[wp-forums] User.

[TechGnome]

I agree right up to the "we SHOULD INSIST on a WP url." bit. There's a 
number of people who are either doing this for a friend, or a company or 
some other organization. The person's primary site may not be a WP site, 
but they may happen to be dealing with one (or more) for which they need 
help. Generally it's assumed that the profile website link is a WP site, 
but I hardly see that as being a requirement.

-tg


Podz wrote:
> Michael B wrote:
>   
>> On 3/28/06, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
>>     
>>> Moshu wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> From:  Podz
>>>>> "The above
>>>>> address MUST link to a WP blog."
>>>>>           
>>>> This wasn't really a requirement till now, was it? Has something been
>>>> changed and I missed?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> No - no requirement, but I thought it useful to throw at this spammer.
>>> Strangely, it stopped them. Can't think why ;)
>>>       
>>
>> I'm not a fan of indiscriminate use of rules.  If it's going to be enforced
>> for one, it should be enforced for all.  Just my 2¢
>>     
>
> Neither am I, but this person posted 6 replies in minutes. They were out
> to spam and keep spamming. So I broke their url and tried to make it
> crystal clear to them that I was watching their profile. Leaving a
> unbroken profile link is as good as any other link and if we need to
> deter spammers then we need to act accordingly and break links as often
> as needed. Blocking a user leaves their profile link. Nowhere in any
> 'rules' does it say that I will break profile url's or change them to
> www.I-spam-forums.com both of which I do. It doesn't even say spamming
> is disallowed. There are lots of indiscriminate rules that we all have
> to deal with and I would hope that my behaviour so far has indicated
> that I'm not bending them at will, daily and in a mood-dependent way.
> This was a spammer.
> They spam, we change the rules.
> No committee, no agenda, no big decision - we do what we need to so they
> get the message.
>
> I also happen to think that we SHOULD INSIST on a WP url.
>
> P.
> _______________________________________________
> wp-forums mailing list
> wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-forums
>