Yeah, i just noticed him, very annoying! I think that this thread is a good idea .
I sure hope they don't have to turn of the comments + forum like they had to with the old site.
Thank Goodness that we have admins/mods to deal with them.
Oh yeah, kind of off topic, how about an update on the transition to a new server, balrog.

I sure hope they don't have to turn of the comments + forum like they had to with the old site.

On the old site, no admin was available in old site's last months (or years?) ,
and Dax and me, we only was able to watch, nothing more.

drew hause seems to be going to every game and app in order and writing a comment that say something like "_______ Looks fun and exciting" or "Thanks for the information about _____"
What i always say, once a spammer/troll always a spammer/troll.
Do you guys/gals think that this person is a spammer or a person with a disorder?(no offense -couldn't think of a better word)
EDIT: He is a spammer, take a look at macgarden's home page.
I Say he should have his account deleted!

I was waiting for "Microsoft Word 6 looks fun and exciting, visit my lame website. I am 11".

"root" is a spammer.

"vela9" is also a spammer.

If not yet possible, please give the ability to moderators to delete such users.

"Todd Sheen" seems to be a spammer.

"ben.w" is a spammer.
Oh yeah, and can the admins delete the user "Drew hause", he is back with force!

maybe on the new Mac Garden the admins can implement a system where users can flag a posting or a user and if e. g. five users flagged it as "spam", it gets automatically deleted?

That way it's not all depending on the admins and we could get rid of those spammers rather quick? (same goes for article vandalism)

But what do you do if spammers use the five vote device to kick out regular members? By using five diifferent IP adresses from five different internet cafes, and five different web based email accounts one person can act like five members! The same is true if you try to delete spammers' accounts. They just open up a new one with no problems. I also can imagine that they take any action by admins as a challenge to enforce their spamming activities. Some people just like war. Maybe the best way to deal with spammers is to ignore them so that they loose interest.

CurtisKaitlin35

Where I've had to deal with spammers before, what worked for us was to mark the accounts as spam and ignore their posts, so they would post but nothing would be recorded / subsequently displayed.

If you have the ability to run periodic jobs, ie. backups, physically delete logically deleted posts and threads, you could allow the spam posts to be recorded and displayed until the job would come along and clean it up. This option was a lot more work, so we didn't porsue it any further.

Invisible, or Ignore - when an account marked as a "spammer" presses the "Save" button, the post is ignored, nothing is saved, not even the fact that they have tried to make a post.
IIRC we called it the FOADYCSWPOSS protocol. FOAD and WPOS stand for what you think they stand for, the final S is for Spammer, CS you can guess when it's taken in context.

spammer or not, you have to admit that "Todd Sheen" is a pretty cool name.

So he had cool parents (who gave him his name)... Must break their hearts to see he's turned into some lame worthless piece of detritus spammer who everybody ridicules.

DarrenM

Adree - Thanks to Amatecha.

Hows about having a button called 'Spam' that after say 5 people have clicked on that person get temporarily banned until a moderator/admin can check the places where its marked as spam and decide to perma ban or let them back in to MG; I know this sounds like a lot of work but just think how rewarding it would be to smack some 11 year old with a perma ban every day/ week/ hour

There is some "Objectionable" language in the comments at the game Mac Bill. Can you please delete that comment?

- Thanks, comment removed. IIGS User.

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Perhaps I shouldn't say this (it just feels a little too evil), but an effective way of dealing with live spammers/trolls is to build the system so that once their account is flagged as spam, the system does not display their comments or edits to anyone -- except them. Alternatively, we could hide their comments only for logged on users (again except for them), so at least we wouldn't have to endure it. Think of it as an added bonus for registering/logging-in. In either senario, I would never give the power of the 'spam flag' to anyone but a dev/mod.

New spammer: helanlan

Check inside recent changes.

Yeah, see also his thread "comfort and affordability", and others.

--> saveaggression - been here for about 4 hours as of this post

I think the nest way to implement spam report is have the function were regular users can mark a post or a profile as a spam. I think that would really be a more efficient way to do it. Though it could be abused to report users you are not in good terms with, but it still has to be reviewed by the moderator before any action would be dealt.

Yup! Although I must say that Macintosh Garden is the most amiable forum I've been to. I think it's because of a tight-knit niche group who care about old Mac apps and games...and the fact we don't have political forums.

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Don't open any post by this spammer - active hooks in posts

When I saw his comment I lol'ed.

Funny how [trolls] think it's a *bad* thing to have old computers .

on my board (which is kinda just for experiments) 95% of all spam accounts are either registered with (insert 2 digit num here)@businessinfoservicess.com or (insert 2 digit num here)@backlinks.we.bs, the most effective way i found to deal with it is to delete the spam account then if 2 or more spam accounts are signed up from one domain i ban the hole domain

Next candidate: "Inayat Hussain"

---martin85nhan---

Can an Admin remove the spam by "Mary768", please? Its the 1st Comment everyone sees if they visit the Garden's "About" page. Thanks.

Can an Admin remove the spam by "Mary768", please?

Done, thanks for notifying.

This spammer "bingbingyuan" returns. Check Recent Changes.

New target: mary77
Location: http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/will-you-help-me-my-apple-newton-clone

Yeah, I deleted it.

Can moderators take a common search for user names listed here?
To prevent further postings...

I think that all of the users listed here have been dealt with. I wouldn't suspect any of them to be reused.

@watchsmart: excepting for the odd one that may slip through the net

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