Yesterday, I missed the massive spam wave that last for minutes or around one hour. That spam wave reminds me that I noted some helpful threads on effectively reports spam.
Two types of spam:(1)
Spam with non-sense posts, but different in contents (part of them plagiarised, or use some templates).
(2)
Spam with complete post contents: like what happened yesterday
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Official AltCoin Signals
Coins rise 200%+ or more
80 huge signals
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How to report those spam posts?(1) You apply those steps that presented in that guide (from forum staff)
They make spam posts, but there is no reason to nuke them if they make spam post in the first or second times. I meant for those cases, you report their posts and the ultimate purpose is to delete their posts only.
There is a guide on this (from a forum staff):
[Guide] Reporting effectivelyYou should spend your time to read that guide thoroughly.
Briefly, there are some ways/ tools to help you to do this:
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Report to moderator button: This button is on the right corner at the bottom of each post.
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Patrol: This page help you to fastly have overview on real-time spam situation in the forum, on all boards.
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Report History Only users who have reported a certain number of reports have access to this page
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Modlog:
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Seclog:
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Plagiarism checkers:
Edubirdie.com;
Grammarly;
Small SEO tools .
- Additional tools (userscripts):
[HACK] One-click mod report, not for the faint of heart, which I suggest you to use for reporting.
[Userscript] Report to moderator on post history[Userscript] Bitcointalk Post Filter[Guide]How to detect rule-breakers.Techniques and tips.(2) For those case. The main purpose to report them is: nuking their accounts. By nuking their accounts, it is obviously that you don't have to report all their spam posts.
For example:
- If a spam farm has 100 accounts, each account already make 10 spam posts (with same contents). All things you have to do is pointing out those 100 accounts, and their post-template. It's enough, and you don't have to report 100 x 10 = 1.000 posts of that farm.
I suggest the
report template:
Account name, profile linkFor example, with that account, you can report like this:
Alinochka_bw_Py,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2602925After that account get nuked, you should edit that report like this. Doing this to announce forum staffs that the reported account already been nuked.
Alinochka_bw_Py,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2602925,
Nuked!Of course you can do this:
Alinochka_bw_Py.
[url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2602925]Alinochka_bw_Py[/url].
Nevertheless, doing this cost time, and I don't think we should spend too much time for spam reports.
Customize your patrol pageI just discovered interesting things on patrol page, so I updated the thread today.
Now, let me presenting what I discovered.
Beside the standard patrol page, that most of us know, at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol (1)There is another 'hidden' patrol page, in which posts made in bounty threads disabled by default, at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;patrol;nobounty (2). I knew about that page by @suchmoon or @Vod, and originally it was disclosed in Russian board.
Generally
- The (1) page is overwhelming spam posts, and there is no reason to find spam posts in bounty threads, with abundant proof of authentication or weekly report posts
- The (2) page is more helpful, but by default, there are still so many posts over many boards
So, what users can do if they want to limit posts in their interest boards, such as Altcoin Discussions?
There is solution, but users have to manually customize their patrol page. Here is a guide, given by @o_e_l_e_o
Patrol isn't really hidden. You can make a link to it appear at the top of each page immediately above the link to your Watchlist by going to Profile - Forum Profile Information - and checking the box titled "Show patrol link".
What
is hidden is that you can customize the patrol link to view other recent posts. Patrol shows the last 200 posts by newbie accounts. If you delete ";patrol" from the link, so you are left with
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent, you will see the last 100 posts by all accounts. You can also customize this by adding ";boards=x,y,z" on to the end, where x, y, z (and so on) are the boards you are interested in. For example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1 will show the last 100 posts in Bitcoin Discussion
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=7,8,57 will show the last 100 posts in Economics, Speculation and Trading Discussion.
You can also chain this together together with patrol, so for example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=1;patrol will show all the posts by newbies on Bitcoin Discussion out of the last several hundred newbies posts. I'm not sure exactly how many recent newbie posts the forum keeps on file to populate this list from, but it's not a huge number (in the region of several hundred) I think, and since the vast majority of newbie posts are spamming the altcoin boards with bounty reports, then usually this will only show you a small handful of posts.
What users have to do (if they want to customize patrol page) are:
- Having a list of interest boards/ sub-boards and their identifying figures of those boards/sub-boards
- Bookmarking the customized patrol page:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=recent;boards=X- Changing the
X-value to their interest boards/ sub-boards at specific timepoints when they want to check spam posts.
Notes:
Users can includes multiple boards/ sub-boards in the customized patrol page
I listed a few boards/ sub-boards and their identifying numbers
- Meta: 24
- Bitcoin Discussion: 1
- Altcoin Discussion: 67
- Trading Discusion: 8
- Gambling Discussion: 228
There are so many things to report, that you can find here:
Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ. Below, I only listed most common things, among which the rule #22 is the one I only learned recently.
1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads. [1][e]
2. No off-topic posts.
13. Bumps, "updates" are limited to once per 24 hours.[2]
21. Old bumps should be deleted. [2]
22. Advertising (this includes mining pools, gambling services, exchanges, shops, etc.) in others threads' is no longer allowed, including, but not limited to, in altcoin announcement threads. [8]
Where to report?The first thread you should think of when you want to repot spam is that one:
[CLUB] The SpamBusters! First anniversary! We made a change thank you 
Please do not forget that at any time from now, you might get your
reporter badgeSeeking reporter badge imagesRecent topics on Yobit spam (you don't need to create new threads)
Spamming service massively. Please nuke!Massive spam bot attack underwaySpam, abuse of multi accounts, account farming
Some other toolsBrowser Addon That Helps You Ignore Spammy CommentsNew options for patrol pages and ignore board preferences (profile page), please (There are helpful things to help your report works easier)
Active users and top posters on Bitcointalk.org in the past 1 hour/ 24 hours/ 7 days (3 time-frame options) (this page is very helpful to check above-newbie spammers.
