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Re: Spamtastic

Postby Darran@Retro Gamer on Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:39 am

This is hopefully being set up for monday. People will have the ability to delete spam but won't have full mod powers.
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby TMR on Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:02 pm

Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:This is hopefully being set up for monday. People will have the ability to delete spam but won't have full mod powers.


So all the fun of stamping on spam without the trauma of being in the middle of every fight? i'm sometimes about at odd hours and report most of the spam i see anyway, as long as i'm not expected to be on call 24/7 or anything is it too late to sign up...? =-)
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby ToxieDogg on Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:39 pm

I'm around often enough, I'll offer myself up for spam killing duty. :)
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby markopoloman on Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:41 am

Am I reading it right that we will ALL have the ability to delete spam threads? :?
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby ToxieDogg on Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:24 am

markopoloman wrote:Am I reading it right that we will ALL have the ability to delete spam threads? :?


Nah, I'm pretty sure it's just whover gets appointed to do it.

You can imagine the trouble there'd have if EVERYONE had the power to treat any new thread they didn't like the look of as a spam thread. Mind you, it would help clear a lot of the pro-C64 threads out :lol: :lol: :wink: .
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby resident paul on Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:56 am

ToxieDogg wrote:
markopoloman wrote:Am I reading it right that we will ALL have the ability to delete spam threads? :?


Nah, I'm pretty sure it's just whover gets appointed to do it.

You can imagine the trouble there'd have if EVERYONE had the power to treat any new thread they didn't like the look of as a spam thread. Mind you, it would help clear a lot of the pro-C64 threads out :lol: :lol: :wink: .


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Re: Spamtastic

Postby markopoloman on Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:28 am

Judging by the amount today - we need a killer soon!
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby Liamh1982 on Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:34 am

Spammer replying to spammer again! :lol:
http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33967

Reported, of course.

P.S. I'd also be up for a bit of spam killing!
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby MattyC64c on Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:04 am

Me too, I'll kill a bit of spam for ya.
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby jdanddiet on Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:16 am

Don't forget guys, with great power comes great responsibility.
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby Darran@Retro Gamer on Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:41 am

The first roll out of spam killers should happen today. We'll monitor how things go and give more people permission (or revoke existing permission) as things progress.
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby joefish on Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:22 am

How about an algorithm on the back-end database? If every post by a new user gets flagged as spam, they automatically get hidden / suspended until a moderator can investigate.
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby markopoloman on Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:37 am

Spam...... Killed. :mrgreen:
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby Darran@Retro Gamer on Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:15 pm

Right then. There should now be some spam killers in place. To stop these things from popping up continually, please let me know the names of people via pm so that I can stop the IP.

Cheers guys. Now we just need to work on the forum's etiquette…
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Re: Spamtastic

Postby Megamixer on Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:25 pm

resident paul wrote:
ToxieDogg wrote:
markopoloman wrote:Am I reading it right that we will ALL have the ability to delete spam threads? :?


Nah, I'm pretty sure it's just whover gets appointed to do it.

You can imagine the trouble there'd have if EVERYONE had the power to treat any new thread they didn't like the look of as a spam thread. Mind you, it would help clear a lot of the pro-C64 threads out :lol: :lol: :wink: .


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