Enough with the spam pages

[KingPin0422]

This isn't funny anymore. In fact, it never was funny. Spam always has been and always will be a major problem facing the Internet as a whole.

On top of causing certain devices to crash whenever they try to load spam pages, the lack of attention given to them gives off the impression that spamming is acceptable, thus resulting in even more spam pages popping up.

I get that this wiki is meant to be much more relaxed than the main VS Battles site, but there are certain things we should never allow under any circumstance.

Just recently, I had to delete a page that was roughly 2,000,000 bytes in size. It's also worth noting that it was created last month, and nothing has been done about it.

I'm genuinely disappointed in this wiki for being so lenient that spam pages are becoming the norm.

(P.S. This is in General Discussion and not News and Announcements because unfortunately, I have barely any authority to change wiki policies. Generally speaking, only a Bureaucrat has that right.)

 

[Thehonestone]

Yep.


I'm also working on a thingus.


https://joke-battles.fandom.com/wiki/The_JBW_Ultimate_Alliance

 

[Ikereviews]

I hate spam pages too none of my pages spam infinity a million times

 

[Megamangohan]

I honestly don't know where to draw the line

Since spam is discouraged, but not outright banned, I don't know where the line draws to say "enough is enough"

If someone is spamming, and it is still within the rules, I don't believe I am being fair if I just go out starting deleting pages with slightly more spam, while keeping those with slighty less.

 

[Ikereviews]

My largest pages are below 30.000 bytes and that's the Illuminati and dva infinity max downplayed are I only add a few categories to them nothing actually major mainly the Illuminati

 

[MLPlover2011]

How about we ask the creators to reduce the spam of their characters

 

[Yellowpig10]

what page was over 1,000,000 bytes 0.0

 

[Crabwhale]

This. Just all of this. I usually don't like to assert my opinion in an aggressive manner, as I am generally speaking a lax guy, but yeah...the spam has got to go period. Just discouraging it doesn't cut it anymore. We've made entire threads, regulations and even a freaking profile doing the whole "pretty please don't do this, even though you can" thing. It's time to hunker down with some new rules, or else this will only get worse (granted it's gotten a lot better than it was mere moths ago, but still...).

Also people, for Christ's sake, can you not put shameless plugs in a serious thread?

 

[Uselessnoob245]

what page was over 1,000,000 bytes 0.0

Jeez, My page The Spammy Absolute which has over 2,000,000 bytes was deleted, it was supposed to be a spam record

 

[Seol404]

Yeah this is a problem, I think its time to start deleting pages that spam the same word over and over again

 

[Crabwhale]

Jeez, My page The Spammy Absolute which has over 2,000,000 bytes was deleted, it was supposed to be a spam record

See, Useless, that normally wouldn't be a bad thing in of itself, but it's gotten to a point where satirical spam moking actual spam has gotten as profilic and cancerous as said actual spam.

 

[Seol404]

what page was over 1,000,000 bytes 0.0

Jeez, My page The Spammy Absolute which has over 2,000,000 bytes was deleted, it was supposed to be a spam record

How did you even edit it? my computer freezes up when I try to edit a page with 1.5M bytes (Which I should delete btw)

 

[MLPlover2011]

Let's just ask the creators to reduce the spam of their characters

 

[MaxForward]

If this gets 5 kudos I will delete spam god

 

[MLPlover2011]

If this gets 5 kudos I will delete spam god

Nope because I can reduce the spam

 

[Ryukama]

I think we need

• A byte limit

• Quality control

• Banning of just repeatedly putting the same word over and over and over and over again.

Where exactly to draw this line I'm unsure though.

 

[Seol404]

I think the byte limit should be around 500,000 or maybe even 4,000,000

 

[Seol404]

And we should be removing spam of the same word over and over again, if you have to scroll down more than once before you reach the end of it, it should be removed

 

[Ryukama]

Less is more with byte limit IMO. I'm fine with what most of the staff and community wants though.

 

[Megamangohan]

My idea

We can have a byte limit, but that byte limit only applies to spam.

All information that exists outside the spam is seperate from the byte limit.

 

[Seol404]

My idea
We can have a byte limit, but that byte limit only applies to spam.

All information that exists outside the spam is seperate from the byte limit.

I'm fine with lots of information, but spaming the same word should be banned and removed

 

[Megamangohan]

indeed

 

[Ryukama]

Agreed

 

[Seol404]

Example

Mario (Composite Overexaggerated Edition) = good

Spam = bad

Even though the former page has more bytes, its not spam due to the fact that its giving information