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**MP+4** · 09-21-2012, 10:17 PM

Its good to have you keeping the forums clean! I've noticed sometimes there are posts which are suspiciously spammy, but they have vaguely responded to what the thread is about first to show they have read it. You have to give them the benefit of the doubt because it's kind of hard to accuse them of spamming, but their comments add no contribution whatsoever (please don't ask me to come up with examples off the top of my head)

Do we report them to you so you can keep an eye on them and make sure they don't keep doing it?

As you've rightly pointed out, we have to give some posters a little bit of slack. There's a close line between 'suspiciously spammy' and "I'm actually the real deal as a forum poster but English is a second language".

We have a couple of main perpetrators who open multiple accounts and mask their IP addresses. However, they are incredibly consistent in the way they post and backlink, and this makes them easy to identify. I personally make a point of deleting the posts but I don't ban the poster. That way, anybody that has a problem with over-zealous moderation has a chance of redress and if they want to talk to us, we'll always be happy to restore those posts at a later stage and offer an apology.

Not everybody is going to be amazingly articulate. We understand that and we make allowances for it. Most posters and the mods here can spot genuine spam a mile off but the recent glut of deletions has led to less new accounts being opened by the main suspects. That hopefully means we're getting there.

Even if you're not sure of a potential spammer, drop me a PM anyway. It only takes a few seconds to check these things out and it gives my otherwise meaningless life a sense of value. We want to welcome as many posters from as diverse a range of business and ethnical backgrounds as possible without having to endure some of the crap we've had on here in recent months. It's definitely improving, and we're getting more sign-ups since we came down on spamming a couple of weeks ago.

We eventually want to see everybody posting. We know that we'll never get 100% of the membership joining in but all ideas, opinions, stories and thoughts are welcome here, however small and insignificant the poster might believe them to be. One tiny snippet of information to one person could be informational gold to another.

09-21-2012, 10:17 PM	#6
MP+4 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 595 Senior Member	Its good to have you keeping the forums clean! I've noticed sometimes there are posts which are suspiciously spammy, but they have vaguely responded to what the thread is about first to show they have read it. You have to give them the benefit of the doubt because it's kind of hard to accuse them of spamming, but their comments add no contribution whatsoever (please don't ask me to come up with examples off the top of my head) Do we report them to you so you can keep an eye on them and make sure they don't keep doing it? As you've rightly pointed out, we have to give some posters a little bit of slack. There's a close line between 'suspiciously spammy' and "I'm actually the real deal as a forum poster but English is a second language". We have a couple of main perpetrators who open multiple accounts and mask their IP addresses. However, they are incredibly consistent in the way they post and backlink, and this makes them easy to identify. I personally make a point of deleting the posts but I don't ban the poster. That way, anybody that has a problem with over-zealous moderation has a chance of redress and if they want to talk to us, we'll always be happy to restore those posts at a later stage and offer an apology. Not everybody is going to be amazingly articulate. We understand that and we make allowances for it. Most posters and the mods here can spot genuine spam a mile off but the recent glut of deletions has led to less new accounts being opened by the main suspects. That hopefully means we're getting there. Even if you're not sure of a potential spammer, drop me a PM anyway. It only takes a few seconds to check these things out and it gives my otherwise meaningless life a sense of value. We want to welcome as many posters from as diverse a range of business and ethnical backgrounds as possible without having to endure some of the crap we've had on here in recent months. It's definitely improving, and we're getting more sign-ups since we came down on spamming a couple of weeks ago. We eventually want to see everybody posting. We know that we'll never get 100% of the membership joining in but all ideas, opinions, stories and thoughts are welcome here, however small and insignificant the poster might believe them to be. One tiny snippet of information to one person could be informational gold to another.
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