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What Are The Vendor/Dealer Rules?

Jul 29, 2011 9:15 PM

The ones I know, or think I know:

Vendor/Dealers need to have an easily recognized name in dealing with the site from which the deals are posted from.

Pre-folder/collapse they were encouraged to not post more than two in twenty-four hours and of they went over four or six they would risk getting posts PEW'd.

Lately, post v2 and folder/collapse, I've seen some vendors go all out, sans psycho @Wootbot. So has this changed?
What about some shady dealers/vendors that purposely alter their url so that the deal posted does not collapse with the other crap they spam?
What have I missed?
What rules would you see in play?

Another Note
Personally I would like to see all accounts that have been tied to TrialPay crap nuked. Not just the deals deleted, but their existence wiped from deals.woot. Many of those are suspected to be linked to the same person and constantly post ebay listings just so that they gain reputation.

xarous xarous

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We've been chasing around trialpay for a while now. If you see them, please tattle on them and we'll clean them up and blacklist the new URL's.

Thank you for your help.

jumbowoot jumbowoot
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@jumbowoot: Sorry they are such a pain, but here are the accounts I know of:

@yellowdots @pollylops @likefreebeau @congaline @likefreeorg @callmefamilyguy

Even though all TrialPay deals have been deleted a few of the above accounts have posted eBay deals recently. So why is it that deals just won't nuke the account(s)?

xarous xarous
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@xarous: I can tell you the easy answer to this one, which you may have guessed already. For every account that's nuked, locked, or however you'd like to see it disabled, miscreants such as these will just make new accounts. You've seen already that there are a raft of them. The two @like* accounts were created back when the little creature was (more or less) following the rules; the others not so much.

There are no easy answers.

shrdlu shrdlu
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But we don't tattle if TrialPay posts eBay, correct? Only the free items?

wootstheone wootstheone
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The spammer is just using those ebay listings to increase his reputation before unleashing the next round of spam. We'll have to tattle all the trialpay/likefree posts, then the cycle will start all over again.

90mcg112 90mcg112
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Would IP banning be of any use?

Since the previous would bring it up, any reason not to ban proxies for account creation?

Neither are perfect solutions, but alternatives to just nuking accounts.

(I'm also curious to know just how many people legitimately browse through a proxy.)

apfrehm apfrehm

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