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Ponderable
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Ther happened just another incident

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Originally posted by Ponderable
Ther happened just another incident
and another

PS here is the missing "e" from the previous post

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Originally posted by Ponderable
and another

PS here is the missing "e" from the previous post
they're indefatigable 😲

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If we had a "report spam" button, maybe 5 or 10 users could trigger a robomod deletion. That'd be nice.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
If we had a "report spam" button, maybe 5 or 10 users could trigger a robomod deletion. That'd be nice.
And would probably be misused by the clan-warriors...so it should really be restricted to the GF and only chess fora.

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Originally posted by Ponderable
And would probably be misused by the clan-warriors...so it should really be restricted to the GF and only chess fora.
Even that wouldn't stop the clan-freaks, they'd just make it difficult for their "enemies" to post in GF and Only Chess. Unless the IDs of button-users are public, so that undeserving victims could get even ...

Maybe we frequent readers/posters could form a round-the-clock spamwatch volunteer team instead. We'd need to be given the power to delete the spam once someone else had reported it.

Or alternatively, robomod could remove it to a PossiblySpam folder, so that we wouldn't have it cluttering up the pages we want to read.

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Originally posted by Kewpie
Even that wouldn't stop the clan-freaks, they'd just make it difficult for their "enemies" to post in GF and Only Chess. Unless the IDs of button-users are public, so that undeserving victims could get even ...

Maybe we frequent readers/posters could form a round-the-clock spamwatch volunteer team instead. We'd need to be given the power to delete the sp ...[text shortened]... t to a PossiblySpam folder, so that we wouldn't have it cluttering up the pages we want to read.
Good ideas.

Oh and a new clown posted SPAm in the "chess only" forum

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Originally posted by Kewpie
I'd like to see a qualifier for forum posts, say 10 moves. Then our moderators wouldn't be constantly chasing off the idiots who sign up just to hit us with spam.
Good idea.

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ive sseen 3 so far. 1 was for fake passports! the others were from quagonzi.

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and yet another spammer today. Oh, how I wish for a KILL button ...

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Originally posted by Kewpie
and yet another spammer today. Oh, how I wish for a KILL button ...
such violence doesn't become you

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Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
such violence doesn't become you
I presume it would only kill th thread not the spammer 😉

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Originally posted by Ponderable
I presume it would only kill th thread not the spammer 😉
Don't tempt me. 😠

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We had a new one.

The site idea has been: allow pkayers without moves not to post anywhere save the help forum.

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Originally posted by Ponderable
We had a new one.

The site idea has been: allow pkayers without moves not to post anywhere save the help forum.
That would tend to wreck the Help Forum, I suspect. We could do the "no-moves" restriction by providing a Welcome Helper (aka Greeter). Since they're human volunteers wanting to do good things for the site, all that would be needed seems to be "allow forum access" and "prevent forum access" buttons for the Greeter to use.

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