Diddle- No report to Mods Button? and some ideas

[The_Green_One]

Hi there

I use Diddle as my theme. I noticed yesterday when the board was being spammed by some Halfwit that the diddle theme does not have a Report to Mods Button. So to report it to Mods i had to change theme to subsilver.
Anychance of getting such a button on Diddle theme (or is there already one and my eyesight is failing me!)

Also on other boards i've used when you report it to Mods an entry comes up so you can say your reasons. This could be useful for some things.

Finally when i've joined other boards its sometimes taken a couple of days for my registration to be confirmed as a Mod has to check it. I know this would be more work but maybe it could stop the chance of spamming.

Thanks for listening Dx

[silent_scream]

Hi

The report to Mod feature isn't working anymore, its not been put onto the updated board.

Kazz

[Laura]

Yep, report to mods doesn't work - on some themes the link is there, but it doesn't go anywhere! If you want to report something then I'm afraid old-fashioned pm is the only way.

Checking registrations - it's an idea, although I do wonder what exactly we would be checking for? Like, what criteria? I feel it might put off vulnerable people who need to join BUS but are anxious about that step, while someone wanting to spam could easily say "Yes I am over 13 and I self-harm (or have a friend who does), let me in please" and they'd be let in.

Laura

[The_Green_One]

I assume most people who spam don't put huge amount of details on there registrations. But the wai for confirmation may discourage them.

It is difficult that somepeople who may need help may not have immediate access to the board. but then i worry about people who are already here. sometimes the spam could/can be upsetting or triggering to them. So maybe by increasing security in this way could help the security/safety of current board members

Dx

[silent_scream]

I assume most people who spam don't put huge amount of details on there registrations. But the wai for confirmation may discourage them.

It is difficult that somepeople who may need help may not have immediate access to the board. but then i worry about people who are already here. sometimes the spam could/can be upsetting or triggering to them. So maybe by increasing security in this way could help the security/safety of current board members

Dx

That's where, I think, bus is a good place: because people are quick if they see something in PM'ing a mod or admin, and normally it isn't up for very long at all if someone has spammed. I think whereever anyone goes there's going to be something like that. There isn't a concrete way of keeping spammers out.

[Laura]

I assume most people who spam don't put huge amount of details on there registrations.

This is true - in fact we do often look at the registration details of new members, and most such spammers are zapped before they get as far as posting if there are tell-tale signs. The ones you see are those that slipped through.

[Jomomma]

Finally when i've joined other boards its sometimes taken a couple of days for my registration to be confirmed as a Mod has to check it. I know this would be more work but maybe it could stop the chance of spamming.

But then how would we be able to practice out editing, moving, deleting skills if we didn't have spammers to practice on?

[mama]

gosh jomomma, I didn't realize that I'd been denying you a good time and practice being a mod . I'll stop checking out the memberlist and zapping the spammers before they get a chance to post

[sine nomine]

for every spammer who posts something, 2 or 3 get their passwords changed before they even get to post (or, in some cases, before they click the confirmation link they're emailed). i think it's pretty much okay for now.

i'm planning to get report to mods back up. i've got a couple of things i want to get done first.

deb

[guest11]

I find that "zapping" thing a little freaky. What sort of signs do you use to tell someone's a spammer?

[silent_scream]

I find that "zapping" thing a little freaky. What sort of signs do you use to tell someone's a spammer?

Website/name (they sometimes use the same type of name), and other things that have been common with spammers..... not just someone with a weird name though, because some people like weird names.

(not very good at explaining things am I? )

[Proximity]

I find that "zapping" thing a little freaky. What sort of signs do you use to tell someone's a spammer?

It's a combination. Some things are like "warning signs" and make it worth looking closer.
The email address can tell you, and the url for the website, especially.
often we get spammers in waves from one thing or another, and they are all similar/the same in certain respects. When they are spaming for some diet pill site, and they all have it as their www listed, then you see a new user who has the same site in their www, with the email address from the same (usually obscure) place, and named something that's somehow similar to the others, ..
well ..
yeah.

it's not arbitrary, I very much doubt that we've ever disabled a real user, and if that were to happen at some point, it would still be possible for that person to contact an admin here and ask what's up.

prox.
[too embarassing for words]

[sine nomine]

for a while we had peopel who all had the same exact website in their url, and some people who all had email addresses at the same domain as the website. addresses from .ru are suspect almost automatically. mostly, though, it's the website url.

the biggest spammer zapping happens when peopel tell us right away about a spam post, and that usually happens really fast.

deb