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Add "Report this as spam" button

A Airon90 Public Seen by 147

During this weekend I saw that new profile has been created to spam on D*.

Is it possible to create a "Report this as spam" button in order to report to podmins a spam attack, so that they can delete the spam posts?

It should be added to photos, posts, comments and users.

What do you think about?

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Flaburgan Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:39PM

It's already implemented in the develop branch, we are polishing that and it will probably be included in the next release ;)

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goob Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:40PM

KAK

Karthikeyan A K Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:41PM

One is able to ignore a profile and that should be it. If one is a spammer, almost all will ignore him.

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goob Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:43PM

@karthikeyanak - it's not just about ignoring an account, it's about reporting that account to the podmin so that the account can be deleted to prevent them spamming further.

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Karthikeyan A K Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:47PM

what is perfectly valid for one, will appear as spam to other. I am afraid this is bringing too much of policing to D*

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nio Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:50PM

@karthikeyanak have in all means true.
It can be only information for admins.
Many robots can do the bad job and many trollos too.
Really bad mentioned thing i guess.

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nio Sun 16 Feb 2014 4:51PM

When we sad about information for admins in sotisficated method (prevent DOS attack), this can be goog idea.

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Adrenalin Sun 16 Feb 2014 5:54PM

would be worth a try to implement a "report post/comment/user" -button.

I agree with Karthikeyan A K we could ignore spam but I fear the more users we get the more people are interested to spam conversations.

But it isn't only spam we have SCAM too, fraudulent ppl trying to collect money for non-existing NGO's too and it would be nice to have a reporting-tool as this can harm other users.

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Rich Sun 16 Feb 2014 7:31PM

I'm pleased to see the "report this post" is not called "report as spam" - we'd have 101 different reporting options otherwise.

I was unclear as to whether there is the option to say why the post is being reported to the podmin - can anyone clarify this?

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goob Sun 16 Feb 2014 7:36PM

There will be that option, Rich. At the moment it is limited, but part of refining the feature will be to expand the ability to specify why the post is being reported.

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