Originally Posted by
BiziBB
open to 'post anything' that extended to not stopping people using software 'bots' to post pasted text, post after post, 2 per minute.
IIRC this is a repeat of what happened with another (former/suspended) FT poster who became obsessed with posting twice a minute to the degree that he had accumulated 40k posts in maybe less than a year.
In case I was not clear, I was not targeting at any particular FTer. To be honest, I don't know which FTer you were referring to. I wasn't paying attention to OMNI back then.
I am no programmer. But I imagine it won't be too difficult to write a "post robot' program. Sometimes folks do things for no obvious reason other than just because they can. I recall when FT first introduced the visit count in profile page in September, one FTer with a mansion (
) did something in his computer so he got thousands of hits within hours. That was for fun only.
My point is numbers are so easily manipulated, let it be post or visit count. Once the backdoor is open, you'll see it coming.
Let it be 40K for a legend status, 10K for a Evangelist, or merely 90 for CC access; post padding is post padding.
Post padding is simply one of the many acts that breach FT TOS. If the admin & management are perfectly aware of such "abusive" conduct, why not just stop or prevent it from happening?
Do something! Doing nothing is almost like encouraging such behavior.
In the name of loving travel, FTers are after miles and points. And status. It won't be too shocking to realize that some FTers will do anything to get bigger. Post count, I mean.