Spam and Spammers
We recently have experienced a rash of spam.
Spammers are banned and their posts are deleted. If you see a spam post, please report the post, but refrain from commenting.
This way, when the spam posts are deleted, their won't be posts that are out of context to the thread.
What is the 'proper' way to report it?
Will do my best.
There is a little "!" sign at the bottom left of every post. Basically the bottom of that area where your avatar is.Originally Posted by Girlystevedave
Click that on the offending post and you are good to go.
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Thanks for the thread, Randall Flagg.
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On the left side of the screen under the persons avatar click on the "Report Post" icon. The icon is a triangle with an exclamation in it.
<---me and Jerome, making it happen.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
<---- Officially on patrol now
I clicked one last night!!!
But I saw later that Daggers was on top of the situation.
Yes, but I appreciate the heads up.
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We have the technology dont we?Now lets go out there and get them!
The answer is within
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I had to delete SPAM out of this very thread this morning.
Just so everyone knows, I am going to be implementing a couple of modifications that will help staff deal with the growing problem.
One of the modifications will alert the staff to posts that are made by SPAMMERS based on a criteria we set.
The other will be a one click process that bans the user, deletes the posts and or threads, and bans their IP address all in one click.
Obviously any new system is going to take a little getting used to so if you guys see anything amiss...please continue to report.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
Right okay boss, will do.
The answer is within
well, now here's a question. what about those people (like, say, me) who use rolling ip addresses? i had a problem once when my ip address went to renew itself and all of a sudden i couldn't send out emails because the ip address that it renewed to was banned by half the universe because a spammer had been using it. i had to go through this big long thing with my isp to straighten it out.I had to delete SPAM out of this very thread this morning.
Just so everyone knows, I am going to be implementing a couple of modifications that will help staff deal with the growing problem.
One of the modifications will alert the staff to posts that are made by SPAMMERS based on a criteria we set.
The other will be a one click process that bans the user, deletes the posts and or threads, and bans their IP address all in one click.
Obviously any new system is going to take a little getting used to so if you guys see anything amiss...please continue to report.
so will banning the spammer ip address impact us (us being people who have rolling ip addresses not static ip addresses) in anyway?
so no one wants to buy penis enlargement pills?
I'll keep an eye out for them.
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"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
Its the great thing about being locally owned, if something like that happens, we can just up and fix it. Everyone has rolling IP address because of the nature of servers, this only bans the specific IP they are using not a range or anything like that.well, now here's a question. what about those people (like, say, me) who use rolling ip addresses? i had a problem once when my ip address went to renew itself and all of a sudden i couldn't send out emails because the ip address that it renewed to was banned by half the universe because a spammer had been using it. i had to go through this big long thing with my isp to straighten it out.I had to delete SPAM out of this very thread this morning.
Just so everyone knows, I am going to be implementing a couple of modifications that will help staff deal with the growing problem.
One of the modifications will alert the staff to posts that are made by SPAMMERS based on a criteria we set.
The other will be a one click process that bans the user, deletes the posts and or threads, and bans their IP address all in one click.
Obviously any new system is going to take a little getting used to so if you guys see anything amiss...please continue to report.
so will banning the spammer ip address impact us (us being people who have rolling ip addresses not static ip addresses) in anyway?
So its far from common but on the outside chance it happens, we'll be here to fix it.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
klm906 is obviously SPAMMING, the staff is leaving it for the moment so we can test our new add on's.
FYI
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
That person (klmn906) is on right now still spamming.
Yes.
Thank you.
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I was going to use him to see if the new system worked but we'll wait till the next one.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
We have a new system? Sure its not just doing this.....
Just call me Frankenstein--my creation is running amok
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it's alive, alive.
cause i've got emails about this klmn906's messages (and seeing all the chinese characters in my first email was interesting) but when i click the link they're not in the thread. so either the system is working or you guys are running around like maniacs.
actually, i guess the one doesn't preclude the other.
This will sound incredibly stupid, but here goes:
how can you tell a spam post is spam?
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