Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99143 More actions · Answer 1

Any admins about to ban https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/user/james500 ? He's spammed over 50 topics in the last hour with advertisements for counterfeit documents.

Thom~

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 247180 More actions · Answer 2

Thom A wrote:

Any admins about to ban https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/user/james500 ? He's spammed over 50 topics in the last hour with advertisements for counterfeit documents.

I was half expecting/hoping that there would at least be some sort of posting-block applied to any user with > x spam messages in a day.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399289 More actions · Answer 3

Thom A wrote:

Any admins about to ban https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/user/james500 ? He's spammed over 50 topics in the last hour with advertisements for counterfeit documents.

No idea how to ban someone, but I discovered I could edit their profile. Just changed the password. That'll slow 'em down for a moment.

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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 247180 More actions · Answer 4

Grant Fritchey wrote:

Thom A wrote:
Any admins about to ban https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/user/james500 ? He's spammed over 50 topics in the last hour with advertisements for counterfeit documents.
No idea how to ban someone, but I discovered I could edit their profile. Just changed the password. That'll slow 'em down for a moment.

Excellent. Make the new password 45 characters long, expiring every minute, and must contain a mixture of Greek and Chinese characters.

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99143 More actions · Answer 5

Phil Parkin wrote:

Thom A wrote:
Any admins about to ban https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/user/james500 ? He's spammed over 50 topics in the last hour with advertisements for counterfeit documents.
I was half expecting/hoping that there would at least be some sort of posting-block applied to any user with > x spam messages in a day.

Yeah. At least most of us here have enough reputation to nuke a topic instantly with a single report. Honestly hoped that after 3-5 reports it was at least disable them from posting. Certainly after the 40 or so it should have done.

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk

frederico_fonseca SSCoach Points: 16254 More actions · Answer 6

with wordpress forums I think you need to have one of the addins to manage users - may not be able to delete it, but you can block it (with or without a message)

and yes that functionality to ban user after x reports is sadly missed - going through 20 or 30 posts and reporting 1 at the time to have it hidden isn't fun

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738927 More actions · Answer 7

User blocked. I don't know that there's a way now to block someone with x spam messages, but filing an issue.

Thinking that 3 spam messages is enough. The false positives seem to be 1-2 for a user, so blocking someone at >=3 seems sensible.

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6615 More actions · Answer 8

Probably >3 within a timeframe, to be fair? not >3 ever?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738927 More actions · Answer 9

Time frame makes sense, though we usually clear up false positives from users. Not sure many people have many spam posts across their entire time here, but a good point.

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6615 More actions · Answer 10

I was thinking of our recent exchange with someone that multiple of us considered spam, but you did not because you were familiar with their posting style

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frederico_fonseca SSCoach Points: 16254 More actions · Answer 11

used to be 3 per post - and when it happened all posts for that user would be gone (not sure what happened to the user on the background)

on old forum we could report same post multiple times - so would be easy for someone with the correct "trust level" to quickly block a spammer

but I was informed sometime ago that this had not been implemented intentionally due to abuse (or attempts to)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738927 More actions · Answer 12

If you "report" a post now, it goes to spam. We can un-spam it as admins. With the way that spammers work, we decided to live with the few complaints we get from users when their post is mistakenly marked.

There also is an automatic system that marks some, and it learns, so after a few posts, it starts to mark them automatically.

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 77014 More actions · Answer 13

Yesterday my work announced that they were extending the work from home policy at least through Labor Day. With me living in one state and working in another, that certainly makes it easier to navigate the different timetables.

Drew

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738927 More actions · Answer 14

Labor Day probably makes sense. Easier to put this out there and then change later, than keep extending it.

No update from RG, but quite a few people are thinking we may go through all of 2020. We had a survey this week asking if people would WFH for the rest of the year. Most of my colleagues were in favor.

I am not. I want to go see people, at least a bit.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004646 More actions · Answer 15

Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

Labor Day probably makes sense. Easier to put this out there and then change later, than keep extending it.
No update from RG, but quite a few people are thinking we may go through all of 2020. We had a survey this week asking if people would WFH for the rest of the year. Most of my colleagues were in favor.
I am not. I want to go see people, at least a bit.

We have a mandatory department-wide Teams meeting every morning. It's mostly a complete waste of 15 minutes with some rare exceptions. That's followed a mandatory morning scrum. Good useful 15 minutes. That's about all I need (heh... I mean all I can stand) for "human" contact. Our team also has an optional "lunch meeting" on Friday. That's ok... some pretty good ideas come out of that and well as some interesting stuff that people are doing.

Other than that, though, I'm pretty much digging this WFH stuff. If I could get them to lighten up on the morning meetings, that would be good because, a lot of times, I'm sending my last email at 2 or 3 in the morning because I need to do a lot of the stuff I do after hours or on weekends.

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