I'm a little confused on a MG forum rule

Really hate getting into these things, but will

A gentle nudge at times is great on the rules and regs,

But Sailor is correct please do report a thread if you think its spamming, advertising, not on topic or attacking another member and let the admins/mods review it, we review alot per day and many you dont see as the spam filter catches them, sadly some of them are legit threads and posts and got caught up due to using ........... in the paragraphs, to using too many smilies to not using paragraphs to split text up etc


Advertising is a tricky one as we have many developers here which we have known for many years and allow them to post about their apps, but on the other hand their are ones we dont know that are using Majorgeeks for hits to their forums, sites, and applications as we are popular site, not an easy task to judge what right or wrong, but we have had many years of weeding out who is spamming (wont get it all right all of the time)

Some new members like one today who posted a user happy story, gained comments on how his use of english was, not everyone is from native English speaking country and not great to make this member feel unwelcome either, I deleted some comments (one was ok as it pointed out that all users are not native english speakers but was out of context when other posts where deleted so I deleted it too) and one spammer in that thread, but as I did a little checking on him and he is active on Wilders Security forum respected site like Majorgeeks, and their admins/mods are good and would have deleted them as a spammer, I deemed his post ok and added that we do have this AV listed at Majorgeeks (at times we actually change the links to other sites to ours as you may have noticed on occasion).


If we deleted all posts mentioning applications that users find great and want to share, many members here would be deleted already, so its a balancing act, right some times wrong others.

Sending the tech area threads into lounge type posts with off-topic comments will be deleted, as we need to keep our famed for quality of posts and tech help up in the tech areas, if an admin/mod has posted in it then likely they deemed it ok, so if a thread is reported and comments are it it are deleted do not be offended if your posts are deleted too.




Please just report the thread dont post in it that you have reported it, crack wise jokes, etc it just bumps the thread and gets it noticed more, all admins/mods get emails on a reported thread post, so will get to it asap, if spamming or causing offence it will be deleted and user banned or more likey deleted.


If I followed the rules by the letter then one member in this thread would be breaking this rule in the thread mentioned above

Am I going to ban/delete/remove their postcount? no as the rules are guides open to judging the facts at hand.


@Aimee ~ If they have a freeware download they created and it looks like a genuine app and developer then in honesty most freeware apps need to get cash somewhere so google ads are a fact on many sites forums etc but report the thread/post and someone from the admin team will look it over and like thesmokingun did in one thread post the link to how to contact Tim or Jim to see if they would add it to the downloads we list, many developers have had great apps added some have not been added as the downloads section has only tested and approved apps added.

Again this is not an exact science and some posts maybe left some not.



To all again many many thanks as for along time the report a post has worked great so cheers for using this system, it helps us more than posting in a spam thread or sending one into chaos.

 

Thinking he was referring to the mods in bigtrucks post at another board, BOOM.



Basically, I go by if it looks like spam, use the report button. There was a time I think my brain was off and I actually clicked on a link a spammer put up....immediate infection. :cry