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eunoia Posted: Tue, Oct 23 2012 5:30 PM

Is there some way to eliminate or prevent these posts? Like with technology?

It's really irritating for those of us who read HH via the forums.

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Super Dave replied on Tue, Oct 23 2012 11:23 PM

Quite often the posts you are referring to are SPAM posts, and if they're reported one of the moderators will delete it A.S.A.P.!

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eunoia replied on Wed, Oct 24 2012 8:25 PM

I did report them, but some are just on the border of a post count padding bot and an actual human newly introduced to internet message boards.

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Der Meister replied on Wed, Oct 24 2012 10:00 PM

I just delete them off of principal... That is unless they actually add something to it.

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