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Spam on the forums
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New users can post right away but their posts are only visible to others after they are approved by the administration.
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Yes, that's the idea. Of course it's possible that someone who's been posting useful things in the past suddenly decides to take up a career in the spam business, but I think that's quite unlikely. Another possibility would be that spammers post something generic like "Thanks!", "Great post!" etc. to get approved, and then start spamming later, but I think that should be easy to detect, and I could just unlock such a "harmless" post without changing the "trust level" for the account...
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@omz that makes sense. I know this won't affect any of us who are already here, but just out of curiosity, how often do you think you would be able to sort things out with this moderation system? You did say that you check the forums about once a day, but would this take a while every day? I guess it would depend on how often a new user signs up. I think this information would be helpful for new users should this system be put in place so they know what to expect.
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@omz Is the system in place yet? Another load of spam just came in.
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Another idea: Let your users mark spam, and remove recent messages from the user who sent the spam until the moderator determines what should happen. This should enable a rapid response.
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Is the system in place yet? Another load of spam just came in.
I haven't deployed the change yet, though the code is mostly done.
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@omz Great!
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Is it just me, or are the spam floods coming more often than before? We just received a new one about 15 minutes ago. :(
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I'll try to deploy the change a little later today. There might be some downtime.
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Okay, the new moderation requirement should be up and running now.
New accounts are now "untrusted" by default, and their posts won't show up publicly. All existing accounts are already "trusted", so it's theoretically possible that there are "sleeper" spammers, but I don't think that will be a big problem (most previous spam was from new accounts).
I've also taken the opportunity to make the font a little more readable.
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@omz I like the new font, but you might want to change the weight - you can't really tell which post titles are bolded.
Also, having the ability to delete posts would be useful in the future :)
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def make_more_readable(html): return u"<b>" + html + u"</b>"No offense, but that was my first impression. The font itself is nice, but it really looks like all text is in bold.
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I agree with @techteej and @dgelessus, but we may just be splitting hairs, I don't know. Anyway, I'm glad you were able to implement the changes, thanks. Also, I like that you increased the number of posts on the homepage from six to eight (including both apps). :)
