Suggestion: Reducing post spam in messages

I have noticed that some mobile-users on PC send messages where advertising text is appended to their posts, such as:

"This post was written on an HTC Vista using Trampolinetalk"

I suggest that the forum software detects such advertisement and gives the users three choices:

1) Let the forum continue as now and fill any text message with the spam.
2) Remove the auto generated spam automatically
3) Asks the user if the spam should be removed after posts are submitted (default option)
4) Notify tapatalk users that they can disable the spam when they post - with a link to a tutorial.

I know it is a lot of work to add such changes, but it's either this or me having to write a Firefox extension...

 

It is what everybody does...

And it does not reduce the spam, so it's not a valid option to the problem.

The messages are essentially signatures... but unlike signatures, they can not be disabled, hence the annoyance.

 

There is a difference between being a problem and being a problem for a specific amount of people, hence I raise the suggestion and avoid using the word "problem" in OP to minimise confusion.
If the gain we get from addressing the issue is less than the annoyance for not, then clearly it should be ignored.
You make the assumption that it isn't an issue for most of us. Can you support that assumption? If you can, then it implies that the problem should be ignored.

> qbee42. You forgot to thank Paradox. If you read his post, you can see that he is not supporting my suggestion

 

It is an option, and there is a legitimate reason for having the tag, ie. to warn people that autocomplete might have kicked in and garbled stuff up or the sentences had to be shortened.

But this could be accomplished with a simple tag like:
"- Username, a mobile app."

When people have the standard tag it is as if they are oblivious of it. It's like the free text messaging services where only the receiver gets all the spam.

 

Well at least I would be able to make something that I would use :-P
No really. I'm just waiting for an excuse to get into add-on dev. for this platform - especially since many good add-ons have been abandoned. Fixing them will be much easier once I have experience with small projects (such as detecting tapatalk messages).