Post #473592 by hanford_lemoore on Sat, Aug 1, 2009 1:15 PM

Aloha,

Sorry about the recent spam on TC. TC's spam filters captures on average about 20 bogus users a day (that you never see) so these guys are slipping through some how. I've changed the filters a bit to see if we can hold them off.

Meanwhile:

Do:

Report it to me, via a PM or email. Include a link to the topic, if notto the post itself, and the username.

Don't:

Don't feed the spammers or rubberneck. Treat out-of-the-blue spam on TC like you do in your email -- just ignore it. Posting a comment to it only bumps it up to the top so more people end up clicking on it. If it's spam in an existing topic, again just ignore it. Posting replying to it or talking about it in a legit topic just further derails the conversation and creates a bigger distraction for people who are desperately trying to keep things on-topic.

Spam is hard to deal with. Tiki Central isn't optimized for removing spam once it's on the site. I wish it were a one-click-to-remove thing, but it's several steps on a per-post basis, and sometimes I can't get to it until hours after it's been posted. Moderators don't have the power to ban or delete users, so I'm the only one who can do that. Perhaps one day I can create a one-click-removes-all-posts-from-a-user button that would make it easier for me to remove them than it is for them to create them, but until then, we're just stuck with occasionally having to deal with a half-dozen or so spam posts on the site for a few hours.

One more thing: Due to the way I removed this round of spam, I might have missed some. If you see some spam still lingering, send me a link to it. Thanks.

Mahalo,

Hanford