Tired of all the shit on Forumphila

Deity wrote:
It would require a lot of dedication and perseverance to attempt to phish there.

You could always transfer a phishing thread into the VIP Section, just to liven things up a bit

Deity wrote:

tease

Smukke Charlie, it is unfortunate that you have become frustrated with how certain people treat our forum in furtherance of their own ends. It happens on every forum but, the larger the forum the larger the problem appears to be. Hence, we thereby become held to a higher accountability as punishment for our successes.

We have going on 200,000 members and it is hard to pinpoint the motives of new members until they show their hand and is the reason that we staffers here work as hard as any volunteers anywhere, so as to try to keep this forum free of spammers, scammers, and so on as best as can reasonably be expected of us.

Having said that, no doubt there is room for improvement and we continually strive to do so.

Sugarman, I agree with you that people should not bump phisher posts to alert staff and members since that alert method contributes to potential problems whereas clicking the Report this Post button does a better job of instantly sending an alert directly to the staff to that post`s existance, by way of a special staff private messaging system that each staffer is made aware of the minute that he/she logs onto the forum.

James Lewis, I only just now read this thread, having been away ill for two weeks, and I noticed your suggesting 'deputizing' mods under certain conditions for certain needs, and last evening I had started a PM to svinto stating basically the exact same thing but I thought mine was a dumb idea so I deleted the text to him. So I suppose that makes you just as dumb as me I recently had been considering that Forumophilia could easily add 'weekend mods' for example, who could help bolster the staff when the site is busiest. Or section Mods to help moderate certain sections of the forum. Or night-time Mods. Or we could have one or two task-specific mods such as for removing just spam, or for phisher post removal, and so on. We would not want too many levels of staff so the idea may be DOA. But on second thought, I will after all broach this subject with svinto, or with the entire staff, and if there is interest we may go forward in this direction, viz. assistant Moderators.

2300dude, phishing is when a person posts a fake link that reads Rapidshare/file name etc but points to some site that is not Rapidshare, so as to trap you into entering your real Rapidshare premium account info on a faked page, whereupon they then change your RS Premium account log-in info and steal your Rapidshare account (obviously you must have a premium RS account to begin with in order for them to be able to steal it from you).

Things got a little out of hand when we "inherited" all those posters about a year ago. But the mods did their job and, over time, we have seen the good guys stick around and the rest leave for greener pastures.

Stick around Smukke Charlie.....this too shall pass.

Actually things have been really quiet around here for the last few days. Thursday and Friday afternoons (GMT) are usually horrendous for spammers/phishers. I've deleted over 100 phishing posts in a three hour period before now. Over the last 4 days I've only had to delete about 6 spamming/phishing posts. It is possible that another mod is killing them before I see them but I don't think that's the case. Let's hope it stays this way.

Incidentally I'm delighted to see that the incomparable Smukke Charlie hasn't left us and is still posting strong here. Thanks S C.

Good to see you back Abraxas. I hope you are feeling better mate.

Shadowman wrote: I haven't seen any spam in the General Chat forum, period.

Another forum sat up a program this month requiring any link contained in any of your first 10 posts be approved in a moderation cue before it saw the light of day. Someone still spammed the crap out of their video forum today.

I've noticed the same thing the past several days but I was hesitant to say anything because THEY might take it as a taunt and start up again. I have to think that the vigilance of the mods has just made it not worth the effort around here. Thanks to all of you.

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