Spam filter (by time)
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A Former User last edited by
LISTEN.
You guys are making UNNECESSARY "improvements"!
While THE EASIEST thing that needs to do is IMPLEMENT DEPENDENT filtering!!!
What stops spammers from making two posts in 2 minutes, wait 10 - and make another 2? Right - somebody block them within that 10 minutes? O'k, let that be. FOR THOSE WHO CRACK JUST REGISTERED!!!
WHY IN THE DAMNED REALM OF POOP I SHOULD BE CONSTRAINED IN SUCH A WAY!!!
I was MyOpera user since 2008! for damn's sake!!! Having 100 million trillion posts!!! A blog!!!
Photo albums!!! Never been banned!WHAT!!!
What stops you from making that crooked damn' "spam-blocker" dependent upon some data!!!
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
WHAT!!!
What stops you from making that crooked damn' "spam-blocker" dependent upon some data!!!
What!!?First you should understand that this is not an spam blocker but a flood blocker. The goal of this setting is to avoid people posting those (usually unnecessary) two/three words comments that don't bring anything useful and serves only for increasing post counting.
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A Former User last edited by
And what a setting to avoid massive posting would be?
A moderator!!!
While I'm a member since 1815 - Before Christ Sake, Gosh! And had 1.000 million trillion posts etc. on MyOpera, I - along with many others - can be spared from that frequency abomination!
Well, I'll tell you how I use the forum.
I take a look and reload the "Overview" page time to time. If something's new, I go there, and I reply till something's resolved or like that.
I don't reply just because I have internet and keyboard!
So I come, make my 2, or 5, or 20. Then I don't post.
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A Former User last edited by
First you should understand that this is not an spam blocker but a flood blocker. The goal of this setting is to avoid people posting those (usually unnecessary) two/three words comments that don't bring anything useful and serves only for increasing post counting.
Do you read my comments!!?
I don't say "abolish" - I say "improve"!!! Let me do my 5 in 5 minutes -- and go drink my tea!!! WHAT!!? -
A Former User last edited by
SPEED!!? What do you call "speed"???
Initially, I was talking about the Lounge! You know, my interenet connection loads pages ok!!!
And I f^ck*** don't need to spend HOURS to answer 5 questions in the Lounge!!! Nobody needs!!! Everybody has their own lives! And they have a good connection to get done with "the current chatting" in 5 minutes! When you're able to be done in 5-15 minutes -- who are you to command me to waste my NERVES and LOADS of time - making a friendly discussion a REAL DANGER of getting an ulcer and breaking the keyboard in vain trying to get without F*** words?I'm a very friendly person usually.
You want what??? USING ***ING UNNECESSARY **IT make me get sick AND banned!!?
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A Former User last edited by
And why you want so bad to be able to post more in a certain period of time?
More than WHAT?!?
5 in 5 is TOO MANY??? -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
And why you want so bad to be able to post more in a certain period of time?
More than WHAT?!?
5 in 5 is TOO MANY???Yes, it may be. And could you please behave like a capable adult human being? Acting like a child whose toy had been taken won't help you.
I don't think that things will change in a near future, so you will have to get used to it.
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A Former User last edited by
Andreas, in the Name of Sake! :scared:
Make the filter using our postcount and/or badges/status to vary the blockage: newbies non-monkeys can oblige as it is up to 100, monkeys up to 10; then you SIMPLY can drop that! Or if you BELIEVE you can't - drop it to 60sec&5mins! already. What the Heck!!! -
A Former User last edited by
Maybe you're right. Nobody else complained?
Quite for long I didn't feel it myself now. I bumped into it yesterday only when I felt myself I was unusually nimble.So, what is the proper name for this filter - if it's not aimed at spam exactly?
Though Andreas said: >Unfortunately we have to have pretty strict measures in place to limit the amount of spam on the forums. If we ease the restrictions in the Lounge section, it's a pretty safe bet that the Lounge section would see an increased amount of spam.
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blackbird71 last edited by
The anti-spam timer is set too tightly or too rigidly. It just blocked me for 10 minutes for "posting 2 times within 120 seconds"... but my second post was simply a quick "markdown" typo-repair of my initial post. Then when the timer ran out, the post auto-double-posted my edit as a new post (which I then again edited away the text). (https://forums.opera.com/discussion/comment/15195955#Comment_15195955)
The problem with such a 10-minute delay penalty is that for an edit, with this goofy forum format, if I navigate away from the forum page, it will dump all the edit text when I navigate back via a forward/back button. So either I have to open a new browser window/tab to browse further or cut/paste my edits over to Notepad and then return to the page to post by reversing the cut/paste back to post after the timer runs out... all without overshooting the 30-minute editing timer which is also running. The anti-spam timer ought not to apply when editing.
Edited to add: And it just now did it again, after editing the above-referenced dupli-comment, and then coming here to make this new post, now I get to wait another 10 minutes for the crazy forum system penalty timer before I can do anything else in this browser window or else lose this text. Exasperating beyond words!!! X/
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A Former User last edited by
Black, this last time I bumped into this, I hit "Save draft".
It worked.