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Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I read that thread and the months and months of responses that something was in the works. I read the open acknowledgement by the staff that it is this group of people who are responsible for clearing spam, that it would be a mess without you guys. Kudos. I genuinely appreciate it despite my statements here. It makes my experience better. I don't have to do anything; you guys coordinate efforts in here, go through the process of flagging, pasting links, all on your own time.
This thread was created in October 2014. Since then, MFP was acquired by Under Armour and added the Premium revenue stream. Olivia's response on why sensible people verification procedures and/or waiting periods to post is essentially that we can't have more than 2 items in the pipeline? The only way this becomes a priority is if the spam degrades the user experience. Yet that will never happen; not because MFP invests more resources to solve the problem, but because of coordinated flagging efforts by (unpaid) members. Criminy! They could at least throw you guys a free Premium account for your efforts!
ETA: So yeah, as the intended audience is the flagging community, I'm in the correct thread already.0 -
tincanonastring wrote: »Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I read that thread and the months and months of responses that something was in the works. I read the open acknowledgement by the staff that it is this group of people who are responsible for clearing spam, that it would be a mess without you guys. Kudos. I genuinely appreciate it despite my statements here. It makes my experience better. I don't have to do anything; you guys coordinate efforts in here, go through the process of flagging, pasting links, all on your own time.
This thread was created in October 2014. Since then, MFP was acquired by Under Armour and added the Premium revenue stream. Olivia's response on why sensible people verification procedures and/or waiting periods to post is essentially that we can't have more than 2 items in the pipeline? The only way this becomes a priority is if the spam degrades the user experience. Yet that will never happen; not because MFP invests more resources to solve the problem, but because of coordinated flagging efforts by (unpaid) members. Criminy! They could at least throw you guys a free Premium account for your efforts!
ETA: So yeah, as the intended audience is the flagging community, I'm in the correct thread already.
I believe the issue is with Vanilla, the forum provider, and not MFP. Regardless, I too would prefer to keep the debate in the forum feedback. Vanilla needs to step up their game when it comes to fixing issues. Maybe now that group search is fixed...0 -
blankiefinder wrote: »tincanonastring wrote: »Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I read that thread and the months and months of responses that something was in the works. I read the open acknowledgement by the staff that it is this group of people who are responsible for clearing spam, that it would be a mess without you guys. Kudos. I genuinely appreciate it despite my statements here. It makes my experience better. I don't have to do anything; you guys coordinate efforts in here, go through the process of flagging, pasting links, all on your own time.
This thread was created in October 2014. Since then, MFP was acquired by Under Armour and added the Premium revenue stream. Olivia's response on why sensible people verification procedures and/or waiting periods to post is essentially that we can't have more than 2 items in the pipeline? The only way this becomes a priority is if the spam degrades the user experience. Yet that will never happen; not because MFP invests more resources to solve the problem, but because of coordinated flagging efforts by (unpaid) members. Criminy! They could at least throw you guys a free Premium account for your efforts!
ETA: So yeah, as the intended audience is the flagging community, I'm in the correct thread already.
I believe the issue is with Vanilla, the forum provider, and not MFP. Regardless, I too would prefer to keep the debate in the forum feedback. Vanilla needs to step up their game when it comes to fixing issues. Maybe now that group search is fixed...
My take away from his post is that he's intentionally thread crapping here because he can't be bothered to continue talking to Olivia on the forum feedback thread, so he would like us to stop coordinating spam busting so that the forum gets "overrun with spam" as someone so nicely put it, and gets forced to the top of the priority list. It's evidently not currently at the top so lets artificially put it there like a bunch of petulant kids who just must have their way NOW
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tincanonastring wrote: »Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I read that thread and the months and months of responses that something was in the works. I read the open acknowledgement by the staff that it is this group of people who are responsible for clearing spam, that it would be a mess without you guys. Kudos. I genuinely appreciate it despite my statements here. It makes my experience better. I don't have to do anything; you guys coordinate efforts in here, go through the process of flagging, pasting links, all on your own time.
This thread was created in October 2014. Since then, MFP was acquired by Under Armour and added the Premium revenue stream. Olivia's response on why sensible people verification procedures and/or waiting periods to post is essentially that we can't have more than 2 items in the pipeline? The only way this becomes a priority is if the spam degrades the user experience. Yet that will never happen; not because MFP invests more resources to solve the problem, but because of coordinated flagging efforts by (unpaid) members. Criminy! They could at least throw you guys a free Premium account for your efforts!
ETA: So yeah, as the intended audience is the flagging community, I'm in the correct thread already.
Would you like to blame me for the state of your recipe tool, too? Really? Let me guess, I bet you don't have a single problem in your life or at your work place that has been going on for a year. I do appreciate the fact that you must be much better at Olivia's job than she'll ever be. Meanwhile some of us have chosen to be patient and bust some spam in the mean time. I have stated on here that I'm not going to change my mind about flagging spam, and so have a number of flagging participants. Perhaps you could give us some insight about your decision to be so disrespectful of that choice
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Depends, I guess. Are you out there taking action that serves to deprioritize a fix for the recipe tool? Not sure how you'd do that, but if you are, I suppose you'd be responsible in the same manner that you guys are helping perpetuate the spam issue.Would you like to blame me for the state of your recipe tool, too?
Our PMs and developers are pretty competent and we properly manage our vendors through effective SLAs and service guarantees to ensure that if they do allow an issue to go unresolved, we can take action. What we don't do, however, is ask our clients to volunteer their time as stand-ins in the absence of a solution.Let me guess, I bet you don't have a single problem in your life or at your work place that has been going on for a year.
In that case, my comments aren't directed to those of you who are committed to the flagging process but to new members who come in here when they see the thread get bumped. As far as respect:I have stated on here that I'm not going to change my mind about flagging spam, and so have a number of flagging participants. Perhaps you could give us some insight about your decision to be so disrespectful of that choicetincanonastring wrote: »I completely get that, and it's a reasonable position. I'm not riled, but I see how my posts would make it seem so. Everyone is, of course, free to flag or not flag as they see fit.tincanonastring wrote: »Disagreement is not hostility. I've not been hostile to anyone in here, but if any of you have taken it as such, I apologize. It was not my intent. My issue is with MFP, not the members who are helping, and I believe I have consistently directed my criticisms of this process towards the admins and development team (not even the mods).
I guess you missed the parts where I went out of my way to point out my intention to not be hostile or disrespectful and that my issue is with the process, not the flagging members. Again I would say, disagreeing with your strategy is not being disrespectful, and I believe I have explained my position in a respectful manner. If not, please point out where and I will certainly apologize (for the respect part, not my opinion).
Meanwhile, though:Ah, it's the please whine about the spam thread again!sugaraddict4321 wrote: »Tincan, would you please leave this thread?This reminds me we haven't got the user blocking feature back.Hearts_2015 wrote: »like a dog with a boneMy take away from his post is that he's intentionally thread crapping...like a bunch of petulant kids who just must have their way NOW
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Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I've asked Olivia my question. Thanks!
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/33461687/#Comment_334616870 -
tincanonastring wrote: »Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I've asked Olivia my question. Thanks!
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/33461687/#Comment_33461687
Thank you. Since your previous post is still up, I will say that in my mind the hostility is coming not necessarily from your words, but your actions. We use the thread to efficiently identify and bust spam. Coming in here and scanning through things that aren't spam - yeah public forum and all that but sometimes it gets damn irritating and I feel the need to say something, even though that contributes to the stated problem of posting non-spam posts
Perhaps a "Please DON'T flag the spam" topic to be bumped each time you guys see this one?
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@Adam2k10 @_ben @davis_em @kgeyser @ninerbuff @psulemon
Mass spammer in Food and Nutrition: ongfey
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/food-and-nutrition
Mass spam gone from food and nutrition page, for now. Their profile is still up I see0 -
Amateur spam link:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10223037/muscle-building-tips-for-hard-gainers#latest
Mass spammer has taken over the whole front page of food and nutrition right now0 -
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Should be taken care of by now.0
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Wow, I feel kinda bad that I am on vacation and not home to help flag
But thanks for your work! 0 -
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Mass spammer just getting started @Adam2k10 @_ben @davis_em @kgeyser @ninerbuff @psulemon @Olivia
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/user/worden0lizde891/profile/worden0lizde891?target=&redirected=true0 -
Thanks y'all!0
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tincanonastring wrote: »Not even one spam link?
Forum feedback thread on the Suggestions site, for anyone who gives a hoot about the repeated requests from the flaggers to keep this a spam flagging thread. Forum Admin Olivia reads it and responds and updates there regularly:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10063124/mfp-forum-feedback/p1
I've asked Olivia my question. Thanks!
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/33461687/#Comment_33461687
Thank you. Since your previous post is still up, I will say that in my mind the hostility is coming not necessarily from your words, but your actions. We use the thread to efficiently identify and bust spam. Coming in here and scanning through things that aren't spam - yeah public forum and all that but sometimes it gets damn irritating and I feel the need to say something, even though that contributes to the stated problem of posting non-spam posts
Perhaps a "Please DON'T flag the spam" topic to be bumped each time you guys see this one?
I'd hate waking up to that many notifications that MFP still hasn't resolved the spam problem, let alone any other side comments, so I understand. Still, looking back over this thread, there are many instances of the flaggers discussing things unrelated to anti-spam efforts and I don't see this type of response directed towards those conversations. I didn't read the entire thing, so maybe I missed it.
In any case, I've no interest in creating an anti-flag thread to bump every time this one come up because that would occupy all my time in the forums, which is exactly my point; users should not have to devote their time to a concerted anti-spam campaign. I'll probably just pop in here from time to time to remind people that there is an opposing viewpoint to this strategy.0 -
@Adam2k10 @_Ben @davis_em @kgeyser @ninerbuff @psulemon @Olivia
molviji155 is spamming like crazy. This search link will take you to his/hers/ITS posts.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=1&search=&title=&author=molviji155&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=0 -
juliet3455 wrote: »@Adam2k10 @_Ben @davis_em @kgeyser @ninerbuff @psulemon @Olivia
molviji155 is spamming like crazy. This search link will take you to his/hers/ITS posts.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=1&search=&title=&author=molviji155&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=
I was fifth in several, most just need one more
Still out of country, can't help much0 -
@Adam2k10 @_Ben @davis_em @kgeyser @ninerbuff
Not sure of which moderators are around right now and I hate tagging all the ones I know of but what option do we have.
Another one starting up. mkguruji5
This search link will take you to his/hers/ITS posts.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=1&search=&title=&author=mkguruji5&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10224493/chamtkar-91-7073085665-black-magic-voodoo-spell-specialist-molviji-ludhiana#latest0 -
Mass spammer dfrt53 in introduce yourself. I like the search link idea!
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?author=dfrt53
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/introduce-yourself
Whoa, that said like 37 posts @Adam2k10 @_ben @davis_em @kgeyser @ninerbuff @psulemon @olivia0 -
Mass spammer moji454 also has posts well into page 3 of introduce yourself. Actually used the computer for once to flag spam so I could use the "End" button to get to the flag area faster! Off to Google an equivalent on iPhone...
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quite a few of those now on 3 or 4 flags. The guy has had a couple of silent phone calls too ;-)0
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blankiefinder wrote: »Wow, I feel kinda bad that I am on vacation and not home to help flag But thanks for your work!
I feel kinda bad that I'm not on vacation right now!
It looks like all three pages of introduce yourself got cleaned up at once. I thought a mod might be on but the drft53 profile is still up and spamming.
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Your link helped Jane. Easier to get to in one hit.0
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It looks like all three pages of introduce yourself got cleaned up at once. I thought a mod might be on but the drft53 profile is still up and spamming.
I was #5 on several, but there are still a few posts out there. Plus since the user hasn't been banned they will keep posting.
And here are some that are not love specialists that need a few flags:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10224749/help-you-get-access-to-to-cheat-the-game#latest
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10224730/lose-weight-quickly-to-keep-healthy#latest
love specialist needs one more in getting started: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10224620/vashikaran-specialist-money-after-work-91-7073085665#latest0
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