05-11-2016, 01:37 PM
(05-10-2016, 08:21 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(05-10-2016, 02:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Anticipating that we will get some scum and some responses to it, it might be a good idea to set a policy that responses to posts deleted by the Webmaster themselves be deleted.
Thus "great deals for (impotence pills)", which would be banned, which might entice someone to say "Spammer be gone!" will get the response "Spammer be gone!" deleted as well. This will ensure that people don't have their responses to spam, libel, hate speech, or copyright violations remaining on the Forum.
Or better yet you could just not respond to obvious spam and just report it. On many forums I've managed, doing such a thing is itself considered spam and thus against the rules (unless of course it is in the mudpit where I let everything go within reason). I don't think it is the moderation team's responsibility to ensure that you (or anyone else) behaves, just deal with you when you (or anyone else) doesn't.
Yup it's best to report spammers rather than reply to them. They're easy to get rid of once they're reported.