Help wanted: Report spam

adam

Heya

We're going to remove the need for first-post moderation for a while and see how we get treated by spammers. If it gets out of hand, we'll go back to moderating firsts posts but if it goes well then we'll keep it off.

I'd like to ask for some help: If you see a spam post, can you please report it to us?


Reporting spam when you see it will decrease the amount of spam we miss/let slip for a while.

Thank you !

Dn2

*cough* >_>

Kot_Leopold

Will do!

R3D

Sir yes sir!

leilei

What's the pipeline when you hit the report button? Does it spam every single admin and super mod's personal email addresses? Does it enter a reporting ticket system?

toxic_h2o

psh I had to earn my first post and now new people get to come right on in? what is this? :P

Zpanzer

toxic_h2o wrote: »

psh I had to earn my first post and now new people get to come right on in? what is this? :P

I did unspeakable things to get my first post on this board, and now you let them walk right in? Pff... the youth now a days. :P

adam

leilei wrote: »

What's the pipeline when you hit the report button? Does it spam every single admin and super mod's personal email addresses? Does it enter a reporting ticket system?

I believe the mods will be sent a PM and/or email.

aajohnny

Will do boss

Swizzle

I'll make sure to report it any time I see somebody draw goatees on Sylvanas Windrunner.

Autocon

I think its ridiculous that you think Street Magic is spam. I want to know more about it.

achmedthesnake

swizz - ahahah ninja pshop edit

adam - "..ROGER THAT NASTY BUTLER,."

McGreed

personally I think it might be a good idea if new users can't send private pm's until they have posted something like 10 times. It won't affect new users that much and it gives people a chance to catch spammers before they flood people with pm.

TheWinterLord

that sounds pretty good McGreed

/will do reportin

oXYnary

Having and still moderating (and admining) other boards. I thought your first post Que was brilliant. Having to search and wait for someone to tell you a post is bad before action is a PITA from the moderator side IMO.

Im sure looking at every single first post is no walk in the park, but hell. Does your setup give you a listing and a preview of the first few words? That to me would be enough to spot suspect right away.

What I have to do now? Order members from join date with latest first. Then I have to see post count, and even worse, those damn bots that just make accounts to fill out the url of their member page for search engines. 80% of my banned IPs come from those.. (Yes I do go to the trouble of deleting those members even if the spam they do is passive)

Alberto Rdrgz

toxic_h2o wrote: »

psh I had to earn my first post and now new people get to come right on in? what is this? :P

Dood that's a good point. what ever happen to the asking for approval for the first post?

Gilgamesh

Probably the influx of new members, it's allot more work to monitor the first post(s) of new members and deal with approval than to remove a post when it is reported.

As long as there are people in different time zones to delete offending posts then there is little to no difference in it as far as the end user is concerned but as mods go it's about 5% of the work which frees them up to organise and run nice comps :P

Mcejn

Free DVDs?

How is this spam?!

Firebert

outer glow
multiply
black
spread
size
BAM!

Make that Shit POP!

BAM! BAM! BAM!

How many people have reported this one thread so far? :-P

glynnsmith

Just found three (or four? I can't remember) spam threads advertising movie bundles.

Each time you report spam, it gives you a minute's worth of cooldown until you're able to report the next.

Is there any way around this, or any way you can rethink this? Maybe only only a 20 second cool down, perhaps?

Del

~ Too many of your mods are on your fancy U.S. time, and not enough are on our sexy European time. So there's obviously a blackout period when a lot of these reported posts have no policing for at least 8 hours.

vik

Just an idea, but maybe spam threads could be hidden/removed temporarily and automatically if more than say 5 members report them until a mod can check their content and decide the fate of the thread.

Jesse Moody

perna wrote: »

Why is Pedro still a member on these boards... I reported him like 12 times

Sorry we will get that taken care of.