Spam Attacking Revenge Of The Birds

waiting period shouldn’t be a problem for new members, it wouldn’t have bothered me.

I’ve had to go through the one day waiting period at other sites and it really isn’t bothersome at all, and if it helps releive the work you guys have to go through deleting the spam then I am all for the waiting period

can stipulate a “spam button”, where after the comment is “spammed” , three or more times it collapses.

Waiting a day isn’t a big deal. I wanted to be sure the site wasn’t like so many others with people just talking trash to each other without much, if any, real thought beforehand.

I think you will lose new members and I also think it limits the comments from fams of other teams. There were a few times I have wanted to comment on the site of the team we are playing, but with the 24 hour waiting period I just said forget it.

I like the idea of a spam button, but rather than pull the comment after three spams (which could also be abused) I think if an item get spam buttoned a message should go to Andrew or whoever has the power to delete the post and void the membership.

Or could you make the 24 hour waiting period only for new members to sb nation – for instance after you’ve been a sbnation member for 30 days you can immediately join any SB nation blog. That would resolve the fans of other teams issue, but not the new member issue.

I know too many Cardinals fans that aren’t “regular” bloggers but will come on here to read the occasional blog and comment. Also, with linking facebook and twitter to our postings we are obviously working to draw traffic to the site. Things like that are going to be an “impulse buy.” I have a ton of Cardinals Fans on my friends list and I can guarantee that, when one of them sees an article and comes here to read and comment, it will be on impulse. If they are forced to wait a day before they can comment, the impulse will pass and they may never come back.

The mere fact that the risk EXISTS for losing potential regulars should be enough to thwart this idea. Sure, it’s annoying to have spammers. But, what does it really hurt? It isn’t forcing you to read the comment. It takes what? half of a second to realize it is spam and scroll down past the spam comment? It really isn’t bothering people THAT much to where we should risk losing future regulars to stop it.

I like Andrew’s idea of browsing new member names and if they are like the one above, plzzshop98 or something like that…then it’s obviously spam. Other than that, I would implement the waiting period or it may handicap new members enough to keep them away.

I was gonna start my comment with some fake spam, trying to be funny, but the real thing beat me to it. I voted yes, but I like the idea of a “Spam” button. It is annoying. We know Andrew is aware and appreciate his efforts.

It might cut back on the McNabb fan shots, too.