There's obvious spam like the Chinese auto-bots and then there's "well its not exactly the right thing to do but maybe not nefarious...."
In the former I have no issue with calling out the offenders publicly because they're evil scumbags who deserve to have terrible things done to them and their fingers broken for polluting the internet with their garbage.
In the latter, eh, probably not so much. They probably just didn't know they weren't supposed to. Sometimes you have to give people a little benefit of doubt and maybe just let me know via PM, use the "report post" buttons, throw out a "hey I see you're trying to help but you might want to contact the admin first" etc. For all you guys know I've already talked to them and gave them permission.
We unfortunately already ran off everyone who's wheels were larger than some pre-determined standard a while ago, lets not run literally EVERYONE off.
Lots of new users turning up, lots of whom it seems aren't familiar with the gold-standard decades old "internet forum" and how it works. They often use texting shortcuts and slang we're not familiar with.. They're maybe only familiar with Facebook and Twitter and don't quite get the asynchronous, non-instant, silo-ed and hierarchical info structure of the forum. Yeah I don't get it either, but its just how it is. Let's help them figure it out before we chase them out of town with pitchforks, K?
In the former I have no issue with calling out the offenders publicly because they're evil scumbags who deserve to have terrible things done to them and their fingers broken for polluting the internet with their garbage.
In the latter, eh, probably not so much. They probably just didn't know they weren't supposed to. Sometimes you have to give people a little benefit of doubt and maybe just let me know via PM, use the "report post" buttons, throw out a "hey I see you're trying to help but you might want to contact the admin first" etc. For all you guys know I've already talked to them and gave them permission.
We unfortunately already ran off everyone who's wheels were larger than some pre-determined standard a while ago, lets not run literally EVERYONE off.
Lots of new users turning up, lots of whom it seems aren't familiar with the gold-standard decades old "internet forum" and how it works. They often use texting shortcuts and slang we're not familiar with.. They're maybe only familiar with Facebook and Twitter and don't quite get the asynchronous, non-instant, silo-ed and hierarchical info structure of the forum. Yeah I don't get it either, but its just how it is. Let's help them figure it out before we chase them out of town with pitchforks, K?
