Hai mate, i need some advice regarding reporting spammers to moderators

[Rikafip]

xxx number of reports not handled. Does this indicate that my report is very bad or has the moderator not reviewed the report?
I came across some other spammers today and have decided to report them to a moderator. I try to report their profile for review as they never stop doing it just to catch up on weekly target. It seems exhausting for anyone to report it all the time because they never stop. I'll change this this time though I'll still continue to report spammers.

If it's only been a day or two, then maybe mods just didn't have time to deal with your reports. Another thing may cause slight delay is if you report during weekend (at least that was my experience) as mods need some break too. Generally, if you report hasn't been handled in a 4-5 days or so, 99.99% it will stay like that forever, but imho that shouldn't bother you at all.

I try to report their profile for review as they never stop doing it just to catch up on weekly target. It seems exhausting for anyone to report it all the time because they never stop

Yep, all of us that are reporting felt the same, and it's pretty much whack-a-mole game with spammers.

[_BlackStar]

Rikafip, It seems that today the moderators have handled my report fairly quickly and left only 1 digit number unhandled. It looks like there will be a lot of spammers that I will find and immediately report for moderators to handle. Hopefully this can help the forum to reduce the number of spam posts that are present from most of the bounty spammers so far.

[Welsh]

Generally, reports made in sections which are only covered by global moderators will take a little longer, simply because there's less eyes on it, and global moderators are receiving a much larger number of reports than a dedicated moderator, therefore expect a little delay. They should eventually be handled, some may slip through, but generally I would say that most reports are at least reviewed once by staff.

However, there might be a legitimate reason why some reports are left unhandled, and it's not always because it hasn't been reviewed. I've been looking to edit my Reporting Effectively thread about unhandled reports, but haven't got around to it yet.

[The Cryptovator]

I am not sure about others, but for me when I found such users spamming continuously then I write in details on the report. Because it doesn't necessarily report all the posts one by one in case of pure spam. If it doesn't work then I send PM to the moderator directly with the reason why that user's post history should review. I can recall moderators were enough responsive to take action. So most likely you could do the same since you intend to help the forum by reporting spammers.

[_BlackStar]

Generally, reports made in sections which are only covered by global moderators will take a little longer, simply because there's less eyes on it, and global moderators are receiving a much larger number of reports than a dedicated moderator, therefore expect a little delay. They should eventually be handled, some may slip through, but generally I would say that most reports are at least reviewed once by staff.

I don't really care about reports that haven't been handled by moderators because I know they're not robots that can do 7x24 hour reports either. I only report spam posts from every spammer I come across for review ^{[whether to delete/not]} and I can only wait to see if my report stats are good or not. Currently almost 50% of my reports are not handled by moderators, I have plenty of time to wait while increasing the number of spammers I report.

I am not sure about others, but for me when I found such users spamming continuously then I write in details on the report. Because it doesn't necessarily report all the posts one by one in case of pure spam. If it doesn't work then I send PM to the moderator directly with the reason why that user's post history should review. I can recall moderators were enough responsive to take action. So most likely you could do the same since you intend to help the forum by reporting spammers.

When I find a spammer then usually I will report at least 10 of their posts for review and I also don't forget to ask the moderators to review all of that user's post history to at least give them a warning via temporary ban if that user really can't stop spamming the forum. I don't intend to hurt other users on this forum, but someone who only cares about money by carrying signature and spreading spam endlessly should be warned through post deletion and temporary bans. Thanks for your thought.

[Welsh]

Right, I thought you were worried that they were left unhandled. Though, I think TheBeardedBaby answered your question about whether to report all the posts or just one, and hint at it in the report field, and I'll kind of echo their point there; Report user posts only once, or potentially a couple of times, but include in the report field that they're spamming on mass. This usually means the moderator will take a look at their post history.

Though, if there's a user running on mass, and the message in the report field doesn't seem to help, then you can contact a moderator directly. It shouldn't matter what moderator you contact, since they can escalate it if only global moderators can take action.

Honestly, in the Altcoin section you could probably report over a thousand posts a day, and the Altcoin Discussion seems to be the place where signature spammers go to pad their post counts. I do go there, and report some from time to time, though it would be nice to take on a more hands on approach there.

[Stedsm]

I've had been busy with a lot of things lately due to which couldn't do the reporting part, but I feel privileged when I see highly motivated users like you who do the needful. Keep up the great work, and if I get some time, I'll also join you guys in your initiative to make this forum a beautiful place once again.

I believe that local boards should also not be overlooked as there are many who talk nothing of any use but increase their number, so if someone from their (belonged) local boards sees such spammy actions, please report them as well and don't let them go un-handled as well as empty-handed.

[_BlackStar]

Right, I thought you were worried that they were left unhandled. Though, I think TheBeardedBaby answered your question about whether to report all the posts or just one, and hint at it in the report field, and I'll kind of echo their point there; Report user posts only once, or potentially a couple of times, but include in the report field that they're spamming on mass. This usually means the moderator will take a look at their post history.

Though, if there's a user running on mass, and the message in the report field doesn't seem to help, then you can contact a moderator directly. It shouldn't matter what moderator you contact, since they can escalate it if only global moderators can take action.

Honestly, in the Altcoin section you could probably report over a thousand posts a day, and the Altcoin Discussion seems to be the place where signature spammers go to pad their post counts. I do go there, and report some from time to time, though it would be nice to take on a more hands on approach there.

Hi welsh, I will consider your suggestion because I think it looks useful. But I'm sorry that I can't invest most of my time just reporting hundreds of spammers every day because I also want to learn other things that make much more sense to expand my knowledge on this forum. Honestly I'm happy to do it for now and I'm also happy because some of you really appreciate my efforts, it's a fair appreciation for me.

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Thanks.

[_BlackStar]

I don't understand why this report is tagged bad while the mod combines two posts in a row into one post. Is it because there are double reports or is there some other problem?

If in case it's a double report then I think there should be a notification for other users reporting the same post because I think maintaining good report stats is also fun. Tell me something.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I don't understand why this report is tagged bad while

To be honest, I didn't know that two posts from different users could be valued differently.

I also reported these two posts and got a good report.

But I'm sure there have been parallel reports in the past, and almost always they were rated well.

[Lucius]

I don't understand why this report is tagged bad while the mod combines two posts in a row into one post. Is it because there are double reports or is there some other problem?

Moderators are people who make mistakes, so even if the report is visibly handled as good, its status can be wrongly marked as bad. I don't have a lot of bad reports, but at least a third of them are due to the moderator's mistake when they marked the report as bad, when in fact it was handled positively. Reports of the same post from different users will never result in only the first report being marked as good and the others as bad, but they will all be automatically marked equally.

For a specific case, you can also contact the moderator who is a handled post, because in the case of a merged post, you can see who exactly edited that post. I'm not sure if anyone except admin/global mod can change the status of reports, but recently it happened to me that the report was corrected from bad to good without me asking for any intervention.

[_BlackStar]

To be honest, I didn't know that two posts from different users could be valued differently.

I also reported these two posts and got a good report.

But I'm sure there have been parallel reports in the past, and almost always they were rated well.

In this case I assume you reported it faster than me and that caused the moderator to tag my report as bad because they handled your report first ^{[most likely]} and tag it as good. For me this includes double reporting not actually being notified that the post has been reported by another user before me.

For a specific case, you can also contact the moderator who is a handled post, because in the case of a merged post, you can see who exactly edited that post. I'm not sure if anyone except admin/global mod can change the status of reports, but recently it happened to me that the report was corrected from bad to good without me asking for any intervention.

I don't want to make any intervention in whatever they do, but it would be better if they reject the second report or so on if other users have already reported it first. This will keep the report stats good for any concerned user but I honestly don't have more than 9 bad reports so far although it shouldn't be more than 5 reports.