To All Users **Please Read**

[3ncryptabl3_lick]

To New-Users,

First, welcome to v7Network! We’re glad to have you here. (:

Don't forget to introduce yourself! Oh... Introduce yourself, not your website. urls will be removed. As will company names and so on. The Introduction is about you, all about you you you. Tell us who you are, where you're from and why your here, not who you work for or the site you made. (:

As a New-User, you are expected to read and abide by the rules. Look for them at the top of each forum in a sticky.

If you have any questions, Mods and Mentors alike are available to answer them.

We really love excited users. We do. But what we don’t love, is spam.

Well… Who does, really…? Am I right?

Actually, I can honestly say, we won’t tolerate it. It’s not even a love/hate thing. We just don’t want to see it… and frankly; we ban spammers. Simple.



To the Regulars,

We really love the enthusiasm some of you have in welcoming our New-Users. However we will not tolerate Rapid-Firing-Welcome-Messages. It’s tantamount to spam.

And, not only does it look bad on the forum but it makes you look bad.

We want to welcome New-Users sincerely, not with ctrl-v, ctrl-v, ctrl-v… etc…

Anyone repetitively posting the same welcome message up to 3 times will get a warning. More than 3 and it’s a point. Again, this is ‘repetitive posting’ we’d much rather see 3 or more individually written welcome messages than 10 copy/pasted ones. This doesn’t mean that it’s okay to copy/paste your welcome message 3 times

On the topic of repetitve postings, we would also prefer users who feel compelled to welcome a dozen new users in a 5-15 minute period, spread it over the course of a day instead. This avoids the long line of 'your name' in the introductions thread which also looks bad.

While we realize a lot of Users do this to get to their 50 post count in order to enable their signatures… You’re signature or all your spammy posts wont mean much if your messages are in the spam-can or you’re banned. And all messages that meet the criteria will be merged and go to the spam-can so they will not count towards your post-count at all.

Add to the community.

There are plenty of threads, conversations and discussions to take part in.

Do that instead and we’ll want to keep you (:

[Mtnmiss]

Thank you for the info. Your site is really going to prove very informative for me. I can't wait to check it out further.

[StrongInTheArm]

On a personal note, since so few of you fill in your profiles, a good introduction telling us a little about yourself really helps get the ball rolling.

Obviously inside leg measurements, or bra size is not what I'm talking about but, hey, it all helps

[TheFriend]

That's right: It should be unique welcome messages and no copied and pasted ones......
Good info!

[Skinny]

Good stuff mods. . . keep fighting the war on spam!

Skinny

[coolguy27]

Yeah. Ban Spammers....

Great information mods....Thanks for keeping this forum a spam free and excellent forum.

[Luke Beale]

Thanks for the information

Kill SPAM

[3ncryptabl3_lick]

Thanks everyone for abididing by this and to those who are reporting infractions.

Let's keep it up and keep this place clean and unique (:

[lajocar]

Thanks for keeping forum clean from SPAM

[3ncryptabl3_lick]

I updated with the rule about not adding your website in your intro thread. Thanks Jackmo for pointing that out (:

[selfhelpebooks]

Thanks for the very detailed and informative info.
Yes, many people want to get things quick I notice !

[TechSup]

The site introduction is a nasty glitch we always get, nice to see users reporting them and getting them out of the way. Would be nice if people read the description of the forum though

[zeruel]

Great post Sir 3ncryptabl3... Hope these spammers would get immediate actions... Keep it up!

[3ncryptabl3_lick]

Originally Posted by Myers

The site introduction is a nasty glitch we always get, nice to see users reporting them and getting them out of the way. Would be nice if people read the description of the forum though

True, and since this went up its gone down alot which is a great sign (:

[3ncryptabl3_lick]

I've updated the post to make another point about repetitive postings:

"On the topic of repetitve postings, we would also prefer users who feel compelled to welcome a dozen new users in a 5-15 minute period, spread it over the course of a day instead. This avoids the long line of 'your name' in the introductions thread which also looks bad.

While we realize a lot of Users do this to get to their 50 post count in order to enable their signatures… You’re signature or all your spammy posts wont mean much if your messages are in the spam-can or you’re banned. And all messages that meet the criteria will be merged and go to the spam-can so they will not count towards your post-count at all."

I really dont want to come off as being freakish about the Introuductions forum so I hope people understand the point behind all of this.

[savita]

Thank you for the very imp and usefull info.

[JanusLee]

yeah i like this forum!

[judyah]

Gosh, it's been seven months since I last got the time to visit v7n. I wish I could still catch up with all the interesting posts here.

[HostingITrust]

I will keep your advise in mind while posting.

[Mr CHill]

Hello, I did what I always do and started before I read the instructions. You know my kids and their half built toys can attest to that. I am very sorry for posting so many welcomes in a row. It will not happen again. I must admit though, the thought went through my head "hey this is a way to rapidly gain post count" but when I got to the guy that was banned I quit. I assure you no harm was intended and I was sincere in my welcomes. I really want to be a part of this community. Thank you for your understanding, Mr CHill