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Dealing with suspected spam on LAVA


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Our policy on spam is clear: "Spamming is not permitted; please keep all your posts as constructive and on-topic as possible", but we also want to be clear on how our members should handle what they suspect as spam in our forums. From our Golden Forum Rules page:

"If a topic is recognized as being posted in the wrong forum, or if the post is a violation of our guidelines then please contact a moderator [using] the report post to moderator feature; please do not respond publicly to the member - a member of staff will do what is required upon contact. Any person/s who attempt to present themselves as a Moderator by posting negatively to a member's topic... will be sent a PM warning and placed into moderation queue upon further actions."

In summary, do not reply to a topic that you think is spam - simply click the "! REPORT" link next to the suspect spam (see below) and fill out a description to report it to a moderator. If you do reply to the suspected spam post and don't click on the report button, then the moderators might miss it. Also, you're violating our rules by presenting yourself as a moderator.

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Foloowing the guidleines will help us keep our forums uncluttered and on topic :thumbup:

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QUOTE (Ton @ Sep 11 2008, 02:41 AM)

Would it help to tag such a message as 'spam' or 'reported' after reporting?

No, as that could be seen as responding negatively to the post, thus violating our rules. Just report it and our admin or a moderator will take care of it relatively quickly.

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