Forum Suggestion Box
- Thread starter Joe
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ShockSlayer
Probably SS
Internet...censorship...???
zeturi
DEMON PIE!
I have an idea of how to help prevent spambots from spewing crap into the forums.
How about, when someone creates an account, there is an automatic PM sent to them. It asks, "BOT ARE YOU?"
If they reply, because I don't believe bots have the ability to reply, then they should be okay. But if they do not reply within a day or two, automatic ban. BOOM
If for some reason they aren't a bot and don't reply to the message, then they'll just need to make a new account.
How about, when someone creates an account, there is an automatic PM sent to them. It asks, "BOT ARE YOU?"
If they reply, because I don't believe bots have the ability to reply, then they should be okay. But if they do not reply within a day or two, automatic ban. BOOM
If for some reason they aren't a bot and don't reply to the message, then they'll just need to make a new account.
Twilight Wolf
Frequent Poster
Eh... I don't know if I'd reply to a random PM I got upon joining that said "BOT ARE YOU?" I'd just wonder "what the Heck" and move on.
That's kinda biased against people like me who have a spamebotish name with out being spambots, also, the RUBOT thing would have me wondering and not responding too and I'm pretty sure at least a few people just delete the "Welcome" messages because they are rather sure that they joined a forum.robm said:
So, something that would be nice to see: an Old News forum of sort... I'm not saying that a finished project stops mattering or anything, but I, like other people hope to see something new when opening the finished projects forum, not topics that are months old being bumped back up from oblivion. I propose a subsection in the Finished Projects section for any thread that has about a month of inactivity on it. It would still be open for contributions, but it would keep old stuff off of the top of the list, which would make me happy and keep the necroflaming down in that section.
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more proof that it's a good idea. Old news is old news regardless of if it's still cool.
ALSO, JD, you confused me, I thought you were Afro at first and was like WTF, Afro thinks an idea is good? HUH!? and then I looked closer and you aren't Afro, so I was like KK, makes sense.
But yes, this would take almost 30 seconds to implement, the hard part is sorting, which can probably be mostly handled by a mass move command of some sort (I haven't used phpBB, so IDK).
I think immediate implementation with the sorting spanning any time period would be good and feasible. It's just a matter of if it's actually a good idea. Think of all the threads that could eventually be unlocked!
more proof that it's a good idea. Old news is old news regardless of if it's still cool.
ALSO, JD, you confused me, I thought you were Afro at first and was like WTF, Afro thinks an idea is good? HUH!? and then I looked closer and you aren't Afro, so I was like KK, makes sense.
But yes, this would take almost 30 seconds to implement, the hard part is sorting, which can probably be mostly handled by a mass move command of some sort (I haven't used phpBB, so IDK).
I think immediate implementation with the sorting spanning any time period would be good and feasible. It's just a matter of if it's actually a good idea. Think of all the threads that could eventually be unlocked!
