WannaBeURGurl
Active member
Hi Mods and anyone else who cares,
I find it frustrating as a user that I am willing to downvote and report the recent rash of spammers, but the timer that prevents someone from abusing the 'Report' button is actually slowing me more than the spammer. I know I can ignore the spammer, but it still shows their post taking up space with a message that they were ignored.
I don't know that reducing the wait to report is even a real answer. And there is no way to demand that the mod team take some kind of proactive action, because I can't see a way that these spammers get screened in real-time that doesn't also inconvenience legitimate users.
I recognize the staff are volunteers, and can't leap to handle every report immediately, but when I report an obvious spammer, I don't like to see it take days for action to be taken.
I'm rereading this and it's very much a word vomit. I'm sorry for just dumping this out on the forum, but I'm hoping that people with experience dealing with this can chime in with successful strategies that have worked in other forums. Maybe the staff can implement them quickly and all this becomes less of a noticeable problem for an end user.
Thanks for reading.
I find it frustrating as a user that I am willing to downvote and report the recent rash of spammers, but the timer that prevents someone from abusing the 'Report' button is actually slowing me more than the spammer. I know I can ignore the spammer, but it still shows their post taking up space with a message that they were ignored.
I don't know that reducing the wait to report is even a real answer. And there is no way to demand that the mod team take some kind of proactive action, because I can't see a way that these spammers get screened in real-time that doesn't also inconvenience legitimate users.
I recognize the staff are volunteers, and can't leap to handle every report immediately, but when I report an obvious spammer, I don't like to see it take days for action to be taken.
I'm rereading this and it's very much a word vomit. I'm sorry for just dumping this out on the forum, but I'm hoping that people with experience dealing with this can chime in with successful strategies that have worked in other forums. Maybe the staff can implement them quickly and all this becomes less of a noticeable problem for an end user.
Thanks for reading.
