Solicitation Links in Sigs.

[Big Daddy's House]

To All New Members;

There has recently been a rash of new members who have signed up here, posting solicitation links in their sigs.

This practice is not allowed here, and it seems to just keep on happening.

Therefore, all new members, please take heed to this announcement. If you post any links to solicitation in your sig, your posts will be swiftly edited or deleted until you remove such spamming materials.

Further abuse of this type will lead to the abuser being given a swift suspension or a permenant ban.

[Chowhound]

Maybe it's just my way of thinking, but I don't think any of the spammers that love to come here are going to heed your warning at all. I'm sure they figure that if 100 people see their post and only one clicks on the link, their job is done.

[HattoriHanzo]

That is a very good point and maybe something needs to be done at the registration level in the way of a warning about infringement of the forum rules and some degree of moderation when updating your signature. At the moment to my knowledge there is no moderation whatsoever when registering so all these low lifes are signing up carte blanche !

[Big Daddy's House]

That's part of the reason why I once said that they should not have been allowed to post a sig until they reach 50 posts, and even then, they should STILL be monitored.

[Big Daddy's House]

You'll all be happy to know that I just banned 3 new members who posted spamming links to solicit in their sigs.

[HattoriHanzo]

That's part of the reason why I once said that they should not have been allowed to post a sig until they reach 50 posts, and even then, they should STILL be monitored.

So why is that not happening Sherm ?

[Chowhound]

It's kind of a catch-22, Peter. Tyler thought it would be a good idea to allow new members to post links in their sigs so they would be exposed right away and not make 50 frivolous posts just so they could put their links in post #51. I see his point, too.

[Big Daddy's House]

Exactly!

[Chowhound]

Or as Hattori Hanzo might say, it's a double edged sword. ;^)

[Big Daddy's House]

Right!

The new members who are engaging in this practice here need to wake up and get a clue.
They can do this all they want to, but they just won't be doing it here.

[Chowhound]

lol

[Big Daddy's House]

I've never had to use a double-edge sword.

[Semigourmet]

we sure have seemed to have had an influx of spammers or people who are not reading the forum rules before they start posting here.

[Big Daddy's House]

Yet they refuse to abide by them if they do.

That's quite alright because hopefully, this will let people know that we mean business and that the ones who act like they don't want to be here, won't much longer.

[Village Idiot]

You need bigger bouncers.

[Big Daddy's House]

I've no problem disiplining rule breakers, trollers, spammers Cyber hackers, Internet hijackers and Internet Schoolyard Bullies..

If they want to play hardball with me, then be my guest.

Because when they come up against me, they WILL lose. They need to wake up and get a clue.

[jimbo]

That's part of the reason why I once said that they should not have been allowed to post a sig until they reach 50 posts, and even then, they should STILL be monitored.
Works for me

[Big Daddy's House]

But unfortunately, it isn't that way.

[Big Daddy's House]

CreekCorner, this is the last warning that you'll get from me.

Knock it off or you'll be gone for good!

[Semigourmet]

BDH maybe we should talk to tyler about ending links all together or at least not allowing them for new members!!

[Big Daddy's House]

I think I did before, but he says it's ok as long as the members are not trying to make money through the board.

But I agree, some of them DO look like money makers.

[LuvsToCook]

Maybe it's just my way of thinking, but I don't think any of the spammers that love to come here are going to heed your warning at all. I'm sure they figure that if 100 people see their post and only one clicks on the link, their job is done.

It's better to put the real picture than putting the link only. :)

[Big Daddy's House]

Maybe it's just my way of thinking, but I don't think any of the spammers that love to come here are going to heed your warning at all. I'm sure they figure that if 100 people see their post and only one clicks on the link, their job is done.





Yeah, you might be right!! And so will THEY be done!

A more recent horde of spammers has surfaced in the thread; Is an egg a day ok?.

I left a very stern warning there, saying that if those spamming links arn't removed from their sigs, I'll be back there to wipe out their accounts and ban them!!

[Kimchee]

Why don't you just ban links in signatures?
Can you set it up so that a certain number of posts or elapsed time of membership is needed first?

Personally, if you are here to discuss food and hang out with like-minded people, you won't care if there are no links allowed in your signature....

because, otherwise, you too are just really here for the click throughs, huh? (You in a general way.)

[Big Daddy's House]

Why don't you just ban links in signatures?
Can you set it up so that a certain number of posts or elapsed time of membership is needed first?

Personally, if you are here to discuss food and hang out with like-minded people, you won't care if there are no links allowed in your signature....

because, otherwise, you too are just really here for the click throughs, huh? (You in a general way.)





Yeah, you'd think that they would just talk about food & cooking, but to them, they want more. Stuff like insurance, car sales, lawyer service, sex toys, real estate, school coarses for other than cooking and whatever else have you are posted in their sigs.

Unfortunately, for anything that is postsed in their sigs, it doesn't show up in the Admin Panel on their profiles until they've reached 50 posts apiece.

When a member here reaches 50 posts, he or she then goes from a Junior member to a Regular member.

Outside of that, the only other ways to wipe out a spamming link in a member's sig is to edit, or delete the posts or to ban the member.

[Kimchee]

It's going to be the death of this place eventually.
Tell the mysterious Tyler to just ban sig links!

[Big Daddy's House]

I've already asked him to, but he decided to leave them as is.

[natt12321]

My issue at the moment is that obvious things are slipping through the net. Each member has to be accepted by moderators before they can have access to the site to post, yet the other day I saw a member called 'Packagingsupplies' as the newest member on the site.

I don't think there is anyway to be nice about this, who the heck thought that was an honest member coming here to talk about cooking? I get it when it's a username that doesn't mean anything, or a usual one that seems to be completely inconspicuous, but all it takes to stop some of the spamming is a bit of common sense, if someone is called carinsuranceinfo don't give them access.

[Big Daddy's House]

My issue at the moment is that obvious things are slipping through the net. Each member has to be accepted by moderators before they can have access to the site to post, yet the other day I saw a member called 'Packagingsupplies' as the newest member on the site.

I don't think there is anyway to be nice about this, who the heck thought that was an honest member coming here to talk about cooking? I get it when it's a username that doesn't mean anything, or a usual one that seems to be completely inconspicuous, but all it takes to stop some of the spamming is a bit of common sense, if someone is called carinsuranceinfo don't give them access.




I understand your anger & frustration.

But the whole purpose of moderating new member registrations here is to try to keep possible spammers, or those who are severely chronic spammers, off the board.

We don't really know who is going to spam until they begin posting. and yes, I've also seen member names that indicate that their main intent here might be to spam the board heavily.

Tyler has given this issue some very serious and careful thought before making his decision to have new member signups moderated, and very rightly so. We've had chronic spammers who would just come waltzing right back in here after being banned, and even when the board was set up for this feature, they STILL were refusing to give up trying to reregister and resurface here. I practically begged him to do it because I became so sick to death of those stubborn spammers worming their way back in here.

But we have to give them the benefit of a doubt and see what their intentions are when they begin posting. Which is part of the reason why we are asking for your help as well as other members' help here in spotting and identifying spamming posts & threads.

[natt12321]

I actually agree with Tourist, sig lines serve no purpose other than clogging up the forum.

In fact on one forum that crashed the server because of the size of it, the admin turned off sigs for the whole site and it became so much easier to read, none of us missed our sigs and many chose not to go back to having one when the forum moved to a larger server.

On the note of 'giving the benefit of the doubt' I disagree. If a member who is going to spam is stupid enough to use a name like 'packingsupplies' or 'carinsuranceinfo' then they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt for the benefit of the real forum members.

[Big Daddy's House]

I can understand how the both of you feel.

New members here must know during signup that they are not supposed to post any sigs until they've reached 100 posts, but they do it anyway.

It is like once one is posted and a member clicks on it, then their job is done. Sort of like a calling card that advertises hot gals for lap dance service in Las Vegas. It must be an obsession with new members that they somehow must advertise for whatever supposed reason.

We try to keep members from posting false sigs, but they do it anyway, so I disiplined them, but the more I stop them, the more stubborn they get. Most of the bannings imposed by me are because new members here not only post false sigs, but they refuse to remove them when I ask them to. And some of them post as much as five in a post.

It's ridiculous at times.

[natt12321]

Either he's getting smarter or my mind is foggy from the severe temperatures here in the midwestern colonies.


For the last time. I AM A GIRL!

And I take the we agree because I'm 'getting smarter' quite offensively. You wonder why you don't get on on other forums? Maybe not dissing the other members would be a good start.

But on the point of false sigs, maybe warn them and remove it at the same time? Don't give them the chance to remove it, if they post it again ban them, but take the sigs away as soon as you see them to stop members being able to click on them?

[Big Daddy's House]

Tourist, please address Natt as a GIRL.

Though you are trying to get a point across, you MUST respect peoples' gender here. I made that mistake once also.

[natt12321]

Dont patronise me.

I made the point that i was indeed female when I introduced myself in the intro forum and also when I came back from being banned to all the bitching about me. If you don't want to get to know the community why are you here? All the information you could ever want is on the internet somewhere, if interacting is such a chore then why join forums?

[Big Daddy's House]

Please end this heated debate, both of you, and go back to the topic at hand.

Tourist, you're right, you DO NOT need to know every aspect of the members here, but you SHOULD respect their gender and not get it twisted as to whether you're talking to a man or a woman.

[Big Daddy's House]

Please do not get heated up in your debates.

Remember, that you had this problem not too long ago when you felt that you weren't being treated properly here.

[Big Daddy's House]

Yeah, if neither of you can get along, you both should use the IGNORE button so that there is no arguing directly on the board. Or send each other pm's instead.


That is where YOU guys come in.

We ask for and need your input, support and alertness to help us spot, wean out and ban chronic spammers to have no reguards for the rules of the board.