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Again, one report per spammer, please!

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Again, one report per spammer, please!

#1 Post by llivv »

Please!
Please!
Make only one report per spam bot.
10 reports on the same spammer account doubles the removal work involved.

Tanks!
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#2 Post by shicy »

Sorry, it will not happen again :(
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#3 Post by llivv »

thanks!
We'd rather have more reports then not enough reports.

So report away ( one each) when noticing multiple spam bots logged in :wink:
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#4 Post by traveler »

llivv wrote:Please!
Please!
Make only one report per spam bot.
10 reports on the same spammer account doubles the removal work involved.

Tanks!
But 10 reports still equals 10 beans, right? Wait...
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#5 Post by llivv »

spam spam spam spam spam spam
http://youtu.be/anwy2MPT5RE
spam spam spam spam
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#6 Post by confuseling »

I'll reiterate, if spam reporters find the first post by the spammer and report that, we'll all be reporting the same post.

Less work for the spambusters.
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#7 Post by nadir »

Dunno.
I thought people who report a lot of spam become spamhunters.
spamhunters become moderators in the future.
Seen that way reporting all and everything makes sense to me.
Reporting. A horrible word.


Now translate that for me: "Menschlich - Allzumenschlich"
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#8 Post by confuseling »

nadir wrote:...
Reporting. A horrible word.
Depends on your perspective...

"I reported the fire to the emergency services"

sound OK? :D
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#9 Post by nadir »

lol.
No. No. No. Don't report. Never ever.

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I guess i meant "report" in the meaning of "idle little schemer", but i am not that sure what i mean. At school. The word for them was "Petze" (fink? tattletale? ). Latin too? Persona non grata.
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#10 Post by Soapm »

How do we know if it's been reported?

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#11 Post by nadir »

I think llivv meant to not report several posts by the same spammer (and reported by the same person. If you, Soapm, reported spammer best-porn-ever, then i, nadir, can't figure that out and might report another post of him. Sure. But you shall not report another post by the same spammer).
Seen that way reporting should get paid. So much headaches.
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#12 Post by Absent Minded »

It can be a bit hard for members to know if a report in one thread matches a spammer in another thread found by another user. I can sure relate to the frusteration of closing all those additional reports though. If there is a mass spamming try to reach one of us with the power to remove all posts by a user. It will help eliviate closing all those reports as when all the post are deleted, the reports dissapire as well ;-) I am not sure what time zones everyone else is in, I am GMT/WTC -8 and getting me here before 10am is not always real easy with my schedual these days. I do look in on the forum most every day though and my e-mail is also checked so if I recieve a PM from someone I get here as soon as I can.

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nadir wrote:Reporting. A horrible word.
Yeah. I've never reported spam. Mainly because I'd feel like *bothering* people if I did. For me, it's less of a hassle to just skip the obvious spam messages than start harassing spamhunters (who have but pocket knives to deal with the issue) with futile reports.
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It's easy, but time-consuming, to skip the obvious spam threads, but lately, spam also appears in many non-spam threads, making it a frustrating waste of time to open those threads.
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ComputerBob wrote:It's easy, but time-consuming, to skip the obvious spam threads, but lately, spam also appears in many non-spam threads, making it a frustrating waste of time to open those threads.
True, but many times the last poster is named asdfafa2414 or cheapcialisdotcom. One can draw conclusions and mark the thread read. IF, however, 3v3vv3v3vv3vvvv turned out not to be a spambot, so what? It wouldn't be the first nor the last post I've accidentally (or on purpose) marked read.
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debil wrote:
ComputerBob wrote:It's easy, but time-consuming, to skip the obvious spam threads, but lately, spam also appears in many non-spam threads, making it a frustrating waste of time to open those threads.
True, but many times the last poster is named asdfafa2414 or cheapcialisdotcom. One can draw conclusions and mark the thread read. IF, however, 3v3vv3v3vv3vvvv turned out not to be a spambot, so what? It wouldn't be the first nor the last post I've accidentally (or on purpose) marked read.
The problem isn't that some spam isn't identifiable, or that spam isn't removed -- it's that spam isn't prevented in the first place. Spam is allowed to permeate this entire forum several times each week, making it easier to find spam than real posts. I wonder if/when it will come to the point that it won't even be worth the time and effort to come here any more.
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ComputerBob wrote:The problem isn't that some spam isn't identifiable, or that spam isn't removed -- it's that spam isn't prevented in the first place. Spam is allowed to permeate this entire forum several times each week, making it easier to find spam than real posts.
Indeed, and it's been pointed out several times in more than couple of occasions. However, nothing will be done as long as the admins (AWOL) stay AWOL.
ComputerBob wrote:I wonder if/when it will come to the point that it won't even be worth the time and effort to come here any more.
Lot of people have already reached that point.
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debil wrote:
ComputerBob wrote:I wonder if/when it will come to the point that it won't even be worth the time and effort to come here any more.
Lot of people have already reached that point.
Yes.
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#19 Post by Absent Minded »

debil wrote:
ComputerBob wrote:The problem isn't that some spam isn't identifiable, or that spam isn't removed -- it's that spam isn't prevented in the first place. Spam is allowed to permeate this entire forum several times each week, making it easier to find spam than real posts.
Indeed, and it's been pointed out several times in more than couple of occasions. However, nothing will be done as long as the admins (AWOL) stay AWOL.
ComputerBob wrote:I wonder if/when it will come to the point that it won't even be worth the time and effort to come here any more.
Lot of people have already reached that point.
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#20 Post by llivv »

I'm not sure what others are thinking about, but I know it is very hard for me to keep interested in computing in general.
But this forum has to cater to so many users that are currently
not at all interested in learning oss (old school stuff)
and just want it to work, without them having to do any of the work themselves.

Plus those types tend to look at us here in this forum,
as if we own them our undivided attention.

And we can't even tell them to RTFM anymore, geeeez
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