Pages

Why was I banned? Any piece of advice?

lundi 13 février 2017
Hello and welcome to Toucharcade!
That could have very well been me who deleted your first post as spam, so I'm sorry if we banned you by what seems to be an accident - or rather collateral damage of dealing with spam daily.
While TA doesn't get completely flooded by spam like other forums, we do get a fair amount.
I'm checking if there is a history on the spambans, and if we can find out why your post got deleted. Can you provide the username and/or name of the game, that'll make it easier to find it if there's a history?

Cannot speak for the other spam police and mods, but here's why I would delete a new game post (which happens very rarely):
- Spammy thread title, e.g. "check out this cool game!"
- Spammy post content that makes you look like a marketing bot, e.g. "I found this cool game totally by accident, and it's the best I ever played (yeah sure...)" . Note that these two are only an indicator and not a "will always delete when I see this" hard rule.
- Your link to the game does not go directly to the Appstore, but to some link shortener or other suspicious-looking non-Appstore site. For me, that's always a huge red flag, and I will not try the link cause it could hide malware.
- In short, anything that makes you look like a marketing shill/bot and not a real user. But this is mostly gut feeling and experience, not a hard-and-fast decision tree. And when I come across something like that, I usually ask a mod for a second opinion (e.g. if the post is coming from a known spam IP).
- UPDATE: Forgot one: If suddenly a lot of new users pop up and post / start threads about how great a game is. But again, this is only an indicator, not a hard rule. When in doubt, I prefer to assume that those are real players who like the game and just found Toucharcade.

And no worries, your English is good


Last edited by Nullzone; Today at 05:15 AM.

Let's block ads! (Why?)



Why was I banned? Any piece of advice?

Aucun commentaire:

Enregistrer un commentaire