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August 2nd, 2005, 02:26 PM

thaminda

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Spam Control for – Report Bad Post

We have created a new hack to control spamming by “Report Bad Post”. New system allows only 2 repots per day for regular user groups. Mod / Admin user groups are not effected from this hack, they will have unlimited Reporting capability as usual.

August 2nd, 2005, 02:33 PM

nofriends

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Thaminda, are you guys getting spammed by reporting bad posts?
How does this happen? if more than one user reports the same post as bad?

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August 2nd, 2005, 09:14 PM

ChiefWigs1982

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We had someone report the same post 15 [yes, fifteen] times over
at DS the other day, just because he was upset that he got rep--
for saying something stupid.

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August 2nd, 2005, 09:21 PM

Jcaputo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChiefWigs1982

We had someone report the same post 15 [yes, fifteen] times over
at DS the other day, just because he was upset that he got rep--
for saying something stupid.

Yup thats exactly why we implemented this protection - but it only exists for regular users not mods/admins.

Reporting 2 posts each 24 hours should be more than enough based on how many we get daily.

August 3rd, 2005, 01:20 AM

Dngrsone

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChiefWigs1982

We had someone report the same post 15 [yes, fifteen] times over
at DS the other day, just because he was upset that he got rep--
for saying something stupid.

What a putz... did he get Warned?

August 3rd, 2005, 01:40 AM

Dragon Rider

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I remember once I was looking where a member who had just registered is (am I a curious girl or what??

) and the first and only thing he did, was to bad report a post and then he got offline..
Now I can see why..

So, it doesn't happen only at devshed, right?

August 3rd, 2005, 05:48 AM

ChiefWigs1982

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

What a putz... did he get Warned?

Yes. He had previously been warned twice for post spamming and
for abusive lingo, so he got the chop.

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