We haf returned! (New Spam Thread)

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I glanced over at the mafiascum Fallout Shelter forum a few minutes ago

to see if I still had the last post

, and found that it's slowly being colonized by adbots.

Much as I'd love to watch them grow and propagate in our petri dish for novelty's sake, I think it would be better to globally disable posting there. Or something. We report, you decide.

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shoes256 and this thread:

http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12762

I'd like to point out that it's really annoying when people post in spam threads, can we please have a policy of deleting the whole thread to discourage this?

Once again. How much more annoying is it than a spam topic started by a "legitimate" member?
Given the drama that hangs around GD, the moychandising is relatively safe.

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Once again. How much more annoying is it than a spam topic started by a "legitimate" member?

You're confusing "spam" as in threads that have a lot of posts, with "spam" as in unsolicited commercial messages. Posting in the latter sort of thread

bumps it up to the top of the forum, thus making it incredibly more annyoing for people who do not come to mafiascum to see advertisements for fraudulent products

. Every post you make in such a thread is aiding and abetting the original spammer in their attempt to draw attention they have no right to.

I don't come to ms to see advertisements for fraudulent drama either, but that doesn't stop those topics from going around.

Let the links be deleted by a mod and let us continue making fun of the obviously fraudulent products. It's not like we're under a bot invasion.

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The problem is posting in spam threads. It's not that you're spamming yourself, it's that you're aggravating the spam by bumping it to the top of the forum. If you want to have a real discussion about it,

make a new thread.

Two problems with this.
One, we clearly don't want real discussion (at least at first) to come from bot topics. That's... kind of the point of making fun of them.
Two, making a new thread defeats the purpose because you're taking away the reason the discussion is occurring in the first place (namely, the bot attempting to advertise here).

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And up to five now.

I have to wonder who has to type those filler paragraphs.

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http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 7#p3550817

Forum 62 is not moderated unless it's literally breaking the site.

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http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 7#p3550817

Forum 62 is not moderated unless it's literally breaking the site.

Or the law.

I'm sorry, but it's obvious that this post as the others of the same ilk ARE spamming. F62 may be a shithole

Your post was accurate up until here.

Much, much worse things have happened in F62, for better or worse, so etc.

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Now that Umbrage is allowed to fuck up F62 as much as he wants to

Isn't that the problem with umbrage; you can't take it anywhere.

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http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=21477

While I'm not sure what that is, I don't think it's spam...

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http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... 4#p4136164

Deleted. In hindsight I should have taken down the name for teh banz, but etc.

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http://forum.mafiascum.net/memberlist.p ... le&u=19653

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http://forum.mafiascum.net/memberlist.p ... le&u=19844

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