Subj : Re: Pondering Echomail Changes
To   : deon
From : Avon
Date : Sun Feb 02 2025 11:35:14


On 31 Jan 2025 at 09:53a, deon pondered and said...
 
 de>   Re: Re: Pondering Echomail Changes
 de>   By: slacker to fusion on Thu Jan 30 2025 06:10 am
 de> 
 de> Howdy,
 de> 
 de>  > Regarding FSX_ADS, I wish all bot posts were in FSX_BOT and not floodin
 de>  > FSX_ADS. I actually found a really cool BBS randomly on ADS by chance
 de>  > (Westwood BBS) but other than that, everything there just gets drowned 
 de>  > by bots and it basically makes the area unusable.
 de> 
 de> Just an idea.
 de> 
 de> Given many folks set and forget postings, one thing I can do (on
 de> clrghouz at least), is reject posts (in a specific area) that have the
 de> same content as a recent post (configurable by days).
 de> 
 de> I've thought about doing that for me (that's basically what SBBS can do)
 de> - but if that is suitable for those on the hub, I could do that too.

Interesting idea, but it sort of falls over if not all HUBs are consistent in what they are doing and ideally I'd like the experience for a node to largely consistent in terms of the way traffic is passed along from HUB to HUB and onto node.. but I also appreciate Clrghouz is a work in progress and it's nice to extend / develop stuff as we go along (which I totally love) :)

Deciding (if something like this was to be implemented) 

 de> Then, every "x" days, only unique posts would make it through, and thus
 de> making the area a little more valuable (for that first time wow ad, etc).

what is 'unique' and what is not would be interesting to tease out, it could end up as a game of whack a mole if a node wanted to outfox the 'system' by varying posted content slightly each time etc... and then we're down the spammer pathway... eep.

I could also just state something more explicit in housekeeping, or echo descriptions to say frequency of BBS ads bot posts to be kept to monthly (let's say) so that at least there's a clear expectation...  [time passes] yep that's what's there now for FSX_ADS but it states 7 days min before posting, so we certainly should/should lift that number upwards to something else regardless perhaps?

 de> Food for thought.
 
Sure is.

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