Are There no MODS around Please.

I reported a post recently, the mods were there pretty soonish.
I would post as you did...explain what's going on...then report your own post...!simples!
 
Gonetae said:
Best is to not reply to it tbh, all it does it bump it up and make it more noticeable.
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Report then ignore. Always the best policy but you will always have folk posting in the thread.

Lazlo Woodbine said:
Maybe the mods should have an emergency hotline for this kind of thing. :)
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I'll post their mobile numbers later.


You will never stop this sort of thing. The admin handling the account applications has a difficult job in determining which are genuine apps and which are low-life.
 
In these instances it would be nice not to have to actually click the subject to report the post...

Can this be done, Admins?

I reported it, but have had to go through a delete process in my brower to uncache it.
 
mid_gen said:
It's impossible to eliminate spam on a forum. TP does a pretty good job of it.

It's Sunday morning, give them a break, unless you want to start paying a subscription for guaranteed content filtering.
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Yes I'd have to argree there, I'm a member of a few forums, as yet I haven't actually seen spam on here, which given the size and membership is pretty good going in my book. Your always going to get the odd one slip through, but credit where it's due.
 
Again thank you for the speedy effort.

I reported one of the links.

Can I make a suggestion can you move the "report" button to the top of the post as we had to scroll through it all to get to the report button, And some of those photos where very badly composed.

Stuart
 
Oops. I've been here a while but was replying to the long PM I had pop up when I logged in. Didn't check the reports like I usually do. Could have done this half an hour ago :coat:

edit. hmm maybe they were gone by the time I got here. the reports in the staff room are not nice.
 
RobertP said:
edit. hmm maybe they were gone by the time I got here. the reports in the staff room are not nice.
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"Not nice" as in having a go at the mods / admin?

Thats not on - you all do a great job. Been here a year and this is the first time I've seen anything like this crop up.
 
RobertP said:
Not nice as in they have the original spam quoted with all the pictures showing. Reports are always welcome. we need the members help.
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Ah I see...
 
i had a layin, otherwise i would have been online at 9am..im gonna nuke that stuff in teh staff room robert, was a bit of a shocker!
 
I had a lie in too :D

Thanks for all the RTM's from everyone :thumbs:...and the PM's....and the MSN messages....the contact us messages, and the emails lol

Seriously though, the quickest course of action is the RTM button.
When that gets filled out, a thread is automatically created in the staff room with the reason and a link. Every staff member then automatically gets an email with a link to the staff room thread and the reported/naughty thread.

The first staff member 'on the scene' then deals with the problem.

That's why the RTM is always the best way to report something. PM's can get overlooked, as do MSN messages and what not. (Besides the fact they only go to one person). RTM emails *all* staff :thumbs:

And when we know all staff have been mailed, matty can see the email and think 'nah....i'll have a lie in instead' :p
 
Hey Dod

I read earlier that you were deleting the messages, but that you missed two that were then pointed out, and you then dealt with those. Are you aware if you use the 'Delete as Spam' option, from subsequent screens you can then delete all posts by that person as well as banning them. Managing issues this way ensures no posts are missed...
 
theMusicMan said:
Hey Dod

I read earlier that you were deleting the messages, but that you missed two that were then pointed out, and you then dealt with those. Are you aware if you use the 'Delete as Spam' option, from subsequent screens you can then delete all posts by that person as well as banning them. Managing issues this way ensures no posts are missed...
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yes, it doesnt always work though, cant remember what the reason was...
 
*yawns* did I miss something then? :p

P.S - If you think it was bad having to scroll through it to get to the RTM button you should see the thread in the staff room. I had to scroll past the post about 30 times before I got to the bottom of the thread! Took a me a good 20 minutes :D But yeah some were very badly composed, plus the blokes aim was a little off :gag:
 
I do hope you offered a suitable critique by return.

PS - the 'End' key on the keyboard is very helpful in these situations.
 
They all looked a little over-exposed to me...not that I looked at any erm.... obviously, just what I was told....:whistling:
 
Marcel said:
I had a lie in too :D

Thanks for all the RTM's from everyone :thumbs:...and the PM's....and the MSN messages....the contact us messages, and the emails lol

Seriously though, the quickest course of action is the RTM button.
When that gets filled out, a thread is automatically created in the staff room with the reason and a link. Every staff member then automatically gets an email with a link to the staff room thread and the reported/naughty thread.

The first staff member 'on the scene' then deals with the problem.

That's why the RTM is always the best way to report something. PM's can get overlooked, as do MSN messages and what not. (Besides the fact they only go to one person). RTM emails *all* staff :thumbs:

And when we know all staff have been mailed, matty can see the email and think 'nah....i'll have a lie in instead' :p
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The trouble with the report button is that you need to click the link, and why would anyone want to click a link with that thread title... you end up with loads of dodgy GIFs and JPGs in the browser cache.

Would be great if you could maybe move the report post button?

Another suggestion - why not select a few trusted members who reported these and give them super-powers to deal with this directly?
 
We can't move it to outside a thread, as IIRC the code relies on a variable that's created within the thread display.

There's always the 'Contact Us' at the bottom of every page on the site :)
 
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