137799-spam

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			Please Clear it, I feel annoyed by seeing this spam in here.	
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			this is what happen when you allow F2P accounts to post on the forums	
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			Make forum access cost a certain amount of Cosmic Reward points.	
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			IMO making it cost 120 omnibits might be enough, unless they really bot for a week in order to spam forums lol.	
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			Wouldn't have a problem if we had 24/7 moderation...	
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			For every spam thread created, I prank call the Baba. 	
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Wouldn't have a problem if we had 24/7 moderation...
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			The community team has been quick on the draw lately... please report either the thread or the profile page so the moderators catch it that way as well :)	
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			Earlier I complained about it on twitter. I even tagged the post. I figured that would be enough. 	
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			I really feel they should employ some volunteer forum mods just to do cleanup work. I'm sure a bunch of us wouldn't mind helping out. In fact, I'd volunteer myself since I'm up at weird hours sometimes.  :blink:	
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I just don't get the purpose of it. This can't be making any money. Is it purely to troll, some elaborate 4-chan prank?
 
In any case....if they can't find some way to actually prevent this spam every night, there might need to be a small restriction made against forum posters. Sad that a bad seed has to ruin it for everyone, but I don't think anyone wants a forum fill with spam. Maybe can tie forum posting with cosmic rewards, just for the very first reward also gets posting privileges.	
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			I am absolutly disgusted to see the type of scam and spam btw, would you please fix it !	
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			Id be all for some type of restriction for forum access...	
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			And it's all gone :) guess we do have 24/7 moderation... I didn't know that lol	
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And it's all gone :) guess we do have 24/7 moderation... I didn't know that lol
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annnnnnnd their gone....
 	
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Just allow posts only to:
 
A: signature players
B: free players that have character over level X (perhaps 15)
 
It's enough that free accounts cant just spam without even entering the game and playing.
			
				
	Edited October 6, 2015 by Gothix	
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this is what happen when you allow F2P accounts to post on the forums
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			Agreed.  I am F2P(for now), not argumentative and feel I have the right to participate in forum discussions.  It's kind of unreasonable, IMO, to gate the forums behind a pay wall or progression in-game.	
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Id be all for some type of restriction for forum access...
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He-hey man! Not everyone from f2p launch spam the forum. Some peaceful f2p players live among you. 
Some of them deserve to participate on forum don't you think?!
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Some of us are new and posting productively on the forums. Making it impossible for f2p players who often are new players to post cuts us off from the community and would be counterproductive to player retention.
 
That said there are some things that could be done to reduce the spam without completely cutting us off.
 
1. Require F2P poster to post in a heavily moderated special section until they reach x number of posts that are deemed acceptable by moderators. Advantage here specifically for new players is they could still ask pertinent questions and hope to get answers. Disadvantage: Spammers could simply behave for x posts and once released into the wild go about thier spamming ways.
 
2.No posting until level x is reached. This has the disadvantage to the new in that most problems they will need help with are going to occur before level 20 and they will be cut off from help. Advantage: I doubt most spammers would bother leveling.
 
3. Require all posts by new F2P people be moderated before they are even posted to a thread. If its ok the mod clicks a button and it goes in the thread the player was trying to post to. Disadvantage: Heavy moderator involvement and delays in posting that might make the response seem silly in the thread.
 
Anyways just 3 options off the top of my head.	
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We used to have issues with lack of moderation at night even during p2p, especially at launch. It just wasn't the funny kind of spam flood, but instead vicious horrible attacks on people and downright disgusting posts allowed to stand all night which were nothing short of bullying other players. 
 
If we actually had moderation 24/7 it shouldn't take an hour to ban a spammer. It shouldn't even need reporting. Just load new content and the issue stares you smack in the face. Three four pages of it last night. It's mighty obvious.	
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this is what happen when you allow F2P accounts to post on the forums
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Just allow posts only to:
 
A: signature players
B: free players that have character over level X (perhaps 15)
 
It's enough that free accounts cant just spam without even entering the game and playing.
 
 
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Reaching level X (lets say 15) with ingame character to get forum posting permit is most sensibly:
 
1. spammers wouldn't bother leveling to 15 every time to just spam few posts that will get deleted soon and their account banned repeatedly
2. it doesn't take million years to reach level 15 so players would get post priviledges soon enough
3. completely new players who are just starting aren't completely cut off from help, they still have an ability to read forum and use search function and most questions have been answered already (and for harder questions there is support)
 
So a day or two of just being able to read forums and search through them to find your answers, before being able to post yourself is very fair price to pay to gain forums free of spam.
(imho)	
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			But seriously, I don't get what spammers expect to gain.. like, are there any players such dumb that they would actually go and call someone in India to talk about their marriage troubles? ^^ like c'mon lol	
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I prefer to spend the 15 bucks I would spend on a sub on CP. I get much more that way than I would paying for a sub. Does that mean I'm still a dirty, nasty, unwanted F2Per?
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			You also suggested limiting it to subs.  Why put forums behind a pay wall or in-game progress when simply diligently moderating the forums will achieve the same ends without punishing legitimate new players or people who aren't subs?	
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			Subscribers or no, I think you should have at least a level5 character to be able to post if you want to stop spam.	
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His statement is nontheless true - this spam wouldn't be happening (or rather, not to this extent) if f2p accounts were barred from the forums. That's not making a judgment, that's just stating a fact.
The question is, if getting rid of the spam is important enough to split the community in two. Personally I don't think so, although I do quite miss the nice, peaceful forums we had before the great flood of "OMG SERVERS ARE DOWN!11".
 
I do agree with Dea though, it would be great if they'd at least, you know, add a few more moderators after they opted to open the floodgates to everyone with five minutes of time to create an account. Especially considering that one of the two prominent mods we had left.
 
Lastly, I find the kind of spam this is getting rather amusing. Love-marriage specialists, astrologists... not the kind of spam I'd expect on the forums of an MMO.
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			Hey guys, I know the spam is annoying and we're doing our best to combat it and are working on ways to actively prevent it. In the meantime, though, please don't make threads about the spam. It really only adds to the pile and ends up being spam itself.	
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