The level of spam lately
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- Wolfboy0
mother fucking bump.
- prophetone0
let's do this, bless some more ninjas with the power to zap, the hotline thread is useful but can't keep up with the speed of spamming now, it's a little nuts
- qoob0
I think the solution is not to post in these thread but to email directly with your idea.
- prophetone0
i have, several times, over the past few years, and even suggested candidates
- qoob0
How about
- prophetone0
the way i see it, it's going to take a mod to either suggest more help is needed or simply go ahead assign editing power to one of the natives. i'm assuming there's an admin backend where they can open a user profile and make them an editor of some sort. going to the top will produce no end result. i never recieved a response to my emails.
- *saying nothing*
but the situation's even more hopeless than I think any of us realise.detritus
- *saying nothing*
- qoob0
Well obviously there is a mod now since the spam threads disappear sometimes. So why would the situation be hopeless detritus?
- prophetone0
detritus is referring to the myspace acquisition
- uuuuuu0
There always has been a mod... that's what the spam thread is for. It has been rendered ineffective though considering it does nothing before the fact, even the spammers are spamming the spam thread.
- Actually, there used to a be a few mods, a few editors and the site owners. Now there's just about one mod.detritus
- ..and, on the odd occassion, a couple of editors linking to their friends'/agency's sites.detritus
- this is a website, with a backend, how hard is it to assign mod roles to a few users? boggles me.prophetone
- there is and always has been a mod my point exactly so people asking why there isn't a mod stopuuuuuu
- as you said the system in place w/ hotline has been ineffective against the onslaughtprophetone
- it's a simple solution though... more hands makes light workprophetone
- it is ineffective the spam thread system doesn't work so therefore make the mods that exist now start removing them first without spamthreaduuuuuu
- and make more mods to bootprophetone
- ok I agree... I just keep hearing some people talk like nobody is actually currently moduuuuuu
- i can see the modding and feel bad for the poor bugger, hence my willingness to help out is allprophetone
- detritus0
Spammer Report Hotline thread, started on January 5, 2009.
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So the problem, in its current form, is at least that old.Have things gotten better since then.. or worse?
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Such a shame - there are so many people in this community who would gladly involve themselves socially, administratively, technically.. christ, even financially.
But no.
the enterprise has been left to rot, acting merely as a borderline self-sustaining SEO gateway to a couple of profitable entities.
I'd love to be wrong, I really would - I just don't see anything happening here, beyond the occasional red-wine fuelled midnight bluster by JK.
Such a shame.
- sadly i bet this is fairly accurateprophetone
- "occasional red-wine fuelled midnight bluster" we have fallen so faruuuuuu
- Things have gotten worse only because there are less moderators like you saidqoob
- detritus0
Remember when there was 3rd party advertising on here?
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I wonder why that doesn't happen any more?
- prophetone0
i hope the mod or mods don't take these ideas as complaints because they aren't. i feel it's more like we pat him on the back for a valiant effort with the zombie spam and say 'hey, give me the bat, sit down and rest, i'll do some brain smashing now.' rrrraaaaaaaaa!!!!!! (*runs wildly at crowd of zombie spammers)
- Jaline0
The problem isn't the moderating or even having more moderators. There should be a system in place to filter spam.
If many other, more complicated sites can implement it, QBN should be able to. Or catch spam (like an email filtering system). Or IP ban. Maybe the structure is too old to properly use anything like a spam catcher. If so, you could still use the IP ban, get a couple more mods, and then work on updating the site asap.
- while i wholeheartedly agree, i think that's just not going to happen. would be great tho.prophetone
- uuuuuu0
Couldn't they use something like Akismet? That would be automated and preventative. When people talk about the IP ban do you mean the user or the websites? Spammers always hide behind proxy IPs and they have many different websites with different IPs, they post reddit links sometimes, I don't see how this works.
- I guess the real answer is that they could, but won't. If QBN doesn't care then we shouldn't right? Right.uuuuuu
- rupedixon0
I think if the ignore button came back it could be a useful way individuals can moderate their own content.
And what about a Reddit style up vote and downvote system?
- rupedixon0
^ And if the ignore button came back the spammer report hotline would then become a useful resource thread...
- Jacque0
The ignore button would be futile. The spam would still exist on QBN and spammers would still be able to spam. The solution needs to be some sort of backend fix instead of a user-centric cosmetic one.
- ukit20
I think it's unrealistic to expect any new features or functionality being added to the site. Just not gonna happen.
So that leaves:
1) More people acting as moderators
2) Some kind of user-created solution, like a plugin that filters threads based on words in the title