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firetail_madness
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I was thinking that we could have a small forum and commenting spam blocker, that does not allow comments under a selected number of words or characters? Just wondering, as that would be hard to make.

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ALUKARD1
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Well thats a bad idea

shayneii
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People would find a way to get around this such as typing "10 word limit... blah blah blah" at the end of their posts.

I've seen it on other forums, it doesn't stop any spam.

Agent_86
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This has been brought up before, and it would only result in people writing longer spam posts. It doesn't matter if it's 2 words or 20 words, it's still spam...

firetail_madness
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It could help out the mods more.

firetail_madness
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firetail_madness
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Ouchie.

shayneii
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Sorry... it's a good idea but I've seen it before and it doesn't work.

firetail_madness
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Ok. I learned.

Carlie
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Yea, this has been discussed many a time in the S&S forum. But I always come to the same conclusion. Instead of people writing something like:
"0/10 bad game"

They would just expand it like this:
"0/10 bad game 0/10 bad game 0/10 bad game"
"0/10 bad game bad bad bad bad bad"

Doesn't mean it is any less spam, there would just be different ways to go about it.

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