The latest wave of black magic and astrology spam.
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Is being it's usual PITA. How about a "special page" for protectors. Any user who gets a Protector report of "Spammer" gets shunted there, and all his future posts require moderation. If a second protector decides it was a mistake, he gets removed from the "moderate" list. If a second protector decides it wasn't, he gets deleted. If nothing else, it would slow them down, and might help with our poor tired mouse fingers... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is being it's usual PITA. How about a "special page" for protectors. Any user who gets a Protector report of "Spammer" gets shunted there, and all his future posts require moderation. If a second protector decides it was a mistake, he gets removed from the "moderate" list. If a second protector decides it wasn't, he gets deleted. If nothing else, it would slow them down, and might help with our poor tired mouse fingers... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I'm not a moderator, but have all the sympathy to your mouse... :-D I think that this 'quarantine' should include also the currently posted messages of the reported spammer - so those messages will not mess with the QA question list...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you upvote a suggestion it climbs higher on the to-do (to-check) list of the hamsters...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you upvote a suggestion it climbs higher on the to-do (to-check) list of the hamsters...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you upvote a suggestion it climbs higher on the to-do (to-check) list of the hamsters...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Is being it's usual PITA. How about a "special page" for protectors. Any user who gets a Protector report of "Spammer" gets shunted there, and all his future posts require moderation. If a second protector decides it was a mistake, he gets removed from the "moderate" list. If a second protector decides it wasn't, he gets deleted. If nothing else, it would slow them down, and might help with our poor tired mouse fingers... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is being it's usual PITA. How about a "special page" for protectors. Any user who gets a Protector report of "Spammer" gets shunted there, and all his future posts require moderation. If a second protector decides it was a mistake, he gets removed from the "moderate" list. If a second protector decides it wasn't, he gets deleted. If nothing else, it would slow them down, and might help with our poor tired mouse fingers... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Agree. Voted up! How can I join Protector's club?
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Agree. Voted up! How can I join Protector's club?
It's not a club you join: it's a club you get invited into by the staff as it gives certain powers not allowed to non-protectors. They expanded the numbers pretty recently, so I wouldn't expect any more new ones for a while yet.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
It's not a club you join: it's a club you get invited into by the staff as it gives certain powers not allowed to non-protectors. They expanded the numbers pretty recently, so I wouldn't expect any more new ones for a while yet.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Question for you - it's been suggested by Rohan Leuva that I shouldn't be deleting the spam from Q&A, just reporting it. What do you do?
In QA, I report the author and delete the spam. It's a public place, so the shorter the time it's there (and it can take a while to close it via spam reports alone) the less benefit the spammer gets from it, so the less likely they should be to keep coming back. Besides, when there are a few of 'em working together they can post faster than we can report, and that "hides" everything else from genuine enquirers.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
In QA, I report the author and delete the spam. It's a public place, so the shorter the time it's there (and it can take a while to close it via spam reports alone) the less benefit the spammer gets from it, so the less likely they should be to keep coming back. Besides, when there are a few of 'em working together they can post faster than we can report, and that "hides" everything else from genuine enquirers.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
