AtariAge Posted August 28, 2009 Posted August 28, 2009 I email/admin validate new accounts on my forum. My normal workflow involves searching Google and StopForumSpam.com for the username (if fairly unique), email address and IP address. I also do a location looking on the IP address. Based on this information, I can almost always catch spammers before they are validated. However, the options at the bottom of the "Member Validating Queue" do not include, "Mark accounts as Spammers". What I typically do is outright delete the accounts. This does not help Invision's new spam system since no information is passed along to Invision. Presumably I would have to click on each individual account and then click the "Flag Member as Spam" and then delete the account (please correct me if I'm wrong). Can you please add a "Mark Accounts as Spammers" option to the dropdown on the "Member Validating Queue" page? And whatever logic is necessary to make sure that those flagged accounts are sent to Invision as spammers? Thanks, ..Al
Josh Posted August 28, 2009 Posted August 28, 2009 Good idea, will see about getting this included when we can :)
Brett B Posted August 28, 2009 Posted August 28, 2009 Will marking the member as spam and then deleting the member allow for it to be registered properly in the Spam System's database?
AtariAge Posted August 28, 2009 Author Posted August 28, 2009 [quote name='Brett B' date='28 August 2009 - 10:31 AM' timestamp='1251473481' post='1849820'] Will marking the member as spam and then deleting the member allow for it to be registered properly in the Spam System's database? I was wondering this as well.. ..Al
AtariAge Posted August 28, 2009 Author Posted August 28, 2009 [quote name='Josh' date='28 August 2009 - 10:50 AM' timestamp='1251474627' post='1849827'] Yeah, that works fine :) Good to know, thanks. ..Al
Management Matt Posted August 28, 2009 Management Posted August 28, 2009 Ah, that's a good idea to add an option to "Flag as spam" when managing the validating queue. I'll try and get this in for 3.0.3
AtariAge Posted August 28, 2009 Author Posted August 28, 2009 [quote name='Matt' date='28 August 2009 - 10:55 AM' timestamp='1251474942' post='1849830'] Ah, that's a good idea to add an option to "Flag as spam" when managing the validating queue. I'll try and get this in for 3.0.3 That would be fantastic. :) Thanks, ..Al
dr. Jekyll Posted August 28, 2009 Posted August 28, 2009 [quote name='Matt' date='28 August 2009 - 05:55 PM' timestamp='1251474942' post='1849830'] Ah, that's a good idea to add an option to "Flag as spam" when managing the validating queue. I'll try and get this in for 3.0.3 Please add this option to all the board. Many board will not subscribe to the spam service but they can still help all the others by passing the information to Invision ;)
Management Matt Posted August 28, 2009 Management Posted August 28, 2009 Started to add this in. Means I have to finish it ;)
Brett B Posted August 29, 2009 Posted August 29, 2009 [quote name='dr. Jekyll' date='28 August 2009 - 12:11 PM' timestamp='1251475902' post='1849841'] Please add this option to all the board. Many board will not subscribe to the spam service but they can still help all the others by passing the information to Invision ;) Your board has to be using the Spam Service in order to pass the information back to IPS.
AtariAge Posted September 1, 2009 Author Posted September 1, 2009 [quote name='Matt' date='01 September 2009 - 04:04 AM' timestamp='1251795850' post='1851237'] And I finished it. Awesome! I'll be putting that to good use!! Thanks, ..Al
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