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You know, its not so bad posting really great deals, but devoting a thread to it is just down right annoying. Personally if im looking for a great deal, i will go to people or ask, you don't need to tell people about it, its just wasting our time.

Yeah I agree, it is annoying when people start spam on the forums

Is it possible......

Would it be possible for the moderators to post the confirmation email address and the email of the registered domain owner to which the evil post points to?

(This is a rhetorical question....i know you cant, but I guy can dream)

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for or why?

I hate those that join and just start those spam threads, I personally feel that if someone wants to tell us about a great deal as graphite mentioned, they should post such info in the buy, sell, and trade forum. even if they aren't selling the item, if its related to macs and a sale or purchase opportunity of some type, it should go there IMO.

I've seen forums that make you wait 3-5 days to post after signing up to stop spammers.

We don't mind taking the time to ban them so that our members do not have to wait to post. Sometimes people have a quick question that needs answering for them to get on with work and we don't want to make it hard for those people.. and if they get a good enough and quick enough answer, then they usually come back and many times become a great part of the community.. so it's worth it for us to let the spammers hit, then we go in clean it up and ban them.

another forum that i use you need like 20 posts in order to post a new thread in the classifieds....you can post within a thread already created, just cant create your own. it annoys a lot of people but really...how difficult is 20 posts...that is macman's avg posts per day

-chris

iDVFH. said:

I've seen forums that make you wait 3-5 days to post after signing up to stop spammers.

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But if you did that, then you wouldn't have heard from lovely me, for, like, three whole days!!! -Blastphamy

well, my first post was, I BOUGHT A NEW MAC, I NEED HELP!!! if i had to wait a week to ask, i would've been in big trouble by then, and soon after that ,probably less than 20 posts later it was: BUY MY MAC I WANT A NEW ONE! so... i like it the way it is, theres not too much spam on this forum, yet, lets hope it stays that way

You have a good point about there not being enough spam on this forum to regulate how many posts a member needs to have before they can post a thread. I'm sure the mods get some satisfaction out of banning people. :spook:

heh well those type of people.. definitely, and I just hope it helps them learn something in social networking.. besides "Don't go to mac forums to advertise.. they'll ban you" I really really dislike banning people, but spammers.. whew.. you are right.. I do get some satisfaction from it.. almost makes the 500 spams a day in my inbox worth it

Graphite said:

You know, its not so bad posting really great deals, but devoting a thread to it is just down right annoying. Personally if im looking for a great deal, i will go to people or ask, you don't need to tell people about it, its just wasting our time.

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Its not wasting time at all. If someone makes a thread with a good deal it's kind of nice from them. Maybe you just happened to be looking for what they posted. We could always have "The Official Good Deals Thread"

shaun89 said:

Its not wasting time at all. If someone makes a thread with a good deal it's kind of nice from them. Maybe you just happened to be looking for what they posted. We could always have "The Official Good Deals Thread"

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..no..

I don't think he was refering to those crappy free ipod posts. Perhaps a thread for good deals that we stumble across on the web. Typically stuff like that gets its own thread, perhaps to cut down on extra threads we can have one official thread.

The thread could have posts like: "Dell 2005fpw on sale for $xxx.xx @ site.com"

Probably the best place for those types of "deals" would be in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.

i dont get it. who buys stuff that come to them as spam? car insurance, employment, free stuff, love,..... who out there has gotter anything from there spam??