[Scummvm-devel] AGI forums

Torbjörn Andersson eriktorbjorn at telia.com
Tue Nov 9 18:05:29 CET 2010


On 2010-11-09 13:29, Max Horn wrote:

> It's far too easy for spammers to register on the board, and
 > difficult to consistently flag&  ban spammers (it can be done, but
 > e.g. Eugene and me apparently did it differently for some time).

We do seem to have a pretty simple registration form. On the other hand, 
to register on the AGS forums, you have to answer 15 multiple-choice 
questions, which was pretty annoying. :-)

> I'd like to see a simple "mark this message as junk" button which
 > mods can use on a message, presto. And which would properly keep
 > the context of the alleged spam message, just in case we need to
 > review the "is spam" decision. And then a feature which allows
 > listing all spam messages, and their authors, quickly finding
 > other messages by the same author (so one can check whether they
 > are spam, too). And then a button for mods or admins to mark a
 > users as "spammer", which would automatically take care of banning
 > the user and would also automatically flag them as "banned due to
 > spamming" (right now we manually move these users into a spammer
 > user group we created just for this).

Sounds like it could be useful. There are also cases when I see messages 
that I suspect are from a spammer, but which don't actually contain any 
spam. (I'm thinking of users like eagle1984, bobina2803 and 
kjwilsons663, and I apologize if I just insulted someone who didn't 
deserve it.) Would it be useful to have some kind of tagging for those 
which still leaves the messages in their original thread?

Torbjörn Andersson




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