QBN + Google = Spam
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- detritus
So, obviously, QBN has hit the spammers' radar big time. They're worming through threads seen and unseen, pasting bits of code to subvert and redirect browsers.
Perhaps it's time to put code in to hide QBN from Google for a wee while, 'til things cool down a bit...
...or deputise people, giving them enough low level access to immediately delete threats.
Your call - this shit's only going to get worse, eh?
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- brandelec0
i agree. give some of us a badge so we do it ourselves. report hotline is too slow.
- blaw0
You power-hungry bastards.
- shitehawke0
Regulators... Mount Up!
- they can't see us, we're in the spirit world.bulletfactory
- hey dog. (horse) DOG! Did you see the size of that chicken?!?!ayport
- brandelec0
but you can't beat any geek off the street
- erikjonsson0
i dont think the spammers measure up to our own fucking crowd tbh :D Much worse things comes from within
- dropdown0
I figured it was 7point34 slowing the site down with all his shenanigan spamming.
- FredMcWoozy0
Did someone call?
- skt0
as soon as you start giving members the power to delete posts inevitably they will start abusing those powers... using them for their own agendas, removing things they don't personally agree with.
oh wait...
- boobs0
I can't be trusted with that sort of power.
- detritus0
Could deploy some kind of 'Buddy System', where an item can only be deleted if two deputies give the nod.. or, perhaps better and more sensibly, a deputy can only delete a thread that's already been reported as spam by at least 3 other discrete members.
There'd have to be some kind of checkbox addition to each post, and the system could still be open to abuse - but evidence of such would be clearly and quickly obvious.
Aside from anything - this place always feels a little healthier when there's clearly some kind of moderation going on.
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ps. I'm just going to add random posts to this thread to keep it bumped 'til it's either noticed or deleted (with me shortly thereafter alongside, no doubt).
- 7point340
fucking ahoy!
- dMullins0
Voting system. Vote up, vote down. Too much vote down = disappear.
- detritus0
Aye, but actual users need to be deleted and entire threads either edited (to remove spam addresses) or removed entirely - otherwise they still stay visible to Google, and therefore of value to lonely Eastern Europeans and Chinese.
- As in the sweep up last night - user pages are still visible, and therefore still Googlable.detritus
- previous0
in my opinion this site should be hidden from google always
- eieio0
QBN does get mad google rankage
- trooperbill0
thats because its massively active
- Ravdyk0
Spam button if a user get's a lot of spam notifications QBN automatically get's an email. QBN checks out the account and voila.
- Corvo20
I think they should do it themselves. And also remove the hotline thread.