Reporting and Moderation

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Have anybody noticed babas come here in waves?
What are they? Do they work in shifts maybe?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Have anybody noticed babas come here in waves?
What are they? Do they work in shifts maybe?

They are probably "zumbi" bots.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Don't you get the report notifications still?
http://forums.opera.com/discussion/1856055/get-younger-and-healthy-skin

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Don't you get the report notifications still?

Don't know about the others but i receive lots of notifications about spam posts daily and, to be honest, most of them are kinda useless for me.

This is because i probably won't come here to deal with spam posts just after have received the notifications or because of them, unless, maybe, if i'm already on the computer/web doing nothing else important. 99,9% o fthe time i deal with spammers when i come to the foruns to read them.

Also, those obvious and evident spam threads will be seen and removed by a mod sooner or later. The clever ones are those that may look like as a normal thread or comment, reporting them would be more useful imho.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Those two posted before this didn't look too clever. I'll look at any new threads with a nonsense or off-topic title. But don't bother with the babas or the new Chinese spammer - those are obvious.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

O'k.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by admin

Leo, do you have your notifications enabled?
We're still having something here...:faint:

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@sidneyneto:
There was a normal suggestion made by myself - I don't know where exactly. About an automaton and a "shadow board" for moderators. I could add to that suggestion, that the [presumed] automaton could hide new&unanswered topics - if they get, say, ten reports by users.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

#Post held for moderation
Your post has been flagged for moderation, and will appear once it's been approved.

If your post violates our terms of service or forum rules it may be rejected without further notice.

It's something new!

Well, if ANY postreply from monkeys with the "money bags" will be suspended only because of an ![](image) in it, we're gonna have problems*;)*
Or was it the smilie (":)")? :lol:

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Hey, it held one of mine too. Admittedly it had spam words in it, but that was the topic. But at least I get to approve my own posts ... <_<

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Strange, why are there smilies on the palette that don't work. That <_< was supposed to be :left:

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Here we come again:

Post held for moderation

Guess it was spaaam - I had even TWO [](link)s in my post! Definitely it was spam (the links were to other threads in that same section both).

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hey, it held one of mine too. Admittedly it had spam words in it, but that was the topic. But at least I get to approve my own posts ...

Steve, was it an antibaba filter implemented?
If so, I hope its tuning won't take ages <!-- and kilometres of our nerves -->.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

How many of those have you seen today? Seen a supplement spammer get through though ...

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

That's another question. Still needs tuning anyway.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

Re: the filtering, kudos to the forum folks for at least trying! And thank you...!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Here we go again:

Your post has been flagged for moderation, and will appear once it's been approved.

It was just a single ![](gif) in.

Are we not "allowed" to post images? I hope you tune that up soon...

[digmed]

digmed last edited by

Here we go again:

Your post has been flagged for moderation, and will appear once it's been approved.

It was just a single in.
Are we not "allowed" to post images? I hope you tune that up soon...

I can't reveal exactly what triggers it, but in this case your post was flagged as spam due to a word you used. Please be patient with this filter, and keep in mind that the forum is currently almost free from spam. An occasional post/comment wrongly marked as spam is the price we pay for that.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

O'k, still Andreas, you're going to tune it up, aren't you?

I'll see about that word and be guessing. What I can - actually repeat - now is your machine needs a couple of more parameters to consider. Wanna know?:sherlock:

1. Some data about THE POSTER: like if s/he's a monkey or not - which can go with other badges (or rather data behind them) as well.
2. If it's being posted in the lounge: we can 'endure' a bit more frivolousness there*;)*

Don't rush it, of course. All I can say in case you have something concerning about it, is we always have the moderators and the report button - to deal with, well, certain marginal occurences*;)*
:cheers:

[digmed]

digmed last edited by

Some data about THE POSTER: like if s/he's a monkey or not - which can go with other badges(or rather data behind them) as well.

We will be whitelisting admins, moderators, and possibly server monkeys as well. We could also look at amount of posts, eg whitelist someone with 500+ posts. No promises though.

If it's being posted in the lounge: we can 'endure' a bit more frivolousness there

We will have the same spam filter in the lounge as elsewhere in the forum.