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Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:30:05 GMT

These tv/movie promotions are not needed in this forum

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Uliwooly — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:34:06 GMT

My suggestion will be if someone post more than one thread in 5-20 minutes then put those threads under quarantine and remove them from the main page feed and the forum threads

and if power users report them as abuse, remove them from the main page and threads aswell

just a suggestion

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:46:33 GMT

Not sure if the time limit restriction may help, but something is better then nothing.

The only thing with the time limit, is that if these spammers have a script file that makes a post just outside the time limit, still will end up having multiple posts throughout the day.

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

slimshaddy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:29:21 GMT

in this way we wont be able to help other guys..

i mean time limitation as u said..

well u me apc user keeps on posting if we find any1 we could offer our help :smileygrin: :smileygrin:

so no..

suze replied earlier to click on report abuse button..

but the original message or the first message doesnt have the REPORT abuse button

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Jake-SonyXperia — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:53:54 GMT

Hey guys,

We are trying out best to keep the spammers at bay, reporting the posts as abuse is definately a big helping hand, you can report the orginal post as abuse just look for this on the left handside column, you will see a Report Abuse button .

Any feedback related to this is more then welcome infact I encourage it.

Will keep you posted.

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:05:27 GMT

As slimshaddy has also stated we will do it if we come across anymore of these kind of spam.

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:09:44 GMT

I think what Uliwooly meant with the time limit is if we ourselves post a new discussion thread.

The time limit would not stop us from to replying to others in their discussion thread they started.

Yes these spammers are irritating!!

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:11:54 GMT

Jake, currently there are still spam posts from watchonline04 in this forum.

Are you able to remove them?

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Uliwooly — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:33:52 GMT

yeah that's what I meant, creating new threads

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

slimshaddy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:06:19 GMT

@ apc and uliwwoly..

okz my bad..misunderstood the thing

just 1 question..

we cant repor abuse to the original message posted by the spammer..or even every 1 else's..

theres no option of report abuse for the 1st message of each thread..

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:55:27 GMT

Yes that is right. Only thing at the moment is we monitor if some other spam arrives and report the abuse

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Uliwooly — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:12:53 GMT

yes there is, on the top Right side of the thread you should be able to see

Click on Report abuse

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

slimshaddy — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:19:07 GMT

hmm..dint see that..

i will report the next time

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:25:37 GMT

Yep. I did not notice it also. Will certainly look out for it the next time spam manages to arrive.

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Uliwooly — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:50:44 GMT

One think that its quite annoying is that when you report a thread it reappears on the main page twice, the first time when it was posted and the second time bc it was reported. My suggestion if a thread is reported it should be removed from the main page feed

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:16:32 GMT

Agree. May be harder to implement than it looks as the software running on the servers to support the online forum may need to be recoded to take into the changes that we want

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Jeff — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:31:11 GMT

Hi Everyone,

We've just implemented the following change to moderation:

From now on, clicking the abuse button should immediately hide that post (and place it in our moderation queue to be handled).

If you have any questions, or any more concerns, please post them here.

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:40:41 GMT

Hey that is good news.

Thank you

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

Uliwooly — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:45:06 GMT

Excellent

Re: Question/Message to the Moderators - How can we stop people spamming our forum with TV/Movie promotions?

slimshaddy — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:30:16 GMT

gr8