Like, sub scamming / spam tracks solution?

Hey so we've all been seeing a lot of it recently, but I haven't seen a lot of talk about it / reform. The like scamming tracks. There's been a lot of them.

It all started with that one track by https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/designer01 saying he'd give away $100,000 to one of the people who liked, commented, and subscribed. The track got around a staggering 1,000 likes before finally getting removed, but it dominated the trending page for a solid week by then. He had 0 subs a few weeks ago, and now he has 615.

Even people who create featured tracks don't get that many likes / subs. Kinda unfair, right? He not only scammed the community, but scammed in more subscribers and likes as well. I know for a fact that it wasn't a satire of these kinds of tracks because it's the one that started the whole thing, therefore making it a pretty sad manipulation of players.

I think the community has become a bit more aware of this kind of scammery, but we're obviously not able to figure out that these are fake on our own because it happens just about every month. Last month it was "my mom died and if I don't get likes on this track I'll feel terrible." This month it's "$7,000 giveaway read description."

This is where my question comes in. When we see one of these tracks dominating trending and pushing less deserving authors off the list, what should we do to get it taken down / evaluated as soon as possible? As far as I'm aware, what we're doing right now isn't working, because sub scamming is still alive and well, and it takes over a week to remove the real scam tracks.

Can we do something about this? Make a page to send in links to scam tracks? Something? Because leaving the tracks up there for a week helps nobody. If anything I think it deters smart members from wanting to play when the first track they see when they enter the site is a giveaway track, not a well drawn masterpiece.

 

I think make a thread in the official author thread. Then there won't be the problem of dealing with the scammers themselves when they see the link of their track. I agree that something needs to be done

 

Not a bad idea. We would then need someone with power to remove them to then check through the links and see which ones are scams on a regular basis.

 

Sparkelmotion. Or maybe get stig or max the power or something

 

We'll see what they think of it, or a system like it.

 

Yea. It would be nice to get rid of those scams

 

I've requested the power to delete tracks and comments multiple times. For that to happen char needs to setup a moderator control panel on the database, which he currently has no time for. Until then only Char and SparkleMotion can delete tracks unfortunatly.

Edit, if I had the ability I would naturally deal with any spam tracks

 

Or have a track moderator who can remove inappropriate/scamming/fishing tracks

 

Hhmmmmmmm

 

Don't forget about the like fishing next to it

 

We should have a group of mods that have the power to remove tracks like these, like the feature mods but for removing spam/scam tracks

 

Yo should have the power you are more active then them.

 

I like this marketing ability tbh

 

the apocalypse has begun

 

They need to select old members like WyattStonhouse to monitor and report spam tracks

 

Not gonna lie, you guys who upload tracks that try to mock the other ones like mudkips for example, are just worsening the issue.

 

sadly it took me a while to realize that even though we know they're mockery tracks, noobs don't and treat them as actual scam tracks lol

take harambe bro for example

that bull got more likes than any of my featured tracks and it's literally me promising to bring harambe from the grave. best part? kids literally believed it.

its kinda sad but at the same time it made me realize that little kids can't tell the difference between a lampoon of an aids track and an actual aids track.

 

Haha. So true

 

the issue is that there are too many noobs

my idea about the tutorial with rewards i think could help...