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October 22, 2013 5:10:01 AM

Kinky!
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October 22, 2013 5:26:39 AM

Your lucky I didnt twitch, people who tend to make a mockery of spam often invoke Poe's Law and end up banned.
Whats the username of the person who sent the PM?
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October 22, 2013 5:31:17 AM

Private message spam is a relatively new advent here, and our developers are working to address the situation. Thus far, there's only one incident of it. Unfortunately, you've been subject to it.

We're hoping to have the matter resolved before too long.
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October 22, 2013 6:22:37 AM

must be your avatar pic.
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October 22, 2013 11:47:12 PM

Hmm - worrying develoment. I get six of these a day through Skype. It's amazing how many nubile, pretty young things who want to marry a 67 year old almost physical wreck with a British passport. :D 
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October 23, 2013 5:33:26 PM

So making this known to the public and making others know, especially newbies is subject to being banned. Not logging in online always is a crime? I just got a notification that i was banned from the website.

So I guess that's their way of saying "thanks for reporting the incident and making others know. Now you're banned".

Obviously, you're just trying to protect your own asses and you don't care whether the community knows this or not. Now you show your true colors.

For everybody's information the username of the one who sent the PM is golry24.

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October 23, 2013 5:38:21 PM

manofchalk said:
Your lucky I didnt twitch, people who tend to make a mockery of spam often invoke Poe's Law and end up banned.
Whats the username of the person who sent the PM?


How is this a mockery? If you're a moderator who has access to users profile, you can obviously read through the sent messages.

Please investigate further before crying like a baby. You can twitch all you can but the fact is there. Your website has been infiltrated by spammers.
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October 23, 2013 5:43:17 PM

chocostain said:
So making this known to the public and making others know, especially newbies is subject to being banned. Not logging in online always is a crime? I just got a notification that i was banned from the website.

So I guess that's their way of saying "thanks for reporting the incident and making others know. Now you're banned".

Obviously, you're just trying to protect your own asses and you don't care whether the community knows this or not. Now you show your true colors.

For everybody's information the username of the one who sent the PM is golry24.



Sorry about that, as soon as I realised the ban was lifted as you can see, if you had started your post with something and quoted the text I would have not have just seen it as the same spam that has been doing the rounds. No need to get your panties in a twist.
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October 23, 2013 9:13:36 PM

chocostain said:
manofchalk said:
Your lucky I didnt twitch, people who tend to make a mockery of spam often invoke Poe's Law and end up banned.
Whats the username of the person who sent the PM?


How is this a mockery? If you're a moderator who has access to users profile, you can obviously read through the sent messages.

Please investigate further before crying like a baby. You can twitch all you can but the fact is there. Your website has been infiltrated by spammers.


Poe's Law
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Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.


More than a few people have been banned for either copying or closely mocking spam, simply because it wasn't obvious they themselves weren't spammers. As can be seen, it happened again here.

They are called "Private Messages" for a reason, not even us Mods can gain access to another users PM's, sent or received.

Golry24 went on a spamming spree a few weeks ago and was banned shortly after, a couple of people notified us of it (and most of the Mods received PM's as well).
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October 24, 2013 1:13:40 AM

Mousemonkey said:
chocostain said:
So making this known to the public and making others know, especially newbies is subject to being banned. Not logging in online always is a crime? I just got a notification that i was banned from the website.

So I guess that's their way of saying "thanks for reporting the incident and making others know. Now you're banned".

Obviously, you're just trying to protect your own asses and you don't care whether the community knows this or not. Now you show your true colors.

For everybody's information the username of the one who sent the PM is golry24.



Sorry about that, as soon as I realised the ban was lifted as you can see, if you had started your post with something and quoted the text I would have not have just seen it as the same spam that has been doing the rounds. No need to get your panties in a twist.


You twitched! I keep telling you to get that looked at! :lol: 


Sorry that happened chocostain but Mousemonkey is correct. You should have at least stated you were quoting spam and not just done a word for word quote. We see it so much it's second nature just to ban the poster. We really do in all honesty appreciate you bringing this to our attention though.
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October 24, 2013 1:34:17 AM

Certainly I, and I believe most of the other Mods, would have done exactly the same as MouseMonkey in these circumstances. The thread title and original post make no mention of this being a quoted PM. We're good but we ain't psychic - end of!
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October 24, 2013 8:18:57 AM

anort3 said:
Mousemonkey said:
chocostain said:
So making this known to the public and making others know, especially newbies is subject to being banned. Not logging in online always is a crime? I just got a notification that i was banned from the website.

So I guess that's their way of saying "thanks for reporting the incident and making others know. Now you're banned".

Obviously, you're just trying to protect your own asses and you don't care whether the community knows this or not. Now you show your true colors.

For everybody's information the username of the one who sent the PM is golry24.



Sorry about that, as soon as I realised the ban was lifted as you can see, if you had started your post with something and quoted the text I would have not have just seen it as the same spam that has been doing the rounds. No need to get your panties in a twist.


You twitched! I keep telling you to get that looked at! :lol: 


Sorry that happened chocostain but Mousemonkey is correct. You should have at least stated you were quoting spam and not just done a word for word quote. We see it so much it's second nature just to ban the poster. We really do in all honesty appreciate you bringing this to our attention though.


I did but the medication ain't perfect! :( 
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