I've noticed too many people posting 1-3 word posts all over the place such as "looking.." "im in" "take a look" etc..

These type of posts are unacceptible, against the rules, and a complete waste of space. If anyone is caught doing this, you will not only be suspended or banned, but you will get ALL of your posts deleted and your post count reduced to zero.

If anyone sees people making useless posts like this, please report it immediately by clicking on the report button on the bottom left side of the person's post.

This is a great day for MMG, will report everyone...
But only posts from now on, correct ??

Yes just from now on. I am already aware of the ones that are all over the place. Im cleaning them up as i see them.

If i see some, i'll add them to a list an PM them later,
lets work together to make MMG as clean as it was some month ago

oh, I like those posts LoL
I will report them as well, when I see some.

That's y some poeple that have just registered on January already got the MoneyMaker Veteran etc.. i'll help to report it if i see any...

maybe u should add a feature where posts have to be over three words of something

You can't post anything lower than 20 caracters now.

Those are some very good changes, useless posts were starting to get out of control.

I see, posts are now setup on 20 signs minimum. That is good way to awoid short posts. I wonder, if quote counts or not? I don't like to write just 2 words, but like to know the rules.

Quote counts

I just tried it and quoting counts. Now you can quote someone and say: "cmi", "cmo"... Well, I guess that we have the report button for that

What about all the games? People just post one word or two.

It does have some minor drawbacks but I know some of the members are sick of being pulled into scams and people spamming to get their signatures seen.

I think it's going to be a welcome change once you get used to it. There are some times where one word answers something but it's not always necessary.

Thanks Jason!

This is a Welcomed Change!

Aaron and Shara

This is a welcome change for me as well. Time to eliminate all those bad and non value added posts.

Actually quoting should not count towards the character count. Neither should any bbcode.

Excellent changes,

Should increase the effectiveness and cut down on the crap

Well done Jason

That's really a welcome new.

People signs up in January 26th ... February 25th they have 3.405 posts.

You go to see their posts:

QUOTE

QUOTE

That's nice!

QUOTE

Good idea

QUOTE

Paid

This way it's easy getting 6.000 posts.

Interesting.

Just Kidding!


I'm sure I have a few of those somewhere..possibly way more but I still have less than 250 posts....and it was hard work! I definitely understand about the spammers pretending to be checking out a program though. This shall be interesting......

Edited to add: I have never said "take a look" or whatever it is the spammers say nit I will admit I do love those smileys! And I only recently learned what CMI/CMO meant! Shucks!

No?

Its been around since few months ago with such cases where i noticed this member posting 1 single word and attached it with graphic.....its absolutely wasting the space!! Great admin, u taking this matter seriously
I think I've report such cases before 2-3 times, but since there is no such rules on this issue, i cant see the point the admin give them a warn last time, but now i see the changed

This is a banned post. Less than 20 characters. Should I report you?
Only kidding but you see what I mean.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

















21 letters - just made it. Whew.

Seriously though - while I think this is generally a good idea, I would hate to see valuable members suddenly wiped out because they forgot this new rule and just said something like "Smooth surfing" or "just got paid". I hope some common sense will prevail while the forum is purged of obvious spammer-scammers.

I was just showing that you can just quote someone and write a one word reply.

And about reporting thing, I was thinking about the ones that have all the posts like: qoute + "looking". I sure am not going to report someone just for writing a short reply that makes sense, but those obvious post boosters who go from thread to thread and write the same thing, I will.

I surely hope that members won't get warnings for writing posts like mine above, that would be crazy. The way I see it the new rule is there just to make it harder for people to boost their post count and to clear up some useless posts.

Quotes are no different from any ordinary text we post, it is just between the quotes tag, its stored like that in the database, the forum software doesn't care whether its quoted or not. Although the mod. can be edited to count words outside the quote tags.

Just me oppinion.

Danny...

I just posted in one of the word games and it got autonatically reported, please dont give me a warning.

I also post in a few of the games posts. I don't think I got a warning, but many people will need a few days to be aware of this change. I just now came across it. I hope that you are only giving verbal warnings for a few days before you give official warnings. I think that's fair

Just to be clear, I'm forced to post 25 times before I can PM anyone, but I also must make sure all 25 posts are long enough?

I think it's the value of the post and the person making it, that should be considered.
Not a post count, nor a character count.

I've read posts as long as my arm and when I finished I still hadn't learned anything or even understood half of it.

Numbers are not an indication of content. Not the number of posts, nor the length of the post.

And if you're interested in cleaning up useless crap, requiring longer/more posts...IMO, seems to work against that very thing.

I know the count makes it easier on the mods/admins....but that doesn't automatically make it the best option.

Do whatever you want.....I'll remain Quiet. I might hit 25 posts eventually.

Individual situations are not our concern. Our goal with this rule is to lower the amount of spam.

I'm noticing ppl jus putting loads of .............. at the end of their word to fill it out to 20 characters now. Can you make it so the dots dont count?

Yup its being worked on. make sure to report those people by using the report button on the bottom left of their post please.

finally MMG is doing something about this! i'm just really tired to read all those useless posts. i will definitely help MMG mods to clean this board...

Jason, thanks for counting members suggestions.

It IS annoying when people do that just to boost their post count.
Then they go off and start a scam, after accumulating a few hundred "posts"

i agree with u my friend .

people just post " cmi " and " cmo " just to increase their count post but thankfully moderators are now doing gr88 job to get rid of such problems .
also least character post set to 20 is a very nice decision since now people will have to think what they want to post and this will help differentiate between real money maker who is here to take advantage of mmg and with its help make some money and between those who are just here to increase their post and 1ce they become members with 500- 600 post they run some programs and betray people's trust.

anyways i am with mmg and i will report as soon as i will see some1 vialating mmg rules.

thanks
kanav mahindroo

You should probably post this rule here:

http://www.moneymakergroup.com/index.php?a...nounce&f=9&id=2

Has it been considered to have a lower limit on AVERAGE post length or displaying number of words posted instead of number of posts below the avatars?

ASFx you are making difficult for scammers to make trust by members because they can't discuss more than good, yeh, join now

hahahaha, yeeah

scammers are too stupid to create intellectual sentences - and this is their loss

Becareful scammers can become mutants too.

ok, right - but the majority isn't skilled enough to do so

hi,

i just read about this and i am sorry as i did do 1-2 word post sometimes before. sorry again

Yeah it's really annoying! I hate posts like "look", "take a look" etc.

some suggestion,

maybe admin can send mass PM to announce about this. some of members did not read the news like me until i notice about it

Ironically ,you were one of those posting "cmo" and "look" endlessly
begging to get your mmg account back...go figure.

Does this mean short posts in general, or with the INTENT to spam. Either way, I totally agree with this

Only the posts with intent to spam. We review the person's post history before we take any action. If someone has 500 posts that consist of 3-4 words, then obviously they are either trying to build post count, or spam their sig, and theyre going to get all their posts wiped, and they'd get banned

thanks for the reminder, the announcement has been updated

Yes, well....longer posts and higher post counts are sure to be a great way to accomplish that.

Good luck!

When I read the first post here, I was like "what?!", but now I understand.
And I agree, this should be stopped. Scammers think they are so slick to
gain hundreds of posts quickly ,and then turn around and scam the members and
visitors of mmg. It happens all the time ,and gives mmg a bad reputation ..
I am so glad this is getting taken care of...thanks

Great rule

Maybe you should consider also removing people's signatures. That way you wouldn't get posts just fir the sake of promoting affiliate urls. It is not uncommon to see people posting in programs that are not even a part of or even considering to be a part of just to show their signature around.

I've been reading this forums many months and only a couple months ago I started posting. It used to be better I must admit... a place where people would share good information. Now it's got so popular that it is full of people you can't trust.... sort of like what happened with TG long time ago.