There should be a keyword report and keyword ban option to reduce spam

[panganib999]

By the time of writing this, there are about 9 topics created by brand new or newbie accounts in Altcoin Discussion promoting a project called "Magic Square".
I'm pretty sure there will be more coming in shortly because they are on a mission to promote this project at any cost, it's serial shilling as we all know it.

The point is, how many topics/threads is one going to report by opening them one by one? Can't there be a way to report keywords to mods or admins that would serve as a suggestion for them to ban a certain keyword to avoid temporary spam such as the one I have mentioned above?


Update: Most of the topics and posts are deleted and users are banned thanks to users who have reported them, especially LoyceV for adding the keyword under the spam category in his website that had helped me find and report a bunch of them.
However, it could still be easier to do this if mods could implement a keyword ban on titles or something similar that could reduce the spam and the need for manually reporting every single thread/topic.

I see this working and not working in favor of the forum.

On one hand we definitely could get rid of the people who spam and push SEO strategies like that in here, cause it's not gonna work unless we interact with them, deeming these tactics useless and forcing these fucking clowns to look for other ways to actually gather their new audiences, perhaps even better and more natural ways if I do say so myself. On the other hand however, people easily overlooking these exploitative parts of the spectrum in favor of their peace of mind may put the whole forum in Jeopardy for the newbie audiences. Cause more people not seeing these kinds of posts would mean less reports about them coming into the Mods' radars, when that happens these posts can stay for longer and might victimize those that aren't really savvy with how the forum works or how the crypto industry operates.

[Alone055]

On one hand we definitely could get rid of the people who spam and push SEO strategies like that in here, cause it's not gonna work unless we interact with them, deeming these tactics useless and forcing these fucking clowns to look for other ways to actually gather their new audiences, perhaps even better and more natural ways if I do say so myself.

The question is; do they stop if they are given no attention? No, they don't, and it's not a single user creating multiple threads but it's a bunch of new accounts being created and then with those accounts, creating new threads throughout the day covering the whole section with their forced advertisements. That's why I thought a restriction or something could help reduce that spam.

On the other hand however, people easily overlooking these exploitative parts of the spectrum in favor of their peace of mind may put the whole forum in Jeopardy for the newbie audiences. Cause more people not seeing these kinds of posts would mean less reports about them coming into the Mods' radars, when that happens these posts can stay for longer and might victimize those that aren't really savvy with how the forum works or how the crypto industry operates.

That could be a part of the problem because as you mentioned, newbies in the industry and the forum don't always have their concepts clear for a lot of things. They can easily become victims of scams in case the projects being promoted are scams which is probably the case because a proper project would have a budget for marketing purposes as well.

[PX-Z]

I remember some malicious software is spammed by multiple users which mods probably have this kind of bot or keyword detection, if i remember correctly, mprep have it.

That's why I thought a restriction or something could help reduce that spam.

The only downside for this is some of the innocent users like replying/quoting or making report post will get affected. But if this can be enabled and disabled like if there are many reports that has the same contents, then it could be enabled to auto-delete once post with such keywords detected.

[Alone055]

The only downside for this is some of the innocent users like replying/quoting or making report post will get affected. But if this can be enabled and disabled like if there are many reports that has the same contents, then it could be enabled to auto-delete once post with such keywords detected.

It wouldn't affect innocent users if restrictions were imposed on users below Jr. member rank for posting new topics with the filtered keyword. It shouldn't affect responses or replies from users in any section or even in that specific section.

[PX-Z]

It wouldn't affect innocent users if restrictions were imposed on users below Jr. member rank for posting new topics with the filtered keyword. It shouldn't affect responses or replies from users in any section or even in that specific section.

Rank restrictions won't stop them as there are hacked and sold accounts too. Well, I can only see and a solution (maybe) in this, just like what i always do when reporting is to report the thread then mention that the user is spamming the other boards too, so suggesting to see it's profile for mass report will do.

[Alone055]

Rank restrictions won't stop them as there are hacked and sold accounts too. Well, I can only see and a solution (maybe) in this, just like what i always do when reporting is to report the thread then mention that the user is spamming the other boards too, so suggesting to see it's profile for mass report will do.

In cases like the one I have found and mentioned here, they don't use hacked or sold accounts because they know this is going to make those accounts useless as they will either be banned or negatively tagged for spamming. They create new accounts and create their promotional threads with them, this is why I suggested that. And reporting profiles don't work because of the same reason, they barely create more than one thread with one account.

The fact that anyone with any email address can create an account and start creating threads in the forum works in their benefit.