Forum: Waves of Russian Nonsense

[Mike Kerner]

Yeah, a few more community moderators would be welcome.

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> > Am 12.08.2017 um 23:47 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> >
> > Thank you - I'm sure there will be no issue with giving you the relevant
> privileges.
>
> I had been asking for this a long time ago, but obviously the mothership
> did not want to trust a long time user (since 1999)
> who already has (limited) admin permissions for a couple of years on the
> forum, THAT far.
>
> So I deleted the 49 slavic spam postings manually a couple of minutes
> ago...
>
> > I know Heather has to deal with things like this on a regular basis and
> having others who are willing to assist can only help.
> >
> > Warmest Regards,
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On 12 Aug 2017, at 21:26, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Forums are filling up quickly with a whole lot of nonsense about
> >>> cars in Russian (althought, oddly enough it seems to be coming from
> >>> the Ukraine).
> >>
> >> Thank you for the report.  In the future, please use the "Report Post"
> link near the upper-right of each post.  That will flag it for moderation,
> where it will normally be handled quickly as soon as the next moderator
> shows up and does our customary "New Posts" to review.
> >>
> >> In this case (and the copycat later today) I banned the user but did
> not remove the posts.  There were too many.  In the past I used to hunt
> down individual posts and delete them, because that's all my moderator
> privileges allowed.  Since then I've used PHPBB on other sites where I have
> full privileges, and PHPBB provides an option to delete all posts from a
> given user, a much better use of time.
> >>
> >> I've written Support to let them decide whether to elevate my
> privileges to allow me to efficiently remove the spam posts, or to user
> their own powers to do so.  Hopefully that will be addressed shortly.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Richard Gaskin
> >> Fourth World Systems
> >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
> Klaus Major
> http://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major-k.de
>
>
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