Forum Moderation

hob · Post by **hob** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:17 pm

After discussion with Daiv I have now been promoted to full forum moderator.
The main reason for this is to have someone in a different time zone to help deal with the recent upsurge in spam appearing on the board.
Daiv has several other projects that he is working on and I hope this will allow him more time to work on those.
It is not my intention to do any more that that at least to start with.
We have a great site here with a friendly bunch of members and the forum for a large part moderates its self.

regards hob.

hob · Post by **hob** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:25 pm

Daiv and I have been working behind the scenes to remove spammers profiles.

there is just a chance that we may have deleted the odd legit profile that has not been used for a few months if this is the case please feel free to rejoin.

we caught 5 spammer profiles for sure, these no longer exist

Post by **CoronaCactus** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:54 pm

Great! Congrats on the promo

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:16 pm

That's great Hob. I appreciate the lack of intrusive stuff on this site.

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:58 am

Hob, thanks. I often stop by at night on the west coast time zone( AZ doesn't do Daylight savings time) and have noticed as many as 6 messages in an hour!

I am glad that you will work to remove the spam, it's annoying.

P.S. Also I am glad to have you as a moderator and Congrats on your promotion!

CelticRose · Post by **CelticRose** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:25 am

Congrats, Hob!

There has been more spam than usual lately, hasn't there? But then again we're pretty spoiled on this site -- we're so used to no spam that even a little seems like a lot.

DannabisAx · Post by **DannabisAx** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:56 am

Hooray for Hob!

and I have to say this is an awesome site. <3

hob · Post by **hob** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:31 pm

hob wrote:After discussion with Daiv I have now been promoted to full forum moderator.
The main reason for this is to have someone in a different time zone to help deal with the recent upsurge in spam appearing on the board.

regards hob.

over 100 posts and profiles have now been dealt with in the last few months

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:39 am

from time to time I've seen one, maybe two spam topics, I had no idea that before I log in there are already that many removed (ptcg: six in an hour).
keep it up! and hob congrats on the promo, I'm sure daiv will have more time for things now!

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:00 am

sorry i had a couple of days off the forum, i guess the others have too, the spam is all cleaned up now

Post by **daiv** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:21 pm

hob wrote:sorry i had a couple of days off the forum, i guess the others have too, the spam is all cleaned up now

Yes, Hob! For me it is a mad rush to get everything done before Thanksgiving (Next Thursday). Thanks so much for taking care of those SPAM posts!

hob · Post by **hob** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:38 pm

hob on Thu Nov 11 wrote:
over 100 posts and profiles have now been dealt with in the last few months

another 100 in the last 55 days

202 profiles of spammers have now been removed

Post by **daiv** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:01 am

Wow Hob, I didn't know that number. It actually is a bit bigger than that as I have found some on my own. I would guess about another 10% more or so. It seems most of it gets posted while I'm sleeping. So it sure is nice to have you grabbing them like that.

hob · Post by **hob** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:07 am

if you click on the profile of the newest member, there is a unique number for them in the address bar, take the number of members on the index page

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/index.php

from that number and the result is the number of profiles deleted

one more to delete on my pm

Post by **daiv** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:09 am

Ahh! That's good thinking!

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