I found a Spam! (But I don't see any way to report it.)

Nifft

Here's the spam:

http://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/42149/f-s-brand-new-samsung-128gb-galaxy-s6-edge-limited-edition

There used to be a Flag or Report button, I think? If that went away, what's the best way to paint a target on the spam for rapid demolition?

meagloth

Tag all the moderators you can think of in a comment on the spammy thread. It usually gets taken care of pretty quickly. I think there used to be a report button, but that was before me.

meagloth

See?

elminster

Used to be a report button but it got abused so it went bye bye. The moderators though here do a great job so most of the spam gets taken care of pretty quickly.

Metalloman

Yeah, also if you tag the spammer name while posting to a moderator, like @Nifft, we can deal with it!

scriver

Why did you bye-bye the button instead of the abusers?

Son_of_Imoen

Well, @Nifft, @ElizaBeth55 made an Android game in which 2 sports cars can compete to each other. While I've always wanted a race between Alora and Edwin who rides the quickest on the road from Baldur's Gate to Nashkel, I do think it's a little off-topic and spammy in the mods forum.

Jalily

scriver said:

Why did you bye-bye the button instead of the abusers?

The overhead of dealing with abusers outweighed the benefits.

Behemot

A slight OT, where can I "spam" relevant stuff, like "new wonderfull BGEE review"? I mean what is the best section for this?

JuliusBorisov

@Behemot Create a new thread in the https://forums.beamdog.com/categories/bg:ee-discussion section.

BTW, now we have a flagging feature to easily report any spam - check https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/675921/#Comment_675921

Behemot

Thanks, will make the thread as soon as my guys check the texts and release the article. I am still not a native speaker so…

jastey

How to report spam bots? Currently, the "Recent Discussion" site is filled to 1/3 by spam posts from these obvious spam accounts:

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/dvbsftdj

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/fbdas00173

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/dhirubhai

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/afdsfdsfd

Maybe consider a better register procedure to make it harder for bots to register?

jastey

More spam bots:

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/kaashna

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/babaji99

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/molviswa

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/saajna

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/molviado

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/kjoll060

Some of them post spam for several hours now. Am I right to assume you are on this? It is getting a bit of a nuisance.

jastey

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/bheravbaba

https://forums.beamdog.com/profile/chhaganlal7

lolien

Hy @jastey ! I use to comment on their profile walls, so mods can pick them out on the activity page. I use sometimes the flag button, but it has a ridiculous cool down time, so one can't flag two spam in a row.

jastey

Thank you, @lolien but my dumb question is: what is a profile wall?

And for the spam posts: If I see more than two from the same spam bot, I don't feel like flagging them individually (especially not if it's still posting more).
The possibility to report users would be cool, but I didn't find this option on the profile page.

lolien

You click on the name of the bot and it lead you to it's profile. You can comment there, and it turns up on the activity page too.

jastey

I see. Thank you!

smeagolheart

every night there are a ton of spam threads for some reason the past couple of weeks.

Son_of_Imoen

And each time the forum get spammed, it becomes unreadable. I for one can't concentrate on topic titles, if the page is full of spam (is it the same for people without mental illness I wonder, can you still pick the real topics from in between the spam? Sometimes I don't know which things are just human, and which hardships I have because of my illness).

jastey

The current spam threads are "easy" to identify for me because they use a special way of marking the titles with capital and small letters and numbers, and contain RL words that are not related to BeamDog, BG or modding.

But the "Recent Discussion" page becomes unreadable in my opinion, also.