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Again, one report per spammer, please!
Again, one report per spammer, please!
Please!
Please!
Make only one report per spam bot.
10 reports on the same spammer account doubles the removal work involved.
Tanks!
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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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
thanks!
We'd rather have more reports then not enough reports.
So report away ( one each) when noticing multiple spam bots logged in
We'd rather have more reports then not enough reports.
So report away ( one each) when noticing multiple spam bots logged in
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
But 10 reports still equals 10 beans, right? Wait...llivv wrote: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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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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.
Less work for the spambusters.
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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"
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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Depends on your perspective...nadir wrote:...
Reporting. A horrible word.
"I reported the fire to the emergency services"
sound OK?
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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.
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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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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.
Seen that way reporting should get paid. So much headaches.
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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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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.nadir wrote:Reporting. A horrible word.
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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.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.
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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.debil wrote: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.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.
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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: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.
Lot of people have already reached that point.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.
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
Yes.debil wrote:Lot of people have already reached that point.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.
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I am sorry to hear that, allot of work is going into keeping this forum cleaned up. Even with our elivated powers for our boys in green we still need the men in red to make changes to the forum software. On that note though, some suggestions to take to them to help fix the catchapa or other phpbb moduals known to help would be good. Anyone? Is there another forum you know of that is phpBB that is as active as ours that doesn't seem affected by the spam bots? Even on the little forum I ran on my own server I eventually had to indavidually actavate accounts, (very tedious checking everyones validity) as I tried everything I could think of to stop them and nothing was working,debil wrote: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: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.
Lot of people have already reached that point.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.
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Re: Again, one report per spammer, please!
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
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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