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Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:58 pm
by Game A Gogo
There should be someone who's qualified to know if a thread is a useless spam and if a user is just a spam machine to block these and to delete spam post. I don't know about you, but this sure does annoy me seeing those thread coming in the forum and dirty it. Couldn't there be someone in charge of removing these annoying messages, since they are more harmfull than anything? Shouldn't be hard finding someone who's often enough here with good judgement. But of course, anyone is free to think this is ridiculous as an idea.

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:19 pm
by akr
No problem. Sky and myself are moderators and can delete. Just point us to the spam and we will delete.

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:45 pm
by Game A Gogo
Sure, there are a bunch in the general topic, just look for topics that speak about random stuff useless to GE. Spam in GE forum is almost daily now.
We need someone who can go on and delete the post by themselves, and can remove spam within 48 hour because beyond that, It's harder to find it I'll agree.
I'd propose myself to do it, but I'm not sure if makslane wants more people or not moderating around.

here is the list of the recent spam:
game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9770
game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9768
game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9763 (We are not here to help about problems on other forums are we?)

thank you anyhow for keeping the forum as clean as you can :)

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:06 am
by skydereign
Yeah... the spamming since new year has increased to 10 or so spam accounts a day... I do exactly what you are talking about, but I've been pretty busy during the day, so I usually don't check until now, but when I do I always delete all of them, as I do look at every post. I've tried to have makslane create filters, since as you say they are quite predictable, but to no avail. It might help if we could ban email types, but only admins can see email.

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:51 pm
by lcl
This is really irritating.
Spammers have started to send posts like:
I love this website, thanks for your work, etc.
And in end of this kind of posts there's always some advertisement links... :?

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:58 pm
by skydereign
Like I've said, they are quite obvious, the only problem is that I'm not around half of the day. We'll see if we can get makslane to appoint Game A Gogo as a mod as well, as he seems to be around when I am not.

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:58 pm
by Game A Gogo
Even if I were just here to remove spam and nothing else related to moderating, I'd be happy to assist to the limitation of my powers!

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:59 am
by skydereign
Well that's mostly what moderating is. Occasionally there are reports of other natures, but 95% of it is dealing with spam accounts.

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:00 am
by lcl
I am glad that you skydereign have been so active
at deleting those spams.

It's very important job for the forum. :D

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:41 pm
by 157pl
yuck spam :x

i wish i could delete it

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:42 pm
by Hblade
I'm back finally, and when I return I had to ban FastestFasteries for Advertisement of Teenage Pornography.

Ah, it feels good to be back and banning those noobs lol :3


HAI EVERYBODY :D:D

You can also contact me if they're busy and I'll be happy to find the post and delete it :3

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:53 pm
by again
Alright Hblade is back!!! Hahaha I hope thats not spam lol.

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:44 pm
by Fojam
yes what happened to the report post button?

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:45 pm
by Game A Gogo
it still exist beside the quote button, except we have to wait for a moderator to come along. Marking those post was annoying -_-

Re: Suggestion against useless spamming...

PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:49 pm
by Fojam
oh sry it wasnt showing up for a second
i pm'ed makslane i dont know if anyone already has.

These forums used to be so low key and peaceful, and we never had issues like spamming before... i miss the old days of GE