Mass Engadget posts.

[kcajblue]

i usually search by what i have. and what i actually use.
so its not much. i check the ds stuff and sometimes the other nintendo stuff manually.

[quzar]

The reason the new linked forum exists was that I yelled for having OT spammed up. (well what really happened was I came in and deleted all of the posts by the register and gave him an infraction before I knew it was a newsposting bot)

The general idea was, I suppose, to lessen the workload by simply moving everything here. I suppose all of it should be put into seperate discussion forums anyways because the same reasons apply: user threads get pushed down and nobody cares about these.

Give it a week and it should be resolved one way or another (keep posting here though, don't take this to mean that a solution is being implemented).

[Shrygue]

Like I said in staff, this idea should be dropped. Having bots posting news in the discussions forums is not the way forward. No one will read them and gets shunned as spam as members find it annoying and I absolutely hate it all the same. It's better to obtain news the manual way instead of resorting to automation.

[bah]

Shrygue: Agreed 100%, quantity of posts certainly does not equal quality of posts.

When members post something interesting they find from one of these sites, it normally sparks some sort of dicussion and interests people.

Mass spamming of everything another site posts about is not only uninteresting to members, but devalues real posts and will lead to the site being ignored by people as just a mass spam of posts from other sites without any standalone value.

[Kaiser]

Like I said in staff, this idea should be dropped. Having bots posting news in the discussions forums is not the way forward. No one will read them and gets shunned as spam as members find it annoying and I absolutely hate it all the same. It's better to obtain news the manual way instead of resorting to automation.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...4&postcount=10

[Shadowblind]

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...4&postcount=10

Link is broken.

[quzar]

Link is broken.

No, it's not.

[gdf]

It's for the staff forums.

*Uses hax*

*Gains access*

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[Shadowblind]

No, it's not.

Thanks. I love long explanations, too.

[bah]

Nice that the people who actually have to put up with all the spam (the users, the people without which DCEmu wouldn't be a website, rather just some files on a server somewhere that no one accessed), are completely left out of the discussion.......

People are interested in what is being done to get rid of the mass spamming, preferably the bots altogether.
Changing the bot's names or making them posts under wraggster's nick isn't a solution either.

There shouldn't be more than 1 or 2 stories taken from each other site each day and those should be relevant. Hell, ATM, these forums seem to have more engadget news than the engadget front page does!

I hope Shrygue didn't get a 'talking too' in the staff forum for being brave enough to say what most/all are thinking.