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

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• meagloth Member Posts: 3,806

  July 2015

  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.

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• meagloth Member Posts: 3,806

  July 2015

  See?

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• elminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,315

  July 2015 edited July 2015

  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.

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• Metalloman Member, Moderator, Translator (NDA) Posts: 3,975

  July 2015

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

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• scriver Member Posts: 2,072

  July 2015

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

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• Son_of_Imoen Member Posts: 1,806

  July 2015

  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.

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• Jalily Member Posts: 4,681

  July 2015

  scriver said:

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

  The overhead of dealing with abusers outweighed the benefits.

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• Behemot Member Posts: 26

  October 2015

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

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• JuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,725

  October 2015

  @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

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• Behemot Member Posts: 26

  October 2015

  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…

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• jastey Member Posts: 2,671

  May 2016

  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?
  
  

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• jastey Member Posts: 2,671

  May 2016

  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.
  
  

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• jastey Member Posts: 2,671

  May 2016 edited May 2016

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

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• lolien Member, Moderator, Translator (NDA) Posts: 3,108

  May 2016

  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.

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• jastey Member Posts: 2,671

  May 2016

  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.

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• lolien Member, Moderator, Translator (NDA) Posts: 3,108

  May 2016 edited May 2016

  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.

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• jastey Member Posts: 2,671

  May 2016

  I see. Thank you!

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• smeagolheart Member Posts: 7,963

  May 2016

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

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• Son_of_Imoen Member Posts: 1,806

  May 2016

  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).

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• jastey Member Posts: 2,671

  May 2016

  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.

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