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MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi all!

We're implementing new measures, which we can't say here for obvious reasons, but hopefully they'll help soon.

We're not a huge team so we focus on getting the work done before posting.

As always, everyone clicking the spam button if you do see them really does help.

Thank you!

fermi

Hope they are not the same 'new measures' that have failed so far.

droopsnoot

Silk wrote: »

We've already got the ability to mark a post as spam, which me and many others have already been doing

Yes, me too. I meant that a user with additional privileges could mark them as spam and have them go immediately, rather than needing 'x' number of normal users to agree before the disappear.


Perhaps a follow-on from that might be that the forum code could rate each user based on what percentage of their messages are marked spam (by anyone, super-user or normal user) and automatically suspend them for review if it's more than a certain level.

droopsnoot

Cornucopia wrote: »

Sorry if this has already been covered, but what's FPA?

First Post Approval

fermi

Not seen any 'measures' make a dent in the amount of spam yet.

Silk

Cornucopia wrote: »

Not quite. The New Posts page would be full of real threads that had been spammed, so the titles would be real, but their presence in New Posts was affected by a spam reply.

It would be the same effect though when you opened up the site you would just be seeing a page of spam replies rather than a page of spam threads.
Which in turn would be if you were following a thread and was getting emails for any new posts you would be getting an increase in mails and wasting your time logging in.

Silk

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi all!

We're implementing new measures, which we can't say here for obvious reasons, but hopefully they'll help soon.

Well that didn't work ....8 posts in 6 minutes for this one just now ....

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Why is there still spam on this board from 6-7 hours ago?
Is there any point hitting the spam button? :think:

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Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

Why is there still spam on this board from 6-7 hours ago?
Is there any point hitting the spam button? :think:

It's going down though there was three and a half pages of it earlier

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Silk wrote: »

It's going down though there was three and a half pages of it earlier

Going back up again ...
8 posts in 8 minutes with this one

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