Spam Comment

Posted By: blowdart | Jul 10th @ 11:32 PM
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#Jul 13th @ 11:28 AM
rhm
rhm

Here is  a spam comment on an actual video thread. Going to need a way to flag individual posts as spam now.

#Aug 3rd @ 4:20 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

Anything by wohuhuhu.

#Aug 3rd @ 10:25 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

I've been banning and deleting as I can. Duncan as well. I've asked the dev team to start thinking through some sort of anti-spam strategy. Obviously, they're a tad busy coding the revolution.......

 

What do you think? What's an effective anti-spam approach?

C

#Aug 3rd @ 11:11 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

One very effective anti-spam approach is to prohibit links or the string "http://" (which I use in contact forms for different websites), but that would make C9 pretty much useless.

Another approach is automatically suspending accounts of users that are marked as spammers by a minimum number of trusted members. This approach would mean that users can be marked as spammers (not just their posts), that the community can mark people as spammers (strength in numbers + spread over timezones) and that only trusted (manually trusted) members can do this (to avoid abuse).

#Aug 3rd @ 11:14 AM
blowdart
blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Or be selective in who can post links. If an account is < X days old then links don't work and must be cut/pasted. If the account has been around for a bit longer then append them with nofollow.

 

And obviously make me a moderator. So I can delete all of Minh's posts. Just to watch him explode.

#Aug 3rd @ 11:19 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

+1 on making both blowdart and Minh moderator. That should be fun.

#Aug 3rd @ 11:46 AM
blowdart
blowdart
Peek-a-boo

More seriously look at either banning URL shorteners, or allow those with APIs where you can call them and expand the URL to it's true form

#Aug 3rd @ 12:43 PM
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up

The current anti-spam approach is good enough. I can live with the responsibility.

#Aug 7th @ 6:13 AM
stevo_
stevo_
Human after all
#Aug 27th @ 6:10 AM
figuerres
figuerres
???

Charles:  sure seems to me that this was something that we all started asking about way back before the current version of the C9 web site.  just seems like this has been a topic on more than a few occasions and then dies down for a while... then repeat again.

 

just pointing out that it has to be kept as a priority and dealt with.  no more letting it slide back off the radar till "later".

 

I for one would have no issues with using a ban hammer if i had one, i would be willing to back up my use with good reasons for any ban/ thread close etc...

 

I think if we could just mark the post so the post is "hidden" and the same with the account then you or other msft staff could "undo" other folks bans if they were felt to be wrong for any reason.

 

also like the markers that show a msft staff you could allow use of mod rights to post with "Community Moderator" flagged. as a way to let other know that when this person says "hey cool it off" that it has some meaning... not just some random noise.

 

if you had say 20-30 niners whacking spam i bet the spammers would learn that the junk would be gone almost as fast as they could post it.

esp. as we have folks from so many time zones.

#Aug 27th @ 1:35 PM
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up

Haven't you noticed that spam posts get removed a lot faster than they used too for the past month?

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