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Does this mean one can get away with spamming the community?
HotCakeX Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it on to the rest of our team and we will take it under consideration. Appreciate it!
Thanks for the explanation, appreciate it.
yes of course, it's just a possible hypothetical situation.
Yes, the content-free posts are my main concern, those that don't add any value to the related thread (the 1st example).
the 2nd example is totally fine because it's just an acceptable normal comment/post and I also personally never have had any problem with it.
I'd suggest few things, in my sincere opinion, these can boost overall experience and usefulness of the contents of the Microsoft Tech Community and I hope these are reviewed and considered by you and other decision makers.
Change the name of the thumbs up button from "Like" to "Like/Thanks"
the use of the 'Like / Thanks' button is preferred over simply posting 'Thanks' or something similar. it makes an excessive amount of posts which add little to nothing to a topic.
(penalty: post count reduction followed by warning or ban if repeated excessively in a short period of time)
Make "@username" posts (and posts that say things such as "mentioning @MSFTEmployeeUserName just to tag them and send them notification" a hard law, consider them a straight up content-free/spam post. ***
(penalty: 2 separate warnings, then ban)
Add a requirement to the forum for minimum number of characters required for a comment to be posted under a thread. this will potentially prevent posts that have contents similar to: "Yes, me too, same here, I like it, I don't like it, I want it, true, +1, false, etc. "
(character requirement can be 10-15)
It will help posts to be more explanatory, technical and detailed.
No Backseat Moderating
Let the moderators do the moderating. Backseat moderating is when people who are not moderators try to enforce the forum rules. If you see a person breaking the rules, take advantage of the Report button or simply ignore the offensive post(s) or thread.
Don't openly argue with moderators.
Don't bypass any filters, included but not limited to: writing the F-word in a different manner or fashion that is not detected by the forum software's filter.
*** This article can be summarized into this rule.
HotCakeX Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it on to the rest of our team and we will take it under consideration. Appreciate it!
- Anytime!
You previous reply is in conflict with your suggestion:
Add a requirement to the forum for minimum number of characters required for a comment to be posted under a thread.
Is that spam? I don't think so, comments as Great!, Thanks!, Okay, are not something uncommon and can't be considered as a spam.
Related:
Change the name of the thumbs up button from "Like" to "Like/Thanks"
We may call it as we want, but people will use it as. My main usage is as Okay, Got it. Other words just to inform I read this post.
I see nothing wrong if people who really like something or would like to say thanks will articulate that in words, not by gestures or signs. Why shall we limit them by only one option and ban for using other ones?
I agree with No Backseat Moderating but why Don't openly argue with moderators. ? By the way, do we have actual moderation here? I don't see.
SergeiBaklan wrote:You previous reply is in conflict with your suggestion:
Add a requirement to the forum for minimum number of characters required for a comment to be posted under a thread.
Well guess what, those are still being considered and not officially added to the rule, and also the like button is still called like and not like/thanks.
next time pay more attention to the thread.
about the rest of your questions, yes true, if one or two people say thanks, no big deal, but if everyone wants to thank someone and post it under a thread, that's spam and I've seen a lot of occasions where people just go to each tread and write "yes", "me too", "I agree" and spam it repeatedly in 10-15 threads.
