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Savvy_Sue

BallandChain wrote: »

Sssshhh it was a joke! I was hoping I'd get a response from MSE Ian lol.

You might yet ... do you not think he has the power to PPR you? :rotfl:

Biggles

I'm not sure exactly how useful the Spam button is.

It seems it doesn't 'report' spam, that only seems to happen after the button's been clicked a few (we don't know how many) times. To discourage spammers, they obviously need removing ASAP before anyone's responded to their advert for mobile phones etc.

And you can only 'click' a thread, whereas sometimes spam is in the form of one post in the middle of a thread, the thread as a whole may be fine.

I'll carry on using the 'Report this post' button

BargainGalore

I cant get a rate button or spam, checked what you said below but still doenst work, mine was set already as you mentioned

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

No it's okay for me. Would that not be something to do with your account? If you click on User CP>Edit Options. Then scroll down to date and time options and fix it in there. Assuming that's what the problem is of course!:D

Just for your own reference, My are set at GMT and automatically detect DST settings.

BallandChain

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

You might yet ... do you not think he has the power to PPR you? :rotfl:

Does he know how to do it though?

JDPower

Biggles wrote: »

I'm not sure exactly how useful the Spam button is.

It seems it doesn't 'report' spam, that only seems to happen after the button's been clicked a few (we don't know how many) times. To discourage spammers, they obviously need removing ASAP before anyone's responded to their advert for mobile phones etc.

And you can only 'click' a thread, whereas sometimes spam is in the form of one post in the middle of a thread, the thread as a whole may be fine.

I'll carry on using the 'Report this post' button

My thoughts exactly, seems pretty pointless to me.

Don't know why they can't just have a standard report post button like most forums where you just have to click it and report is sent. Instead you have to, at least in my case (or anyone else who uses a webmail client), open email client, fill in abuse address, fill in subject line, copy link location, paste into email, THEN send. How come every other forum manages a one click report button?

And I wonder how many people click the report button, have nothing happen and just assume it's been reported, whereas in actual fact it hasn't done anything because they don't have an installed email client, just webmail.

staffie1

I'm sure MSE have considered this, but at the end of the day, why so much fuss? Yes I know some people abuse the forums and post spam / offensive stuff, but let's face it, they are in a minority and I'm not aware of it being a major issue here.
If it's too much hassle to use the existing arrangements, then don't bother with it, and don't worry about it.

fermi

staffie1 wrote: »

I'm not aware of it being a major issue here.

Unfortunately it did become a major issue a few months ago.

We were getting many attacks by spammers, sometimes posting 40-50 threads all over the boards at a time. Some of these were spamming some very offensive links and sites.

That is the reason why the ban on new posters posting links was implemented.

Obviously that is a solution that works, but it is not really what anyone would prefer.

So it's pretty clear that the MSE team are seeking alternative solutions. This appears to be part of that.

Numpty_Monkey

fermi wrote: »

Unfortunately it did become a major issue a few months ago.

We were getting many attacks by spammers, sometimes posting 40-50 threads all over the boards at a time. Some of these were spamming some very offensive links and sites.

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and to add to fermi, it was sometimes 10 - 20 times a day:eek:,
and they were very nasty and offensive:mad:

Most of the 40-50 threads were usually started in the early hours,
reported and deleted before most people noticed them,
And to save the Abuse team getting shed loads of reports, some users "chased the spammers"
across the boards, posting messages, that it was spam and it had been reported.
Some mornings(6am) on the forum main board my name was the last post on every board.
Which could an hour :rolleyes:

So anything MSE are doing to help :T


Can I have a Spam button please:cool:

staffie1

So where's the spam button if we're all supposed to be policing the site?

fermi

staffie1 wrote: »

So where's the spam button if we're all supposed to be policing the site?

At the moment I think only the people who are already testing the button on some boards have got it.

As a test, just limited numbers so far I think.