things must be getting really bad here, because only today i've run across two postings that i would concider spam. One was a posting concering how much money you could make at an online gambling casino. The other was, and i've run across this much more often is people referring others to a money making sites. I'm going to point out once again that if they were really making money they wouldn't post about it. I mean why give away a huge secret. I wish the admin's would agree like i do that these posts are really just spam and block them. Plus the shout box scoll bars keep moving around on my page and sometimes it's difficult to even post because they're in the way, or more like i can't see what i'm typing because the page is rendering badly. But that's only a side issue. round

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Yes, I see your point. Perhaps we're not strict enough (as someone suggested).

I just moved 30+ topics away from WHAT IS? section. From now on, I will be even stricter to enforce pinned rules set by OpaQue for that area. Posting referral links on one's signature will also result in warning level adjustment as well. This should have been the basics of moderating and I am sorry that I was not paying any better attention.

And the majority of post content is nothing but links and quotes, that IS spam and it will be dealt with, without discretion.

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Oops! Sorry about that. I'll go and remove it now, I thought that only applied for posts.



That does make you wonder. Some day the advertisers will run out of money because too many people are clicking on a link and hitting the X button and there goes another chunk of money. There's always a catch...

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Remember Round, YOU can help get rid of the spam. There's a report button that you can use on all posts and topic that you have a problem with. It PMs it directly to all of the moderators.

We don't always see every topic or post, things slip by us fast.

If you see any posts that you consider spam or anything else, press this button
and report it.

Before I became a moderator, I sent out three to four of these a day, but now that I am a moderator I hardly see anyone reporting posts that are spam. We hardly get reported posts from members, it's usually a moderator that uses it to ask all of us a question.

Here's a note to everyone that reads this topic! If you see spam, report it!

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