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I don't know what the message was about. Neither did I report the message nor the user (both were gone before I opened CP today  )
It always depends on the message. I can't really define what I vote spam and what I don't (if I could define it then the spam guard should be able to do it too and take care of the spam itself)
Why livestream spammers are always trying to flood CP, however, is beyond me. It isn't really the target audience they seek... (Why the hell should I care about football/hockey/etc. games in the US?)
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They don't care either - I think its a spam farm. They get paid a trivial per post they manage to get up there, and high-volume sites like this one are definitely prefered.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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If you are referring to the "Automatically Removed" post below, it was a link to a site where you can watch the Olympics online, but not an official site. That is what we refer to as "Live Stream Spam". There used to be dozens of those every day in QA (some days closer to a hundred) so we fight them hard and we do not feel bad about doing it.
Posts here in the forums can be reported using the red flag in the lower right corner of the post. There are two options Abusive and Spam. When you report a forum post as spam, it is automatically downvoted and the member posting the message is also automatically reported as a spammer. After five of those reports the member is kicked off. I am not sure if it takes 3, 4 or 5 reports for the message to be removed. It seems to vary a bit.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I think it takes 6 votes to remove the member?
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You could be right. It was 5 at some point, but they may have adjusted that.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Nope.
If you spam the site, you will be kicked.
You can apply to the Hamsters for mercy, and maybe get your account reinstated, but it's not guaranteed, and you will have to give some good assurances that you won't do it again.
We don't want to be flooded with "live streaming TV" adverts for example, so anything we can do to make their lives harder is fine by me.
If in doubt: don't spam.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Given the barrage of spam the site is sometimes subjected to, I am not inclined to be lenient.
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Personally I differentiating on the type of spam. If someone posts livestream spam, that's an immediate kill of both the message and the account.
But often enough it's just someone that's pushing their own product or company in a not so subtle way, that's not getting a report from me unless it's happening several times even after getting talked to.
Here is also where the (double)standards are differing a lot on the forums, long standing members have a much higher threshold before getting kicked out.
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Well "Hey get cheap fake Nikes here" with a link is not a pointer to future quality posts.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Where? Where?
speramus in juniperus
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"Uncheck the lists you no longer wish to be on and then click the button below to complete your unsubscription."
Guess the site whose 'unsubscribe' page takes double negatives to a whole new level!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Damn these sites. This what I call spamming ...
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Does it also have an "OK" button to cancel your subscription, and a "Cancel" button to cancel the cancelation? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I honestly don't recall - but it's a site close to us both!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I like how your user name illustrates the fact that we are all just numbers in a government spreadsheet!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We are all unique! Globally unique...
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Globally unique.
Do you imply off-world dopplegangers ?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I am curious why that particular enterprise required drones to go above 400 ft.
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Well done!
Get a copy of this: Expresso[^] - it's free, and it explains, tests and helps create regexes. I use it all the time and I wish I'd written it!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Get a copy of this: Expresso[^]
Just tried it out - And I hand-crafted my RegEx! Well, learning it from scratch has never caused any damage.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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The site OriginalGiff mentioned is very good. Another very helpful site is regexlib[^]; they have a large library of Regular Expressions. They also have a RegEx tester[^].
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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I second expresso it's an awesome tool!
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