OK,
after reporting 1500 posts in less than 24h I was contacted by a Staff member to stop 
Not kidding, this is serious. I started reporting on May 20th, when I had 300 reports and I ended on the evening of May 21st, when I reached 1799 reports. I reported almost all members mentioned in this topic, posts by post, after seeing these:
The
fourthfunction account has posted 288 times in the ~8 weeks it's been in existence.
All 288 posts are links to publish0x articles.
I have reported the account to moderators with this note
This account has posted 288 times. Every post is the same: the briefest of intros, followed by a link to media site publish0x. This is surely the definition of low quality posting and by inference paid-to-post. I request that a ban, in the interest of the forum's posting integrity, be imposed.
I'll check intermittently to see if any action is taken and post here.
Indeed, I tagged the account a few months back for this exact reason.
Checking Modlog, the individual reported post has been deleted. No other action appears to have been taken.
Checking Modlog, the individual reported post has been deleted. No other action appears to have been taken.
This is a practice that applies to all such cases, only posts that are reported are deleted, which leads us to the conclusion that each post should be reported individually, of course if we want all to be deleted. Depending on who is taking the action (not everyone has the same viewpoint), such users are first alerted by a private message, then with temporarily ban.
I see that last posts from fourthfunction is dated to 22 December 2019, which means that he didn't get a strong enough message to stop. This is probably one of those who think:
"You can't delete as much as I can post".I've wondered about this too. I have often reported with a comment along the lines of "Chronic/long term/repeated behavior. Please review post history and trash/delete/ban/nuke" or something similar. The post in question is often trashed, but very rarely does anything happen to the other posts. I wondered if it was due to the report being handled by a non-global mod without the power to delete the posts in other sections or ban the user in question.
If this is the case, does that mean a global mod will never see the report? Is there a system for mods to both handle reports like this but also flag it up for the attention of a global mod? Or is it better to report multiple posts from the user as there is then a higher chance of a global mod seeing one and banning the user?
I've even had to report the same user for plagiarism three or four times in the past, despite every report being marked as good and the post in question trashed, before the user was actually banned. I wonder if this is the same issue - moderators handling the report but being unable to ban the user.
That being said, I reported hundreds of posts (
about 1500) made by Jgilpulg, -Multivitamina-, crabby, CoinCode_sh, CoinTrendy, Bitcoin_chaser, bitintruder, Denial11, market pearl, Xangle, BestBitcoinCasino, cryptocointrade.com, Alex077, mamamu111, star7dust, HB Wallet, cryptozink, fourthfunction, voskobojn and FXO - all these being members mentioned here. All the operation took me about 14h of almost non-stop reporting posts. I did it because as I understood from the above mentioned quotes, nothing is done unless there is a post by post report. However, I saw that a few members mentioned in this topic which were nuked or which have almost all their posts deleted, but these were just a few cases (such as ElizabethA, JohnPerino, stysn or CrisperSoft).
All the others remaining (which represent the biggest part) had their posts deleted just one by one, for each report made.
So while I was in frenzy yesterday, reporting post after post, I received a PM from 3dOOM which, in case you don't know,
works with Cyrus at Cryptios, a company helping the forum with account recoveries. He thanked me for all these reports but also asked me to not make hundreds of reports anymore for a single user which has a same pattern for all his posts. I sent him also all the above quotes, explaining him why I did it.
His reply was this (I'll translate it, as it was written in Romanian): "indeed, there are cases as the ones you mentioned but, if you don't see any actions taken, it doesn't mean that no action was taken. Reporting all posts of an user is not a way for solving the problem, as it overloads the reports section and instead of helping it does more bad than good. As you said yourself, it was difficult for you to report all the posts of a single user; think about the fact that the mods receive the reports from thousands of users and all the actions are manually made".
That being said, I reached the following conclusions / questions:
- what 3dOOM says is sound, but in the end all we can do is
hope that
sometime some mod will take care of the other posts of an user (the ones not reported but having the same pattern as the ones reported). So all we do is based on hope and if we really try hard to eliminate the spam we overload the mods. Of course this leads to the fact that the spammers are free to spam until a mod will take care of him, although this could mean after a long time. Long live the spam!
- I reported so many posts that the mods couldn't keep the pace with my reporting ratio - while this sounds funny, it is also sad
- while
3dOOM is not an official Staff member (as nothing is stated on his profile), the only "somehow-official" rank he has is the one that
he is helping Cyrus for something completely different than analyzing reports (as I explained above, he is involved in Cyrus' company for account recoveries), somehow, for a reason which I'm missing, he has access to the reports. Meaning he also has access to members' emails and who knows to what more. This third conclusion mentioned here should raise serious questions, such as: why does 3dOOM have access to the reports section? What else can he access? If this is legitimate though, why doesn't he appear as a Staff member or as am official of the forum (at this moment he is only a Member with copper membership).
Looking forward for what are the thoughts of all those which previously posted here and which gave a lot of time for reporting posts -actions which now seem to be based on pure hope.
