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#27 Jul 30 2014 at 6:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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More like business as usual really.
#28 Jul 30 2014 at 7:02 AM Rating: Good
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Either this gets fixed or we should swap to the =4 reddit.

Edited, Jul 30th 2014 9:02am by Timelordwho
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#29 Jul 30 2014 at 8:09 AM Rating: Excellent
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Timelordwho wrote:
Either this gets fixed or we should swap to the =4 reddit.

Edited, Jul 30th 2014 9:02am by Timelordwho
I feel bad for Kao. I mean, this forum can't be one of the more profitable extensions of the ZAM network, so I'm sure it's low priority to get it sorted out. I mean, these forums rarely generate new users anymore, and most of the established users here don't pay for premium and probably use ad-blocking software. So I can understand why it would be such a low priority, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.
#30 Jul 30 2014 at 4:18 PM Rating: Good
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Spoonless wrote:
Timelordwho wrote:
Either this gets fixed or we should swap to the =4 reddit.

Edited, Jul 30th 2014 9:02am by Timelordwho
I feel bad for Kao. I mean, this forum can't be one of the more profitable extensions of the ZAM network, so I'm sure it's low priority to get it sorted out. I mean, these forums rarely generate new users anymore, and most of the established users here don't pay for premium and probably use ad-blocking software. So I can understand why it would be such a low priority, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.

Why should anyone pay for premium if this is the kind of crap we have to deal with?
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Kastigir wrote:
Spoonless wrote:
Timelordwho wrote:
Either this gets fixed or we should swap to the =4 reddit.

Edited, Jul 30th 2014 9:02am by Timelordwho
I feel bad for Kao. I mean, this forum can't be one of the more profitable extensions of the ZAM network, so I'm sure it's low priority to get it sorted out. I mean, these forums rarely generate new users anymore, and most of the established users here don't pay for premium and probably use ad-blocking software. So I can understand why it would be such a low priority, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.

Why should anyone pay for premium if this is the kind of crap we have to deal with?


To keep our friendly Admins employed?
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#32 Jul 30 2014 at 5:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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Mostly to keep the ads from messing up the layout even further, even if they're adblocked. Also because the ads are annoying as **** and adblocking a site you visit daily is kind of ********
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Just a quick status update on the spam situation. I'm finally first in line for Dev time, and 3 of my 4 pending code modification packages were approved. We will have additional filtering on terms common to the recent spammers. There will be a "send all posts by this user to forum=999 spammer hell" button. The ban threashhold for general admins other than myself will be raised to allow them to ban accounts rather than just muting them after 30 posts until myself or darqflame or a dev can fully ban them. My request to have every ******* IP address in India and packistan null routed to some site about tacos was unfortunatly not approved for work.

I expect to see action on this soon. Then again i've expected this to be fixed for months now and could have done most of it myself if they wanted to give me access to that level of the code. /shrug.

I do get paid, premium does fund some of that, but honestly wiith the level of service against the spammers I am able to provide with the hours i am available i wouldn't pay for premium either. Even if I was here a full 40 hours a week, which would be silly given my other much much higher paying job, I'm still not certain i could keep up with the spammers given the methods and hours they are using. Until we get better tools to counter them, the situation will continue to deteriorate. The spammers are getting better at countering my methods and learning my schedule habits. Is frustrating.
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#34 Jul 31 2014 at 12:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
My request to have every @#%^ing IP address in India and packistan null routed to some site about tacos was unfortunatly not approved for work.
Could you route me to a site about tacos? I'm hungry and could really go for some tacos right now.

Edit: Also, it's good to hear that they're finally doing some of what you asked for soon. Just hope they don't mean that in the Blizzard "Soon".

Edited, Jul 31st 2014 12:50am by Poldaran
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
My request to have every @#%^ing IP address in India and packistan null routed to some site about tacos was unfortunatly not approved for work.
Could you route me to a site about tacos? I'm hungry and could really go for some tacos right now.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
The ban threashhold for general admins other than myself will be raised to allow them to ban accounts rather than just muting them after 30 posts until myself or darqflame or a dev can fully ban them.

Thank goodness for that, too.
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#38 Jul 31 2014 at 7:34 AM Rating: Good
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Still wish there was a way to report posts without giving the created threads views.
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Still wish there was a way to report posts without giving the created threads views.


You can report them from Live View, and it shouldn't count towards it.
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#40 Jul 31 2014 at 8:08 AM Rating: Good
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How? I mean besides copy and pasting the link to a PM or a different thread or something.
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How? I mean besides copy and pasting the link to a PM or a different thread or something.


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#42 Jul 31 2014 at 8:28 AM Rating: Good
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That's not what my Live View looks like. Smiley: dubious
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#43 Jul 31 2014 at 8:43 AM Rating: Good
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That's not what my Live View looks like. Smiley: dubious


Maybe it's a premium feature.
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#44 Jul 31 2014 at 8:45 AM Rating: Good
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Click settings: Display Full Post. That may be premium, though.
#45 Jul 31 2014 at 1:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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I sometimes go to other forums but most of the big ones are too active. So everything just gets drowned in a sea of blathering humanity. No one really knows anyone else in a sense.

Hopefully some part of the Zam network makes enough money to keep these old crusty forums around for us cane waving old schoolers to post sometimes but not as much as we used to. Smiley: frown
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#46 Oct 20 2014 at 6:24 AM Rating: Good
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You might have to resolve this problem. It may create some difficulty for you.


Funny.
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