Mass Engadget posts.

**bah** · January 8th, 2008, 04:04

Are the insane number of posts by 'engadget' bothering anyone else?

It's like an RSS feed turned into a forum poster that just spams the living crap out of dcemu with every single bloody update to engadget.

If we want to read engadget, we'll go to engadget dammit.

I use the 'new posts' feature to keep check on new stuff and for the last cpl days 3/4 of the posts are bloody engadget ones, all with 0 replies because noone cares for non gaming related gadget RSS feed posts.

What does everyone else think?

EDIT: A quick google for 'engadget headlines vbulletin' turned up this: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1416127. Why Wraggster, wwwwhhhhyyyyyyy?????

EDIT2: Now there's a slashdot one also!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD FREAKING DAMMIT. I have visited /. for years, but do we need to have the forums flooded with posts no one reads?

Pages and pages of nothing but spam with 0 comments, see attached image.

**Shadowblind** · January 8th, 2008, 04:07

It is getting very annoying, very fast. These RSS posters from not just engadget but these weird non-gaming related feeds like slashdot and pocketdot, and even the gamefanboys are getting ridiculously spammish.

Way too many "Nintendo tote bags" and "Turn Your WM6 Device into a Wi-Fi Router" threads that do nothing but get in the way.

**JKKDARK** · January 8th, 2008, 04:15

I was thinking about making a thread about this problem.

Also these RSS posters are NOT posting on the news forums. Their threads are on the non-news forums where people discuss about hardware/software issues, etc. It's really a problem because many people will not notice when someone has a problem and post in that section.

**bah** · January 8th, 2008, 04:24

If they could just be confined to a section that doesn't get included in the search for new posts, and wasn't also used by people for threads about gaming issues that get lost in the mess, then it would be no problems.

**ExcruciationX** · January 8th, 2008, 04:32

Yeah, it's really stupid. wraggster must have thought that his post count was high enough.

**kcajblue** · January 8th, 2008, 04:32

does this have to do with what you guys are talking about.
i noticed it earlier today.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=286

**Shadowblind** · January 8th, 2008, 04:38

...yes, that does seem to be a good example of the overly spamming nature of these RSS feeds. I dont know who the he**'s gonna care about what Cheapassgamer has to spam.

**bah** · January 8th, 2008, 04:40

kcajblue: Yep.

If they could all go in that section, and not be included in the 'new posts' search then it would be fine.

Use the new posts feature, browse through a couple of pages of results, some pages have perhaps 1 or 2 actual posts on them in amongst all the spam.