Reporting and Moderation
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blackbird71 last edited byWithout going into too much detail lest spammy eyes be watching, I've found that keeping most forms of punctuation to a basic minimum is very important. The longer the post, and the more that certain characters accumulate in it, the greater the likelihood it will be trapped as spam. There are certain characters that are more... uhm, sensitive in this regard.
A couple of URL links seem not to cause trapping problems.
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blackbird71 last edited by admin
Frankly, this is starting to become a nuisance of late. I just attempted to post in the https://forums.opera.com/topic/4766/google-search-problem-with-opera-12-17/24 topic, and got trapped (yet again) for moderation. My post contained one at symbol before a username, an Opera version number, four comma's, two hyphens, two apostrophes, and one exclamation point scattered across five ordinary sentences ending with periods. This is the third or fourth such moderation trapping in the last week or so. Maybe the spam filter has been set too restrictively?
Another problem is that when released, such posts often don't appear in the thread until multiple hours later, by which time their relevancy can appear stale.
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linuxmint7 last edited by
Hi blackbird, Just seen your post and have approved your other post in the other thread.
It doesn't look spammy to me, but then again, as you say, maybe the filters are set a little too restrictive.
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A Former User last edited by
Mine was just helled too. No lengthy - it had the word "Indian" in it though - and a smilie: ;).
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A Former User last edited by
Black, it may be either lengthy posts or certain words. Or both.
Or even style/syntax.Do you perhaps have something Indian in your blood?
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blackbird71 last edited by
Mine was just helled too. No lengthy - it had the word "Indian" in it though - and a smilie: .
The filtering obviously has to involve a ratio/scoring principle. I've had long posts and short posts both immediately accepted as well as blocked. Both types have had lots of punctuation (I use it for emphasis and expression) and little punctuation, and still been both accepted and held for moderation. I've come to believe that very short sentences as in your one held up above are as problematic as very long, punctuation-rich ones. My guess is that the filter is really looking to pass very typical, ordinary English wording style and bounce all else.
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blackbird71 last edited by
Heh. My post just above was held for moderation as well. I slso notice that it carries the time it was released from jail, rather than the 0905 time it was originally posted. It's hard to figure out what might have caused it to be trapped. Maybe @joshl and me are 'chosen ones'.
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A Former User last edited by
...it carries the time it was released from jail, rather than the 0905 time it was originally posted.
Wrong. You didn't post it - you submitted it. So the time of actual posting seems right.
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A Former User last edited by
Got helled once again - in "Weather" it's veeeery frequent.
Who else perhaps got helled there? I've a suspicion the Heller doesn't like weather talking much*:)* -
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A Former User last edited by
If only "C" for "Celsius"?
A degree sign, of course, then a couple of hyphens - aka minuses, depending on the context, a plus this time...
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A Former User last edited by
And "approved" posts don't "show up": only the "new" blamba appears, but I couldn't see my post shown last in that thread from the board (being such) nor upped it the thread by a iota.
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A Former User last edited by
My weather post was just helled again!
I tried my best this time - almost pure text in plain English! No links, no nothing! What the heck!? -
blackbird71 last edited by
And @ryszard's last post at 1325 wasn't held? It was full of numbers, punctuation, abbreviations and degree symbols. It seems there's something a bit odd or unstable about the spam filtering - unless it doesn't trap the Polish language.
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A Former User last edited by
I don't speak Polish, dzenkuye bardzo*:)*
A couple of your latest posts (including the above one) seems not to have shown up on the main page. What's wrong with you?
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blackbird71 last edited by
Maybe it all has something to do with finally getting the gold trophy badge. We'll see what happens with your posts as soon as you get a white one.
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A Former User last edited by
Nah.
My posts usually lift the thread up and are shown on the index page. Yours don't seem to be. Like this last one, too. -
blackbird71 last edited by
Perhaps I'm being shunned... sigh...
Edited to add: although this post elevated to the top of the index...
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