Reporting spam/abusive posts - The Firearms Forum

Bobitis · 05-31-2011, 07:32 PM

Can I flag more than once? Does that help or hinder?
Does it take more than one flag to get attention?
Who gets to deep six the intruder?

I'm curious as we've been getting a lot of crap here lately.

Jack does a great job of catching the stuff when most of us are sleeping.

But who gets to push the button?

BETH · 05-31-2011, 07:37 PM

i would like to know the fastest way to notify TFF if something is wrong

jack404 · 05-31-2011, 07:41 PM

bob we do get your first posts , and all others that last spammer got 3-4 of the members to report

its dont help to post more than once , but it dont hinder really

cheers for the tips but eh ! dirty critter spamming our homes , really

Bobitis · 05-31-2011, 07:59 PM

Thanks Jack.
The last few have gone away really fast.

I was just curious as to the chain of command.

Your hours obviously conflict with us here in the US. Seems I read hear that only a few have the 'command code'.

Do you greenies get to block posts until the purples get informed? And then banned?

Either way, it seems to work very well as of late.

jack404 · 05-31-2011, 08:08 PM

well i see spam i hit the report like anyone , then i go through the admin bit and remove the post, that let's the admins know and they can ban the offender if they deem so, we do block posts from them but banning is top level ( above my pay grade )

terry or sam generally then let us know via a post that they are gone ..

onto the next ones .. that last one i got reports from you (Bob) , callmaker and myself .. just so you know

ampaterry · 06-01-2011, 06:48 AM

Speaking just for myself, spam post handling works this way:
Someone flags a post, and that generates an e-mail which comes into my inbox even if I am not logged in to TFF. This e-mail includes the reporters comments, and has a link to the post and to the thread. I go to the post, usually to discover that someone - usually Jack, during my morning time period, has 'soft' deleted the post, which means only moderators and admin's can see it. I 'hard' delete it, which removes it completely, then I go to the posters profile and ban them permanently.
Flagging posts is absolutely the FASTEST way to get rid of them, because it might be hours before a mod or admin happens to find them on their own.
Like Jack said, multiple reports do not cause the spam to go away any quicker, but the do not hurt anything either.
Last night, I had five e-mails reporting ngenerr, for instance, within minutes of his posting. I hard deleted one of his posts, then deleted the thread he started, then banned him - and he was still on-line. This whole thing took MINUTES.
I have a mental image of this spammer making one post, starting a thread with another, and when he tried to make a third discovered he was already banned.

It is the MEMBERS that make this process a success.
FLAG those SPAMS - if you think someone else has already flagged them, flag them anyway - it hurts nothing! TFF is of such a size and activity level that the ONLY way SPAM is short lived here is when members are diligent about reporting it.

THANK YOU to all the members that do this, and THANK YOU to all the mod's that spend time working on it.

jack404 · 06-01-2011, 07:32 AM

yep Thanks to the members who let us know ,

ampaterry · 06-01-2011, 01:13 PM

GREAT JOB on ngenerr, by the way, Jack -
You had the post removed before I could even get there!!

05-31-2011, 07:32 PM	#1
Bobitis Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 6,612	Reporting spam/abusive posts Can I flag more than once? Does that help or hinder? Does it take more than one flag to get attention? Who gets to deep six the intruder? I'm curious as we've been getting a lot of crap here lately. Jack does a great job of catching the stuff when most of us are sleeping. But who gets to push the button? __________________ ^.^ A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all -->

05-31-2011, 07:37 PM	#2
BETH Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: naugatuck,Ct. Contributor Posts: 6,686	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts i would like to know the fastest way to notify TFF if something is wrong

05-31-2011, 07:41 PM	#3
jack404 Former Guest Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Contributor Posts: 17,622	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts bob we do get your first posts , and all others that last spammer got 3-4 of the members to report its dont help to post more than once , but it dont hinder really cheers for the tips but eh ! dirty critter spamming our homes , really

05-31-2011, 07:59 PM	#4
Bobitis Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 6,612	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts Thanks Jack. The last few have gone away really fast. I was just curious as to the chain of command. Your hours obviously conflict with us here in the US. Seems I read hear that only a few have the 'command code'. Do you greenies get to block posts until the purples get informed? And then banned? Either way, it seems to work very well as of late. __________________ ^.^ A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all

05-31-2011, 08:08 PM	#5
jack404 Former Guest Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Contributor Posts: 17,622	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts well i see spam i hit the report like anyone , then i go through the admin bit and remove the post, that let's the admins know and they can ban the offender if they deem so, we do block posts from them but banning is top level ( above my pay grade ) terry or sam generally then let us know via a post that they are gone .. onto the next ones .. that last one i got reports from you (Bob) , callmaker and myself .. just so you know

06-01-2011, 06:48 AM	#6
ampaterry TFF Admin Staff Chaplain Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: West Tennessee Contributor Posts: 6,378	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts Speaking just for myself, spam post handling works this way: Someone flags a post, and that generates an e-mail which comes into my inbox even if I am not logged in to TFF. This e-mail includes the reporters comments, and has a link to the post and to the thread. I go to the post, usually to discover that someone - usually Jack, during my morning time period, has 'soft' deleted the post, which means only moderators and admin's can see it. I 'hard' delete it, which removes it completely, then I go to the posters profile and ban them permanently. Flagging posts is absolutely the FASTEST way to get rid of them, because it might be hours before a mod or admin happens to find them on their own. Like Jack said, multiple reports do not cause the spam to go away any quicker, but the do not hurt anything either. Last night, I had five e-mails reporting ngenerr, for instance, within minutes of his posting. I hard deleted one of his posts, then deleted the thread he started, then banned him - and he was still on-line. This whole thing took MINUTES. I have a mental image of this spammer making one post, starting a thread with another, and when he tried to make a third discovered he was already banned. It is the MEMBERS that make this process a success. FLAG those SPAMS - if you think someone else has already flagged them, flag them anyway - it hurts nothing! TFF is of such a size and activity level that the ONLY way SPAM is short lived here is when members are diligent about reporting it. THANK YOU to all the members that do this, and THANK YOU to all the mod's that spend time working on it. __________________ Reason given by one of Obama's more intellectual supporters when asked why she voted for him: *"He gave me a PHONE!!"*

06-01-2011, 07:32 AM	#7
jack404 Former Guest Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Contributor Posts: 17,622	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts yep Thanks to the members who let us know ,

06-01-2011, 01:13 PM	#8
ampaterry TFF Admin Staff Chaplain Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: West Tennessee Contributor Posts: 6,378	Re: Reporting spam/abusive posts GREAT JOB on ngenerr, by the way, Jack - You had the post removed before I could even get there!! __________________ Reason given by one of Obama's more intellectual supporters when asked why she voted for him: *"He gave me a PHONE!!"*