Is Nvidia being trolled ?? - Medicines and drug advertisements as post on Nvidia forum

[AccordingOne]

Hello guys,

 

I've recentlly joined Nvidia forum, today i've clicked feed section to  check out what is proposed to me by Nvidia and found some weird sh*p to say the least .... 

There are hips of posts/ads(that's what they effectively are) about medicines, weed, and other drugs which you can buy online without prescription ...aside of drug usage problem, especially without any professional supervision and advice,  is this a right place to post that?

 

And if not, why is it allowed on a forum, which moderate usser avatars (they must be aproved before hand) in fear they would end up being "offensive" to someone ?

If anyone can use some kind of algoritm to filter those things out it's nvidia ... so? Why?  What's going on ?

I'd genuinely like to hear someone comment or opinion.

 

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, AccordingOne said:

Why?

NVIDIA doesn't want to spend money on moderating their forums. It's just that simple.

[minibois]

Looks like a forum without (active) moderation.

Those sorts of topics also pop up here from time to time, it's just the mods here take them down within minutes (or seconds).

 

Seems like Nvidia is lacking in the mod and spam detection department.

[Eigenvektor]

5 minutes ago, AccordingOne said:

There are hips of posts/ads(that's what they effectively are) about medicines, weed, and other drugs which you can buy online without prescription ...aside of drug usage problem, especially without any professional supervision and advice,  is this a right place to post that?

We get the same kind of posts here. But mods clean them up. It's spam/ads. Not something you want in a forum but something you inevitably get if anyone can register and no one polices the posts.

[Spotty]

1 minute ago, AccordingOne said:

There are hips of posts/ads(that's what they effectively are) about medicines, weed, and other drugs which you can buy online without prescription ...aside of drug usage problem, especially without any professional supervision and advice,  is this a right place to post that?

It's spam. Every forum or website that allows user generated content has to deal with posts such as those. If there's a report option then you should report those posts.

 

If Nvidia is reading this and needs someone to keep their forum clean from spam, I am available. Will work for RTX 3090's, or I'm fine with cash if you don't have any available stock. Have your people call my people.

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

If Nvidia is reading this and needs someone to keep their forum clean from spam, I am available. Will work for RTX 3090's, or I'm fine with cash if you don't have any available stock. Have your people call my people.

I'd update that to say enthusiast grade GPUs. Otherwise you'll still be paid in 3090s 20 years down the line when no one cares about them anymore

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Have your people call my people

Hm, I'm not sure NVIDIA's business-people talk BORK BORK WOOF RUFF.

[AccordingOne]

4 minutes ago, James Evens said:

The NVidia forum was (the last time I looked at it) a very sad place without moderation. 

TL;DR not a troll, just the internet without mods keeping it clean

Yeah, but as i wrote you  can't even post your avatar without it being looked into.
 

 

2 minutes ago, minibois said:

Looks like a forum without (active) moderation.

Those sorts of topics also pop up here from time to time, it's just the mods here take them down within minutes (or seconds).

 

Seems like Nvidia is lacking in the mod and spam detection department.

Can't you filter it somehow ?? Keywords like, i don't know, drug name's or something. couldn't those post be stopped like that? Especially while being one of the largest AI using companies in the world ?

[WereCatf]

Just now, AccordingOne said:

Can't you filter it somehow ??

Of course you could set up filters.... if you were willing to pay for someone to do it.

[AccordingOne]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Of course you could set up filters.... if you were willing to pay for someone to do it.

C'mon We're not talking milions of dolar's here ...  

[minibois]

3 minutes ago, AccordingOne said:

Can't you filter it somehow ?? Keywords like, i don't know, drug name's or something. couldn't those post be stopped like that? Especially while being one of the largest AI using companies in the world ?

it's clear they don't want to bother.

plus, with every step forward in protecting against spam, the spammers also take a step forward in getting around it. it's a perpetual cat and mouse game, which you have to put a good amount of effort into counter-act.

[AccordingOne]

So they can filter noise around You while You're streaming but they can't filter they own forum spam ?   Makes perfect sense. It's just Sad.

[Spotty]

Just now, AccordingOne said:

Can't you filter it somehow ?? Keywords like, i don't know, drug name's or something. couldn't those post be stopped like that? Especially while being one of the largest AI using companies in the world ?

You could use filters, but what they are spamming changes daily, sometimes multiple times a day. As soon as you filter one thing they move on to something else. Then you're just left dealing with a bunch of false positives where legitimate posters accidentally hit the filter.

Who actually knows how much more spam is already being filtered or removed? Maybe what you can see there is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Looking at that amount of spam though I'm sure they could do more to deal with the problem if they had people spend the time on it.

[Heliian]

1 minute ago, AccordingOne said:

So they can filter noise around You while You're streaming but they can't filter they own forum spam ?   Makes perfect sense. It's just Sad.

It's a sad reality of how the corporate system works.  You actually think the company is all that and on top of the game.  Meanwhile, it's all just bullshit to keep you buying products.  Look how bad tech support is for Dell, or literally any other company in the world.  Their empires are built on houses of lies. 

[AccordingOne]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Maybe what you can see there is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Agreed, and they probably left some "acceptable" amount of it. But, how much is to much though? Porn ? Or scams? Or something even worse ?

[igormp]

As others said, it's just spam without moderation. I bet it's probably a bot of some kind that spam such posts around many forums.

Nvidia doesn't seem to give a crap since it's just a consumer-based forum.

 

On the other hand, their developer forum is pretty ok and has no such spam.

[FakeFBI]

24 minutes ago, Spotty said:

It's spam. Every forum or website that allows user generated content has to deal with posts such as those. If there's a report option then you should report those posts.

 

If Nvidia is reading this and needs someone to keep their forum clean from spam, I am available. Will work for RTX 3090's, or I'm fine with cash if you don't have any available stock. Have your people call my people.

maybe you can not scalp us

[Spotty]

Just now, AccordingOne said:

Agreed, and they probably left some "acceptable" amount of it. But, how much is to much though? Porn ? Or scams? Or something even worse ?

Well, those posts advertising websites selling medication and other such things are scams.

 

Just now, igormp said:

On the other hand, their developer forum is pretty ok and has no such spam.

Is the developer forum invite only or require more verification to join? It might just be more actively moderated. Looking at the user list there's quite a few moderators I can see.

[Vishera]

6 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Well, those posts advertising websites selling medication and other such things are scams.

 

Is the developer forum invite only or require more verification to join? It might just be more actively moderated. Looking at the user list there's quite a few moderators I can see.

I just saw one here on the forums,i reported and it's gone now.

[InfernalKing]

I think so too. I found Apple iPhone 12 ads on Nvidia's site.

[Mark Kaine]

14 hours ago, minibois said:

Looks like a forum without (active) moderation.

Those sorts of topics also pop up here from time to time, it's just the mods here take them down within minutes (or seconds).

 

Seems like Nvidia is lacking in the mod and spam detection department.

thank goodness they aren't the masters of compute AI or anything and also their anti scalper bot algorithm is amazing. They just don't have any cards, take that scalpers!  

[LogicalDrm]

21 hours ago, Spotty said:

If Nvidia is reading this and needs someone to keep their forum clean from spam, I am available. Will work for RTX 3090's, or I'm fine with cash if you don't have any available stock. Have your people call my people.

Seconded. I'm long time Nvidia user and can work in European timezones. Hire me and Spotty and your spam is gone.

[minibois]

10 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

thank goodness they aren't the masters of compute AI or anything and also their anti scalper bot algorithm is amazing. They just don't have any cards, take that scalpers!  

I am not sure what this reply has to do with my reply, but sure.

[RoseLuck462]

People need to sell drugs to afford GPUs.

 

 

[AccordingOne]

9 hours ago, RoseLuck462 said:

People need to sell drugs to afford GPUs.

 

 

IKR ? ... and if they can help some impotents along the way, then we all may yet see a happy ending.