Spam Button

paulsad

Be nice if we could have an instant spam reporting button on the left so we don't have to open the bloody things first! Be even nicer if the button caused the spammers computer to explode and kill them but that may be asking a bit much!

Mandelbrot

Be even nicer if the techies at MSE Towers did their jobs better and stopped stuff like this reaching the boards.

torbrex

Also if people stopped bumping the posts so that I don't open one to find that I have already clicked the button :mad:

Yes thats you Sam

Mandelbrot

I have now decided to stop clicking on the Spam button.
It seems the only measure I can personally take to try and get MSE Towers to take some sensible action.

grumbler

paulsad wrote: »

Be nice if we could have an instant spam reporting button on the left so we don't have to open the bloody things first!

Suggested several times and - typically - ignored by the towers, possibly because "the lot" of us "keep doing" the hard job anyway. Join the strike :

grumbler wrote: »

Several times I suggested to add a small 'Spam' button to all threads in a board view.

Personally, because of the towers unwillingness to do anything, I went on strike long time ago and stopped wasting my time on killing any 'mass' spam.

I suggest "the lot" do the same.

Mandelbrot wrote: »

Be even nicer if the techies at MSE Towers did their jobs better and stopped stuff like this reaching the boards.

I don't think that it's easy to do without affecting genuine members' posting ability.

Mandelbrot

I didn't say it was easy (though I don't think it's that hard either).
Most software specialists I know take a pride in their work, and would readily accept the challenge.

SailorSam

paulsad wrote: »

Be even nicer if the button caused the spammers computer to explode and kill them but that may be asking a bit much!

You're taking your life in your hands there Paul.
They'll get a voodoo doll of you and stick pins in it.

SailorSam

torbrex wrote: »

:mad:

Yes thats you Sam

I was trying to encourage others to press the spam button.

torbrex

SailorSam wrote: »

I was trying to encourage others to press the spam button.

Bar the first one I saw, for every one that you bumped, I didn't click as I was not sure if I had been there before you so a lot of them probably missed out on my button push

Stevie_Palimo

SailorSam wrote: »

I was trying to encourage others to press the spam button.

I would not worry to much Sam as Torbrex seems to like jumping up and down whilst throwing his toys out of his pram about spam post.


Quite simple to just ignore them really and move on to a post that you wish to read/comment against.