I've had enough...

[freeter]

For too long, this forum (and likely others here) have been flooded with nothing but spam and cash links. I used to stop by every day to look for new torrents; now it's once or twice a week at most to sift through the spam for anything worthwhile. Well, I'm putting my foot down. From now on, I will no longer download any torrent nor click on any thumbnail image that is not already attached to a post, and I urge everyone else to do the same. For the posters who attach torrent files and images or sift through the spam to attach the torrent files, I salute you all. Semper fi.

[BornBadd]

I've already been doing that ... makes like easier :)

[bokmeow]

I don't see much difference between torrents and spam/cash links --- they're both unwelcome. The selective enforcement toward copyright law on this site raises major eyebrows.

[antey2008]

i though cash link was banned long ago and now they are no longer posted. Although still some old topic had them.

[kbryc08]

We do our best to filter out cash links and spam but inevitably some do get through. Reporting bad (cash link and spam) posts helps us out a lot and we thank those who take the time to do so.

Us mods are also tired of users not attaching posts and in the future that will be addressed. It just takes time so please bear with us. Some of us mods are starting to put the hammer down on those who don't attach torrents but there isn't a rule in place yet.

I don't see much difference between torrents and spam/cash links --- they're both unwelcome. The selective enforcement toward copyright law on this site raises major eyebrows.

The selective enforcement is due to the C&D (cease and desist) letters that we've received. We honor every C&D letter we get so that's what you're seeing.

i though cash link was banned long ago and now they are no longer posted. Although still some old topic had them.

Yea we do not enforce the cash link rule retroactively so that's why cash links posted prior to the rule are still here.

[_Sever]

Its a long tough fight for the MODS cause the cash link guys wont quit.

Its our job to fix this as a community to attach files as soon as they post them not just clicking the Thanks button.

instead of having 1000+ hits they might only get 5-10

Thanks Mods for fighting the never ending fight.

[spartacus]

I report all cash links I come across, and always attach the torrent in the link.

The mods should be more strict and ban the users continually ignoring the rules. If someone keeps posting cash links, please ban his IP. That would help a lot.

/Spartacus

[Malazarte]

I Agree With Freeter,and Nobody Do Nothing About This Spam or Virus,Whatever,Its A Waste of Time to Protest...
See Many Opinions Before became a User Akibe,Sad Fact...

[Rollyco]

There's nothing the staff would like more than to add a rule to force torrent attachments. The problem is that it's very difficult to moderate.

I think the best solution would be a vBulletin mod that only allows new threads in certain subforums if they have a .torrent attached.

I don't think such a mod exists, at least on vBulletin.org. If anyone knows PHP and is willing to write this vBulletin mod for us, we'd love to hear from you.

[spartacus]

If the same users keep ignoring the rules, I don't understand why they don't get a Kick+Ban?

The same users keep getting the same warnings, but there are no consequences, and they just keep on posting their cash links.

New users should be required to contribute to this forum and have written a number of reasonable posts, before they are allowed to create new torrents threads.

Using Picfoco, cash link and the like should be reason enough to give one warning and then Kick+Ban.

It is undermining this community, they are only interested in profit for linking to junk porn, it is annoying to the users, it exposes security threats to our PC's, it wastes our time, etc. etc.

Dear Mods - When will you finally start doing something serious against those cash link posters?