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Friday, November 13, 2009
Mercury Today's Burning Question Burning Up Questionland!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:24 PM
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1a) How come 1/3 of the answers are spam?
1b) How come they are still spam even though I reported them yesterday?
1c) Has Questionland really sunk so low that it is getting people posting spam to it?
2) Why don't we have a real forum again? (I thought this was exactly the problem that Questionland was supposed to prevent, but maybe I'm confused.)
(I know, I shouldn't be commenting here, I should post those in Questionland. I'm not sorry.)
*There are some people that have signed up and immediately posted one thing in their [hopefully miserable and short] lives, and that is an answer that says to go to a website that generates money by referrals. If that isn't spam, I want to know what is. For some reason, I get the desire to post some bait by asking where I can buy some "pills that will keep my woman happy in bed" (that would be Xanax, you guys have a sick mind if you were thinking of something else) and see how many answers that gets...
1b) How come they are still spam even though I reported them yesterday?
1c) Has Questionland really sunk so low that it is getting people posting spam to it?
2) Why don't we have a real forum again? (I thought this was exactly the problem that Questionland was supposed to prevent, but maybe I'm confused.)
(I know, I shouldn't be commenting here, I should post those in Questionland. I'm not sorry.)
*There are some people that have signed up and immediately posted one thing in their [hopefully miserable and short] lives, and that is an answer that says to go to a website that generates money by referrals. If that isn't spam, I want to know what is. For some reason, I get the desire to post some bait by asking where I can buy some "pills that will keep my woman happy in bed" (that would be Xanax, you guys have a sick mind if you were thinking of something else) and see how many answers that gets...
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I really wouldn't even think of asking these sort of questions over at Questionland, Matthew. People have been banned for less...
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