Spam Flashes and Crews

[xXShortEmoKidXx]

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Now I know it is against the rules to make threads talking about 'spam' because it is a very touchy subject, mainly because there is no main definition as to what is spam, and what just wasn't put together very well. BUT I have to ask, why is nothing being done about WELL KNOWN spammers?

Genderless-Hooker, UncleABC, and a few hundred others, are currently, and every day, spamming the portal. Because they no longer put their trademark [DD] before each video, it is getting harder and harder to tell them apart, so much that we must memorize spam authors and crews, or watch virtually every video in the portal. They have hundreds and hundreds of accounts (alternate or otherwise) at their command.

I ask of you; what should we do to stop this never-ending flow of crap-flashes that keep flooding the portal every day? What! What should we do? I'd leave it up to the admins of NewGrounds, but they aren't doing anything! It's not that I don't trust them, it's just that they keep coming back! We need ideas people.

Is it possible to ban an IP address? Can we ban them from making flash? Can we automatically ban the name "Genderless-Hooker" so that whenever anyone tries to make a new account with that name, it won't work?

[UnknownFury]

At 7/24/09 03:50 PM, xXShortEmoKidXx wrote: Genderless-Hooker, UncleABC, and a few hundred others, are currently, and every day, spamming the portal. Because they no longer put their trademark [DD] before each video, it is getting harder and harder to tell them apart

I don't really know what you're saying but if you can't tell them apart then surely they're not spam? If you watch the movie and you can't tell if it's spam; then surely it's no different to any other?

so much that we must memorize spam authors and crews, or watch virtually every video in the portal.

You're not meant to vote on who's submitted a flash but the quality. Oh, look. Luis just submitted a new flash, I'll just 5 it without watching.

I ask of you; what should we do to stop this never-ending flow of crap-flashes that keep flooding the portal every day?

You vote fairly on them as you would any other. Okay, so they pass into the portal? Who cares? They'll just fade into the background almost instantly as do many flashes and never be seen again except by those who watch them. This isn't a new thing and it really doesn't matter in the slightest.

[FlashtooREV]

This shouldn't be in the Flash forums.
You shouldn't try the General forums either. It'd be the correct forum, but there's not much we can do.

[xXShortEmoKidXx]

At 7/24/09 03:58 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

I don't really know what you're saying but if you can't tell them apart then surely they're not spam? If you watch the movie and you can't tell if it's spam; then surely it's no different to any other?

If you watch it, yes, but I don't have time to. Before, I could take a glance at the portal, and notice "Oh, look, their's no [FF] or [DD]" but now it's hard to tell just by merely glancing at the title.

so much that we must memorize spam authors and crews, or watch virtually every video in the portal.

You're not meant to vote on who's submitted a flash but the quality. Oh, look. Luis just submitted a new flash, I'll just 5 it without watching. I have never seen a DD video that I regreted voting 0 on.

I ask of you; what should we do to stop this never-ending flow of crap-flashes that keep flooding the portal every day?

You vote fairly on them as you would any other. Okay, so they pass into the portal? Who cares? They'll just fade into the background almost instantly as do many flashes and never be seen again except by those who watch them. This isn't a new thing and it really doesn't matter in the slightest.

True. There's always going to be spam. I'm just wondering if there's a way to stop it.