Personal Attacks Act

[☼Pepe☼]

Gah Linkspam! D:


Even though this is not the topic for it, members, moderators especially, need to be reminded of what is linkspam..

[Flashman]

Originally Posted by Pepe

Gah Linkspam! D:


Even though this is not the topic for it, members, moderators especially, need to be reminded of what is linkspam..

Thus the need for the defences, to stop tha from occuring.

[☼Pepe☼]

There already is a definition for linkspam in the rules..

People seem to ignore it.. <_<

[Orca Misaki II]

Originally Posted by Pepe

There already is a definition for linkspam in the rules..

People seem to ignore it.. <_<

Believe it or not, that isn't entirely true, unless I'm missing something. In the FAQ, this was all I could find.

8. Spamming: Spamming is just plain bad. Spammers will be punished through fines and post count reductions. Mutiple offenders face further sanctions. Some people (like linkspammers) come here only to spam their MMF scam, etc. and have no intention of participating, so they get banned immediately without prejudice, even if they post in places where spam is permitted like the Happy Fun Forum and Pile of Crap forum.

8a. Linkspammer threads are a common thing in every site, fortunately for Animeb we have a top of the line team of moderators and adminstrators who ban them and delete their threads. So we ask that you do not post in any of their threads or spamming in them, we all hate linkspammers, but let us do our job in keeping the site clean. If you see a linkspam thread, please use the Report Post button.

Neither really takes time to define "Linkspamming" directly, so that leaves it largely up to interpretation.

[☼Pepe☼]

Originally Posted by Ori Misaki

Some people (like linkspammers) come here only to spam their MMF scam, etc. and have no intention of participating

I guess we can take that as the definition...

People who only come here to spam their MMF scam and have no intention in participating..

If an already participant member spams a link, it's more of advertising.... right?

[Orca Misaki II]

Originally Posted by Pepe

I guess we can take that as the definition...

People who only come here to spam their MMF scam and have no intention in participating..

If an already participant member spams a link, it's more of advertising.... right?

I'm guessing we'll have to extend the definition past MMF scam, though.

Other than that, we have to explain what a Linkspammer is a bit better. I would say something like this-

Linkspammers: anyone who posts nothing more than a link, or series of links, and does nothing to further contribute to the site; anyone who's first post is nothing more than a link to a scam or spam site, or any site entirely unrelated to AnimeB.

[☼Pepe☼]

Linkspam is generally used to define people who go around forums or sites and posting links in order to enhance the website's search engine rank... :/

[Orca Misaki II]

Originally Posted by Pepe

Linkspam is generally used to define people who go around forums or sites and posting links in order to enhance the website's search engine rank... :/

That might work, too, but it was nowhere in the rules before. Now we can add that to the FAQ.

[Flashman]

In order to stop a potential derail, the Animeb code of conduct draft covers this topic extensively, so discuss the link spam their as this thread is for Bobcat's personal attacks act.