Mass posting in Intro Forum

[Willuw]

I have noticed lately several people "mass post" a generic "welcome" message to 2-4 entire pages of threads in the "Introductions" forum.

In doing this, threads from 1+ weeks ago are now at the top of the forum and brand new threads get pushed to pages 2-5+ and rarely get seen again. There are a lot of people here who actual read the posts and respond and acknowledge the new members which is excellent. However it seems there are a growing number who go thru pages and at a time writing a generic response and pushing new threads down to the bottom and old to the top.

Maybe set a higher interval between posts in this forum or even make posts not count towards postcount.

 

[Damselfish]

that's why the intro forum is on my 'Exclude Forums from "Get New Posts"' list...

 

[Willuw]

that's why the intro forum is on my 'Exclude Forums from "Get New Posts"' list...

I agree, another point against the mass-posting. But it shouldn't be - because new members need welcomed

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

I agree, Nitro. I also agree about the problem of "form letter posting." Because of this, I have no inclination to even participate in that thread and welcome newcomers. What can be done about it, I don't have a clue, though.

 

[Willuw]

I think a lot of people do it to quickly boost their post count - where else can you reply to the same pages 100x with the same message without even reading the post. I have seen a lot of generic postings telling a user to do something (fill out profile, post where your from, etc) that they already did in the post - if the person would just take the time to read the post instead of spamming the same message on ever post.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

"spamming." The operative word. That's really what it is, isn't it? Hrmph.....

 

[drbill]

I welcome new members selectively... generally just beautiful women divers who have dive boats and large trust funds. However, I don't really object to such generic postings since it is so easy to ignore those threads when looking at new posts. I go through ALL the pages of threads with new posts even if it reaches the maximum of 20 pages.

 

[dlndavid]

I agree, Nitro. I also agree about the problem of "form letter posting." Because of this, I have no inclination to even participate in that thread and welcome newcomers. What can be done about it, I don't have a clue, though.

Welcome to :sblogo:

 

[dlndavid]

I welcome new members selectively... generally just beautiful women divers who have dive boats and large trust funds. However, I don't really object to such generic postings since it is so easy to ignore those threads when looking at new posts. I go through ALL the pages of threads with new posts even if it reaches the maximum of 20 pages.

you left out Asian

 

[robertarak]

Just ignore Dandy D...errrr umm.... the mass poster.