GWW Community Rules - Need Your Input

**Lee** · 10-28-2006, 12:25 AM

Okay, over the past couple of weeks i have received several PMs from different people letting me know that they thought certain people were spamming to much on the GWW Community so, i thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback from you folks about how we can pro-actively approach the subject of people posting spam on our community.

At the present time, community members need to have a specific number of posts before they can post clickable URLs but, it would seem that we are being 'spammed' by some GWW Community members who feel that they should be able to post links to the sites they own and work for whenever they feel like it.

So, with that being said, lets see if we can come up with a workable solution to cut down the amount of pure spam on the GWW Community, whilst still allowing those community members who do contribute on a regular basis to inform us of the latest and greatest stuff they have to offer.

Also, i wanted to clarify (as i was asked to) what the deal is with GWW Community sponsors and their announcements, so here goes...

GWW Community sponsors (top banners, annual banners, buttons, and autolinks) are pretty much the only community members who are able to post their news and announcements on the general forum and, once one of our moderators see the post, it will become stickied for up to 24 hours.

Any other GWW Community members wishing to post any news or announcements on the community must post them in the Announcements + Spam forum. This includes any new content you have added, new articles you have written, new sites or movies you have or intend to launch, contests, or new staff you have hired.

In essence, if you post a new thread with a link to a site that you own, or that is intended as 'self promotion' in my eyes, and therefore in the eyes of the GWW Moderator team, that would be spam and will be moved to the announcements and spam section of the GWW Community.

Also just to clarify, if you post a link in an existing thread, in response to another GWW Community members question or query, to your own sites or services, that is fine, as long as it is on topic and help or advice was solicited (asked for).

So, now that we know where we stand currently with 'spam' on the GWW Community, i would like to get some feedback from you folks as to how we can move forward in cutting down the amount of spam from some of our existing GWW Community members.

Regards,

Lee

spazlabz · 10-28-2006, 08:40 AM

cool Lee. One of the things I find most helpful when I am visiting a board either to make an announcement, milk a BT alert or just relax and enjoy the community is to have a page, not a sticky thread but an actual page that lists the community standards type of thing esp as it relates to things like how far a regular poster can go in self promotion.
I honestly don't have a lot of time during my work day to visit all the boards I am a member at and I have about a 3-4 hour window of time that is 'free time' each day and thats spent with family.
so if i am doing a little happy visit and checking the GWW threads for something I might find interesting and want to post in, a handy link at the top of the page to rules can always settle any questions I might have or point me in the right direction if i over step what it considered allowable in the community. I understand the need for rules and standards and I strive to follow them whenever they are made perfectly clear to me

spaz

Dzinerbear · 10-28-2006, 08:52 AM

I'm sorry, but I don't think this really works for me, nor do I think it's fair to the people who have helped built this community.

If I decided to make Universal Bear a paysite, I think I should be able to announce it right here where I've been making posts for three years. And likewise there are so many people who post in this forum and I want to read and hear about their news. I always prefer to do business with and throw traffic to people that I know.

Sorry, but the board just became a whole lot less useful for me because I never read the Announcement forum. I just don't have the time to sift through six forums on this board to see what interests me. This is my homepage, and if it doesn't catch my eye here, then I don't see it.

Why don't you deal with the offenders on an individual basis rather than penalizing members in good standing?

This is a bad idea, unless I've totally misunderstood the new rules and circumstances, which is highly possible since I'm not coffee'd yet.

Michael

**Lee** · 10-28-2006, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Dzinerbear

This is a bad idea, unless I've totally misunderstood the new rules and circumstances, which is highly possible since I'm not coffee'd yet.

Go get coffee'd up

In essence, this is only for those people who regularly post links to their sites or associated sites on what seems like an almost daily basis to some people.

This is an effort to pro-actively approach the subject of people posting nothing but links to sites they own or are associated with on a regular basis and how we can lay down some ground rules to cut back the amount of spam posts being made.

Obviously, if someone who is a GWW regular, and has an announcement to be made they will have a certain amount of leeway to have it posted and stickied in the general forum

Regards,

Lee

marcjacob · 10-28-2006, 03:13 PM

I think this is GREAT!

I too like to see what regular members are upto but thats a whole world away from people whos only posts are adverts.

I think we can all draw a distinction farily easily. We all recognise it when we see it. I welcome this..