I always report the spammers and such things if i see them and i be online !
I was thinking maybe we should allocate a weeks's time period for this? A schedule , perhaps? And all this would be waste, if the staff's contribution becomes inadequate.
As i mentioned many times, removing signature globally is the fastest solution. All spammer will leave by themselves (along with majority user traffic) and moderator/staff/admin don't need to "snap" them.
Yeah no, that's not gonna happen, at least not until the new forum comes out.
I try to do my bit every day that I am on. 98% accuracy on reporting
Sometimes when I see an unintentional breach of the rules by a generally good posting newbie I send them a polite PM with a link to the rules.
Some entire threads should be deleted. ANN threads that clearly use paid shills or bots to bump their thread posting nonsense or "good project" - the ANN thread should just get deleted.
They will soon get the message.
The most focus should be on these ANN threads that use shills, those who literally use one-line garbage in discussions, plagiarism, posting phishing links etc.
I am in! In fact I am already doing my best behind the scene.
The comments should be useful, and Welsh's reporting guide could be of great help here. These templates can ease things out.
That's interesting looking at the comments you've left when reporting. Here's one of mine "Ref spam; Whack this fool yo". Yeah, quite happy with that one if I may say so myself.
The wackadoodle is on it.
I am also reporting till now... in future, I will also do the same.
Great. Any help is appreciated.
Isn't that what any caring user does already?
Apparently not.
As long as users can't see who's banned already, it leads to unnecessary work for users and Mods. I can easily
find thousands of Newbie spambots using
patrol, and I'd love to extend this to Jr. Members too, but it requires some upgrades to the patrol page. And the accounts still need a manual check before banning them. It's easy to find likely suspects, but securing innocent accounts is much more work.
They can see if users are banned. Either by looking at their profiles to see if the signature they were wearing is removed/ to check the
modlog.
If there's gonna be a Bitcointalk Challenge to get most users banned, I'm in
I still want to hear something from the administration/moderation team about this. Although this isn't a challenge, but just a motivational parody of Avengers: Infinity war , so that bitcointalk users can value this forum for what it truly is. People need to respect the moderation and administration team here.
Or it could be done just with a prank from Theymos like hiding the bounty section for 24hours or a few days with a message "This board has been deactivated". This will really get rid (for real) of some spammers.
Dude this. Best prank ever! I would love it,when shitposters lose their fucking mind.
theymos,reserve this for next April fools day
I've always wanted to ask this and since is a topic about clean-up, I'll do it here
What is nowadays considered a useless post, a low-quality one?
Will the mods delete stuff like: <...>
Yes,they do. They even nuke such newbies.
A low quality post is usually considered like the ones which post in spam megathreads, in the 600th page, saying
BTC to the moon, or literally rephrasing the same text that has already been said before. You'll know its a low topic post, once you read it.
Pure curiosity, do you remember what that was and on what section?
Should be off-topic. That section has a lot of sexual content, ALOT.
So far, what I have in mind is:
- Prepare a schedule, for a week's time, users keep binge reporting.
- Allocate different boards to different users to avoid multi-reporting the same post.
- The current mods aren't enough? I really think theymos should hire voluntary mods,for a few days.
I am looking forward for hearing from the Mods/admins about this whole thing here.
