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stephenking
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stephenking
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Nomad

I've been seeing an increase in the dedication of the adbots. (seriously, there are like 20 threads in WEPR and VG about live stream on your PC.) What happened to cause an increase? All this happened about 10 minutes ago.

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macfan1
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macfan1
421 posts
Nomad

Yes. This is a suggestion-

GET RID OF THESE ADS AND ADBOTS. If you are a moderator or administrator, please do your job.

Schmiddy1234
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Schmiddy1234
1,075 posts
Nomad

Yes... So many adbots piling up cr*p in the forums... its annoying i can't find the stuff that i want o.o

Cenere
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Jester

If you are a moderator [...], please do your job.

They are. Seriously, they are going just as crazy as you are, but you have to remember these are adBOTs, not admorons or something. Our moderators, however, are not bots, and cannot possibly keep up with them alone.

The admins, however...

But don't give the mods crap about this, it is harder than it looks.

Also, peps, if this is annoying you, I would recommend not going on AG for a while, or at least sticking to the games. It would probably also help the mods, considering no one would be bumping the ads off the front page, so they might be missing some of it, and they don't have to look at people complaining about them doing all they can, but it looking exactly like nothing.
Take a break, go email the staff about them manning up and helping the mods properly, and hope for the best.
Schmiddy1234
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Nomad

@Cenere

They don't bother me to the point... But if I flag them, what will happen?

Cenere
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Cenere
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Jester

Nothing much. They need to be flagged 10+ times at least before they are deleted, and as far as I know, the admins don't look at what they are deleting, they are just pressing a button and everything on the list will be deleted.

So, it doesn't help much in the long run, since the mods will probably be at it before the admins get to press their little button of mass deletion.

Schmiddy1234
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Schmiddy1234
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Nomad

Oh... Gantic told me to flag them yesterday. Also, how come the adbots came all of a sudden?

NoNameC68
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NoNameC68
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Shepherd

I decide to sleep in for a few hours and this is what I wake up to...

I'm going to start deleting threads now. It may take a while as I'll be keeping track of a few things as I delete the threads.

NoNameC68
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NoNameC68
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Shepherd

BTW, Cen, if you're itching for some work, just message me on either AIM or MSN.

Schmiddy1234
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Schmiddy1234
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Nomad

@NoNameC68

Thank you so much Funny though... the mods who r deleting the threads change. Yesterday it was Gantic. Today its NoName, i wonder who it'll be tomorrow

NoNameC68
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NoNameC68
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Shepherd

I really shouldn't be asking this here, but how bad was the spam yesterday?

nichodemus
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Grand Duke

I really shouldn't be asking this here, but how bad was the spam yesterday?


Ran into 5-6 pages for some sections.....
Schmiddy1234
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Nomad

Oh... the spam was worse, i reported it and Gantic was the first one to clean it up. Ok, so it was in ALL the forums, at least like 3 three pages in each forum DX

Cenere
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Jester

Rumour/Strop says that it was bad enough to make Gantic go mad. So, I have to assume it was pretty darn bad.

And, to be honest, I am not as much itching as wondering why you guys haven't gone on strike yet.

Gantic told me to flag them yesterday. Also, how come the adbots came all of a sudden?

Flagging doesn't hurt.
And I can only assume the flood is related to the major glitch earlier this week, possibly combined with the staff being the staff.
Schmiddy1234
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Nomad

possibly combined with the staff being the staff.


lol Cen... that makes me laugh And it was plain weird, they filed in and won't stop o.o
nebmas
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nebmas
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Shepherd

It can't just go on with people spamming and advertising and then the mods clearing it up, it just goes on and on. Something more substantial should be done but I guess there is not much that can be done.

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