Scratch

<Rewritten!> 
Like any online community, scratch is often attacked by spammers. Now don't confuse spammers for normal(*Sarcasm*) people who eat the food called spam,Because there are many forms of spam. If you have an online mail account, you know what I mean, if you don't have one, here is an example.

Clean-Clothes-clothing-hoover wrote:

Buy our new, awsome clothes cleaning hoover!, it's designed to clean your clothes!

Of course, the siggy rule stops that. (Sorta). Anyway, what you get instead, is stuff like this. I introduce to you, SCRATCH SPAM.

Spamman wrote:

go to mai project plz! OLOLOL (insert link here)

This is done by people, often without them knowing it's actually against the rules, to show thier projects. Most of them are just scribbles and such, but often, you might get a good project(Too bad it's against the rules, so now that good project is missed out because some people want to improve the scratch community by flagging.) If you intent on showing your project, either ask someone who makes E-News on scratch (EG: Scratchers weekly) to have a look(This is slightly more legal than the "ToU breaking way"), or use the "Show and Tell fourm.

There are also two other types of spammer, the "off-topic spammer" and the "Hidden spammer" the hidden spammer is like an ordinary spammer, but it never shows the link. like so:

"Hidden"spamman wrote:

Go plai my new project, i wnt feedbak plz!

And the last, more fourm exclusive spam is the off topic spammer who posts pointless messages that have nothing to do with the topic at all.

Off-topic spammer wrote:

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

Or if your topic is about cats

Off-topic spammer wrote:

I liek turtles.

Now you have learnt about spam, here is what you should and should not do...

Do:
The first thing you should do, is report it. I am not joking, it's that easy. replying to a spam fourm topic will bump the spammer upwards, and this can lead to flame-wars.

Don't:
Spam yourself: don't post topics about your project on any fourm besides "show and tell".

be sure to reply if there is somthing missing, as i made this thread to help users, and maybe even get this stickied.
Thanks for reading. 

Last edited by coolboy2009 (2011-01-17 13:26:14)