Suggestion: A decentralized approach to fight forum SPAM

[BitCoinDream]

In the last few week we have seen many forum accounts are getting banned and alts are asking for explanation. So I was thinking for some time if a generalized approach can be implemented to fight SPAM.

We already have an ignore button and that is mostly used for trolls. If it is implemented that for N number of ignore received, one will be qualified for a ban judgement of a Mod, then probably the whole SPAM-BAN act may get more rationality and at the same time may offload the effort of the Mods to find out Spammers.

We have already seen, this kind of an approach works good to find SPAM posts. So, maybe this work for finding Spammers too...

[Lauda]

This isn't really beneficial. One could use puppets and ask others to ignore a single person and make the mod look at the account for no reason.
Also some (anonymity) talk nonsense (not trolling), and get ignored by many. I'm pretty sure that mods can track who is spamming and efficiently ban each individual.

I know from experience. 

[BitCoinDream]

This isn't really beneficial. One could use puppets and ask others to ignore a single person and make the mod look at the account for no reason.
Also some (anonymity) talk nonsense (not trolling), and get ignored by many. I'm pretty sure that mods can track who is spamming and efficiently ban each individual.

I know from experience.  

This can easily be avoided by using X activity count to be eligible for ignoring someone that would be elevated to Mods.

I did not understand your second part. Were u banned too ?

[medUSA]

This has been suggested before. Forgot how the discussion when, but it wasn't implemented. I never use the "ignore" button. Spammers do not spam in every single post, once in a while they write good replies too. I use the "report to moderator" button to report excessive spamming.

[BitCoinDream]

This has been suggested before. Forgot how the discussion when, but it wasn't implemented. I never use the "ignore" button. Spammers do not spam in every single post, once in a while they write good replies too. I use the "report to moderator" button to report excessive spamming.

report to moderator is used to report against a post. But here I'm suggesting a way to report against the poster. I have seen sometime people use the Trust signal to identify a Spammer. This is wrong. Because a Spammer is NOT a Scammer. Unnecessarily pointing someone as a scammer may turn him into a real scammer ...which is NOT good for the community.

[Brewins]

People will use that to make false acusations to others. Making only members up to X activity will only make it harder to do, but it still going to happen - there are many people with lots of time, or lots of btc to buy accounts


I think a warning system and a waiting time ban(people get 20 min waiting time for some days before getting banned) would be more effective, and less abuse-prone

[BitCoinDream]

People will use that to make false acusations to others. Making only members up to X activity will only make it harder to do, but it still going to happen - there are many people with lots of time, or lots of btc to buy accounts


I think a warning system and a waiting time ban(people get 20 min waiting time for some days before getting banned) would be more effective, and less abuse-prone

False accusation is not a problem here. That takes place for reporting a post too. But ultimately it goes to the Mods for filtering out. So, anyone cant ban others only by having multiple high activity accounts.

I like this suggestion of including a waiting time rather than direct ban at first.

[Malin Keshar]

Some people put in ignore list people that are in signature campaigns, and only "whitelist" them if they see through quotes they really make constructive posts, so anyone joining signature campaigns, or is not quoted a lot, would be automatically flagged

[DannyElfman]

I never use the ignore button. And even with activity in mind, I doubt you could stop people from using sock puppets to get others banned. There is already a "report" button if someone is spamming.