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[Admin] Regarding Marking Posts as Spam

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jknevitt jknevitt's picture
[Admin] Regarding Marking Posts as Spam
If you disagree with a post or poster, please do not mark it as spam. This has been occurring more and more lately, and it's not cool. Please do not do this under pain of stack death. Please do continue to mark legitimate spam posts as spam, and I'll squish them ASAP. In event of an accidental report: If you click on "Report Spam" the link will change to "Spam Reported". If you click on that link, it will cancel the report and change the link back to "Report Spam". Please use this feature if you report a post incorrectly.

James Knevitt * jknevitt@gmail.com
eclipsephase.com Forum Moderator

Decivre Decivre's picture
Re: [Admin] Regarding Marking Posts as Spam
jknevitt wrote:
If you disagree with a post or poster, please do not mark it as spam. This has been occurring more and more lately, and it's not cool. Please do not do this under pain of stack death. Please do continue to mark legitimate spam posts as spam, and I'll squish them ASAP.
Question: if you accidentally click on the spam button (which I must say is a skosh bit too close to the reply button when you're on your phone), does clicking it again cancel your request? It seems to, but I'm not sure. I admit, many times that is what happens to me.
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CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture
Re: [Admin] Regarding Marking Posts as Spam
Decivre wrote:
jknevitt wrote:
If you disagree with a post or poster, please do not mark it as spam. This has been occurring more and more lately, and it's not cool. Please do not do this under pain of stack death. Please do continue to mark legitimate spam posts as spam, and I'll squish them ASAP.
Question: if you accidentally click on the spam button (which I must say is a skosh bit too close to the reply button when you're on your phone), does clicking it again cancel your request? It seems to, but I'm not sure. I admit, many times that is what happens to me.
The same has happened to me once or twice. Any chance on prodding sysop into adding a confirm button on the spam button?
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jknevitt jknevitt's picture
Re: [Admin] Regarding Marking Posts as Spam
EDIT: see OP.
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nezumi.hebereke nezumi.hebereke's picture
Re: [Admin] Regarding Marking Posts as Spam
jknevitt wrote:
If you disagree with a post or poster, please do not mark it as spam. This has been occurring more and more lately, and it's not cool. ... yadda yadda
Sorry, I really like you as a person, but ... [marks as spam] By virtue of spam-canning this message, I assume I can return to spam-canning everyone else I disagree with (since I don't respond to spam).
Libertad Libertad's picture
I don't see a "report spam"
I don't see a "report spam" button in the posts. There's a spam post in the Reputation and Trolls thread; it's post #7. http://eclipsephase.com/reputation-and-trolls Should I point the post out and say "this is spam. please delete?" Is that how it's supposed to be done?
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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
The most annoying thing is
The most annoying thing is that there *was* a "report spam" button once upon a time (hence the origin of this thread). Then the site got updated and it disappeared. In fact, that update felt generally as a downgrade in both function and aesthetics.
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jknevitt jknevitt's picture
Do you see a Delete button at
Do you see a Delete button at all?
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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
jknevitt wrote:Do you see a
jknevitt wrote:
Do you see a Delete button at all?
Nope.
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CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture
Arenamontanus wrote:jknevitt
Arenamontanus wrote:
jknevitt wrote:
Do you see a Delete button at all?
Nope.
Second on that Nope.
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Tyrnis Tyrnis's picture
No, from what sysop has said
No, from what sysop has said in previous posts, the old 'report spam' button was extremely poorly implemented, and so was removed. At this point, our options as regular users basically consist of 'wait until sysop or someone else with permission to delete posts/shut down accounts notices and deals with the spammer.'
jknevitt jknevitt's picture
Arenamontanus wrote:jknevitt
Arenamontanus wrote:
jknevitt wrote:
Do you see a Delete button at all?
Nope.
Hm. As a makeshift measure, feel free to send a Private Message to me with the link to the offending spam and I'll kill it that way. Not the most elegant solution, but it's a solution for now.

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eclipsephase.com Forum Moderator

Tyrnis Tyrnis's picture
Thanks, James.
Thanks, James.
Tyrnis Tyrnis's picture
Wow. And we promptly get one
Wow. And we promptly get one in the very post where we're complaining about all the spam.
CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture
I declare this thread a
I declare this thread a 'Cultural Heritage Site', to be maintained for all future AI. They should know about how their forefathers lives.
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sysop sysop's picture
Spam reporting system is back
Spam reporting system is back online now, so you should see those options available again.
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Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Yay! Thanks!
Yay! Thanks!
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Libertad Libertad's picture
+5 @-Rep to jknevitt and the
+5 @-Rep to jknevitt and the tech support guys for their spam destruction. Who's laughing now, football jersey man?
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The Doctor The Doctor's picture
sysop wrote:Spam reporting
sysop wrote:
Spam reporting system is back online now, so you should see those options available again.
\o/ +1 @-rep.
jknevitt jknevitt's picture
I KNOW ALL AND SEE ALL
DO NOT ASSUME THAT I CAN'T SEE WHO IS REPORTING POSTS AS SPAM. I, your great and terrible forum moderator, have no problem in bringing the hammer down on posters who flag genuine discussion as spam. I have a deliberate hands-off approach to these forums. I squash spam and take care of trouble threads, but otherwise I stay out of things. The policy here is to keep things very loose and easy-going, so things might get heated. But if this means your first response is to flag someone's comment as spam, then you'd best reconsider that. This is a place for discussion, not for silencing the opinions of people you don't agree with. If someone's trolling you, walk away. Don't feed the trolls. In other words, EVERYONE KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF. YOU WILL GET YOUR ASS BANNED. This is my final warning. Next time anyone does this, they're getting shitcanned.

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eclipsephase.com Forum Moderator

nick012000 nick012000's picture
jknevitt wrote:DO NOT ASSUME
jknevitt wrote:
DO NOT ASSUME THAT I CAN'T SEE WHO IS REPORTING POSTS AS SPAM.
Was it one of the feminists, in the pig-teat/catsuit thread you locked? Trying to silence their opponents by doing that sort of thing is one of their classic tactics.

+1 r-Rep , +1 @-rep

sysop sysop's picture
Timestamps do not work that
Timestamps do not work that way unless you have a little blue police box.
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DivineWrath DivineWrath's picture
nick012000 wrote:jknevitt
nick012000 wrote:
jknevitt wrote:
DO NOT ASSUME THAT I CAN'T SEE WHO IS REPORTING POSTS AS SPAM.
Was it one of the feminists, in the pig-teat/catsuit thread you locked? Trying to silence their opponents by doing that sort of thing is one of their classic tactics.
First, the reply you are quoting is dated before the whole feminist/anti-feminist yelling match had started. So I think not. Second, I'm not impressed that you feel the need to bring this topic up again. It seems like many people in that thread where trying to prove the "correctness" of their side, with total disregard to the search of the truth of the matter. By you asking if a feminist did it, you are trying to prove the "correctness" of your side again. Or so it seems that way to me. So pleased stop what you are doing. I don't want more of this bullshit.