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Idea to reduce spam
Wed, 12/09/2009 - 12:43
Moderator
I saw this today when I signed up to RedFlagDeals.com and I thought it was a pretty smart idea.
Welcome to RedFlagDeals.com!
Please note that your first post will not appear until it has been approved by our moderation team. This is merely to ensure that you are not a spammer. Your post will not be edited or screened for content. Please review the site rules.
This is not nativelly supported in our forum software, but I could build this functionality if we think it would be effective.
Basically, when a new user posts for the first time, their post would go into a pending queue that the moderators will have access to and can approve. Only a users first post will be flagged for approval and after that the workflow would be as it is now. I have found that most of the spammers will spam with their first post (if you look at their points, they are almost always at 11, 10 for their profile and 1 for the post they just posted). I think this could help to cull some of the spam before it actually gets posted and we could probably kill about 85% of the spam with this approach.
Let me know what you guys think…
Cheers…
I am leaving from Montreal, Canada with $1600 for 16 days
Frankfurt, Munich, Venice, Florence, Nice, Barcelona, Paris
Frankfurt, Munich, Venice, Florence, Nice, Barcelona, Paris
Eurotrip Developer
I think that could be a good way to handle the problem. My concern is for forums with less traffic—that someone is keeping an eye on those if there’s a less active moderator.
I like the idea. Would we moderate our own forums or jump from forum to forum?
Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, and end up getting charged double.
I would probably open it up so that any moderator would be able to approve posts.
There would be a ‘pending posts’ page that would show all the pending posts (and what forum they are in), so if a moderator logs in, they can just look there and see ‘there are 3 new pending posts’ and they can make sure they are not spam and approve them. This would make it easier for the moderators to make sure that something is not sitting in pending in a forum that is not often posted in and no one is checking.
Does this make sense? Any other concerns?
Frankfurt, Munich, Venice, Florence, Nice, Barcelona, Paris
Eurotrip Developer
Sounds good, Will.
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Eurotrip Managing Editor
…how ironic.
Reykjavik, London, Lille, Berlin, Kraków, Lviv, Istanbul, Selçuk, Pamukkale, Kızkalesi, Göreme, Kars, Bat'umi, Akhalts'ikhe, Tbilisi, Telavi, Istanbul
Eurotrip Managing Editor
HAHAHA!!! WTF is up with these people…
Frankfurt, Munich, Venice, Florence, Nice, Barcelona, Paris
Eurotrip Developer
When you gotta sell puppies, you gotta sell puppies I guess.
Reykjavik, London, Lille, Berlin, Kraków, Lviv, Istanbul, Selçuk, Pamukkale, Kızkalesi, Göreme, Kars, Bat'umi, Akhalts'ikhe, Tbilisi, Telavi, Istanbul
Eurotrip Managing Editor