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Who is moderating against spam and, undesired solicitation/advertisement posts here in the forum?

I want to please ask of him/her that we start a way to validate legitimate posts from <insert bad-word here> spam or adverts. Say, bots or people that come in/register and put one sole post in X forum just to get clicks.

It is not part of my desires to bug people with my concerns, but if I am allowed by the moderator I will put the following message on spam posts and pm him/her about them.

This is a spam thread, bogus on its information and put here to harness clicks to links in said text. Please do not click any of the links or further post on this thread. This post is tagged as spam and in queue to moderation.

And I encourage a team of non-moderating active members that are responsible for doing such a task.

Edit: changed the big red message as per Samppa's suggestion.

It's a fine idea, albeit I don't see the point - A mod will find it in any case. Sure, if you send them a pm (I don't see a reason to spam the spam post) it may be deleted faster, but then again does it matter if it's deleted 30 minutes before or after.

Well, their point is to harness clicks right? let them not get any of them and realize that this community is not worth the spamming. Since, if they get clicks, any number of them, they are gaining profit.

Sorry I am so zealous about this, but I have a severe case of spam-phobia, and I am leading a personal crusade/inquisition against spammers.

My intention is not to be rude, but guard those that I consider my own.

Well then, let them make profit..


I think a more effective method would be to just grant some active users mod power and have the users police the forum.
Of course, I don't see a problem with you doing what you've suggested, posting on a spam topic is okay (as far as you're just pointing out it's spam) and there is no problem, and AFAIK pm'ing a mod is fine too.

If this goes ahead, I'd like to see another point added though.. "Don't post on this topic unless you have something proper to say."
It makes me weep when I see all users posting "omg, this is spamm!!!" over and over.

True, I changed the big-red message as per your suggestion .

The whole staff is moderating the forum. Most things are done in the background, so you won't really notice anything. We have a spam-bin forum that's full of spammy posts, all placed by the staff.

We had a discussion about this topic before, but we can't do much about it until the new phpbb releases and the stuff gets ported over. Plus we can install alot of new mods.

You don't have to post the red text thingy, the boards are checked by at least three staff members every day. So it will just "encourage" other users to spam "THIS IS SPAM, OMG REMOVE REMOVEEEEEE!!111 kthx".

OK, I got the idea, it is good to know that you are working on this subject (as was expected, don't get me wrong), lets just say I am trying to lend a hand. I also recognize that I get fired up pretty easily with spam, I just do not tolerate spam.