Scratch

wolvesstar97 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

wolvesstar97 wrote:

Remember, we still have the 60 second rule .

Posting time limits don't solve all spam problems. 

Well,

wolvesstar97 wrote:

I dont think commercial spammers would wait around all day to post spams on a childrens website that has the fact that the older posts will be deleted by the time they can post again.

Yes, that's the point.

wolvesstar97 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

wolvesstar97 wrote:

Remember, we still have the 60 second rule .

Posting time limits don't solve all spam problems. 

Well,

wolvesstar97 wrote:

I dont think commercial spammers would wait around all day to post spams on a childrens website that has the fact that the older posts will be deleted by the time they can post again.

Some have. I've even seen some spammers who parse their time so it looks like they're not actively spamming a site so much until it's too late.

But now we're kind of getting off-topic.

cheddargirl wrote:

my-chemical-romance wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

There was a similar policy like that with signatures before to reduce commercial spam, all the spammers had to do was post in the forum with the required number of posts in order to get a signature. Someone with malicious intent can easily do the same thing. 

Then they get banned for spamming, 500 posts isn't easy to do.

Believe it or not, its easier than you think, I've seen it happen. For example, a user go to the Show and Tell forums complementing on a project, or gives a greeting on the New Scratcher forums, or comments on how helpful a tutorial thread is - all of these look like legitimate posts.

I dont have 500 posts 

nightmarescratcher wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

wolvesstar97 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Posting time limits don't solve all spam problems. 

Well,

Yes, that's the point.

I think newbies should have 200 seconds.
and we should have 90...

to bring torture into this world

Shush!
You'll give the Scratch Team ideas!



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Johnathandd wasn't a terrorist that hated scratch with a deep pasion 

All he wanted to do was prove a point, with images, that were a little weird.

RedRocker227 wrote:

nightmarescratcher wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

Yes, that's the point.

I think newbies should have 200 seconds.
and we should have 90...

to bring torture into this world

Shush!
You'll give the Scratch Team ideas!



...

xD

TVflea wrote:

Johnathandd wasn't a terrorist that hated scratch with a deep passion 

All he wanted to do was prove a point, with images, that were a little weird.

Sorry, I had to. I'm on grammar patrol.

my-chemical-romance wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

my-chemical-romance wrote:

Then they get banned for spamming, 500 posts isn't easy to do.

Believe it or not, its easier than you think, I've seen it happen. For example, a user go to the Show and Tell forums complementing on a project, or gives a greeting on the New Scratcher forums, or comments on how helpful a tutorial thread is - all of these look like legitimate posts.

I see your point with that, maybe we should seperate misc a bit more?

In order to get in you need to be a Scratcher, on misc your post count will start again (like with the TBG), 100 posts will allow you to have a signature and 500 will allow you to post pictures and URLs. I think this'd work much better, as spamming on misc is much harder to do and it will be noticed.

Will all our posts here be put in our misc count?

Daroach1 wrote:

my-chemical-romance wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Believe it or not, its easier than you think, I've seen it happen. For example, a user go to the Show and Tell forums complementing on a project, or gives a greeting on the New Scratcher forums, or comments on how helpful a tutorial thread is - all of these look like legitimate posts.

I see your point with that, maybe we should seperate misc a bit more?

In order to get in you need to be a Scratcher, on misc your post count will start again (like with the TBG), 100 posts will allow you to have a signature and 500 will allow you to post pictures and URLs. I think this'd work much better, as spamming on misc is much harder to do and it will be noticed.

Will all our posts here be put in our misc count?

I don't think it'd be too hard to seperate the post count, I'd only lose 50 posts anway. Seeming misc is almost a different site compared to Scratch I think it would work.

fungirl123 wrote:

Oddly enough, I'm not bothered by this at all.
Yeah, I have a signature shop, but I can just link to the pictures.
And like Paddle2See said on the thread in Announcements, "Look on the bright side. There will be less spamming and the forums will run faster."

This was 1 incident which has happened 3 times in the history of Scratch, and if the forums are running slow you can turn images off.

D:

I wasn't there, but I heard that a user posted pornographic images.

(Mods, feel free to remove any above words)