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Suggestion To The Moderators To Rid This Site Of Spam

The amount of movie etc. spam in the discussion forums is absurd to say nothing of ridiculously annoying. Here is a suggestion to stop this. Charge everyone a small sum to post, say $1-5. If anyone post spam, keep the money. If the moderators deems a post worthy, i.e. not spam, refund the cost of posting, say, once per week/month.

The above idea is not entirely original; Bill Gates once suggested charging everyone 1 cent to send an email. This would automatically disable the mass email spammers.
mgattmch
branson4020
9 posts
 
What a terrible idea.  Do you have any idea of the legal and administrative costs involved in collecting and holding other people's money?  
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michaelgreenaudio
1,019 posts
 

The Audiogon Mods do an excellent job of cleaning up the pages for us after the over night spammers do their flooding. I don’t think we should make things any more difficult for them than it already must be. I’m sure if there is a spam delete solution available to Agon they will find it and implement.

The internet is advancing so quickly that it’s always an update situation for phpBBs and other forum formats to keep up with. Agon is pretty proactive in keeping the flow going. We are a thankful bunch Agon.

MG

pmotz
412 posts
 
It would certainly seem likely that many, if not all of these spam posts are by new “members” so they could be controlled.  The solution that other sites use is first time posters have to have their posts reviewed by the admin prior to actually posting.  I know the Admin folks are seeing these since at least some of the spam posts were dead when I clicked on them, but still visible in the list of posts.  If they are not new members then a different approach may be necessary, but definitively not a pay as you post approach!
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dweller
3,786 posts
 
Why not let established members put bogus posts into "limbo" (remove from forum pending moderator review). Limbos can be tagged with user-ID of member so pranksters can be disciplined.
big_greg
6,640 posts
 
The SPAM seems to get cleaned up pretty quickly and there's not an overwhelming amount of it.  I just ignore it.  The proposed "solution" seems like more of a problem than the SPAM itself.
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