Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | UTLF  | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:48 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I don't care about the spam itself, I'm more-so bothered by the fact
that the Admins in charge allow it in the first place; it may be an insignificant
annoyance, but for me, it shows they don't care. Action speaks louder than
words, and they're full of empty promises.
They can say they care, they can give as much lip-service as they'd like,
but it's been going on for years now and they still haven't come up with
a simple solution to forum spam. I've said it in the past, but it doesn't
really make me feel confident in the site's security when they can't
even deal with simple spam being posted daily for the past 3 or so years.
"It's the spaghetti code though! it's impossible to tackle!!!!"
Is that why they've done umpteen complex & pointless changes that no one
asked for while ignoring real issues? Implementing a MOC pop-up shop, a designer
program, a 2nd forum for Studio, and merging a bunch of parts for no reason?
It's extremely frustrating to watch, especially when some changes have been
protested for weeks before they implemented them. But "muh spaghetti code"
prevents them from implementing a requirement or filter for forum posts. Makes
sense.
I personally think the whole Bricklink team needs a restructuring or needs to
be replaced entirely. Sorry to say, but this seems to have been an issue for
way longer than I've even been on the website judging by other posts that
have been brought up over the years.
They hired more helpdesk staff back around Fall 2022, then on top of that they
had Lego step in and provide customer service reps this year, and that STILL
hasn't helped the help desk backlog, that has been "months behind"
for months now with no real info as to how bad it is, we can only go off of what
regular forum members parrot in their posts.
On top of that, the community engagement people hardly communicate with us...
the only admin that actually seems to acknowledge posts is Russell, but even
then a lot gets ignored and looked over (I know he can't reply to everything
and read everything, but there are a lot of popular forum posts that have valid
concerns that get ignored)
I love Bricklink, just hate to see it mishandled and stomped on like it has been
for the past while now.
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:43 | | Subject: | Re: Useful selling tip. | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, runner.caller writes:
| | As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5.
When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items
picked matches the total order items, then odds are the order was picked correctly.
It's the most useful selling tip I've encountered.
This has been shared in the forum before (which is how I first learned it), but
I thought it's worthwhile to bring it up again because I see forum complaints
often like "over half of my orders on BL are wrong missing pieces"...
etc...
This usefulness will also vary depending on the types of orders you get as a
seller.
MOST of mine are all small items and less than 100pcs so this method is pretty
easy. It works for larger orders too, just need more space/larger groups or a
mix of both.
It still saves me from a short pick here and there and since using it, my error
rate has gone down considerably.
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I count into groups of 5 too. I also have a checked cloth on my sorting table.
I spread out 5 of whatever into each square and it's super easy to count.
~Jen
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:37 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe 
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Says the one who spammed the forum with over 6,500 messages
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Profession: spreader.
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Confession: spammer.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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Says the one who spammed the forum with over 6,500 messages
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Profession: spreader.
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, Jkbvmartinez04 writes:
| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised...
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Have you tried it? The mustard-flavored one isn't spam.
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How about pizza with ham?
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:10 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Jkbvmartinez04 writes:
| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised...
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Have you tried it? The mustard-flavored one isn't spam.
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:10 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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I understand. From the posted suggestion "Personally don't find the
spam posts all that bothersome. Many do though, and if there's an easy fix
to tidy things up a bit..."
But whether you, I or some others are overly bothered, is not the point of the
suggestion. Betterment of the site, if for no other reason
Anyway, it's just a suggestion of how something that does bother others,
could be handled. A few analogies leap to mind, things that should not be allowed
as being disruptive or subversive to the accustomed functioning of a given community.
In other words, things which though don't particularly bother you or I, might
be addressed nonetheless
But like I said, just a suggestion
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:07 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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Says the one who spammed the forum with over 6,500 messages
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| Author: | sasquatch_eater | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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| Author: | Jkbvmartinez04 | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised... |
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