Question: Spammers & Spam Issues
Someone's gotta kickstart this forum, and there's no Spammer Issues forum yet so here it goes.
Got a guy who constantly comes on posting ESL jobs, 5 or 6 at a time, in everything from Recreation & Nightlife to General Chat, and NEVER on the classifieds place. I deleted all but one, and left a "red note" (meaning, I gave him a mod warning right in his post) and told him to keep it in the classifieds. I was even nice enough to let the idiot keep his post in the ESL non-classifieds section.
But then he came back again, doing the same thing.
My question is...
Should we have a blacklist? Perhaps a sort of guild that if you get blacklisted from one site, you get blacklisted from ALL? All of this guy's posts come from the same IP, and I'll be happy to add it to a blacklist to prevent him from messing up other peoples' forums. But we'll see if he responds to my red note first.
Will give it a try
Judging by the site, it doesn't look like it's available for most CMS's yet. At least not Drupal or MDPro. It does say more platforms coming soon, though so will wait it out & continue blacklisting.
SezWho
Interesting discussion...SezWho does help maintain the conversation by empowering the readers and rewarding good participants...Take it for a spin and let me know what you think.
Re-Jig
Well,
I got rid of the forum and converted the thing to an 'ask a question' style thing. No need to log in and perhaps more accessible/obvious.
This is tough. I'd take a step back and consider what comments to allow and what to not allow:
For years I've followed the news site Slashdot, because of the good stories and in particular because of the comments. They have a comment ranking system, where by default only comments with a 'rank' of above 2 to be shown. If a comment is abusive, offtopic, whatever, it gets ranked down, but never deleted (unless there's a DMCA request). They have captchas in place for account registration.
Recently I noticed the 'Sezwho' plugin for a variety of CMSs. It does a similar thing as Slashdot, but much more. It allows the ranking of a comment on a story, but also follows the user's identity across different websites. If they consistently have good comments their starting score for a new comment will be higher. Instead of a blacklist, it's a whitelist.
It's very Web2.0ish, community building-ish, etc. Instead of dictating some rules by some mods, it puts the decision in the website users' hands. It removes some of the cliquey-ness of forums, comments, blogs.
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