FTR UPGRADING TO VBULLETIN 4 MAY 7TH AT 12:00 ET (FORUM WILL BE DOWN)

[Stacks]

I get multiple reports in the BC occasionally. Really not a big deal with regards to me deleting the spam. But certainly if something can be done so people don't waste time reporting something that has already been reported I'd support that.

[chemist]

Why do we need the big bold letters of the thread title in the first post. We all know what thread it is when we opened it.

Perhaps Because sometimes we open multiple threads in tabs and forget which thread is which.

[jyms]

Perhaps Because sometimes we open multiple threads in tabs and forget which thread is which.

Not sure how, Mine opens to the last post in the thread I haven't read so I rarely see the first post. And the title of the thread is on the tab

[chemist]

Yeah true, Ok I agree with you then.

and it appears at the top of the page, eg:
Poker Forum ›
FTR Announcements and Feedback ›
FTR UPGRADING TO VBULLETIN 4 MAY 7TH AT 12:00 ET (FORUM WILL BE DOWN)

Just get so used to ignoring stuff on web pages that often end up missing a lot of things.

[kiwiMark]

can it be made so that when a post has been reported that the report post icon changes to something else so that it doesn;t get reported lkots of times , and people seeing the post with the normal report post icon can then report it rather than leaving it for others to do.

fair warning: if this is done I'm prolly going to start reporting legitimate posts to level the poster

[eugmac]

yeah, so make it so that dupes are silenced, or like the reporter gets informed that it's already been reported so relax, or something. no changing icons because of trollers like the above.

[Keith]

fair warning: if this is done I'm prolly going to start reporting legitimate posts to level the poster

fairly simple to remedy . if the icon is replaced with text " this post was reported by Kiwimark".then when the mods get to review it . if the report was found to be malicious just amend the text to "this post was maliciously reported by a complete tosser called kiwiMark". Obviously changing the name in the message to the username. Only malisious reporters would therefore be called complete tossers.Maybe also give them the dishonourable tagline "tosser" under their name.

[Pascal]

The reports go out to all the mods of the section and to me - I've not been online much this week but normally between us we can get the spam banned within 30 minutes from what I've seen recently.

The main problem is that so much spam is getting through in the first place; no point the mods spending all their time when they log in having to deal with spam. I'll see if we can get some extra controls and restrictions in place

[jyms]

Would something as simple as a 30 minute cooling off period stop these bots from registering and spamming immediately?

I asked this in the mods forum, would this help?

[Keith]

The reports go out to all the mods of the section and to me - I've not been online much this week but normally between us we can get the spam banned within 30 minutes from what I've seen recently.

The main problem is that so much spam is getting through in the first place; no point the mods spending all their time when they log in having to deal with spam.

so if you're saying that there's no point in the mods spending time deleting the spam whats the point in us reporting it in the first place?

I'll see if we can get some extra controls and restrictions in place

suggestion from two years ago
http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...90#post2070690

[Pascal]

Point I was trying to make was - while obviously I appreciate the reports - I'd rather no spam was posted and therefore the mods didn't have to delete any. Rather than spending time to improve reporting, which is only needed at the moment because so much spam is getting through, I'd rather just no spam got through

Obviously I appreciate everyone who reports it and I try and delete it as soon as I get the email.

Spam has become way more of a problem since the change from VB3 to VB4. The IP address things have been implemented but it looks like our CAPTCHA filters have become way less effective. Replacing them sounds like the best idea. jyms, I don't like the idea of people having to wait 30 minutes, just because I think that'll drive away too much legitimate traffic. A new security question plus I'm not sure if the auto blocking on HTML links is still working properly

[jyms]

jyms, I don't like the idea of people having to wait 30 minutes, just because I think that'll drive away too much legitimate traffic. A new security question plus I'm not sure if the auto blocking on HTML links is still working properly

I don't think so. How much legitimate traffic are we getting compared to spam. Any legitimate first post can wait 30 mins if it means a clean forum without spam. Besides, it may make them take the time to read some stickies and use the search function for answers. We get maybe 1 or two legitimate new posters a week on a great week, compared to how much new spam posts a day?


Wow, I didn't spell legitimate right once, thank god for chrome spell check,

[Galapogos]

You don't want to make users wait 30 minutes before they can participate. Web users are all about everything being instant. 30 mins doesn't sound like a big deal, but you're talking about a medium where large companies spend tons of money just trying to figure out how to get a user through something like a checkout process in 3 clicks instead of 4. A user will sign up, get the 30 min wait period, be doing something else in 5 seconds, and have completely forgotten about FTR in 20 seconds.

Have you guys tried signing up for a service like Mollom? It's a 3rd party service that you can have your form data sent to, they quickly scan through it with their tools, then send back to your site a success/fail/maybe response. I've installed it on a few sites I handle that have spam issues and it has proven very effective for them. I would assume vBulletin would have a plugin to connect to their API.

[supa]

I'm going to start using the term 'complete tosser' in everyday life now. I might even use the term 'kiwimark' in place of it.

[jackvance]

Are there spam filters to catch the abundance of spam that has been happening lately? They seem easily distinguishable. Blocking posts from low postcount people that have russian/etc letters and posts that have a title inside a thread would already get rid of 90%.

You can even do it like reddit does, put them on a blacklist which they aren't aware of. Their posts will only appear to themselves but are invisible to everyone else, so they can't catch on to being blacklisted so easily.

[derekeverett]

I'm not sure if this is the thread to mention this or not.. but I'm not getting my subscription notifications anymore. And the email I do get from FTR is going to an old email addy that I rarely check anymore.

I updated my email address here sometime ago, and triple-checked it, seems like it just didn't take?

[Keith]

Aalossesty1 Aalossesty2 Aalossesty3 Aalossesty4 Aalossesty5 Aalossesty7 Aalossesty8 Aalossesty9 AEmpornsnips5 Afemescext7 AFratheDar1 AhEwUpsedgedew1 AhEwUpsedgedew3 AIntignevaanon5 AMeepsibeliode3 Aneorryize8 Areeddyelale1 Areeddyelale8 authotourist AvakstoodeHese9 IMIXHEKS jclv190 Nababawles nisisearse sospoker

those were in the currently logged in names......took out the regs i recognized. WHy would a random string of letters require a 9 after it etc they all look to be potential spammers.......as for aalossesty1-9 ,,,surely thats taking the piss.

[Pascal]

I imagine they're signing up with the plan to put their site URLs in the website field, not realising it won't show up

[jyms]

This may seem like nothing but it matters to some of us. In the WW forum, when you click on the total posts in a particular thread a window pops up and you can see who posted in the thread and how many times. We used to be able to click on that person and all their posts in the thread would come up and you could read through all the players posts. Now it brings up all their posts in the whole forum, not just that thread. Is this fixable?

[BooG690]

How do I mobile?

[Keith]

someones been in Korea too long

[jyms]

The "new posts" link on the top left no longer seems to work in fiirefox, works still in chrome but has always taken two clicks to update. I get no results at all in FF, it seems to have the same search number everytime