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Spring cleaning
You may have observed that there is a now more active zero-tolerance policy for spam -- not only are the messages deleted, but the spammer ID is too -- as are link-spam accounts that just put a link into their profile to a site that contains irrelevant material.
After a first go-over, there are still a few inactive accounts, some seeming to have "fannish" attributes, others completely blank.
As you don't need a log-on account to just lurk, I would encourage those of you who are signed up but just lurking to make yourselves known to the rest of us (in the welcome thread in off-topic). Some of you seem to used your accounts as a way to park links to your sites; these links have been moved to your signatures as an incentive.
At the end of this month, all accounts opened before today, and with a zero post count will be cleaned away. A similar cleaning of month-old unused accounts will become a regular monthly event.
After a first go-over, there are still a few inactive accounts, some seeming to have "fannish" attributes, others completely blank.
As you don't need a log-on account to just lurk, I would encourage those of you who are signed up but just lurking to make yourselves known to the rest of us (in the welcome thread in off-topic). Some of you seem to used your accounts as a way to park links to your sites; these links have been moved to your signatures as an incentive.
At the end of this month, all accounts opened before today, and with a zero post count will be cleaned away. A similar cleaning of month-old unused accounts will become a regular monthly event.
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Needless to say: about damn time.
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There's actually THAT much lurker on this site? Hmm..., I never noticed that!! Well, do what must be done...for the better of the site!!
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The Perfect Woman, The Goddess...
Worth Killing For, Worth Dying For, Worth Going To Hell For....
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reagen wrote:There's actually THAT much lurker on this site? Hmm..., I never noticed that!!
Last time we had a purge of all unused accounts, one surprised lurker posted to ask why his logon had been deleted. So I'm being mindful of that.
InvaderRen wrote:*fulfills monthly quota
It's not meant to be a post-a-month; so long as you have posted to demonstrate that you are not a spammer, that's enough. It's post counts of zero that are anomalous.
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So I should stop lurking? I can make an effort, but old habits die hard.
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I'm not a mod any more! The pressure to constantly monitor in lurk mode is gone! The dust cloud you see is me in hasty retreat.
Gendo: Excellent work, my impish little toadie.
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I'm not a mod any more! The pressure to constantly monitor in lurk mode is gone! The dust cloud you see is me in hasty retreat.
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This is only intended to clean up the strays on this page (and 3 more on the next page): http://evageeks.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=posts&order=ASC&start=0
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Master wrote:Well how about if they go around and advertise on PM's?
If you get such PMs, please forward them to an admin.
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Master wrote:Finnaly! We are going to burn the unbelivers and heritics! Also, can we rat out people whom we suspect to be SPAMers?
...SPAM? Oh please, have you heard about that moderation system or something? It's the very worst on the planet.
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Well, the Stalinist purge has been executed.
I would encourage all our real human Eva-fan lurkers to put something in their profile that indicates their fannish credentials -- otherwise I have to go purely on texture of e-mail address and the like to get a gut-feel.
I shall put up another reminder mid-month, and do another (smaller) purge on Beltane.
I would encourage all our real human Eva-fan lurkers to put something in their profile that indicates their fannish credentials -- otherwise I have to go purely on texture of e-mail address and the like to get a gut-feel.
I shall put up another reminder mid-month, and do another (smaller) purge on Beltane.
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Here comes the first mid-month reminder -- lurkers should at least make their profiles look fannish, even if they can't quite bring themselves to post.
Mods/Admins -- if you nuke a spam post, could you PM me the user name, so I can apply the hammer.
Thanks.
Mods/Admins -- if you nuke a spam post, could you PM me the user name, so I can apply the hammer.
Thanks.
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Given the change of activation policy this should be the last of these warnings for the moment.
If you have an account and are just lurking; and your profile does not look fannish, please add some indication that you are a genuine lurker. This especially applies to those people whose location currently reads "Pending".
In two weeks time I shall do the usual end of month clean-up of zero-post-count accounts and purge those which are not obviously "one of us".
If you have an account and are just lurking; and your profile does not look fannish, please add some indication that you are a genuine lurker. This especially applies to those people whose location currently reads "Pending".
In two weeks time I shall do the usual end of month clean-up of zero-post-count accounts and purge those which are not obviously "one of us".
Reminder: Play nicely <<>> My vanity publishing:- NGE|blog|Photos|retro-blog|Fanfics &c.|MAL|𝕏|🐸|🦣
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