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http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11992187[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Do NOT delete Spam Messages after flagging them as Spam.
Unless the message is deleted by getting the required number of abuse/spam votes, its content is NOT added to the Spam Filter's data.
As a result, new messages with the same content will not be caught.
If I remember correctly, once the member has messages marked as Spam, the account gets marked as Spam.
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Message received and understood!
My apologies: I was doing "tag-and-delete" on unmoderated posts to remove the visible spam as soon as possible (and thus reduce the chances that we are seen as a good target). I will stop forthwith!
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The concept is that new Spam should be voted on by multiple members to prevent nuking marginal messages. Some Spam is subjective.
HOWEVER, blatant racism, abuse, or hate mongering SHOULD be terminated quickly, so if you doesn't get the required votes in short order, nuke it add a "message nuked" message with message and member details so we can ensure its content is added to the Spam Filter and the appropriate chastisement is applied to the poster.
Thanks again for your work keeping CP neat and tidy is greatly appreciated.
modified 17-Sep-15 12:40pm.
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Matthew Dennis wrote: nuke it add a "message nuked" message with message and member details ...
Where... here?
Permalink to "soon to be nuked" message? or how we should make it?
M.D.V.
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How about a post here with the usual details, including a link marked "deleted item"?
I know you monitor here when you are in the office.
So if it's a "delete immediately" type message we prefix the subject with "DELETED" or similar so they are easy for staff to spot and post the user and message link so you can retrieve it from the history?
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Does this mean that also finally "no Protectors" can see the spam and decide on our own mind whether it was spam or not?
N.B: In case of translation needed for my English, please contact OG. I think he knows what I mean
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I believe he's referring only to the messages that falls through moderation.
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A pity
Anyway, thanks for the Info.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Does that mean you actually delete rather than the more sane technique of simply marking as deleted? You guys need may need to rethink.
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We mark as deleted.
The issue is that we need messages to get a certain number of "span" voted before we're willing to say it's spam. If a message is below the spam threshold and then marked as deleted it'll never get the chance to go over the threshold. Our system simply won't get a chance to consider it as spam
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ah. Right. Gotcha.
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Shouldn't this be a sticky post then?
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Might be an idea to make this a sticky?
Perhaps expanded to explain what is spam, and what abuse, and how you report it?
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+1 on this suggestion
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx?msg=5129082#xx5129082xx[^]
Even removed posts are getting indexed,so i'm sure that if we wait for x no of reports for message to be considered as a spam,spammer will get what he is upto,with higher possibility than what it is now.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Sounds good.
Another issue, is that quite a few messages from those of us in the vanguard of spam control are still getting moderated. Is there any way the filter could ignore all messages from selected members? Or are these messages needed to help the filter in its learning?
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Think it's because you often put the subject of the spam in your titles/message bodies. For example 'live-streaming' 'health pills etc'. Surely the filter is going to think your messages are spam because they word match. Should just put Spam as the title.
(tried making this point several times here, to no avail)
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No, I never do that, I merely list where the message has been posted in the title, and add a link to the spammer's account in the body. However, most of the messages I post that do go to the moderation queue are not posted in this forum.
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Game over
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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