I am a paying customer that from time to time needs a little help.
And 100% of the time i am helped by the helpers on this forum.
Today again i come by to see if there is anything i need to catch up on and instead find half a dozen forums infested with spam that has been here for well over an hour or two. Last time i was here somebody was posting utter filth and it stayed up for some time.
You have helpers here who are willing to help people like me on Alwil’s behalf and to their benefit i may add.
My qualm is this, the helpers here are 100% powerless to do anything about some of these offensive filthy posts and must await a moderator who may show up in a couple of hours or not to rectify the problem.
(So why not make a portion of the helpers moderators?) I mean they are here more so than anyone else.
And it would make the forums a much more pleasant place to visit.
Well as has been mentioned it isn’t just the moderators, but the report to moderator link on the spam posts should be used in the first instance.
This forum is no different to many other forums in that they attract spammers as they are a) very active and b) search engines are quick to index new topics/posts. However that said I feel there is a much reduced instance of spam on the forums.
Much of the spam is gone in less than an hour and much of it in minutes, but the internet is a 24 hour a day beast and there will be times when dealing with spam takes a little longer than that time frame.
In the image below, you will see the “Report to moderator” link that is near the bottom right of each and every post. When you find a spam post otherwise offending post, you should click on the link so that you can take the appropriate action.
Sorry, master Yoda, but to me “in anyway” sense no makes.
Understand could “in any way” “anyway” or I, but this not.
English: Sorry, master Yoda, but “in anyway” makes no sense to me.
I could understand “in any way” or “anyway”, but not this.
Then I think it was a misunderstanding in the translation between you two perhaps. Either way…forget about it. Sometimes things like this happen, but life goes on.
Yes i understand this feature, basically to the main point of my post.
A filthy pictured post can be reported so many times by so many people but it can remain up on the forums for hours. (This i have witnessed several times now)
All i am saying is that the admins of this board are overlooking what i think is a faster responding solution to this filthy crap. The helpers are here most all the time, “i could name a good half dozen helpers right now” that would give a very satisfactory result by acting in a timely manner when more of this vile stuff is posted. Everytime i witness vile posts all i see are powerless helpers sitting around doing nothing.
To me this is a family orientated security forum, and i as a paying customer should not have to put up with this kind of filth when the means to end it (in a timely manner 99% of the time) is a helper who is on but unable to do anything. (Again this i have witnessed each time this vileness has been posted)
I do understand no forum is full proof against this sort of abuse & misuse, but i will point out that here some very undesireble posts can be up for several hours before being acted upon.
@ardvark
Thank you because i was starting to feel that i was.
Anyway have a great day all.
Later Dreamy
PS: Helpers are an overlooked valuable resource that are often left to waste.
…wrong, I’ve witnessed just the contrary, every time I’ve reported spam threads, they got deleted within a minute or too, sometimes just a few seconds later : …there may have been cases where filthy threads have remained longer then expected, but that’s rare, very rare. All public forums get spammed, live with it, and do like we do, just report what you see as soon as you see it.
