09-04-2004, 16:05
Hi
A moderator suggested I post a couple of ideas here.
There have been at least 3 incidents in the last week or so of nations hopping from region to region spreading worthless spam to regional HQ Boards and it got me thinking that at the moment there doesn't appear to be anything to either prevent it or for regional founders to clear up the mess afterwards.
So I thought of 3 things that *might* help:
1) there is a time delay that prevents the same person posting on an HQ Board consecutively, albeit a few seconds (which I never really thought would deter the determined spammer anyway) so I thought maybe a time delay between being able to jump from one region to another......hear me out ;)
How many regions can someone hit in an hour if they write some spam, copy it and then paste it into region after region? Depending on how fast their finger speed and net connection are, I imagine quite a few. What if the game didn't allow you to jump to more than one region on an hour, or two, or a day, or whatever? It would be at least one region spammed per hour! Then the spammer would be stuck in the region they just spammed, at least giving time for a founder or UN Delegate to notice it and eject the offender (as my understanding of the rules allows me to do)!
2) Once a spammer has quit a region, there is nothing a founder can do to prevent that person coming back into the region (as was the case with Star Trek Deep Space 9 nation this week - Sweden was spammed then the spammer fled, leaving me with a long piece of spam and a nation I couldn't eject and ban). I'd like founders to have the power to retrospectively ban someone who has broken the rules in their region. That will stop that particular nation coming back - and would have allowed me to prevent Deep Space 9 form hitting my region AGAIN! (I was lucky enough to be online when they did it this time).
3) If a spammer hits the regional board, the only people who can delete the message are mods - let's face it, they have their hands full! Any chance of Founders having the power to delete messages? I doubt we'd get that power to delete *any* message - but what about the power to delete messages left by a nation who has been ejected from the region, or has been retrospectively added to the ban list? That way I could "cleanup" my regional board following a spam attack
Thoughts, people?
/Mac Fans
"I DON'T LIKE SPAM!" - "Don't make a fuss dear, I'll eat yours...." ;)
A moderator suggested I post a couple of ideas here.
There have been at least 3 incidents in the last week or so of nations hopping from region to region spreading worthless spam to regional HQ Boards and it got me thinking that at the moment there doesn't appear to be anything to either prevent it or for regional founders to clear up the mess afterwards.
So I thought of 3 things that *might* help:
1) there is a time delay that prevents the same person posting on an HQ Board consecutively, albeit a few seconds (which I never really thought would deter the determined spammer anyway) so I thought maybe a time delay between being able to jump from one region to another......hear me out ;)
How many regions can someone hit in an hour if they write some spam, copy it and then paste it into region after region? Depending on how fast their finger speed and net connection are, I imagine quite a few. What if the game didn't allow you to jump to more than one region on an hour, or two, or a day, or whatever? It would be at least one region spammed per hour! Then the spammer would be stuck in the region they just spammed, at least giving time for a founder or UN Delegate to notice it and eject the offender (as my understanding of the rules allows me to do)!
2) Once a spammer has quit a region, there is nothing a founder can do to prevent that person coming back into the region (as was the case with Star Trek Deep Space 9 nation this week - Sweden was spammed then the spammer fled, leaving me with a long piece of spam and a nation I couldn't eject and ban). I'd like founders to have the power to retrospectively ban someone who has broken the rules in their region. That will stop that particular nation coming back - and would have allowed me to prevent Deep Space 9 form hitting my region AGAIN! (I was lucky enough to be online when they did it this time).
3) If a spammer hits the regional board, the only people who can delete the message are mods - let's face it, they have their hands full! Any chance of Founders having the power to delete messages? I doubt we'd get that power to delete *any* message - but what about the power to delete messages left by a nation who has been ejected from the region, or has been retrospectively added to the ban list? That way I could "cleanup" my regional board following a spam attack
Thoughts, people?
/Mac Fans
"I DON'T LIKE SPAM!" - "Don't make a fuss dear, I'll eat yours...." ;)