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Like teacher used to say...
Aug. 26th, 2007 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beckyblack
... you're just spoiling it for everyone else.
The spamming of sections with dozens of copies of the same posting, usually of garbage, seems to be rampant just now. One loon is still doing it to the Star Trek sections. Their posts got removed overnight (well overnight for me), but they've bounced right back and started it again.
I've been using that site for a few years and never noticed this type of attack before (admittedly I don't play in the anime or Harry Potter sections!) Is it a new thing?
It occurs to me that the new feature of the document remaining in the document manager after being added to a story makes it much easier for this type of troll. Otherwise they'd have to keep on uploading a document over and over, or export an existing one back into Document Manager. That would at the very least, slow them down.
But with the document staying there they only need to go into Document Manager to upload it once, then they just stay in the stories section, using that document over and over again to create a new "story".
Anyway, what bothers me is that we could lose that feature if ff.net decide it facilitates the troll attacks. I've found it very useful. I was posting a multichapter fic over the last month, and you know how there's always those pesky typos that only seem to be visible after you post? Well it's been very handy to leave the last few chapter documents in Document manager to fix those nits and replace chapters. Certainly easier than having to go through the rigmarole of correcting the typo locally, uploading the document again, fixing any formatting bugs etc and then doing the replace.
So, yeah, just a little Sunday rant about bloody trolls abusing a good feature of the site.
The spamming of sections with dozens of copies of the same posting, usually of garbage, seems to be rampant just now. One loon is still doing it to the Star Trek sections. Their posts got removed overnight (well overnight for me), but they've bounced right back and started it again.
I've been using that site for a few years and never noticed this type of attack before (admittedly I don't play in the anime or Harry Potter sections!) Is it a new thing?
It occurs to me that the new feature of the document remaining in the document manager after being added to a story makes it much easier for this type of troll. Otherwise they'd have to keep on uploading a document over and over, or export an existing one back into Document Manager. That would at the very least, slow them down.
But with the document staying there they only need to go into Document Manager to upload it once, then they just stay in the stories section, using that document over and over again to create a new "story".
Anyway, what bothers me is that we could lose that feature if ff.net decide it facilitates the troll attacks. I've found it very useful. I was posting a multichapter fic over the last month, and you know how there's always those pesky typos that only seem to be visible after you post? Well it's been very handy to leave the last few chapter documents in Document manager to fix those nits and replace chapters. Certainly easier than having to go through the rigmarole of correcting the typo locally, uploading the document again, fixing any formatting bugs etc and then doing the replace.
So, yeah, just a little Sunday rant about bloody trolls abusing a good feature of the site.
