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10-20-09, 19:38
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Fixed your sig-spammer.
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thanks pat 
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10-21-09, 02:49
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King of Understatement
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I think that's a bit extreme. Banning yes, but castration?
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10-21-09, 06:57
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Originally Posted by Pat Phelan
I've tried to reply to this thread several times today, with no success.
VBulletin 3.8.4 doesn't appear to have the option for directing post reports. I get nearly 500 emails per hour at the email address used to report bad posts, most of which are spam (not spam reports, actual spam). Every few days I try to look at a few thousand messages to see if I can find anything useful, but at over 10,000 emails per day it would be a full time job just to scan them.
When iNet does the VBulletin upgrade, things are supposed to get better.
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That sounds like a complete nightmare. 
Why is so much spam feeding through into your e-mail account?
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10-21-09, 07:06
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10-21-09, 07:32
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Colin - At the top of each post on the right hand side, next to the permalink, is a little icon. Click the icon above the post to report it as spam. Yep - it's a little hidden.
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10-31-09, 22:11
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FWIW, the new version of VBulletin is installed here at DBForums and I've set up forums for Infractions and for Reported Posts. There are a number of new features which have already been "engaged" and a bunch more that I'm going to be working on over the next couple of weeks. I expect the process to take a few weeks, but that things shoud get a lot easier for the moderators which will give them more time to moderate discussions instead of having to deal with "care and feeding" issues.
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10-31-09, 22:40
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instead of having to deal with "care and feeding" issues.
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huh? care and feeding?
the forum for reported posts is wonderful news, pat
i trust the mods will be using "getnew" and therefore see all reports, no matter which forum the bad posts are made in
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11-01-09, 16:06
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vaguely human
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There seems to be loads of spam in the Corral at the moment - can we not turn on some of the new features in vBulletin to automatically remove this stuff?
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11-02-09, 02:37
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Colin - I've just noticed this. This particular issue has already been noted and addressed
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11-02-09, 04:20
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vaguely human
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I suppose all the porn and Viagra posts appearing in the Corral are also on topic but nevertheless think they should probably go 
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11-02-09, 04:27
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Don't worry - I've archived them.
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11-03-09, 06:37
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Colin - I've just noticed this. This particular issue has already been noted and addressed
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Okay, thanks for taking a look.
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11-04-09, 08:07
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vaguely human
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When iNet does the VBulletin upgrade, things are supposed to get better.
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I hate to say it but things appear far worse now (after the upgrade) from a spam perspective. Is there a plan to tackle the problem?
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11-04-09, 08:24
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Hi Mike,
Yep, for some reason we are getting a heckofallot more spam since the upgrade. Perhaps this version is easier for bots to exploit? I don't know.
Either way, the upgrade has also brought us much better ways to deal with the spam. Your reported posts now get a lot more attention from more of us, so keep reporting them
There are talks going on between moderators at the moment about how best we takle this influx of spam so hopefully we will get a better handle soon!
Cheers,
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