WHAT is this thread doing STILL up here???
 
boy howdy, asleep at the switch...

If I post on this thread now, that's my quota till tomorrow. 

musicman100
WHAT is this thread doing STILL up here???
 
boy howdy, asleep at the switch...

 
It's the weak end CRA$H DAW.
 

Bristol_Jonesey
If I post on this thread now, that's my quota till tomorrow. 

Well Done Colin.

musicman100
WHAT is this thread doing STILL up here???

George, it's probably still here for the same reason that all that fake-watch spam is still sat in the CH...
 
We've been abandoned and left to fend for ourselves.
 
 

Surely there has got to be some better way of getting rid of spam posts. I mean every news site/blog comments I look at these days has at least one "My sister made $1700/week on the computer" comment on there. I can't imagine it would be too hard for someone to maintain a centralized database of all of their IP addresses so that site technicians can block them...and if they're using something like Tor, then I believe it is possible to download an updated list of Tor node IP's (and online proxy IP's), because there are some sites I know of that manage to block Tor users. There are huge databases of virus definitions out there...why isn't there a similar thing for spam "definitions"? Google does a pretty good job of keeping spam out of my inbox, so why aren't forum software developers using the same technology? 

megh.
 
I keep on sayin' that they need user/moderators here...and a real anti-spam program...

The spam, bizarre posting conventions, lack of moderation point to Cakewalk being short-staffed. DAW makers don't make enough money (I blame/thank Reaper). 
 
Should keep bumping this freaky mother of a thread to see how long it takes to get flushed by Cakewalk. 

Has anyone ever seen SPAM for Spam? You know the, "in a can," type? As a rule of bum, peeps hate junk mail. But gawd that'd be good!

SteveStrummerUK
 
Dear Cakewalk
 
I recently received this message when I tried to post:
 

 
 
I'm guessing that this is a rather pathetic strategy to try and reduce the amount of spam in these forums?
 
Well I think it's a disgrace.
 
Instead of actually doing your job in monitoring and policing the forum properly, you're happy to slap a blanket posting limit on everyone, and treat your loyal and long-time customers exactly as if we were potential spammers.
 
It reeks of a half-arsed and apathetic approach to solving a problem that has nothing whatsoever to do with the vast majority of us who wouldn't dream of peddling crap like that in here.
 
It's just like the pisspoor attitude of the local council and constabulary here in Worcester. There are speed humps in the road all over the place because a few arseholes want to drive past primary schools at 40~50mph. Instead of doing a bit of honest-to-goodness police work by arresting these pricks and then taking their driving licences away, they spend a fortune of my taxes putting concrete humps everywhere, so everybody, even the vast majority of us who drive safely, have to put up with the bloody things.
 
I've actually taken the liberty of creating another user log-in, the first time I've even thought about doing so in nearly seven years of coming in here. So, next time I'm in the middle of a friendly conversation, or helping talk someone through a problem post by post, and I hit the limit, I'll be able to sign in with my new moniker and carry on the dialogue.
 
I'm sorry, but I'm livid about this.
 
And what good did this arbitrary 'limit' do this morning when "LiWu007" posted these adverts for fake watches:
 

 
Please notice that I've just taken this screenshot - this crap has been in the Coffee House for 12-13 hours and still hasn't been removed, even though your loyal and friendly customers have flagged them all as spam, and reported them to a moderator.
 
Come on guys, you're better than this travesty - please show us a bit more respect than treating us like morons. Take responsibility for dealing with the spam yourselves, instead of trying, and failing miserably, to prevent it by using this farcical method.
 
Steve
 
 

All of this aggression towards Cakewalk could really have been cleared up by simply asking what is up instead of implying that there is some big agenda here. 
 
The forum software has thousands of options, many of them buried very deep in sub-menus and specific to forums, sub-forums, user permissions, sub groups, etc. Some of the behaviors require digging into massive SQL queries and code we can't even look at since it's compiled. Honestly, it just took me a good 20 minutes to even isolate what setting would cause anyone to see the message you took a screenshot of in the first place. It looks like each forum has a post threshold set to "50 posts" per day by a user. I'm not fully sure how the setting works, but it looks like it's unique to each forum. Keep in mind some of the settings were enforced simply by migrating the forum software from the old version to the new version, so a setting like this wasn't our idea. Cakewalk didn't create this to do what you're suggesting. It was introduced by trying to honor everyone's request for improving the forum software. We're on your side here.
 
I'm going update that number to 250, which is the maximum setting the software allows. I highly doubt anyone will ever exceed that.
 
The spam posts left up over the weekend were mostly all from the same user. You can even see this in your screenshot. They were buried and the coffee house and not exactly noticeable unless you read the forum tickets. Keep in mind Cakewalk staff doesn't simply sit around reading every thread all day, especially a lot of the ones in the Coffee house. We do react to the tickets reported however, so the spam does get cleared up several time a day. If I had a solution for spam I'd sell it to the internet and be a very rich man. Unfortunately, as I've mentioned before, the spammers are humans with way too much time on their hands. I can't control what people do with their time. Anyhow, I didn't see the tickets until this morning. People mocking the situation by creating a bunch of fake spam posts doesn't exactly help us to sift through this stuff. Sorry Steve, myself and the other folks here at Cakewalk have to take a day off occasionally. 

Hey Ryan, maybe you guys could consider adding a few users, who are trustworthy and who have the time, as mods who can delete spam posts. Just limit them to deleting obvious spam, not recording related spam... I think that call should be left up to Cake staff but kitchens and watches... maybe get three people here to help. I think there are a few who have been here a long time and who wont get carried away, who will just delete obvious, unrelated spam. Just an idea... thanks for the explaination.
I figured that it was to limit the excessive use of bandwidth but didn't mention it... I didn't think it was my business, if that was the reason for it.
Of course... you know this will now be a chalenge to see who can be the first to max out at 250 in a day... LOL.
 
Have a good week Ryan.
 
Julien