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About Sparky and his automated posts

Discussion in 'Suggestions / Comments / Criticisms / Problems' started by Rona, May 6, 2016.

  1. Rona

    Rona Active Member

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    Hello,

    I thing the functionality of the forum is top class.
    I believe that the messages requirement for signature and PM is too high, but I can live with that.
    My main concern are the "Sparky" automated posts.
    First of all most of them make no sense. Secondly they always link to another suspicious forum of a known crook. Hey it is the forum of a competitor, no? Why link to it and its 5 line posts?

    I propose that you put Sparky to rest or that you increase the sources of his posts. After all there are various roulette sites out there Sparky can take content from.

    Still, the functionality and moderation of this forum are excellent. But I think you can improve in this specific area.
     
    Rona, May 6, 2016
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  2. Admin Team

    Admin Team Administrators Admins

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    Thank you for your feedback, we appreciate it.

    Sparky is only a temporary measure to help solve the chicken-or-egg problem every new Forum faces at the beginning where users won't post until the Forum is active, but a Forum can't be active until users post. We fully agree that Sparky's posts are far from ideal, but we still feel they are better than having empty Forum sections with zero activity, something that is not very inviting to new users.

    That being said, one of our active users here offered to post daily in the Sports Betting section if we turned off the Sparky bot in that specific section. Since we 100% prefer content from our users rather than Sparky, we immediately complied and disabled all external posts in the Sports Betting Forum and now our users are posting their exclusively.

    We are happy to do this in other sections where Sparky posts (e.g. Roulette Forum) if our users here commit to posting regularly (4-5 times a week) to spark new discussions among our members.

    Would you be willing to commit to that? Say the word, and we'll immediately disable Sparky in the Roulette Forum.

    If we were Gambling Experts, we would post ourselves, but unfortunately we are only experts in running Forums.
     
    Admin Team, May 6, 2016
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