night watchperson required

helen21_2

Well maybe when forum team not in action BG' should be given access to other boards, dont really understand why they can only remove off own board anyway. But saying that then they will be getting pm's all evening about spammers, unless we could just have a spammers board where we all report person and all BG's keep their eyes on this board, but they will need the powers to remove off other boards too, just an idea

Poppycat

I agree something needs doing I raised this the other day.

This is good forum and its a shame that a very small minority spoil things I suppose it mimics real life, its still a shame though

Cant udnerstand why my avatar went and replaced witha huge italic I. I chnaged passwords now with a password generator

bridiej

helen21 wrote:

Well maybe when forum team not in action BG' should be given access to other boards, dont really understand why they can only remove off own board anyway. But saying that then they will be getting pm's all evening about spammers, unless we could just have a spammers board where we all report person and all BG's keep their eyes on this board, but they will need the powers to remove off other boards too, just an idea

The way I had envisioned it was that said person could have their own "spam" log in and people could send PMs to that pointing out spam. that way you could have two or three people covering it all able to log into the special log in, which could then provide cover 24/7, plus it would save someone's PM box getting full up.

helen21_2

bridiej wrote:

The way I had envisioned it was that said person could have their own "spam" log in and people could send PMs to that pointing out spam. that way you could have two or three people covering it all able to log into the special log in, which could then provide cover 24/7, plus it would save someone's PM box getting full up.

Yes, brill idea, i think spamming is getting worse and getting nastier when these links can infect peoples computers, so anything that will stop it is good :T

bethom

What about having a couple of spam guides. Sorta like board guides, but have access to the whole forum at night.

Poppycat

That moron who did it last night needs reporting to a higher authority as what they did is falls under malicious misuse of a computer. Knowingly sending viruses is an offence and they did it delibrately as they spammed the forums, and not just a n00b not knowing what they did.

Sorry about spelling mistakes updated firefox today and spelling checker no longer works

elvis_bloggs

Poppycat wrote:

That moron who did it last night needs reporting to a higher authority as what they did is falls under malicious misuse of a computer.

Yeah I agree ... I suggest Bill Gates.

tigermatt

bethom wrote:

What about having a couple of spam guides. Sorta like board guides, but have access to the whole forum at night.

These would be "super moderators" they can moderate all forums - although the name would need to be changed to something else because otherwise abuse reports may go to them - "Spam Guide" is a good idea. They should appear where all the board guides are as well.

Edinburghlass_2

tigermatt wrote:

These would be "super moderators" they can moderate all forums - although the name would need to be changed to something else because otherwise abuse reports may go to them - "Spam Guide" is a good idea. They should appear where all the board guides are as well.

We already have these, as in Forum Manager, Forum Team 1 and Forum Team 2.


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helen21_2

Edinburghlass people are just bouncing ideas due to the bad spate of spammers about and especially last nights episode of the virus, dont think anyone wants peoples comps to get infected. Also whilst i am here just wanted to know if we know it is a spammer do we actually need to be reporting everypost or once i have reported the one, do i need to report all the others or can i just say once on each thread that the username is reported as over the last week i think i have reported about 50 posts but these are from only three people, you know what i mean