Is there a way to flag spam in the Forum?
Karl Weinert (2.0k●5●27●36)
| asked Jun 27 '12, 7:16 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Jun 27 '12, 8:56 a.m. by Seth Packham (1.4k●4●22●13)
I see a couple of new spam messages but didn't see any way to flag them as such.
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/80284/denied-user-access-was-7 https://jazz.net/forum/questions/67795/urgent-anyone-knows-about-this-error-code-crjaz1728e The user has 18 answers after joining under 2 hours ago. |
Accepted answer
Yes. Users with a minimum reputation of 200 points can flag questions or answers for moderation. They can be flagged as spam, offensive, off-topic, not nice, advertising, etc. Our staff will do best to quickly moderate and delete where necessary.
Seth Packham selected this answer as the correct answer
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Ralph Schoon
commented Jun 27 '12, 8:58 a.m.
| edited Jun 27 '12, 9:01 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
@Seth. Ah, I found it, it is in the menu 'More' report. Right? |
3 other answers
We've got some new spam from user https://jazz.net/forum/users/rubbul0155
It would also be nice to be able to downgrade a user to -1 and have that block them from posting anything more until further review.
For now, I'm just retagging the spam I see using the tag "spam". Hopefully that makes it easier to cleanup, but doesn't prevent more from coming in from that user.
~Sean
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Ralph Schoon
commented Jan 29 '13, 11:54 a.m.
| edited Jan 29 '13, 11:55 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
Sean, I deleted what I could. I usually forward the users to the jazz site team for deletion. However, this week I have no access to my business mail account to do so.
Please use the reporting option (see accepted answer) instead of retagging. Retagging pushes that trash up in the list.
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Also be careful. Downgrading an answer seems to cost you points (I got -1 for downgrading a spammer not to long ago)
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Ralph Schoon (63.1k●3●36●46)
| answered Jun 27 '12, 8:50 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
I think you can degrade the items you found. I however, would agree that there should be a way to report spam. I deleted the spam posts of the user that I could find. I reported the user to higher powers to get the account deleted.
Thanks for reporting. |
Arne Bister (2.6k●1●28●32)
| answered Jun 27 '12, 8:12 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Jun 27 '12, 8:15 a.m.
Hi Karl,
it seems that more administrative powers are activated as your reputation score goes up. I followed the links you mentioned and reported the spam answers in them as such. The question remains how to report a user as the source of spam: https://jazz.net/forum/users/2577996 - it seems tedious to follow the links to all answers and report them one by one. - Arne |
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