please check the sender of that PM blazer? Canadacdn swears he was not the author.

For the rest of you, the plecos thing...tired gag. (Canadacdn was not the only member of renforums to post humongoid pictures.)


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Re: Spammers [message #313427 is a reply to message #313422] Thu, 24 January 2008 20:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Oblivion165 wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 21:21

Could you please check the sender of that PM blazer? Canadacdn swears he was not the author.

For the rest of you, the plecos thing...tired gag. (Canadacdn was not the only member of renforums to post humongoid pictures.)

But he started it, I thinks.
Re: Spammers [message #313430 is a reply to message #313427] Thu, 24 January 2008 21:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Originally Blue wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 21:47

Oblivion165 wrote on Thu, 24 January 2008 21:21

Could you please check the sender of that PM blazer? Canadacdn swears he was not the author.

For the rest of you, the plecos thing...tired gag. (Canadacdn was not the only member of renforums to post humongoid pictures.)

But he started it, I thinks.

started the most retarded thing imaginable

pleco is not funny and will not ever be funny until the end of time


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