Thread-starting limits

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I notice someone's gone on a thread-starting binge over on AH again - three locked in the space of a few minutes.

Considering that and the fact that mos spamemrs post in as many forums as possible as quickly as possible (also causing extra work for mods) would it be an idea to introduce a thread-starting limit? Say one or two per day, to stop the frivolousness/fivolity whatever the word is?

Just an iadea (and my thread for the day!)

Sharpshooter

Just to clarify.

They were locked because they were troll threads by the same poster.
That poster was banned for a short time.

Spam is different altogether and a different line of approach is taken in that instance.

Spam is sometimes posted in an already existing thread, so mods rely heavily on posters reporting what they see.

Again just to clear it up, the threads that were locked were trolling threads and not spam.:)

pickarooney

At the same time, it might be an idea to require at least one or two posts before a user can start a thread.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Not suer if it matters - they threads are still annoying regardless of why they are started. I see your point about spam appearing everywhere, when when I've seen it, it's been started in a new thread.

Delirium

Does boards have much of a problem with spammers creating multiple threads?

If such a limit was implemented, surely that means that boards is treating all users as spammers. The current system of reporting threads and users seems to be a good system to me.

Beruthiel

koth wrote: »

Does boards have much of a problem with spammers creating multiple threads?.

99.9% of sitebans are down to spammers.
A lot of them create multiple threads, but are deleted in one go by an Admin.
the deletions and sitebans are done quickly enough for it not to be noticed by most of this sites members.

El Weirdo

Beruthiel wrote: »

99.9% of sitebans are down to spammers.
A lot of them create multiple threads, but are deleted in one go by an Admin.
the deletions and sitebans are done quickly enough for it not to be noticed by most of this sites members.

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CrazyRabbit

Beruthiel wrote: »

99.9% of sitebans are down to spammers.
A lot of them create multiple threads, but are deleted in one go by an Admin.
the deletions and sitebans are done quickly enough for it not to be noticed by most of this sites members.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever actually seen a spam post on boards.ie. They must be dealt with very rapidly. Well done to boards.ie staff!

AckwelFoley

If it were a problem to such an extent that it were to annoy the admins excessively, id say this would have already been implemented.

Good idea though.

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