Please stop the flood
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Thank you. I have no objection to people posting but they should respect other people using the forum
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AARRGGHH!!! Not another flood. 1 every 2 minutes and in alphabetical order now
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Oh god, not four mare pages of a flood. Perhaps if you said there were no bonus points for posting in this forum people would be a little more considerate. But then perhaps not…
PS I tried to report the latest 'joker' but got an error message
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It i very obvious that the only reason they are posting is to earn SBP, which should then be considered Spamming the forums and they should be stripped of that ability.
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the flood is stopping me from reading other recent posts
Unread messages from a flood are treated on the screen the same as other unread messages. For the eye, this makes visually scanning the list time-consuming. You should alter the settings so that once a flood begins, you can change how elements in the forum are displayed to you, so irrelevant messages from the flood appear differently than other posts do.
Using Firefox, configure the addon 'AdBlockPlus' to remove every instance of the users name as it is diplayed in the forum. Although the individual messages from that user will still show up in the recent unread list, the users name will not. You can then use the started by column to guide your eye past the irrelevant flooded message rows more quickly, as your brain will learn "not to see" any message row which contains a blank username spot.
Since the screenames of users responsible for flooding are not static, each new iteration will need to be added to the block list when flooding is first identified. After that, all irrelevant posts from that particular flood will be altered, making the bulk of the flood more easily ignored.
From the ABP addon menu, choose "select element to hide"
In the window, focus the red rectangle squarely over the user's screename as it appears in the started by column. Only one instance of the name need be chosen; all instances will be blanked when the setting is saved.
Ensure that the 'title' box is unticked and that the 'href' box is ticked. select "add element hiding rule"
As you can see here, in contrast with the rows from the second image, posts from a blocked user have no screename in the "started by" column. Visually, these messages from the flood are more easily ignored. -
Thank you, fascinating.
But my main point was not so much ignoring the messages but that with a flood like that taking up pages of 'recent posts' it soon reaches its limit of 10 pages and the only way I know to check new posts then is to go through the forum list to see when each forum had its last post
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it soon reaches its limit of 10 pages and the only way I know to check new posts then is to go through the forum list
I didn't know the forum limited the display of unread messages to a limit of 10 pages only. :crazy2:
If administration is willing to accept having a forum that remains succeptible to frequent flooding then they should also accept the consequences of that flooding (e.g., the allowance for more-than 10-pages of accumulated unread forum posts).
Under normal circumstances I suppose 10 would be sufficient. But the conditions held at the time the limits went into effect are presently no longer met. This requires _new r_ules allowing for a higher page count.
In any event, you can clear the unread messages from just the joke board itself before you use "Show Unread Posts" to access newer posts from the entire forum, without the flooded content. That link is:
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=markasread?board=78.0
By marking all content from the joke board as read, and then clicking "Show Unread Posts" https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=unread this will bring up a list of all unread posts from every board except the joke board. With most nuisance-content originating from within the joke board, this measure effectively dams the flood.
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That would be a solution except, for me, the 'Unread Posts' links haven't worked for ages. I did mention it in a forum but got no reply (or at least any that helped). Whenever I click on 'Show Unread Posts (since my last visit)' I get nothing.
I am talking about the 'Show Recent Posts' - https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=recent which is limited to 10 pages.
Normally this is more than adequate as I check new posts, usually, a couple of times a day. But if someone posts 10 pages of 'jokes' then that's all that shows on 'Recent Posts'. Then I have to look at the Forum page to see which forums have had posts added since my last visit. Any that have, I then have to check to see if they have had more than the one post that shows on the main Forum page.
Just to emphasise I am not talking Unread Posts - I am talking Recent Posts
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and then clicking "Show Unread Posts" https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=unread
The Show All Unread Posts link I gave earlier (shown above) was incorrect.
To remove 'Jokes Board' posts flooding the 'Show All Unread Posts' list only, do the following:
Go to:
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=markasread?board=78.0
(this will mark all posts in the joke board as "Read")then, go to:
https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0
(Show All Unread Posts)I am talking about the 'Show Recent Posts' - https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?action=recent which is limited to 10 pages.
The Show Recent Posts link displays time-dependent information unaffected by the Read/Unread statuses of posts, so you're correct in saying that the filter I have proposed for users of the Show All Unread Posts link would not apply to use of the Show Recent Posts link.
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nhalizegt wrote: Not everyone in here is sad like you and constantly have their hands on their dick…
Oh, blessed Jebus on a hoverboard! What makes you think a man who has his hands on his dick is sad? When you handle your
magic wand, does that make You said?nhalizegt also wrote: ...if my jokes make even one person smile or brings cheer to a bad day i'm very happy with with myself,
So one smile is better than all the unhappiness created by yr antisocial selfishness? What makes you think you are entitled to have,
unlike anyone else on this planet, everything you want and whenever you want it, no matter the price? The tragedy of the commons
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weirdest post i've ever read: a whine
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Another rule? I don't know but could we perhaps give them some seed bonus points to go away
Made me laugh harder than any of the jokes :cheesy2:
Now off to the suggestion board…Please give me the ability to throw seed points at people to make them go away.
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The simplest way to solve this would be to simply exempt the "Jokes" board from the SBP 'Bonus' and to make it not show up in anyone's recent posts list. Then anyone who decided to "Flood" another forum for SBP simply gets banned from earning SBP period. I like the Jokes… but I agree it becomes quite the pain when someone posts 200 to 300 topics in an hour just for SBP.
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I would suggest making a time limit between posts. Some forums will allow you to post only once in a two minute time frame. Most of the joke post are posted under a minute a part. But yes, if don't pay SBP for the jokes board that would also stop it, but then for the same reason why pay it for the game board and how many other boards can the same thing be said about. But the idea of the SBP is to encourage people to post in the forums.
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I thought the spammers had gone away.
20 pages of spam in one day by one poster is completely unacceptable. Completely screws the Recent Posts for the rest of us.
Are there no 'joke sites' that they can go and pester?
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i like jokes it make me happy its supposed to make ppl happy too
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Oh heavens, spammers return :spam:
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Another four pages of spam…why?
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I'm over jokes a long time ago.
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Seems a lot of the 'forum games' have been nuked too
