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- scarabin0
all we need is one mod who can actually do the job
- paid?monospaced
- oh you mean without force feeding them the spam threads??e-pill
- i havent seen a mod capable yet of preforming such a task.. they need full guidance..e-pill
- inteliboy0
i vote stewdio to take over as dev and whip qbn back into shape.
- Gminor0
Whats wrong with the current system? We report spam to the spam thread it gets deleted with the account pretty quick. The site IS moderated with our help. I suppose the real problem is though stopping spam before it happens, which I think requires a more complicated lengthy strategy, one that QBN aren't prepared for perhaps, they are probably fine with the spam thread system.
- mg330
Gminor,
The problem is that the current system allows it at all. There are bound to be ways to prevent a person from having to moderate anything.
- cannonball19780
However it works, the design should be preventative, not cure-on-sight.
- talking out of my ass completely now.cannonball1978
- No. I feelz yamg33
- Amicus0
We need at least 2 mods in each of 4 different timezones around the world.
Plus a team of uber-elitist assassins whose shit doesn't stink to take out the worst spammers.
- ukit20
We need SQSA (the Stop QBN Spam Act)
- GeorgesII0
MAKE ME MOD!1!!!
PROBLEM SOLVED!- apply here: qbn@qbn.com
tell em to dump their current mod for you.e-pill - nah, joking, becoming mod is like losing the possibility to be an asshole ehhe, don't want that :)GeorgesII
- apply here: qbn@qbn.com
- monospaced0
"How hard is this to implement?"
Not as easy as you thought, huh? Couldn't even come up with a plan, let alone something easy to implement. Yikes.
- Why so combative? Just continuing the discussion. Plus I don't know how easy, hence the question.cannonball1978
- sorry man, it's just that this is now old territory and I'm as frustrated as youmonospaced
- maikel0
^
It should take like maximum 2 hours, yes?Like, I know this friend of mine who put a spam filter in his blog in, like, minutes, y'know...
- super easy, stops the spammers, my 15 yr-old cousin did itmonospaced
- ahaha calm downD4W33D
- 23kon0
There's a load of us who have been on Newstoday/QBN (under different names) since it began.
If they can't trust folk who have been trustworthy, dedicated and loyal members for 10+ years to moderate, who CAN they trust to do so?
While they are at it, some new Editors would be nice!
I doubt i'm the only one that's tired of some of them abusing their position and posting up friends sites,studios and shops to promote them or posting up stuff that is "timelined" by one of us minions who posted it weeks(or months!) previously in the PV.
- LOL, that's a bygone thought dude. Gone are those days. All good things come to an end.panacea
- cannonball19780
Lets face it, this site is just a legacy warehouse for design traffic. It won't get an update.
- monospaced0
explain and elaborate, please
- mg330
How are spammers tapped into the site? I remember talking to Rafal about this when I hung out with him in Ireland. Are people just getting around the captcha and creating accounts on the fly?
If so, if a couple of people could manage accepting/declining new registrations, wouldn't it be pretty easy to spot the genuine requests, and filter out the spammers?
- cannonball19780
Allowing people to post after, say a weeks membership or some sort of participatory vetting would make starting an account a bit more of a time investment.
- you've really thought that one through...monospaced
- Have I? You think so?cannonball1978
- exactlymonospaced
- cannonball19780
Or work it into the +1 system. You get like 5 posts and if someone +1s your post you get to keep your account. Something like that.
- a -1 system would work better, a thread gets -10 points is deleted/hiddendrgs
- that's what a few forums has.akrok
- and what would stop people from just slapping -1s onto threads just to fuck with others?monospaced
- it become flame war centralGminor
- You could give "weight" to the -1s that happen from legit people.cannonball1978
- so, I would be more legit than you, right? why? why not? Who decides? errrr...monospaced
- mg330
It would be interesting to see the balance of genuine new members vs. spammers over the past few months.
- e-wo0
You're so tired you spelled "tired" wrong
- orrinward20
I think a 'Spam Choice' section under Public Choice would be awesome.
- waterhouse0
I'm fairly angry.
The Penn State thread: apparently gone.
Pharmaceutical spam on the front pane: nearly 50%.