Get Paid to Spam...er, I mean "Post"?

[Graeth]

Fusion Cash has this promotion to increase activity. I'm sure they have administrators monitoring the forum. Nothing can be completely bullet proof and they cant spend their whole day checking all of a users posts to make sure they deserve 3 bucks. Lol, it seems like Fusion Cash trusts users not to break rules.

I agree, this place is largely self policing outside of server activities.
Mob justice for the win, baby.

"And what do we do with witches?"

[hicaniplay]

Yeah, I was surprised at the actually low amount of spam. Sure there are pointless topics (like the last thing you ate lol) and there's some repeat topics, but there isn't anything terrible or really stupid.

[Administrator]

Yeah, I was surprised at the actually low amount of spam. Sure there are pointless topics (like the last thing you ate lol) and there's some repeat topics, but there isn't anything terrible or really stupid.

Requiring telephone verification before you can post means that spammers lose their best trick... which is making new accounts.

[SuckerFox]

Yeah, perhaps the idea MAY be thought of initially as spam. But that's what the confirmation BEFORE you get a bonus is for.
If all you do is post a bunch of nonsense, then yeah, you won't get anything. But if you actually do JOIN in the conversations and be part
of the community here, then your chances are good to both get involved with other people, AND to get a bonus on the side.

It is only spam if YOU yourself make it spam. Otherwise, it is you simply talking with your fellow users about whatever may come to mind.
And if you notice, just about EVERY forum out there has an 'Off-Topic' section purely for the more random questions.
This would be the LARGEST place to spam, but go look. It may be just random topics, but it's still a conversation nonetheless.

[Alphasee]

Forums are the "ultimate" seo (see mylot). Creating a web of references, links, words, and b$ content to literally clog the intertubes, makes them money. Funny how that works.

[teslaslip]

I've been reading the forums since I started and have yet to see a post that was gibberish.  I think the system is working well as I have picked up a lot of useful info from community contributions.

[templescroll]

I like SherylsShado'comment. when I was a newb I didn't know how to do nothin' on the site.   I got help from the forums on things like uploading my image, clearing my cookies, and even finding my posts...yes, I couldn't figure out how to see my posts after I submitted them (sad but true). I was never a blogger. I learned how to type (sort of) 'blog speak' and color the text before submitting it. (now people wish I didn't know how to color text I think). But over all the forum is useful and I am still learning stuff by reading other people's posts 

SPAM SANDWICH INCLUDED FOR YOUR SNACKING PLEASURE! 

[Alphasee]

Every month a certain percentage of users are denied the forum bonus for having poor quality/low content posts.  Many of them get the message and make better posts the next month, and then get credited.  Some of them just quit the forum altogether.  If the posts are particularly terrible, we'll go in and delete them all.

But at the end of the day, the only person who loses is the one that made the contentless posts.  It takes a while to get 30 and then request the bonus - all that time is wasted

You writing that quick easy code to show our posts for the month makes things a lot easier. Maybe with a larger text/word count requirement for posts, we might see a decrease in the number of spammers?

[iitallia]

yes they do or else it would be unruly

[iitallia]

It's not spam, or an attempt to make money for oneself, and it's not short or missing content.  Basically, if you post just to meet the 30 post requirement, you wont qualify. - taken directly from site so no, not spamming.