Re: Discussions from Paid Support...

Posted by Harvey on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Discussions-from-Paid-Support-tp7036982p7039991.html

For example.

Spammer A joins the forum, spams without any links in his post, but posts a very promotional message not related in any way to skiing. His signature has a spammy link in it, which isn't live because I haven't granted him the permission.

He joins again, with no signature at all and then posts his spammy links in his post.

I ban him.

He joins again, and posts spammy links in his post.

I ban him.

That's the end of this story, so far.

It's simpler in my mind to give permission to trusted member vs banning/rebanning.  Plus if I'm unavailable for whatever reason it slows down the above behavior.  The first time the guy above joined he created 4 threads, one in each forum.

I've seen other forums work this way.

The reality is that nobody works nearly as hard on my forum as I do (Nabble guys excepted).  It's hard to accept relinquishing control to something I have built, and relinquishing it to someone who could care less about the community.