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Post by temporaryaccount on Feb 6, 2016 13:49:26 GMT
Hi.
I don't play your game, and this is the only post I'll be making on your forum. I do play another idle game on another website, where one of your players has been spamming a referral link for a day now. Even this would be fine, except that this person has taken the time to create multiple accounts, so that they cannot be banned or muted.
It's pretty obnoxious. I don't know if anything in your terms of service addresses such behavior, or whether you approve or disapprove of it; I don't really care.
I'd just like you to know that whoever is on the receiving end of (http://www.avabur.com/?ref=7816) is using it as an excuse to be annoying elsewhere, and that at least one person doesn't appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.
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Post by Tanaric on Feb 6, 2016 20:41:51 GMT
Lots of people are shitty. The mods of this game have decided that being shitty on other games is not bannable here.
I and some other players disagree with this stance, as attracting and promoting a playerbase full of shitty people is not good for the long-term health of the game.
...but that said, the referral spam has been absolutely _great_ for the short-term health of the game, so it's complicated. Making a decision on this is hard.
Other games should be able to have robust spam solutions at this point. It's 2016 and spam detection and prevention is not that challenging.
IMHO referrals should cap out at ~5. Maybe someday we'll see something like that to prevent this sort of thing.
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Post by pizzaman on Feb 7, 2016 1:57:41 GMT
There is simply no way to police this. I can take someones ref link and go spam Kong with it all day and get that person banned. Is Kong going to share the spammers IP with us? I highly doubt it. All we can do is discourage the practice or remove ref links all together but we know that isn't going to happen. We allow people to post ref links to other games in our chat as long as they aren't spammed.
Every PBBG has ref links the reason you don't see as much spam from them is because the games are older and members have gotten tired of trying to get new refs because it is hard when everyone has already heard of the game. I know for a fact BoL/LYR/AOO/Heroes have all had the same periods of people spamming ref links.
We aren't promoting people spamming ref links and we ask users police themselves but there is just no way to properly police this.
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