Stop The Spamming

*ahem* This is kinda spam here because it shouldn't be in RSU but... :p

Yeh, spam is annoying and it would be easily cleaned if one regular
member was given rights to delete them.

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Kieron said:

I tell u wat they would have to be a very commited pedo to learn to ride
a unicycle in order to mingle with us, steel one of us and rape us in a
bush.

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How come the moderators don't delete them? I would've thought that it
was their job to do so.

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ya all the spam is getting really annoying, is there no way to block it
completely, as this is not something i've encountered on other forums i
belong to..

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No offense to anyone, but this is one of the most badly moderated forums
I've been on. I know. I've said things that should have been deleted
almost instantly, and as far as I know they are still there.

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Joe2005 said:

No offense to anyone, but this is one of the most badly moderated forums
I've been on. I know. I've said things that should have been deleted
almost instantly, and as far as I know they are still there.

+1

Looks like the influx of spam is beginning to overtake the single
so-called moderator efforts of deleting it.

harley on 1 wheel said:

Just hoping to find out the general consensus on the subject as spamming
can put a lot of strain on the admin in many fourm websites

That's why properly moderated forums have more than one moderator, so
that at least one moderator would be present at several times
throughout the day and thus spam would be more quickly eradicated.

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Cant We All Just Over Look It And Not Worry About It.
Its Not Like It Bothers Us.
Just Dont Respond.

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Naomi said:

trying to attach a picture of the tree, before it was circumsized.

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jamessd said:

*ahem* This is kinda spam here because it shouldn't be in RSU but... :p

:o thats a good point, ooh the irony... but the spam does tend to be
mainly posted in this section because it gets more views than the
others so i thought it was relavent

UnicycleJuggler said:

How come the moderators don't delete them? I would've thought that it
was their job to do so.

and yep that is their job but we can make the job a bit easyer by
clicking the spam button, it saves them trawling through every post

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I've just had a look for the spam (so that I can click the spam button,
to help the moderators) but I can't find any of them now.

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We should start a petition to make Jerrick, JC, Harper, and John Foss
..etc moderators.

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Joe2005 said:

We should start a petition to make Jerrick, JC, Harper, and John Foss
.etc moderators.

Yah, we should, I can't believe that this forum only has 1 or 2 mods,
it's crazy. Someone should just make a thread and have anyone who
agrees with this, just post and maybe it'll happen, you never know.

It could be worse though. Not sure if you guys have ever seen the
facepunch studios forums but my friend showed it to me and the
moderators have what looks like "who can ban more people" fights. If
you just look at a topic with over 15 posts I'll bet you'll find
someone who's banned. And they penalize you for misspellings.

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_Ground_Zero_ said:

Yah, we should, I can't believe that this forum only has 1 or 2 mods,
it's crazy. Someone should just make a thread and have anyone who
agrees with this, just post and maybe it'll happen, you never know.

It could be worse though. Not sure if you guys have ever seen the
facepunch studios forums but my friend showed it to me and the
moderators have what looks like "who can ban more people" fights. If
you just look at a topic with over 15 posts I'll bet you'll find
someone who's banned. And they penalize you for misspellings.

Then again, free speach is a good thing 🙄

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the plane on the earth surface. he was the one who killed the
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Use the "Repot Bad Post" button.

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Joe2005 said:

We should start a petition to make Jerrick, JC, Harper, and John Foss
.etc moderators.

No offense to Jerrick, but I'd say only the last three are qualified to
become moderators.

Many discussions have been had on this subject, theres many ways to
moderate forums. There is the laid back approach Gilby is taking and
then there is the strict approach. Either way there will be
complaints.

The spam is always deleted, sometimes it just takes a few hours for
Gilby to get to it. I really don't think its a huge issue. All you need
to do is is click the report bad post button and it will be gone soon
enough.

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You are all moderators, use this [image:
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/images/buttons/report.gif]. If people
are misbehaving, send them a PM. If you are misbehaving, moderate
yourself. 🙂

Before -harley on 1 wheel- posted this he PMed me and I then looked for
spam in RSU, and there was a buildup of it. I don't check RSU very
often, which means I don't see it very soon, but I do check my email
very often, so use that report post function and I'll get to it
quickly. The buildup was the result of nobody reporting it.

The recommended moderators above are all on the west coast in the US
and it seems that the spam comes in mostly in the early morning here,
so it'd be before they got up in the morning. If another person is
needed to remove spam, then it should be someone in Europe, Asia,
Africa, or Australia.

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Gilby said:

You are all moderators, use this [image:
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/images/buttons/report.gif]. If people
are misbehaving, send them a PM. If you are misbehaving, moderate
yourself. 🙂

Before -harley on 1 wheel- posted this he PMed me and I then looked for
spam in RSU, and there was a buildup of it. I don't check RSU very
often, which means I don't see it very soon, but I do check my email
very often, so use that report post function and I'll get to it
quickly. The buildup was the result of nobody reporting it.

The recommended moderators above are all on the west coast in the US
and it seems that the spam comes in mostly in the early morning here,
so it'd be before they got up in the morning. If another person is
needed to remove spam, then it should be someone in Europe, Asia,
Africa, or Australia.

Im usually up till 5-6am in the morning. I catch a lot of it that comes
up, and usually report all of it I see. This last week I have slacked
off a little, but only because I havent been on most of the forums, and
just staying in MR.

No offense taken, Brian. I kinda laugh when people talk about me with
moderator status. I think I would be able to do a good job, cause all
the debates and stuff I dont mind, and mainly id just watch out for
cuss words (and if possible, cahnge the words to silly ones, like
fluffy) and spam, and if a flame war gets a bit too out of hand, which
rarely happens.

🙂

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just wondering if there are any real unicyclist.com forum members that
have a username ending in @yahoo.com.cn? because it appears that most
of the spam on this fourm has that ending on their username:

if this is the case we could get the site moderator(s) to simply write
a line or 2 of code preventing any non-members with a username ending
in @yahoo.com.cn from starting threads.

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