The new forums have features to limit spam, like rate of posting restrictions. However to keep the boards easy to access there are no restrictions on signing up and posting, so we still get spam here.
We can now flag the posts and have them disappear if 5 people mark them as spam, so as well as shouting at the screen when you read a spam post please take the time to mark it as spam using the "Flag" feature which appears bottom left of the post :
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me too, hunting those zero reply postings might become an obsession.
Yep! Gone forever!
Haha yeah. Zero replies, no profile pic, strange title
they go for review by a moderator I think, to avoid people using it incorrectly to get rid of something they disagree with.
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Not sure whether the reporter just disagreed with the posts or thought the word breast was inapproriate or the topic was taboo or what???
This^ x 10000.
ETA: just used it for the first time...on 3 posts...that was great esp as i was #5 on one of them...bam...gone
I wish the system would also log the names of those sorry souls.
If flagging something just because you disagree with it is possible, then there should be rules in place that kick you out of the forums permanently for being too sensitive to be fit to participate with the rest of us; flag because of butthurt enough times and you lose forum privileges.
There's just no limit to how butthurt some people can be, is there...
Agree with that of course. I just have a problem with the fact that spam and differing opinions now are in the same boat of sort. There are mods for a reason and currently it seems like users can act as mods.
Thanks for this. It wasn't clear to me whether something got permanently deleted or merely put out of sight.
A cleaner forum !