Hey Mods, Spampost clean up needed in the OT Department!

They could also make it much easier for us, collectively, to remove these things by soft-deletion.

All they need to do, to achieve that, is simply to reduce the reports flood interval from 60 to 5 or 10 seconds. But so many people have been asking them to do that for so many months, that it seems unlikely, at this stage. Hard to understand (especially when they don't even reply at all, to most suggestions?).

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Exactly.

There's any number of solutions, starting with rejecting any posts with foreign characters.

Next, have the captcha on the "verification page", not the sign up page. No auto link spam tools I'm aware of are set up to deal with this.

Or no www or http allowed in posts until you have at least 25 posts and/or 10 thanks including at least 2 from Warriors with a minimum of 1000 thanks. This eliminates clickable links in posts until the basic criteria is met.

Or have paid for any of the private forums or a WSO/classified ad.

Or if someone pays 98 cents. If you can't afford the 98 cents, contribute until you get 10 thanks with at least two from established Warriors, or you simply can't make posts with clickable links.

While that worked well for WF when it was in place, Allen also had a filter in place that worked remarkably well and it was removed when Freelancer took over with obvious results.

Sure, but that can be modified (and has been, in many forums, including one of which I'm a member).

We were told some weeks ago that it may be reduced to 10 seconds, here.

Since when - silence.

Even if someone has looked into that and decided for some reason that it won't be done, after all, it would still be nice to be told that rather than just feeling - yet again - that we're being completely ignored, perhaps especially since the primary motivation for so many people having raised this issue so repeatedly over such a long period of time is that we're all actually trying to be helpful!

It would just be "common politeness", surely, to let us know one way or the other, after all this time?


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I like the mods just fine. I just figure that they don't need help with the spam threads posted - but do with the stuff inside the threads. It only takes a couple of seconds to click on a post and see that it's spam - it takes a long time to read through a thread to make sure nothing is embedded in a thread.

Kurt seems to have some really good ideas in here about how to solve a lot of spam....and to possibly get some decent material rolling through here again.

1 Thank = 1 Prayer

Because these figures can be way over inflated by Cronyism. As a result , is really fails to serve as any kind of 'baramoter' for others to look at and decide whether this person has added some real, true, genuine value to the WF as a whole.

Maybe I am over stepping here and making some feel very uncomfortable when I say this but I will
say it regardless :
... There are a certain number of people who I see in the OT who have NO business, absolutely NO business having the amount of Thanks that they do in fact have. Now you can say, 'Rob lighten up you shouldn't be analysing Thanks, and people have the right to give Thanks to anyone they want etc..etc..'

That is skirting the issue. Because the people who have these over inflated 'Thanks' can actually go 'upstairs' start Posting and to many uninitiated newbies they see these individuals who they think have really contributed and are somewhat Authoritative when it comes to IM ( because the vote of confidence they see with the Thanks) and it is just actually a false image. Many of these people have not 'rightfully' earned any kind of vote of confidence from peers as it relates to business contribution to WF.

They have gotten hundreds if not thousands of Thanks next to their Username because good ole Billy Bob wanted to slap them on the back for telling us how their Aunt Myrtle slept with alien Midgets for 400 days in a row.

Lets face it 'Thanks' matter.

You all can laugh, shake your head or whatever and say you don't even think about it.
But you do.

And God knows the Newbie surely thinks about it when he see 5,000 Thanks next to your username

I say totally do away with the 'Thanks' when posting in OT. Just like Post count. Totally do away with it. No need to have it. Or set up a separate 'Thanks' next to the Username so the cronies can still get a rush by high fiving their buddies on the back for silly one liners.