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Subscribe [12]#16 / Feb 14, 2014 7:52am
FWIW, I’ve been seeing a few other forums getting flooded with the same kind of spam. So it’s affecting other forum software as well.
I don’t really post or spend too much time on this forum either, but I’d be willing to lend a hand helping out as well if it’s going to keep the community going strong.
#17 / Feb 17, 2014 2:33pm
Why not groupsource the spam detection? Put a “report as spam” button up with the “report” and “ignore” buttons. Then when a level of detection is reached (say 3 or 4 or ??? of us report a post as spam), a post is dropped into moderation.
#18 / Mar 03, 2014 11:14am
My offer still stands if EllisLab are happy for community moderation?
I have been delighted to see what seems like a stronger focus for EE recently, it would be nice if we could rebuild what was once a vibrant community here in the forums - but we need rid of the spam to pave the way.
#19 / Mar 10, 2014 4:46am
Classic - the reply #17 above WinkingFrog is a spammer discussing spam in a thread about stopping the spammers.
Who says Post-Modernism is dead?
#20 / Mar 10, 2014 5:20am
Slightly confused Okapi? Would you kindly explain why you would class me as a spammer?
#21 / Mar 10, 2014 8:22am
Winking Frog is not spamming he is offering his services to help maintain the forums.
Think about it do you have any idea how many spammers I flag on here almost everyday?
#22 / Mar 10, 2014 8:30am
Classic - the reply #17 above WinkingFrog is a spammer discussing spam in a thread about stopping the spammers.
Oops, my bad! I just re-read the message and it’s aimed towards reply #17 which I can see is the post previous to mine, which is indeed a rather obvious spammer! 😊
Sorry Okapi, I completely missed that first time round - please accept my apologies.
#23 / Mar 10, 2014 8:53am
Yeah, I meant #17 - didn’t want to give them the dignity of describing or naming them so I meant the one above WinkingFrog’s….apologies for confusion!
#24 / Mar 10, 2014 11:54am
WinkingFrog I’ll probably still take you up on it, but we’ve been making some adjustments to our spam filters and are testing how well they’re doing before we add to anyone’s workload. Our modifications have increased our successful blocking from 15,000 spam posts a month to 20,000.
#25 / Mar 10, 2014 11:59am
No problem Derek, it’s a genuine offer so feel free.
Good news on the filters so far, it’s never an easy battle!