who will win the mod vs spammers game

[AK_iceman]

I'm fine with that hecter, but Vincent still has to do at least his 3 days.

[hecter]

And I've told him that he will. So it's settled then. *sigh* No posting for that long. That's harsh…

[iAnonymous]

Spammers always win in the end.

[owenshooter]

i voted after it was well decided... but i always knew it in my heart...-0

[AK_iceman]

Ok, Vincent can not post for 3 full days starting now!
He currently has 1489 posts, and the game ended about 3 or 4 minutes ago, so thats when it started.

[Wisse]

What about my proposel? If it starts on Thursday instead (giving me time to make the necisary preperations) I will extend it to five days, instead of three. That means no posting or live chat for all of:

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

I'll miss the Saturday night mafia RT which will suck, but I got stuff to do man. Mafia games I'm in now and such.

w00t 5 days! your great hecter!

[wicked]

BTW hecter, you should've made the necessary preparations when you agreed to the game! lol or did you actually think you had a chance? thanks for being such good sports guys.

[CreepyUncleAndy]

The mods can always cancel/ban/delete spammers (and their posts) -- but this takes time, and there are a finite number of mods.

The spammers can always create new accounts, and spam, and spam, and spam -- and there are an infinite number of spammers.

The mods could limit (but never totally stop) the flow of new spam by making the following adjustments:

(1) The Anti-Spam Solution used by Google Mail -- require every new account to register with a telephone number that is unique to that account -- this number will be called (or text messaged) by a human operator or machine which will give whoever answers an activation code that must be entered for that account to use the site. That phone number will be uniquely registered to that account, such that it cannot be used by another account. The phone call will also have a recording of Lack's voice telling people not to deadbeat or multiplay.

(2) Draconian Measures -- mods will be selected (and kept) based on how aggressively they police their forums. If you are a mod, and do not delete every item of spam in your forum, a more aggressive mod will be found to replace you. If you are a spammer, your account will be banned, then deleted, then all of your information will be sold to various third-party junk mail distributors -- the spammers shall be spammed.

There is an interesting parallel between the "War on Spam" and the "War on Terror":

In the Army, I had several good conversations with and attended numerous lectures by numerous Commissioned- and Non-Commissioned-Officers, all of whom had something very much like this to say about the "Global War on Terror" (the official name of the war we are currently waging:

"We cannot 'win' the war on terror; at best, we can only do pre-emptive and ex-post-facto damage control, and reduce the 'war' to a stalemate. Every 'terrorist' we kill becomes a martyr to inspire others to take up arms against the 'Imperial West, and every 'innocent civilian' who dies because of our mistakes becomes a rallying point in the jihad against us, 'The Great Satan'. Politicians who speak of 'winning the war on terror' are either delusional or outright liars. However, we have been called upon to do the impossible, and so we must soldier on"

[ABSOLUTE_MASTER]

The mods can always cancel/ban/delete spammers (and their posts) -- but this takes time, and there are a finite number of mods.

The spammers can always create new accounts, and spam, and spam, and spam -- and there are an infinite number of spammers.

The mods could limit (but never totally stop) the flow of new spam by making the following adjustments:

(1) The Anti-Spam Solution used by Google Mail --

THAT is a great idea... It will control not only spam but multis.

[hecter]

I don't like it!

[AK_iceman]

Actually, I think I've changed my mind. I want you both to stop posting at the same time. By you waiting until Thursday, the spam just slows down for a week while only one of you can post at a time, but what I really want is for the spam to stop completely.

Since Vincent is almost 24 hours into it, his sentence will end right on time. But hecter, I want you to stop posting today. Send me a PM when you're ready and I'll mark down your post count.

[hecter]

You can't just go and change your mind like that! That's cheating! We agreed on the fact that I won't spam for 5 days if it starts on Thursday. 5 whole days! That leaves me with only two more days to spam. Besides, I post WAY more the Vincent does. Anyways, the weekend is when I spam the most. If we continue our agreement, I can't spam over the weekend. Don't you want that?

[AK_iceman]

No, I'd rather have you stop right now and enjoy 2 days with neither of you posting.

[hecter]

O cmon. Don't be like this. You can't just change the punishment while it is in effect. That's just makes things complicated.

[AK_iceman]

I don't get it. This is better for both sides....

ME - I don't have to look at either of your avatars or banners for 2 days.
YOU - Instead of 5 days, it's only 3. And you can post on the weekend which you just said was the days you post the most.

It's not complicated, and it was the original deal anyway.

[hecter]

Fine, I'll pm you when I'm ready which will be on Thursday

[wicked]

hecter, are you going out of town on thursday for the weekend? lol

[hecter]

Yes I am. From Thursday to Monday. I will probably only have enough time to take my turns, and even then I will probably miss a few.

[wicked]

I told hecter he could post in mafia. don't want him ruining a mafia game.

[dominationnation]

oh come on wicked

now he is going to spend all day in the mafia game saying things that have nothing to do with it

[wicked]

He'll know better than to spam it. I'm not going to ruin a mafia game with this.

[dominationnation]

I hope you are right