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... our poker reviews with copy/pasted content to get Mob Points - and all he got, was a blocked Mob account and no longer access to any free bankrolls.
Why does some people think that it's okay to do stuff like that?
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Only forum. There's (for now) unlimited for reviews, because they require you to write a minimum of 500 characters - which of course is easy if you just copy/paste what somebody else got. But I suppose if you want to spend 45 minutes earning a couple of hundred points doing it - and then have your account closed, feel free to go ahead
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but what's the difference between copying and paste and quoting like u did? ATTENTION, I'm not judging or saying that u did anything wrong, i'm just trying to make a point. Plus can he be ban because of that? It's a way to get mob points just as fair as to affiliate people
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There's nothing fair to copy paste what other people are writing and posting it as if it were your own and claim Mob Points for it. And yes he got ban from it, he violated our forum rules and he abused our Mob Points system. We don't want to give free poker money to such users.
Quoting stuff is totally legit and often-used method in online forums to ease the discussion and make it easier for readers to know what a comment is about. I'm not sure how compare quoting to copy/pasting other users posts?
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It's mentioned both in the forum and on reviews that if you post, you accept our forum rules. And it SHOULD be normal human sense that stealing what OTHER PEOPLE wrote and posting it as YOUR OWN is not normal behavior. But I'm glad you brought it up so you now know that abusing our Mob Points system in that way is not okay, so you don't get tempted
------------ It's actually already a sticky in the BankrollMob sub forum, and there's a link to the forum rules at the bottom of each thread/forum - plus a link and note "by posting, you accept our forum rules" below the "post reply" thread whenever you create a new post. So there's really no excuse for not having read them. Besides, there are so few rules and they are so easy to read and understand, it's not like you have to set a side 5-10 minutes to read them.
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First of all have to say I agree with your decision, expecially if it wasn't a one spot copy/paste but it was sistematic doing
but I want to ak u a question Admin: it only my feeling or are u angry cause someone said "on BRM honesty is not allowed but only insult scam and lies" or something similar?
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Posted by magatt966: First of all have to say I agree with your decision, expecially if it wasn't a one spot copy/paste but it was sistematic doing
Well, I'll let you be the judge
A total of 55 user reviews were added (copied) to our poker/casino reviews from 6:21pm CET to 7:01pm CET. Plus the 20+ forum posts the user had, most of them were copied from other users and posted as being his own. I saw a few other members making comments about his forum copy/pasting.
Posted by magatt966: but I want to ak u a question Admin: it only my feeling or are u angry cause someone said "on BRM honesty is not allowed but only insult scam and lies" or something similar?
I'm glad you asked - But no, not at all - cause it's not true and I trust that all our forum users knows that.
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Posted by Administrator: ... our poker reviews with copy/pasted content to get Mob Points - and all he got, was a blocked Mob account and no longer access to any free bankrolls.
Why does some people think that it's okay to do stuff like that?
Good decision. Always there will be people who want to take advantage where they can. I don't know why they do these kind of things if a website is offering you free money and a lot of benefits, and they just must follow a couples of rules to enjoy the gifts.
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Posted by Plexo:
Posted by Administrator: ... our poker reviews with copy/pasted content to get Mob Points - and all he got, was a blocked Mob account and no longer access to any free bankrolls.
Why does some people think that it's okay to do stuff like that?
. I don't know why they do these kind of things if a website is offering you free money and a lot of benefits, and they just must follow a couples of rules to enjoy the gifts.
Gl.
+1 to your point
but to answer your question I have to copy and paste a post of monamil (ty once again): "there are people who don't the meaning of a word: enough."
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Posted by Lutenatik: but what's the difference between copying and paste and quoting like u did? ATTENTION, I'm not judging or saying that u did anything wrong, i'm just trying to make a point. Plus can he be ban because of that? It's a way to get mob points just as fair as to affiliate people
What on earth are you on about ? ^^ this makes no sense. The guy spent nearly an hour spamming reviews to build mob points. This is blatant exploitation and he got what he must have known he was gonna get. You references are NOT relevant or relative.
Posted by Administrator: ... our poker reviews with copy/pasted content to get Mob Points - and all he got, was a blocked Mob account and no longer access to any free bankrolls.
Why does some people think that it's okay to do stuff like that?
------------ It looks like some people will do anything to try and get free . It's a shame because it ruins it for others that haven't abused the system. Let's face it, if you are going busto just take the time to learn the game. The NDB's here are a great opportunity to get someone started without depositing there own money if they use good bankroll management. Participating in the forum here allows you to chat/ learn while earning some points along the way to get some additional playing cash once you hit the 5k Mob points. At BRM we are also lucky enough to have a weekly drawing plus a chance to crack the safe for additional bonuses too
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Lol, I tried if I could find a "normal" post of this person... nope! All removed, being spam or whatever, so he never even tried to write a descent comment. He got what he deserved, what he did is the same as cheating, imo
"Besides, there are so few rules and they are so easy to read and understand, it's not like you have to set a side 5-10 minutes to read them."
