Spam????????
[NS]Carinthe
09-08-2005, 12:43
A friend of mine went through the warzones, displaying this message:
4 days ago The Nomadic Peoples of JollyRogers Avast me hearties! Prepare to be boarded!
First of all, he never did this more than twice a day, I don't believe it involved regional happenings of other regios than warzones, and sometimes he kept quiet more than a day.
I don't understand this. It isn't malicious spam, and he was merely preparing for warzone raids, and having some fun in the mean time untill he got an army. It wan't flaming and it wasn't multiple messages after each other, and it was only in the warzones.
NationStates Moderators
Received: 7 hours ago Enough with your spamming of the warzones. Rules are somewhat relaxed in there, but plain old standard spam is still warnable. Knock it off.
Don't you think this warning is very confusing to everybody and very exaggerated?
[NS]Carinthe
10-08-2005, 08:38
*bump*
All I want to know is if policy in spamzones have changed, and why someone gets a "Knock it off!" warning for placing a few harmless messages in the warzones.
I have permission to ask this okay, because that person seems to have problems joining this forum. If there is more to this, I really like to know. If the policy against spam in the warzones is changed, I also like to know. I am sure that there are more people who like to know this.
Otherwise I would have blamed this on an overzealous mod and moved on. I am sure lots of people get warnings over little or nothing, every day. Mods are only human.
I keep my eyes on the warzones every day, and I certainly didn't see anything warnable. I would file a report, if I saw anything.
Frisbeeteria
10-08-2005, 17:48
Took me a bit to locate this thread again ...Yeah yeah, you guys are probably getting tired of these announcement threads addressed to invaders =p
However, unlike the invasion rules debate, this is something that I rather highly suspect will go over well with... well, everybody.
We've kept it under wraps, but [violet] just finished up the code, and we need some invaders to help us test it.
Who: All you folks who enjoy the 'invading' aspect of Nationstates play.
What: A new form of region catering specifically to invasion play. Spamming the region's civil HQ is allowed, spamming the region's happenings is allowed (so long as a region not involved doesn't get spammed in the process!), and the delegate can punt as many folks as they want. The catch? Bans autoexpire twice a day.
Where: Warzone Sandbox
Warzone Airspace
Warzone Europe
Warzone Asia
Warzone Australia
Warzone Africa
When: The region is open for business, folks! Anytime now!
Why: Because it doesn't seem we'll be settling the new ruleset any time soon, and we think this will be a more attractive option to non-rulebreaking invaders. We think it'll be really appealing because invaders can deploy some of the dirtier tactics (spamming the regional board/happenings) that the normal rules don't allow.
NOTE: ONLY the regions "Warzone Sandbox" and "Warzone Airspace" are set up like this. There is a special notice on the region's page that declares it's a "Warzone" region. Regions without this notice are subject to the normal invasion rules!
If the Warzone works out well enough, we'll add more "Warzone" regions as the need calls for, with more suitable names than "Sandbox" :wink:
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I had originally read this as allowing only Regional Happenings spam and recruitment spam, but it looks like Reppy allowed it all.
'Twas I who sent the warning, and 'twill be I who hereby declare it null and void. The warning has been removed from The Nomadic Peoples of JollyRogers, and a link to this post telegrammed.
[NS]Carinthe
10-08-2005, 18:46
Thank you Fris. I am a happy camper again. I didn't ask this only for JollyRogers, but for all the other Warzone delegates too. The YoungWorld is spamming in three Warzones at the moment, and the others better beware. We are preparing to take over their zones too :p
Oh, I forgot to say: I am sorry for calling you overzealous.