Greetings

[markniklas]

Hello every one,

I am new here in this forum...

I like fashion and beauty articles, and love to playing puzzle games...

[Since1982]

Greetings. What kind of "fashion and beauty articles"?

[ethelthefrog]

I smell a troll...

Of course, I hope I'm wrong.

Paul.

[Big and Bashful]

I smell a troll...

Of course, I hope I'm wrong.

Paul.

Me too, the style and grammar match a recent offender.

[crfriend]

[... T]he style and grammar match a recent offender.

Nope. This one came in from an IP address in Pakistan. Most of the historical trouble has come from a particular set of juvenile idiots in the UK.

The moderation team faces a bit of a conundrum in this regard. Outright "bot" registrations from compromised computers are fairly easily handled, but there seems to be a rather substantial "business" in "carbon-based" "bots" (i.e. humans who are paid measly sums for registering on forums for the point of spamming them). This is, from observed behaviour, most notorious in China (which is effectively black-holed from SkirtCafe now because of such matters), India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The conundrum comes up when we get essentially "content-free" posts that do not violate any of the established guidelines and rules -- and in that case, there is sometimes no other option than for the mods to approve the posts.

Current policy is that newly-registered users must get a certain number of posts approved by the moderation team (the precise number of which will remain a mystery lest troublemakers game the system) before they're allowed to post unfettered. This is not something that anybody wanted to impose, but the level of trouble was getting to the point where it threatened to drown out the usual level of discourse on the forum.

So, the road remains rocky and there are chuck-holes all over the place, but this is the Internet, not the Autobahn. One has to expect the occasional crater; however, the moderation team here is second to none (Thanks, lads!!!) and more than capable of filling in even the largest of craters (so long as they're not large enough to cause mass extinctions).

[Big and Bashful]

Glad the team is on the case, we couldn't ask for a better service, I also hope this newbie is just that and doesn't detonate like the last two muppetsw.

[Since1982]

I worry about ppl who post once and use the site for other reasons later. I hope I'm wrong. No response to my simple question as to what kinds of "fashion and beauty articles" he likes makes me worry. It was an innocent question with no response to anything by anyone so far.