Please Read This Thread.

[Loony BoB]

We've recently had to deal with a spam thread in this forum that was sitting around for a couple of days. One of the members who had previously been given a final warning for such activities has now been banned and even more members warned, but what worried me the most is that nobody at all seemed to alert us to the thread.

For this reason, I thought I'd give the members of the X-2 forum a little advice for such situations - use the Report Bad Post feature. :) This little button looks like this: http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/buttons/report.gif and can be found on every post, either at the top right or bottom left depending on what postbit location you use. When you see a post that you feel is nothing but spam or an insult to another member or anything else that you feel would break the rules, please use this button and let us know what is wrong with the post (or thread that the post is in).

We will be trying hard to keep up with all the forums around here, but sadly some do managed to slip through our nets. Hopefully when they do slip through, you can help us by reporting posts. Thanks for your time! If you have any questions, feel free to PM myself or any other staff member and we'll be sure to help you.

[Old Manus]

Aye sir

[boys from the dwarf]

i forgot about that button. ill remember now though. thanks.

[Setzer Gabianni]

Whatever. I'll just report when I see something bad. I've been doing that anyway.

[Remon]

Thanx

[-N-]

How upsetting.

[Psydekick]

i forgot about that button. ill remember now though. thanks.
Yes me too:)

[Excalibur11]

Im new here so now Ive learnt :)

[yunafan11]

thanks for that. I'll keep an eye out.

[Vyk]

Figures it'd be this forum. Nobody reported it, because... ah well, that's just an opinion, and probably spam. I rarely come in here, but when I do see that stuff in here I usually find it humorous simply because its in here. Which is beside the point. I know there can't be double standards just 'cause its the least respected game of the franchise. I guess what I'm saying is I know where they were coming from. Though I'd certainly never... well... maybe once xD j/k

[Omi4000]

Yes i get to grass on some1 for calling another person a poop head oh to joy!!!!:mad:

[yunafan11]

Yes i get to grass on some1 for calling another person a poop head oh to joy!!!! :mad:


LOL. Yeah. LOL. Joy. But you know. It would make this place nicer. LOL.

[Heero Yuy NWZC]

yes, sir! ::salutes::

[yunafan11]

LOL. Yeah, *like in final fantasy seven, does the thing when wearing outfit* LOL.

[Omi4000]

ok so lets tell on people yay!!!!!!!!

[Vyk]

...would it be productive to point out that that right there is why nobody reports/reported anything

[yunafan11]

what? If your talking about me, someone hacked into my account.

[Yuna_wannabe]

AYe aye capton(i didnt know we could report them before)
whats the actual definition of spam? what is it? i am stund and dont know

[Psydekick]

Posts that are off topic or rude or many other things, i'll let everyone else explain lol:)

[Loony BoB]

Posts that are off topic or rude, as stated by Sora!, as well as posts that simply don't contribute to the topic - eg. someone posting nothing but "lol" is considered spam. Someone talking about the price of fish at their local dairy in the middle of the X-2 forum is spamming. For the most part it's just a case of "use your head and you'll be okay" though - we'll let you know if you're doing anything wrong when it comes to spamming long before we decide to take any serious action.

[Psydekick]

BoB has pretty much said it all though i think he missed out that i can also be advertising and flaming:)

[Setzer Gabianni]

some people do not seem to take notice though of things, and especially when people cannot even be bothered to type legibly(sp?), it makes things twice as bad when we try to read posts.

=/ Sure, if they are not orginally born in an English speaking country, then it's ok I guess.

However, if people have a good knowledge of English and continue to spam or whatever, they need to read this thread to know about how to behave.

~Setzer Gabianni

[Psydekick]

Another thing is Double posting which seems to come up in the X-2 forum more than most others. If you wish to add anything to your post use the http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e230/S_o_r_a/EditDeletebutton.gif instead of posting twice in a row:)

[Loony BoB]

some people do not seem to take notice though of things, and especially when people cannot even be bothered to type legibly(sp?), it makes things twice as bad when we try to read posts.

=/ Sure, if they are not orginally born in an English speaking country, then it's ok I guess.

However, if people have a good knowledge of English and continue to spam or whatever, they need to read this thread to know about how to behave.

~Setzer Gabianni
What I'm trying to say is that dozens of people who are actually highly literate can spot this stuff every day and know it's wrong but never use the warn feature. I'm targeting them to let us know where to look, as we can't catch every thread. :) Once we do find out the people causing the problems, then we can deal with them as neccessary. :)

[Dreddz]

haha, sorry, cant stop laughing, ths thread is classic.

[Psydekick]

That from Dreddz is a pure example of spam, so now you know what it is don't do it.:)

[Setzer Gabianni]

Loony, I have been frequently using the warn button, and I have never stopped using it!

~Setzer Gabianni

[Dreddz]

That from Dreddz is a pure example of spam, so now you know what it is don't do it.:)
Man thats Patronising....

Loony, I have been frequently using the warn button, and I have never stopped using it!

~Setzer Gabianni
Crap, People actually use that...

[TheSpoonyBard]

I was using the warn button too much. I got a PM from Del Murder telling me to stop. I shall be more vigilant in the future.

[Dreddz]

Using the warn button is like snitching in the playground..........wrong that is.

[Setzer Gabianni]

Good God man, you want the crime committers to go unchecked?!

~Setzer Gabianni

[Loony BoB]

For what it's worth, they'll never know it was you anyway. *shrugs* Some people think it's bad to report people for wrongdoings, some people think it's right to prevent wrongdoings happening again. I certainly hope you're all part of the latter, for your own sake. But hey, so long as even 5% of you report posts then we should catch everything.

[tidusguy#1]

yessir!!!

it kinda a shame though how theyre goin off topic and everything.... i had to remind them that we were goin off topic once....

[Gullick]

yeah, thats the basic code in my school, never grass on anyone cause chances are, if you do, they'll grass on you sometime.

[Loony BoB]

yeah, thats the basic code in my school, never grass on anyone cause chances are, if you do, they'll grass on you sometime.
Sure are lucky that we're not in your school. Around here, nobody knows who grasses on you - it could be anyone, only the staff will ever know - but you will get caught, and so will they, and then you both end up punished. That's why you're better off 'grassing' on people when they're doing something that's clearly wrong.

There is no 'code' around here. If you follow a 'code' then you'll probably end up worse off for it.

[fushibai99]

i dont understand?????งงอ่ะ???

[tidusguy#1]

ug, e'mm nabund yhodrehk e caa pyt!!
(ok, i'll report anything i see bad!!)

that was al bhed by the way

[Leeza]

yessir!!!

it kinda a shame though how theyre goin off topic and everything.... i had to remind them that we were goin off topic once....
A member who is not a mod but does so anyway is also worthy of being reported.

[Old Manus]

Owned!

[Psychotic]

Owned!Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of a spam post that should be warned.

[~*~Celes~*~]

I can't stand it when people sit there and argue about the dumbest things, like whether or not Yuna's an attention hog or whether or not Rikku dresses indecently. Shouldn't stupid stuff like that be made illegal too? There's truly no real point to it...

[Owen Macwere]

sure. but I kinda hate to use this bottom, doesn't that make us ...erm...alittle evil?.
well, when we do use that bottom I think we should read the post or the thread carfully before we report on something that doesn't need to be warned.
anyway, I will keep an eye on EOFF security.
and I'd like to add, that EOFF has the best mods there is,*8bows down*.

[Psydekick]

It doesent make you evil does it?

It makes you a good citzen off eyesonff

[Edge7]

I'm still a bit of a semi-noob but ill try to remember

[Leeza]

This thread is too old to bring back.