The SPAM Reporting Thread

[Sourplum]

Spam BOTS HAVE TAKEN OVER SPCNET!

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[remember_Cedric]

Spam BOTS HAVE TAKEN OVER SPCNET!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Not yet. As long as, we have some active moderators around, we're safe. Especially, we have Ken Cheng. He is sorta like ..... Iron Man, the leader of the Avengers.... IMO. Even though, there are times he can get emo like Tony Stark, we're still quite safe.

Now, now, who is Captain America? And, the rest of the members in Avenger team??

[Guo Xiang]

How about deleting the spam posts too? It's rather pointless to just ban the spammers but leave the threads hanging there, since the purpose is not to remain as a spcnet member but to spam/advertise.

[kidd]

I think this is spam.

http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/member.php?u=65114

Here's his/her posts.

http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showpost...2&postcount=40
http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showpost...3&postcount=41

[Lady Zhuge]

Check out this person's signature - advertisement spam hidden within a post.

http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showpost...&postcount=770

[pannonian]

I don't know if SPCnet is around, but it would be a good idea to give at least some moderators super moderator power, ie. moderating rights in every forum, so they can clear spam after the bots have been banned.

[Han Solo]

I don't know if SPCnet is around, but it would be a good idea to give at least some moderators super moderator power, ie. moderating rights in every forum, so they can clear spam after the bots have been banned.

Suet Seung have moderating rights in every sub-forum.

Is there any spams that needs to be cleaned up?

Han Solo

[pannonian]

Suet Seung have moderating rights in every sub-forum.

Nicely demonstrated.

Is there any spams that needs to be cleaned up?

Han Solo

There's the tellytubby one from this morning, which seems to have been cleaned now. From time to time there are bots that get swiftly banned, but their posts still remain, or only some get deleted.

[Han Solo]

What happened is that the individual moderators can only delete threads in their own sub-forum but can ban the spammer.

Han solo

[wkeej]

What happened is that the individual moderators can only delete threads in their own sub-forum but can ban the spammer.

Han solo

Why not give individual moderators both types of power then? At times, I notice that the banned messages remain for quite a long time.

[Suet Seung]

We can delete them once we spot them. This is a fairly large forum with many subforums, not everyone will have time to comb through all forums to make sure all of them are cleaned of spam.

[remember_Cedric]

We need a SPAM detector!

[wkeej]

We can delete them once we spot them. This is a fairly large forum with many subforums, not everyone will have time to comb through all forums to make sure all of them are cleaned of spam.

how's about starting a thread where members report banned messages. In this way, moderators do not need to go around looking for the threads to be deleted?

there are two new threads about file download in tvb series - think this is not allowed.

[Suet Seung]

how's about starting a thread where members report banned messages. In this way, moderators do not need to go around looking for the threads to be deleted?

there are two new threads about file download in tvb series - think this is not allowed.

This is what this thread is for, too.

[pannonian]

I presume all reports go to a centralised forum where moderators can check at a glance. Once one of these bots gets reported, in addition to banning it, a super moderator can also search for posts/threads by the bot, and delete them at a stroke.

[Han Solo]

I presume all reports go to a centralised forum where moderators can check at a glance. Once one of these bots gets reported, in addition to banning it, a super moderator can also search for posts/threads by the bot, and delete them at a stroke.

All reported posts gets emailed to the respective sub-forum moderator, the super-moderator and the admin, AFAIK.

Han Solo

[wkeej]

I am no IT expert. But will this be more efficient? Instead of email, what we can have is a reporting spam icon at the bottom of each message. The reports can be routed to a moderator page. we can have two options here: ban the member and delete the message. All moderators to be given rights for these two options.

[remember_Cedric]

Isn't the *triangle angel* (next to your online/offline stat) a reporting spam icon?

[Han Solo]

Isn't the *triangle angel* (next to your online/offline stat) a reporting spam icon?

That's right. The Triangle with the ! is the report function.

Weekj,

Regarding your proposal, not all reported messages need to be dealt with as they might be legitimate posts.

Han Solo

[wkeej]

sorry. yes, both of you are right. there is already a triangle for reporting.