When you flag a user as a spammer, their topics and posts are automatically hidden. However, as a moderator, you still see them in the forum listings. What I usually do is select those topics and move them to an archive forum that’s only visible to staff, where we keep other archived posts as well.

Suggestion: It would save time and effort if flagged content was automatically moved to an archive forum instead of just being hidden. Ideally, you could set the destination forum in the Spam Prevention → Flagging Spammers settings.

I’m aware that you can choose to delete all content when flagging a spammer, but that’s risky - if someone is accidentally flagged, their posts are gone permanently, which isn’t ideal.

2 hours ago, Cedric V said:

When you flag a user as a spammer, their topics and posts are automatically hidden. However, as a moderator, you still see them in the forum listings. What I usually do is select those topics and move them to an archive forum that’s only visible to staff, where we keep other archived posts as well.

Suggestion: It would save time and effort if flagged content was automatically moved to an archive forum instead of just being hidden. Ideally, you could set the destination forum in the Spam Prevention → Flagging Spammers settings.

I’m aware that you can choose to delete all content when flagging a spammer, but that’s risky - if someone is accidentally flagged, their posts are gone permanently, which isn’t ideal.

This gets my vote too. Having all that content be moved automatically to one place is very useful and time saving.

3 hours ago, Cedric V said:

Suggestion: It would save time and effort if flagged content was automatically moved to an archive forum instead of just being hidden. Ideally, you could set the destination forum in the Spam Prevention → Flagging Spammers settings.

What about all the other IPS apps (Downloads, Blogs, Gallery, Pages, etc.)? All other 3rd-party apps? Would I have to create an archive area for all of them?

Just now, Adriano Faria said:

What about all the other IPS apps (Downloads, Blogs, Gallery, Pages, etc.)? All other 3rd-party apps? Would I have to create an archive area for all of them?

I've only noticed a spam blog entry. Nothing else.

15 minutes ago, Cedric V said:

I've only noticed a spam blog entry. Nothing else.

Yes, but you can have other apps installed, not just Forums.

Edited July 3Jul 3 by Adriano Faria

Just now, Adriano Faria said:

Yeap, but you can other apps installed and not just Forums.

Sorry? Didn't understand that.

33 minutes ago, Miss_B said:

Suggestion: It would save time and effort if flagged content was automatically moved to an archive forum instead of just being hidden. Ideally, you could set the destination forum in the Spam Prevention → Flagging Spammers settings.

archive forum and destination forum are related to topics and consequently to the Forums app.

What happens if the user has also posted Gallery images, Pages database records, Downloads files, Blog entries, plus a lot of 3rd-party apps. These can't be moved to "archived forums" because they're not topics. What to do with them all?

No, they couldn't. But usually spammers do either topics and posts or blog. I haven't had them do both. Or anything else for that matter. In that case, those other apps would still need manual hiding/deleting.

Once you have acknowledged the content is spam, what's the advantage to keeping in an archived area? I would just hide and then review the action is needed, if you are weary of one of your staff members making a mistake, then delete the user's content. If the action was done by mistake, you would need to unhide it all anyway and moving it to a separate area would create more work for you.

13 hours ago, Cedric V said:

if someone is accidentally flagged, their posts are gone permanently, which isn’t ideal.

Have a look at the options to delay the deletion. That seems to be more practical than all that moving away and potentially back.

14 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

archive forum and destination forum are related to topics and consequently to the Forums app.

What happens if the user has also posted Gallery images, Pages database records, Downloads files, Blog entries, plus a lot of 3rd-party apps. These can't be moved to "archived forums" because they're not topics. What to do with them all?

You have a point there. To be honest I didn't think of that because I don't use those apps myself. I was thinking only about the forum.