A proposal for creating a new section on ASDF

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[Shai'tan]

I would unfortunately have to disagree. While it's true that there are a lot of advertisers who join the forum, it's a very good reason that they do not get further.
Here is an example of a typical account that joins the forum to post "advertisment":



In 99.9% of the cases they are bots. Unfortunately the forum doesn't have great anti-bot measures. It's one (if not the) reason we have an approval system in place in the first place. Which perhaps does defer new people from joining, but makes the forum that much more clean. Before I did a clean-up (deleted more than 55 thousand accounts) we had a lot of spam posts every day. It's better now, but we still have bots join every single day.

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[atomtengeralattjaro]

Yeah, there's no chance of advertisers becoming normal users.

because people who are interested in advertising, spam a lot usually and because advertisers act in contradiction to the moral

And they just don't care. Most are robots anyway, designed to post ads and pretend to be real people.

-If I do not login and do not visit ASDF for more than one year, may I be sure that my account will not be deleted just because of inactivity?

Don't worry! "Inactive" in this case means any account that hasn't yet confirmed its email address. Any account that's been "activated" is active and stays that way unless for some reason we manually force reactivation (which won't happen to any regular user). We check post count too. Basically anyone who's posted more than a couple of times is safe.

[Shai'tan]

Thanks for the answer! -Should I interpret Shai`tan`s answer in a way, meaning that he is against, because people who are interested in advertising, spam a lot usually and because advertisers act in contradiction to the moral,

You can interpret it as "advertisers" on this forums are bots and thus cannot become regular users. Even if it were people doing the advertising I would be against it. If the goal is to increase the members of the forum there are many ways better than inviting advertisers. Their main goal would always be to advertise and sell us something, letting them post here "freely" would be against the purpose of the forums.

It is not my intention to sound harsh or anything.

-If I do not login and do not visit ASDF for more than one year, may I be sure that my account will not be deleted just because of inactivity? How often at least should I visit ASDF, so that I could be calm about my account?

Do not worry, your account will never be in danger of being deleted. When I clean up accounts I do it by some very specific filters, one of which is that the account has 0 posts. Even then it's a process where I first deactivate the account and then delete them, checking twice to make sure that there aren't any legitimate accounts among them. There are some old accounts that have 0 posts that I watch out for so they don't get deleted.
So anyone who doesn't want to have their account deleted should just make sure they have at least one post somewhere on the forum, and if not have a somewhat legitimate username and email (I do have a prejudice against Russian mail providers).

[keja]

You guys are giving advertisers a bad name. Most of them are real people just like you that want to make friends and influence people experience what the best of the web has to offer.

Also, ask me about my line of Keja T-Shirts and refrigerator magnets coming Q3 2017

[vraiment]

Unfortunately the forum doesn't have great anti-bot measures. It's one (if not the) reason we have an approval system in place in the first place. Which perhaps does defer new people from joining

Isn't that the reason why the forum is so low in activity? What about using Google's new 1-click captcha thing?

[Shai'tan]

I wouldn't say it's the reason. It might be a contributing factor, but most people who post once post again despite having to wait for the post to be approved. We unfortunately cannot change the captcha, only Philtom can do that.

You guys are giving advertisers a bad name. Most of them are real people just like you that want to make friends and influence people experience what the best of the web has to offer.

Also, ask me about my line of Keja T-Shirts and refrigerator magnets coming Q3 2017

I sense sarcasm. Now where are those hot singles? Need something to listen to.

[vraiment]

Wasn’t Q3 2017 like 2 Qs ago?

[keja]

I'm living in 2019, timescale is hard when you're going backwards.

[vraiment]

Wow, over how many Qs are you living in?

[Greyson]

Also, ask me about my line of Keja T-Shirts and refrigerator magnets coming Q3 2017

Might miss the Point, but I'd buy Keja merch if there was some.

[atomtengeralattjaro]

Here you go

[Froggychum]

i love that, thank you Atom

[keja]

Here you go

cease and desist

[atomtengeralattjaro]

atomtengeralattjaro 'strongly' denies alleged copyright infringement
The Atom House says atomtengeralattjaro "clearly and consistently" rejects Keja's claims.

The Atom House has denied allegations that atomtengeralattjaro had an infringement with an copyright.

Keja gave details about the alleged 2018 infringement during an interview on ASDF Forums' "A proposal for creating a new section on ASDF" programme.

"The atom doesn't believe that any of the claims that Keja made in his interview were accurate," said spokesman tengeralattjaro.

atomtengeralattjaro's lawyers are seeking $20m (£14m) in damages from him, saying he broke a non-disclosure deal.

I did not have infringement relations with that copyright.

[keja]

atomtengeralattjaro's lawyers are seeking $20m (£14m) in damages from him, saying he broke a non-disclosure deal.

Not again.
Looks like its time for me to go underground for another six years

[Froggychum]

u guys are bloing my mindsauce

[Greyson]

Nevermind the copyright infringment, I'll take 20 if that's okay.
Do you have some in bright pink?

[ThingerDudes]

atomtengeralattjaro's lawyers are seeking $20m (£14m) in damages from him, saying he broke a non-disclosure deal.

Not again.
Looks like its time for me to go underground for another six years

and then you can emerge as a fully grown cicada