How To Report Spam Postings?

[Mark H]

We have recently had a lot of spam postings, as it may not be too obvious how you report these here is a guide:

 

At the bottom left of the post will be a button that looks like this:

 

 

Click the button and fill out a quick detail on the form (if you want to) and click "Submit Report".

 

By using this reporting method ALL of the moderators/admin will get notified and the spam message can be deleted quickly and the member banned.

 

As the moderators cant all be on-line all of the time this will maximise the chance that the spam message will be deleted as quickly as possible.

[dobbo]

How about an even quicker way - by anyone clicking the button, the new post is locked and the user (temporarily) banned until a moderator has had a chance to review it (and un-block if appropriate) ?

 

If necessary, the button could also set an auto-message to be added to the post describing what's happened.

[Mark H]

Too open to abuse, the next version of the forums will help with spam prevention and reporting a lot so hopefully the vast majority of the problem should go away.

[dobbo]

Too open to abuse...

 

Yes, I did think about that, but thought it was worth the suggestion. On the whole, we're a pretty easy going and tolerant lot here and I can't see anyone being a serial reporter. If anyone did, (s)he could always receive a ban / suspension of his/her own.

 

If the next version of the forum will reduce it anyway, hopefully nothing more will be needed.

[JonS]

As Mark says, all the mods get the reporting notifications so it's almost like a fastest finger first as to who can get online and ban them first!

 

This time it was me!