How much spam?

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    I was just wondering out of curiosity how much of the posts around the general chat is spam. I se so many badly written post in broken English my eyes start to bleed :/
     
    izlik, Jan 9, 2014 IP
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    malky66 Acclaimed Member

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    99%...at least, most of the pointless garbage that gets posted there is beyond a joke, but I suppose if it's in general chat it's not clogging up the rest of the forum.
     
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    izlik Well-Known Member

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    True that, it's still kind of annoying to sort trough it to find genuine posts :/
     
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    Maybe they should all take spelling lessons from you huh? Oh let me guess, you just missed the keyboard.;)
     
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    izlik Well-Known Member

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    No not really, i blame all my spelling errors on myself being Swedish, i actully try to fix it with spellcheker but some misses happens. However, i do not se my English "as" bad as the broken english i have seen here in the General Chat even if mine is "bad" :p
     
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    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    I too am ESL and will offer no excuses if I make mistakes in either my spelling or grammar. But if I were going to criticize others on here, then I ought to at least try to write properly myself.
     
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    izlik Well-Known Member

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    Well you do have a point about that actully! ;)
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #8
    Just report them as you see them. There is around 1,900,000 posts that have been deleted as it is.
     
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    izlik Well-Known Member

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    Jsut about howm any get deleted daily if i may ask? =)
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Well, if you divide the number of deleted posts by the number of days the forum has been around, it's somewhere around 540 per day on average.

    You would be amazed at how much crap is deleted, you just can't see it so you don't know. :)

    See the screenshot from this post for example.
     
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    Holy crap, i guess that is just the stuff the spamfilter is catching ?
     
    izlik, Jan 10, 2014 IP
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    In my opinion, that would depend on what your definition of "broken English" really is.
     
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    ^I agree.^ I'm sure we all have "broken" English to some extent. Especially if we're Americans. :)
     
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    #14
    broken english cannot be considered as spam. But yes there are lots of fake threads just to increase post count in digital point these days
     
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    Pretty much like all the pointless crap you have posted today.
     
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    Haaa, Malky you are real funny!! I guess you have been reading all the blogs as I am!
     
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