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Spammed by a user without a reason
Hi,
I would not makea thread but I cannot find any policy if similar situation occur.
I contacted one of the mods but he could not help me.
I am receiving a massive amount of spam pins from a user which currently is not really performing on the forum.
http://www.bricksetforum.com/profile/reactions/1081/nerick906?reaction=spamhow do we judge what is right what is wrong ?
regards,
Rafal
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Edit: he logged about 20 minutes ago after this comment was posted.
As my profile look totally devastated in regards to that.
But as it's causing you distress, I've removed the spam flags.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
That's why you received few spam marks.
Giving it back without a reason was not necessary, when in my matter was the topics that were alive all the time and people were actively selling/trading Lego.
Taking your own advice, you could have simply PMd me and asked me to remove them. But you didn't.
It is not intended to be a mark of general annoyance and definitely should not be used in retaliatory fashion.
But seriously: yes, nothing to get worked up over.
Is there a hidden slap on the wrist if you get a post removed?
In day to day usage, the Like and Agree buttons served much the same purpose so we decided only one was needed. Like was chosen, so agree and also disagree were removed. We retained both the abuse and spam flags until last year IIRC, when abuse was removed as it was causing conflict when people argued that their posts had been flagged and weren't abusive.
As @rocao said above, the spam flag is only intended to be used on genuine spam (a contradiction of terms if ever there was one!) to remove it quickly without administrative action. It does seem at the moment that as the spam button is rarely used for it's intended purpose it may be better to remove it. Alternatively, we do have the option of implementing Dislike or Off-topic reactions. Both of these will bury a post if it gets to -5 points. This is something that we could consider if the community feels that they would be a worthwhile addition and wouldn't lead to increased complaints and tension.
I guess given all this, my vote would be to retain like, and get rid of spam - the purpose of the spam button can already be accomplished using the "report" option anyway.
The former will result in more heated disputes but more ideas and interesting discussion, the latter will result in less disputes and more pleasantness but will effectively bar people with new ideas from the forums such that they'll become stagnant. Personally, I've always felt a bit of unpleasantness is an acceptable price to pay for improved knowledge and understanding, but I guess others may disagree - I know some people are far more comfortable when they've got somewhere they can go to have their pre-determined biases reinforced and never challenged.
It's really a fundamental question of what point the forums seek to serve.
Whether a person agrees, disagrees, or has something to add worth saying, the lack of a button to press encourages them to post their opinion and share their thoughts. But with those sorts of buttons, we'd risk seeing threads developing into only a handful of opening comments, with long lines of lazy 'agree +++++++' and 'disagree --------' clicks. (Which would be a bl**dy eyesore to boot).
A single line of 'likes' is good enough to gauge general approval/enjoyment of a comment - it's roughly the equivalent of people laughing or nodding as you spoke, and exactly like nods and laughs, not overly important to set too much stall by, but nice to notice occasionally.
We don't need a detailed list of critique-based options to clutter up a comment... hmm, what should i vote this one... 'off-topic?', 'this user lives under a bridge and eats goats?', 'post made me laugh?', 'i'm hungry?', 'sausage post?', 'red 5?'... Lego Sets should be reviewed. Not forum posts.
Further to that, if such a thumb could actually 'close' a post, it would only take a few new members to 'not get' the flow of the forum, or a handful of pernickety so and so's taking it upon themselves to play moderator to quickly stifle every light-hearted, jokey comment and organic derailment (which, as with normal conversation, naturally self-right anyway when something pertinent to the topic crops up. And this forum emulates conversation quite well).
So I think the current set up is fine, i'd suggest people just needed reminding what the buttons were for.
The Like button works as a simple catch-all button of general approval/enjoyment, (nobody is going to be offended by a like, so it doesn't matter what you clicked it for).
The Flag - and note, it is a flag - is for drawing attention to actual spam (so that it disappears) and/or reporting abuse (to have the abuser dealt with). Fine when used correctly, but not so good if people mistake flagging a post as a form of 'vote down/disapproval'. Disapproval and 'finger wagging' buttons would just cause irritation, and feel personal, as this thread proves.
There is no 'pitchfork-wielding mob' button, and i think we're a better forum because of it.
Keep the like button (it no doubt stops dozens of follow up posts saying 'i agree with ...'), and loose the spam button - I think we've all seen abuse of the spam button. Assuming we have a report/flag button to raise a post to a moderator we're fine. I've always considered we had a good moderating team here so an automatic system to bury bad posts seems unnecessary.
Are we all going to get a good telling off for clicking 'like' instead? :oP
(I can't help it, i'm mischievous by nature).
(There was a 'MatthewTest' post, which has been removed).
I have to confess I was actually expecting the below to happen rather than it being removed completely!
One person's troll is another person's sensible advice it would seem.