(Various) PM Spam: Chap's EA Tournament [noted]

[Commander9]

I find it all very funny. Watching numerous idiots spam each other with the message of telling people to stop spamming makes my day much more enjoyable.

It was funny at first, but then it soon turned to be EXTREMELY annoying.

[neanderpaul14]

For the abuse mods:

unknownhero is now purposely spamming.

Lx

Thank You Lindax.

End this madness.

[NightWolf]

Well, I did see unknownhero send at least THREE PMs. That does seem like he was being rediculous.

[edsdad]

ENOUGH already !!!
Been logged in for 10 minutes and I've got 11 e-mails so far.
Ain't making want to join games,doing just the opposite.
FOR F#CK'S SAKE,MAKE'M STOP !

[Sniper08]

since this thread was started the pms have stopped ,atleast the threat of punishment has stopped the idiots

[IcePack]

People keep replying all. I replied to specific sender asking why there kept feeling the need to reply all, but apparently it got sent to everyone as well. I'm not sure why, I clicked reply to sender not the "and all receipients" button.
Very Annoying.
IcePack

Interesting...does that mean my PM went out to everyone as well? If so, then there is something wrong with that button, because I made an explicit point of it. And my outbox shows that it only went to one individual. Darn...that removes the irony I was referring to. <sigh>

Hmmm...so did ANYONE BESIDES DAKO see my PM in response to the spamming? If not, then the system is working as designed. Folks are just hitting the wrong button.

I didn't see IcePack's or Woodruff's PM, so IcePack must have just been wrong, the guy got the quote some other way

Oh, I think I know why IcePack THINKS he saw someone quoting him. They actually didn't.

IcePack, when anyone responds to a multi-user PM, you will see "the thread of PMs" that relate to that PM. So what happened was that the individual PM you sent to one user was still present in "that thread of PMs". So you didn't accidentally spam, and nobody else saw your message...but it put it into that thread for your own relevance in keeping track of things. If you haven't deleted it yet, go back and look, and you'll see what I mean. I was confused by the exact same thing at first.

Makes sense, glad I didn't spam others boxes. That wasn't my intent at all.
Glad its settled down, hopefully it stays that way.

IcePack

[40kguy]

i proablly should of turned my in-box off that would of screwed them all up.

[lordhaha]

Why not just make all pm's BCC ? Problem solved!! Remove the option.

[IcePack]

Why not just make all pm's BCC ? Problem solved!! Remove the option.

That's what should have happened. ChapCrap knew he made a mistake not sending it BCC.
The others replied to all which shouldn't have happened either.

IcePack

[superkeener]

directed to the first sender

[Serbia]

This has been ridiculous. I'd like to see a warning sent to everyone who hit "reply to all" to tell people "don't use reply to all".

[Night Strike]

I've sent a PM to HA to BCC everyone on that list and tell them that if they continue to do this now or in the future, their tournament will immediately be canceled and disciplinary warning and forum vacations will be handed out to anyone who sends a mass message like those.

Other moderators can handle this current batch.

[jrh_cardinal]

Why not just make all pm's BCC ? Problem solved!!

then everyone still gets the 20 PMs, they just can't see who all you sent it to
if you mean the original person, before all this mess, it was HA, he said he meant to BCC but made a mistake, after the first time anyone that wants to use it has the list

since this thread was started the pms have stopped ,atleast the threat of punishment has stopped the idiots

everyone except our unknownhero, lol

[lordhaha]

Why not just make all pm's BCC ? Problem solved!! Remove the option.

That's what should have happened. ChapCrap knew he made a mistake not sending it BCC.
The others replied to all which shouldn't have happened either.

IcePack

No I mean that if anyone sends a pm anytime it should only be able to send BCC no other option

[jrh_cardinal]

Why not just make all pm's BCC ? Problem solved!! Remove the option.

That's what should have happened. ChapCrap knew he made a mistake not sending it BCC.
The others replied to all which shouldn't have happened either.

IcePack

No I mean that if anyone sends a pm anytime it should only be able to send BCC no other option

what if it's between 3 clan leaders who want to be able to send it back to both people?
or a trips/quad team?
or just a group of friends (especially a large group of friends)?

[Woodruff]

I've sent a PM to HA to BCC everyone on that list and tell them that if they continue to do this now or in the future, their tournament will immediately be canceled and disciplinary warning and forum vacations will be handed out to anyone who sends a mass message like those.
Other moderators can handle this current batch.

I have sent out invitational PMs to some users for my tournaments (primarily freemiums, as they have in my view a motivated interest in my premium prizes). I do, however, use the BCC function as it is intended. Should I presume that I can no longer do this?

[lordhaha]

just add them. maybe

[Woodruff]

Why not just make all pm's BCC ? Problem solved!!

then everyone still gets the 20 PMs, they just can't see who all you sent it to

No, I believe lordhaha is correct...when BCC is used, the reply-all doesn't catch them. That's because they're listed as a "blind carbon-copy"...in other words, they don't exist for the purpose of "who's getting the PM".

[Night Strike]

I've sent a PM to HA to BCC everyone on that list and tell them that if they continue to do this now or in the future, their tournament will immediately be canceled and disciplinary warning and forum vacations will be handed out to anyone who sends a mass message like those.
Other moderators can handle this current batch.

I have sent out invitational PMs to some users for my tournaments (primarily freemiums, as they have in my view a motivated interest in my premium prizes). I do, however, use the BCC function as it is intended. Should I presume that I can no longer do this?

No, that's fine. What's not fine is for people to just jump onto other people's lists and use them for their own tournaments. It's also not fine to send it without the BCC.

[superkeener]

I've been on CC since 2006 and this has only happened a few times. This may be the most severe case, but it isn't that bad. Give a warning to all of them.
This isn't that big of a deal, annoying, perhaps, but I don't think it warrants a massive CC pm overhaul...

People will forget about it as soon as they get some poopy dice

[Woodruff]

People will forget about it as soon as they get some poopy dice

TMML

[*EAGLE ONE*]

i get up this morning and have 8 to 12 of these emails i never joined or entered the tournament or know any of the emailers but 1..i sent one reply to stop spamming me when it was sent by the same person twice..i neither spammed or tried to keep it going ..please leave me out of this shit..i get in enough bs here without any help ty

[anonymus]

yes i feel sorry for starting this.. to be honest i found myself a little bit witty doing it but it was early in the morning i was hungover and more importantly i was wrong..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

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[HighlanderAttack]

I've sent a PM to HA to BCC everyone on that list and tell them that if they continue to do this now or in the future, their tournament will immediately be canceled and disciplinary warning and forum vacations will be handed out to anyone who sends a mass message like those.

Other moderators can handle this current batch.

I did send a message to my entry list as NS requested. This spam for a tourney could have come from my non BCC mistake the other day or could easily come from my entry list which is posted on the tourney thread. It is just a shame when someone makes a mistake that people have to reply to sender and all recipients. All that does is create more and more reply to sender and all recipients rather than just letting the sender know not to pm him/her.

Here was the message I sent to hopefully stop this mess and it seems that it has stopped:

HA, please BCC your entire tournament list to inform everybody that if they continue to use your list, especially without using the BCC, their tournament will be immediately canceled and they will immediately receive a disciplinary warning or forum vacation for spam. This also applies to any member who replies to everyone telling them not to spam.

This message is going out to all in my tourney. I apologize for the honest mistake I made when sending out the original message. I apologize for all the spam from all the childish people that must continue to hit reply to all senders when they can just send the message to one person. Please read the entire quote from Night Strike. I truly hope that this behavior can stop now and if not--you deserve a vacation from forums and tourneys in my opinion.

[HighlanderAttack]

yes i feel sorry for starting this.. to be honest i found myself a little bit witty doing it but it was early in the morning i was hungover and more importantly i was wrong..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

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They can easily use the entry list so it may not have even come from me--then u--no way to know unless you match each name--no matter what cc did a great job of fixing the reply all we used to all hate so I am hoping when someone makes a mistake like myself and hits the wrong button when sending players would be smart enough not to start the over and over and over pm issue.

Night Strike has said no one should solicit using others entry lists --especially one as big as mine so hopefully that solves the issue.