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Kill Claiming

When the board is under attack by Phonespammers, their posts are reported to Ian so they will be banned. However, in the past there was no way of knowing if another person had reported them or not without posting in the spam-thread, which is the opposite of what we want to do. So Thande created the Spammer Kill Claiming Thread in Help and Feedback, in which we once logged our reports so Ian wouldn't get inundated with PMs.

Claiming kills developed into a major AH.com competitive sport. However, the point of the exercise was eventually lost: a lot of kill claims in the official thread were not, in fact, coupled to reports. This, plus the fact that multiple reports of the same post do not actually create multiple spammish threads in the Secret Mod Forum, led Burton K Wheeler to lock the official thread in 2012, putting an end to the practice.


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offtopic/kill_claiming.txt · Last modified: 2019/03/29 15:13 by 127.0.0.1

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