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In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:

Silver lining: (most) forum regulars have now learned how to report posts

Yes, this requires a 15 years learning "curve"

So, you’re 3 years late?

A report button, BrickLink?

That'd be soooo complicated to develop, I must admit - please don't touch
anything.

It’s even more complicated to report problems on the Gallery (which is supposedly
not spaghetti code).

Author:

1001bricks

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May 19, 2023 11:11

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Re: Ridiculous amounts of spam on forum

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Silver lining: (most) forum regulars have now learned how to report posts

Yes, this requires a 15 years learning "curve"

A report button, BrickLink?

That'd be soooo complicated to develop, I must admit - please don't touch
anything.

Author:

1001bricks

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May 19, 2023 11:08

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Re: Ridiculous amounts of spam on forum

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Some suggestions:

1. Ban Nubs_Select, 1001bricks, and SylvainLS from the forum. That alone will
reduce spam by 17.4%

Agreed about one of the Sylvains...

But you forgot BrickOfFaith, wildchicken13 and UTLF; they post less but it's
then far more spammy IMHO

Thanks for the laugh, pal!

Author:

legoman77

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May 19, 2023 10:56

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In Off Topic, BricksOfFaith writes:

Anybody know why there has been so many spam messages/scams on the forum the
past few months? It’s getting kinda irritating….

I like spam. That is how I found my three girlfriends. I have not met them
yet, but they keep asking for plane tickets to get to El Paso. I send the tickets
and no one shows up and they all said it was the airlines fault. So I am ready
to send them cash so they can buy their tickets.
John P

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SylvainLS

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May 19, 2023 10:36

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In Off Topic, Stellar writes:

[…]

This depends on your default settings: with ‘Compact’ or ‘Brief’, the spam
is easy to ignore, with ‘All’ or ‘Full’ you’ll see them… but then I’m not sure
there’s people reading the forum like that

I do, but probably not many more...

Well, it takes everything to make a world

(Besides, what’s the default setting?)

Author:

Stellar

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May 19, 2023 10:24

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In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:

In Off Topic, WhiteHorseMatt writes:

[…]

Silver lining: (most) forum regulars have now learned how to report posts

It would be easier if there were a report post option along with View/Cancel/Reply
on the forum rather than having to go through the problem centre and dig out
the message number.

Yes.

It's easier to just ignore the spam and move on rather than report the user.

I do, but probably not many more...

Author:

SylvainLS

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May 19, 2023 08:20

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Re: Ridiculous amounts of spam on forum

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In Off Topic, WhiteHorseMatt writes:

[…]

Silver lining: (most) forum regulars have now learned how to report posts

It would be easier if there were a report post option along with View/Cancel/Reply
on the forum rather than having to go through the problem centre and dig out
the message number.

Yes.

It's easier to just ignore the spam and move on rather than report the user.

Author:

peregrinator

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May 19, 2023 07:01

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Re: Ridiculous amounts of spam on forum

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In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:

In Off Topic, Ziegelmeister writes:

Rationalize it all you want.

Just.

Fix.

It.

FYI, discussions moderators are members, like you.
If if there were a technical solution (which there isn’t), neither Roo nor I
nor the others mods can change the forum’s code.

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that while the spam is annoying,
it's not something that I think is a critical issue. I see 1-2 spam messages
per day, they're obvious spam, I can just scroll on by. Compared to the amount
of spam I see in my emails every day, this is nothing.

Author:

WhiteHorseMatt

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May 19, 2023 06:50

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In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:

In Off Topic, Chickaroo writes:

[…]
Most other forums I’ve ever been a member of suffer from similar problems

+1

Hmm, there used to be a “Why your antispam idea won’t work” checklist for e-mail.
We need one for forums

So, to answer a few suggestions:

— Preventing newbies from asking questions on the forum is not very welcoming,
is it?
— Limiting newbies’ number of posts: most spammers only post once per account
anyway.
— The two previous ideas are worse when “newbie” is defined by feedback instead
of time.
— Captcha: most spammers here are human.
— Location filtering: nope, won’t do.
— Keyword filtering: I want to be able to talk about gummy bears and the new
Ford Escort set!

Silver lining: (most) forum regulars have now learned how to report posts

It would be easier if there were a report post option along with View/Cancel/Reply
on the forum rather than having to go through the problem centre and dig out
the message number.

It's easier to just ignore the spam and move on rather than report the user.

Author:

SylvainLS

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May 19, 2023 05:14

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