Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
OK guys, first off we love and appreciate the reports as they're all a blast to read, but it is in the effort to keep the spots preserved and the reports being sucessful ones for years to come, that we must make a clarification like this.
In the past week we've had 3 instances where people mention spots in reports, or people ask about meet locations. That is far too many for a week, and some users have done it multiple times without regard for our warnings.
Violating this rule and blowing a spot, will result in a suspension from Marked Out. Now I don't want to suspend anybody, so allow me to explain what we don't want you to do.
No matter where you met someone, if it was on a street and for free, you don't say ANYTHING about the location. Don't mention landmarks near the spot, don't mention it's name, don't mention what it is, don't mention names that can identify the spot. Refer to everything as spot, or hippo, or place that cannot be mentioned. Honestly, I don't care what you call it, as long as it's not by it's name.
Again, we don't want to suspend anybody, but we respect spots too much to let this many violations happen in such a short time without stepping up our punishments.
In the past week we've had 3 instances where people mention spots in reports, or people ask about meet locations. That is far too many for a week, and some users have done it multiple times without regard for our warnings.
Violating this rule and blowing a spot, will result in a suspension from Marked Out. Now I don't want to suspend anybody, so allow me to explain what we don't want you to do.
No matter where you met someone, if it was on a street and for free, you don't say ANYTHING about the location. Don't mention landmarks near the spot, don't mention it's name, don't mention what it is, don't mention names that can identify the spot. Refer to everything as spot, or hippo, or place that cannot be mentioned. Honestly, I don't care what you call it, as long as it's not by it's name.
Again, we don't want to suspend anybody, but we respect spots too much to let this many violations happen in such a short time without stepping up our punishments.
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Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
No TIMES, PLACES, SETTINGS, OR WHERE YOU EVEN WERE WAITING. If this continues, we will be forced to do pic only reports
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When you say no "Places" are you saying not to even identify the city of where it took place?lanza218 wrote:No TIMES, PLACES, SETTINGS, OR WHERE YOU EVEN WERE WAITING. If this continues, we will be forced to do pic only reports
Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
.... City is fine
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Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
can i just throw my 2 cents into this. one thing that i HATE is when someone mentions other Peoples names in their reports. I speak for a few when i say i dont like my name mentioned in someone elses on the street report. I dont mind a convention report cause everyone else is there. its just the on the street ones that bug me. another thing that bugs me is when people get into precision reports. what i mean by that is when they pretty much Draw a map of where they are With out actually sayin where they are. I call them GPS reports LOL. this is just my opinion
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1000000% agree..i fn HATE GPS REPORTS!!!!! Also that bugs me as well when im mentioned in a report when it has 0to do with me
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Question. On the Mooney/Gambino report I commented about Mooney being at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. Is that against the rules as I am kind of naming the spot or is that fine as it was an advertised performance?
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Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
Can I ask what if it a scheduled signing at a baseball stadium or you are going to a game that you can get autographs at?
Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
Just say local show. If people can piece it together, great but we don't want it being spoon fed to the masses and causing crowds to grow any more.
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I agree for non published events
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If it's at a sporting event and on the inside, that's fine.Nicksfan23 wrote:Can I ask what if it a scheduled signing at a baseball stadium or you are going to a game that you can get autographs at?
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Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
If this continues to be a problem, we won't make reports photos only as that would lessen our quality, but we will require all reports posted to be approved by one of us before it goes live.
This would enable us to control the issue, but we don't want to bring it to that unless it's absolutely essential. I am convinced our members can stop it on their own.
This would enable us to control the issue, but we don't want to bring it to that unless it's absolutely essential. I am convinced our members can stop it on their own.
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Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
I also think you should password protect the reports section ( if it isn't already) as well as have a trial period for new users.
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The issue with that is, we put all the reports on the main page as well, which is totally public. We toyed around with a private report section, but given that's our best content it's tough to get new people interested without having access to it.mishedout wrote:I also think you should password protect the reports section ( if it isn't already) as well as have a trial period for new users.
It's a tricky thing, because making people join to see reports would increase members, but it might decreases lurkers, which we don't want to do either.
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Re: Blowing Spot Clarifications & Suspensions For Violations
so maybe you can pick which reports to put on the public page. I totally agree with Rich about mentioning names.