When someone posts or starts threads in response to spam they become a spammer and all spam is deleted. Spam is deleted by deleting ALL the posts of a spammer. User Accounts with zero posts that are older than 10 days are considered inactive and are automatically removed from the user database during nightly maintenance to free up user names. That is why you were able to recreate your account with your old username. If you had been banned your user account name would still be locked and unavailable for 30 days. There is a zero tolerance for spammers.
Edited by Dennis on Sep 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM

Dude, like, Jesus dude.
That's harsh.

Zira just...be quiet. please.

no this was not a spam thread till you posted off topicness

this thread was originally a question about the rules

so Zira stop derailing threads.

ohz de noez slayer, be afraid, be very afraid.

well, you are...

all you do is UR IMMATURE LOZLOLZOLZOLZ
DONT GET MAD AT ME I AM AWESOEMZ I AM TEH NEVER WRONGS AND MOSTLY EVERYONE THAT DOESNT LIEK ME ARE TEH RETARDS

i am SICK of it.
just contribute to the thread or dont post, which is what you TELL EVERYONE ELSE TO DO.
Edited by abkarch on Sep 8, 2010 at 07:04 PM

funny how you take everything literally. you say im trying to "invoke a reaction" when you posted the "life isnt a fairy tale" crap. so dont get mad about it.

Zira, if you think "life isnt fair, life isnt a fairy tale" is a useful input, than you are sadly mistaken.
when i said LOLZOLZOLZOLZ it was a figure of speech. i was interpreting the text in noob talk, so you would understand.

Both of you, just shut up. Stop wasting your life bickering at people you will never meet via a keyboard, on a forum. This is what Dennis is talking about.


BTW: Clear Immaturity example of the users on HaloMaps.

the forum rules suck, but they work. leave it at that kthxbai *i wuz neva her*

lcePhoenix wanted this public, or he could have sent a PM, which is why I left it open for comment but I see that is difficult for people. lcePhoenix was not banned.

So here is how I handle obvious spam like the visitor that put on the show of infantile nonsense a couple of days ago.First off I never acknowledge nor respond to spam. The person doing it has already shown their disregard for others and I won't empower or acknowledge people exhibiting that behavior I just remove it.

Removing it is easy; one click and it is all gone. Everything that user posts is instantly removed from the forum. All posts and all threads he started are gone. Poof. I then lock that account so he can't login again. Thirty days later that account is automatically deleted - removed from the database by the forum.

Then I look at the remaining or existing threads and if I see if there are threads that are obviously about the spammer and also see if the person who started the thread has also responded to the spammer in other threads. If so then that person's posts, all posts and threads he started, are also removed and since there is no way I can programmatically determine his spam posts from his normal ones all posts get removed.

People subscribe to the forum and create accounts all the time but either misspell or enter an invalid email address so they can never login. Some create accounts but never post. Those accounts are considered orphans and the forum looks for accounts that have zero (0) posts within 14 days from the date it was created and on day 15 automatically deletes those orphaned accounts. In lcePhoenix's case his original account was created more than 14 days ago and after his posts were removed he had zero posts so his account was automatically removed in the nightly maintenance. He was not banned.

I just don't get it. You want the right to respond to a spammer thereby creating more spam but don't want to suffer the consequences of doing the same thing the spammer is doing: creating spam. You can't have it both ways. To use a very old cliché: You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Edited by Dennis on Sep 8, 2010 at 08:13 PM

No, I have a 100% fool proof method of deleting spam - delete all posts by the spammer. The rest of your quandary is self evident.


Edited by Dennis on Sep 8, 2010 at 10:29 PM

Speaking from my perspective, you must've been the only one because I have personally had a few people talk to me about how annoying he is.

I really don't understand why people don't just at least feign maturity on a forum. Not to say we don't all have our moments wen we try to be funny, but I have to say in most of the people's cases here where people have been banned, I have seen a clear reason and I don't need to elaborate I think. I mean, for crying out loud. this forum has very strict rules compared to other forums and many people are worse on here than on other forums where spammers appear to be tolerated a lot more.

I'm back!
Now I'm classified as one of the countless people who joined in 2010.
And yes, the other one has an L.
Edited by IcePhoenix on Sep 9, 2010 at 04:39 AM

AAARGH!!! You could just IGNORE people! Stop replying! Stop replying about how you're not replying! And especially replying about how other people are replying!
WTH you're replying right now, arn't yoy?!?!.

It's nice to see the forum back to normal :)

at times i enjoyed watching zira's posts because he could really make higuy angry and it was kinda funny lol.
Edited by d4rfnader on Sep 10, 2010 at 10:17 PM

I believe this thread is now pointless. All questions have been answered. The only problem remaining here is people are sniping at one another.