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Myron Tay replied on October 10, 2008 02:08 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

Anybody have any experience getting it fixed in Singapore? Anybody know if its possible to to change the entire casing (if possible)? Mine has tons of scratches on it :(

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Sylvio started following the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud.

Maurice Kelly replied on October 03, 2008 20:08 to the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud:

Hi Eric, this does reduce the impact of the spamming to a certain extent - limiting users to only following a maximum of 2000 people reduces the scope for people following me. However, I don't think this solves the underlying problem that people are following strangers and not listening to their tracks simply for the purpose of appearing in the dashboard.

2000 is still a lot of people to be able to follow and to be honest, considering the limited management facilities on the dashboards, will result in an unmanageable account. I don't see the point in allowing this to go on. I follow about 30 people, and I find my dashboard hard to manage. There can be no reason to follow 2000 people and still contribute meaningfully to the community.

I've suggested in a previous post in this thread that you could limit the number of people a user follows to a factor of the number of people following them. So for example, if I had 30 people following me, I could follow 300 people. This allows me to expand my contacts, but prevents the potential spammers from spamming large numbers of people too quickly. If their music (and tactics) are any good then they'll soon get more followers which will allow them to spread their music further.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what you've done to address the problem, ad I'm glad you guys are taking it seriously. It's just I see this "spam" issue as a potential stumbling block for the community and I'm trying to help where possible.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

maurice

Killa_Kelle replied on September 30, 2008 17:53 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

I got my apple MacBook Feb 2008 and I had to take it to the apple store to have to the chipped hand rest repaired just 2 months after getting it. Now it is chipping again so I called to see it I can get it fixed again for free and lady said I would have to come in to see. I then asked how much would it cost if it is not free and she said about $200! WTF!!

Eric Wahlforss replied on September 23, 2008 11:16 to the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud:

Hi guys, as a first step in preventing people from "spamming" the community by following too many people, and sharing tracks privately to them, we've capped the number of people you can follow at 2000. This change affected a handful of people, and I believe it will greatly improve the quality of the SC community as a whole in the future. As always, this could be subject to change, and we are working on other features around this as well, such as blocking, but this change I think will take care of most of the problem. Don't hesitate to un-follow people who you think are spamming you. That will protect you from any 'spammy' tracks littering your dashboard...

claudia replied on September 18, 2008 18:51 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

Yes, I bought my last macbook 9 months ago and happened exactly the same as everyone else. I am going to Apple Store tomorrow, fingers crossed!

A comment on the question "Blocked user still listed on my followers as blocked" in Twitter:

Yes, this does get around the glitch! :) Thanks. – Donovan, on September 15, 2008 21:11

Brad replied on September 14, 2008 22:46 to the problem "Add Followers/Following metrics and Follow/Block buttons to New Follower e-mail" in Twitter:

Most of my followers are spam. This would be a nice feature and admission on Twitter's part.

A comment on the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud:

hey, check this thread for a coming solution: http://getsatisfaction.com/soundcloud... – Eric Wahlforss, on September 05, 2008 07:50

Zoidberg replied on September 05, 2008 00:01 to the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud:

dropbox spam is a problem for me

[os] started following the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud.

[os] replied on September 03, 2008 16:43 to the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud:

Is there anyway to block a user who is spamming you with 'private' shared tracks?

Maurice Kelly replied on September 03, 2008 16:04 to the problem "Need to Block/Delete Spam-Followers" in SoundCloud:

As well as the spam following there's also the dropbox spam that is becoming more common. I'm getting tracks which have been shared to almost 2000 users. Surely there's some sort of limits that could be placed on both following and sharing tracks.

You could limit people to only following 10x* the number of followers they have. This way people who have a large (and growing) number of followers can expand their network within reasonable limits, but the "spammers" have a hard limit which means they have to grow their network organically - if people don't like them then they can't keep following more users. Ultimately this will dissuade the "spammers" and hopefully improve the service for the rest of us.

* This is an arbitrary number. :-)

A comment on the discussion "Admins: How to put Get Satisfaction on your site" in Get Satisfaction:

I believe you're asking where to point your badge? It's probably best to point it to your company home page here on Get Satisfaction which would be http://getsatisfaction.com/yourcompany – Amy Muller, on September 02, 2008 19:59

Eric Suesz replied on August 31, 2008 06:07 to the discussion "Admins: How to put Get Satisfaction on your site" in Get Satisfaction:

bldtraffic: Sorry you're having problems.

We try to point out on the employee claim page that it might take a few hours for us to approve an employee's claim. It's usually faster if you are able to validate your employee e-mail address by entering a company e-mail address (from the company URL) into the company e-mail address field. I hope this doesn't seem inconvenient, but we like to diligent about this. I just approved your claim, and you should receive an e-mail that directs you to your admin page.

You can place badges or widgets anywhere on your site. It is often different, but many companies place those on their home page or support page. It really just depends.

bldtraffic replied on August 31, 2008 03:36 to the discussion "Admins: How to put Get Satisfaction on your site" in Get Satisfaction:

Grrrrrr....something tells me its easier to sign up a company first, then sign up as a person. It must be. It HAS to be. Because once signed in as a person, with no ability to claim, you are pretty much "stuck."

Help?

JJH

bldtraffic replied on August 31, 2008 03:29 to the discussion "Admins: How to put Get Satisfaction on your site" in Get Satisfaction:

One more: Downloading the badge was easy enough, so was posting it, however no where does it state where you would like us to link the badge to... homepage, sign-up page, etc.