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« on: July 15, 2011, 07:39:27 AM » |
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I guess the member-moderators got bored with their jobs.
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2011, 01:11:57 PM » |
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I guess the member-moderators got bored with their jobs. Now I have the mental image of spam crawling with maggots and physically moving. Thanks, pry, thanks. At least I can cross lunch off my to-do list! |
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 01:26:45 PM » |
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But just think about all the spam you never saw because it got deleted before you came across it!
From this morning up until now, I have gotten rid of at least 11 spammers and all the posts they'd made. The other day I got 13 before breakfast. And that's just me -- the other member-mods are doing a lot of spam-zapping too.
I don't read every thread, though, so I'm sure I (at least) have missed some. PM me with the link or report it via the "report" link and I'll be sure to get to it, if someone else doesn't get it first.
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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2011, 09:45:27 PM » |
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PM me with the link or report it via the "report" link and I'll be sure to get to it, if someone else doesn't get it first.
Just curious- The report link includes a warning that the reporter's email is revealed when a post is reported. Can m-mods see our email addresses when we report posts? |
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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2011, 11:01:04 PM » |
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PM me with the link or report it via the "report" link and I'll be sure to get to it, if someone else doesn't get it first.
Just curious- The report link includes a warning that the reporter's email is revealed when a post is reported. Can m-mods see our email addresses when we report posts? This post by the mods says no: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,75120.0.html |
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2011, 05:35:48 AM » |
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PM me with the link or report it via the "report" link and I'll be sure to get to it, if someone else doesn't get it first.
Just curious- The report link includes a warning that the reporter's email is revealed when a post is reported. Can m-mods see our email addresses when we report posts? When you report a post (either for spam or for some other reason), that report goes straight to the staff mods. We don't see it, we don't know that the post was reported, etc. Sometimes forumites have PM'ed me if I'm around to say "spam cleanup on aisle 6!" or something like that -- but that's a regular PM and no one's email gets shared. VP |
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2011, 09:37:11 PM » |
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"spam cleanup on aisle 6!"
That would make a great thread title. Hmmm.... |
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« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2011, 11:30:46 PM » |
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Should we start such a thread? I always report spam as I find it, usually in the late evenings or very early mornings, but if that isn't visible to the spam patrol, I'm wasting my time if I understand this correctly.
Would a spam-alert thread where we post the name of the offending thread help the cleanup crew find and nuke these issues? Or would it just make more work as they'd have to check that thread even if someone else already cleaned up the mess?
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2011, 11:38:54 PM » |
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I wouldn't object to a thread, however I think that we pick up most of the spam soon after it arrives most of the time and it might waste forumites' time to post thread titles/links only to find that the spam has already gone. When this thread was made, I think at least four of us were away/without access to the internet.
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2011, 11:42:03 PM » |
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There's usually a member-moderator checking the last 100 posts or so, so it seems to me that it wouldn't make sense to always report spam right away, especially if a M-M is online.
It would probably be helpful though if it looks as though spam has been missed, e.g., older than an hour during the daytime or a couple of hours at night, earlier than the last 100 posts, a poster has changed his profile to a spammy one, or otherwise seems overlooked.
And yes, bioteacher, we don't see spam reports to the Moderators; we tend to encounter an on-thread reply such as "Reported" or "Go away spammer" sooner than the spam (if reading backwards in time), so that can be helpful. Up to you, though, do what you feel comfortable doing
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« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2011, 08:09:02 AM » |
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This is a new one for me -- spam as a personal message. How to I report it to moderators? [below: a copy and paste from my personal messages inbox] fg_tp New member * Posts: 0 View Profile Personal Message (Offline) First Get Then Pay « Sent to: seniorscholar on: Yesterday at 02:29:25 PM » Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageRemove Dear Sir/Madam, We run First Get Then Pay ( FGTP ) service, through which you can purchase articles at least at a 20% discount. Ordering articles is carried out by giving us following items Title : Author(s) : Journal : Volume / Issue : Year : Pages : After we get the information of your inquiries, you will receive an email which consists of articles' files and payment link. You can pay it by PayPal or credit cards. You will pay after receiving articles' files. Some of databases that are covered by FGTP : Science Direct Wiley Springer Taylor & Francis World Scientific Emerald Oxford University Press Cambridge Journals IngentaConnect Note: FGTP covers articles which have electronic version. Please send your orders to this email: f.g.t.p@hotmail.comYours faithfully, FGTP Team |
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« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2011, 08:25:10 AM » |
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But just think about all the spam you never saw because it got deleted before you came across it!
From this morning up until now, I have gotten rid of at least 11 spammers and all the posts they'd made. The other day I got 13 before breakfast.
This is even more impressive given that today, Vox is out of town, barely on the peripheries of the grid, and had to be up to desalinate her own water and field-dress a moose . . . all before she even got to the spam-zapping! |
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« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2011, 09:05:00 AM » |
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But just think about all the spam you never saw because it got deleted before you came across it!
From this morning up until now, I have gotten rid of at least 11 spammers and all the posts they'd made. The other day I got 13 before breakfast.
This is even more impressive given that today, Vox is out of town, barely on the peripheries of the grid, and had to be up to desalinate her own water and field-dress a moose . . . all before she even got to the spam-zapping! Thank you for making me choke on my tea. I missed the keyboard, so all is well. |
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« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2011, 12:24:31 PM » |
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I wouldn't object to a thread, however I think that we pick up most of the spam soon after it arrives most of the time and it might waste forumites' time to post thread titles/links only to find that the spam has already gone. When this thread was made, I think at least four of us were away/without access to the internet.
Well, I guess you all need to coordinate your awayness better. |
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2011, 02:46:55 PM » |
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But just think about all the spam you never saw because it got deleted before you came across it!
From this morning up until now, I have gotten rid of at least 11 spammers and all the posts they'd made. The other day I got 13 before breakfast.
This is even more impressive given that today, Vox is out of town, barely on the peripheries of the grid, and had to be up to desalinate her own water and field-dress a moose . . . all before she even got to the spam-zapping! That's not even the half of it! ;) Seniorscholar, that poster has already been reported, so you don't need to do anything. For future reference, though, you can report a PM the same way that you can report a post. If you want to send a link to the spammer's profile to a member-mod, we will be sure it gets reported (at least one of us probably got the same PM; I know I did and I bet I'm not the only one). VP |
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