Please stop replying to spambots!

[kill343gs]

I'm going to ask the community as a whole to stop replying to spambot posts in threads. There are several reasons why this needs to happen:

-We just delete the posts with the spam anyways. It creates more work for us, which isn't a good thing (We have other things we could be doing, like settling flame wars...)

-The spambot doesn't read them.

-Its much easier to find the spam posts if we can just go down the active topics list and check for the username.

Your cooperation is appreciated.

[HurricaneAndrew]

Sorry kill...

[RedSawn]

-Its much easier to find the spam posts if we can just go down the active topics list and check for the username.

Can't you just bring up the spambot's profile and click "Find all posts by [XYZ]" ?

Atleast after you find they're spamming, anyway.

[Madiaba]

Yes, you can do that. But, that would leave any response to the spambot; and you have to go and delete all of the 'responses' to the stupid spambot first, because its posts are your reference points. And since some responses after a spam bot are on-topic, that makes us go through each thread and weed out the legit from the illegit posts.
If we know there are no posted responses to it, we can just do what you said without the extra work, Red.
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[Naryar]

We need to repeat that to a few members (Ribbs)

[Reier]

I'll try to resist my witty (well...) responses to da Spambotz.

[RedSawn]

Yes, you can do that. But, that would leave any response to the spambot; and you have to go and delete all of the 'responses' to the stupid spambot first, because its posts are your reference points. And since some responses after a spam bot are on-topic, that makes us go through each thread and weed out the legit from the illegit posts.
If we know there are no posted responses to it, we can just do what you said without the extra work, Red.
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Well.. yes, while you can't access responses using that, you can use the link provided to go straight to the post by clicking the... um.. subtitle (the URL'ed title next to the document icon.. the one just above the actual post) and you can clean it up from there. Saves a little time.

I spent over an hour trying to figure out what your post meant, and even now I'm a bit uncertain.

[kill343gs]

But we still have to go through all the posts in the thread and find the on topic ones and delete the others. The point is, don't do it. Its unneccesary, its annoying, and it adds more work.

[Madiaba]

....I spent over an hour trying to figure out what your post meant, and even now I'm a bit uncertain.

Ok. You'd probably have to see the options in the control panel and thread windows to understand.