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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      ...a report board. Not personal - shared for every moderator.
      It's easy: like shadow forums where only flagged posts are visible; even with the "reason" on a hover.

      Additionally, moderators would see online stati of other mods - and their latest location on site -- to prevent ineffective elbowing - thus make the whole procedure swifter (for both users and mods): a mod came and sees another mod is in the subforum "Blablabla" - then he (she) goes to another subforum where spam has been also reported. :sherlock:

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      • sgunhouse
        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Okay, there now.

        Currently Josh, I'm not "in" a subforum. I pull up all the recent posts and look for suspicious titles or usernames.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          I say what?
          There are posts that may hang here for days. I saw one or two.
          I can see them - I'm a linguist by nature, I enter them and report them - nobody sees it, right?

          Andreas, another scenario: moderators see the same board as others - but flagged with red numbered icons - reports on each board; entering them, mods can see same threads - but reported ones are red or like that. Additionally, they can have a sorting tool - like "show reported first" - to easier see everything at once.
          Also, I could suggest autoflagging - providing there's a filtering automaton on site.

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          • sgunhouse
            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            Obviously it is harder for me to spot spam in Russian, Polish, etc. ... but that doesn't make me in a subforum. Though something that is obviously spam I'll remove even in I can't read all the words - I did get lots of practice in the old Community.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              I wasn't talking about knowing languages. However it can be a case, too - for our users in general.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Still nobody gets my reports, huh?

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  Still nobody gets my reports, huh?

                  Well, i don't. In fact, I'm not getting any email notifications.

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                  • blackbird71
                    blackbird71 last edited by

                    So... a question exists: is there any point to users flagging spam as "spam", using the forum reporting tool? And if not, why does the reporting feature exist? Those of us who have faithfully taken time to report spam after spam would really like to know... 😕

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      So... a question exists: is there any point to users flagging spam as "spam", using the forum reporting tool? And if not, why does the reporting feature exist? Those of us who have faithfully taken time to report spam after spam would really like to know...

                      We, mods, should be receiving e-mail/pop-ups alerts when a post is flagged but it seems that there is a bug.

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                      • linuxmint7
                        linuxmint7 last edited by

                        I've never ever received any form of notification (either email or otherwise) for reports of spam. But then again, I would only ever deal with spam when at home or using a desktop computer, Never when mobile or at work (which happens to be a 'non-connected' role), and I don't get paid at work for surfing on my mobile phone.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          <abbr title="Andreas">Somebody</abbr> needs beating up.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Is there any way I can sign up for mod?

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                            • burnout426
                              burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                              Is there any way I can sign up for mod?

                              I'd like to also just so I can get rid of spam when I see it instead of waiting.

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                              • blackbird71
                                blackbird71 last edited by

                                Somebody needs beating up.

                                For the spam-report bug continuing, or for the spam itself? Or both...? :devil:

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  Did you hover? :rolleyes:

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                                  • blackbird71
                                    blackbird71 last edited by

                                    Did you hover?

                                    Usually, I only hover if I've ingested too much pain medication after some medical procedure. However, if you mean hover over the text, I usually don't do that unless the text's been highlighted. Having hovered over the text, I do finally recognize what you meant... so you've answered my questions. Thank you. :cheers:

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                                    • christoph142
                                      christoph142 last edited by

                                      I believe I've fixed the setting now, so it's available to moderators.

                                      Setting is there, yes, but I never got "flagged"-notifications on site so far (haven't tried email notifications)

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        I wonder if the black megic specialists can really help with Flash problems, malware protection and overall customisability.🙂

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                                        • blackbird71
                                          blackbird71 last edited by

                                          I wonder if the black megic specialists can really help with Flash problems, malware protection and overall customisability.

                                          Call 'em and find out. There's a phone number posted in the Windows forum at least once every day... in fact, it's there right now! 😉

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                                          • sgunhouse
                                            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                            Of course international rates to India would apply... Though I think their definition of "black" magic must be different from ours here. A couple of them do list websites.

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