Dextro Energy

12 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

It will disallow more than X new topics in the timeframe. Which moderator action do you need? You need moderator action to go through dozens of reports created by people reporting. 

Well, say a user tries to make 10 posts in a very short amount of time - I think it'd be good cause to hide all the posts and put any further posts into an approval queue (or just prevent them) all together until a staff member doots along and decides what to do next (ban them or undo whatever was automatically done if false positive)

12 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Just to add, we have more spam prevention tools on the way too 🙂 

I look forward to it!

2 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

While there isnt the feature you mention there, it would be worth looking at the tools we do have on this. One of which would be automatic moderation based on reporting. In our experience if someone comes on spamming your site, its very likely your users will start reporting that pretty quickly. You can use automatic moderation to react to the influx of reports on a given item, so it can take action when its needed.

Go to Members->Content Moderation->Automatic moderation within your ACP, and from there you can click to enable automatic moderation. Once enabled, click to create a new rule. 

What this does is automatically hides content based on a given reporting criteria. So I have on mine that a content item is hidden if

• The user registered less than 3 days ago
• Is in the members group
• Is reported a spam by 3 unique members

So my members for the most part would end up hiding the spam content. Once I am online and see these in the reports, I can then deal with those spammers accordingly by selecting "mark as spam", which in my case then removes the content entirely and bans the member.

I already have something like this set up, but this "crowdsourced moderation" method is very ineffective for spam this bad:

This day was around 20 accounts (cant fit all on same page/screenshot), averaging about 20 posts each. Since we've gotten accounts 5 a day, with a very high amount of posts each (one reached 147 before being banned).

Something automatic is highly desired! Very frustrating for sure.

16 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

You can choose a number of new topics a user from specific groups can make in a timeframe with this:

I appreciate this! I'll go with it if there is no free alternative (it also doesn't seem to have auto moderator actions)?

Hey!

I'm getting scam accounts that make upto 147 topics/posts in around 10 minutes which is quite ridicolous (they usually tend to make around 20~, 147 is the current record). I have used the "Flood control" setting to prevent so many posts in a certain timeframe, but, it would be wonderful if there was a setting to apply moderation if a certain number of posts are made within a given timeframe rather than this. Is there one? I can't seem to find it. 

I understand it may cause false positives, but whoever is creating 10 times in 1 minute probably needs a break/checkup too.

Alright, I narrowed it down a little more. Hopefully with this, @Jim M, you can replicate it:

1. Create a post with a spoiler that contains an image (or multiple) above a combined total of 300 height:

2. Quote the post in another post:

3. Expand:

4. Reveal hidden contents:

Bad steps to replicate before with unneeded guff, my bad.

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

I would suggest adding the spoiler into the toolbar (it's the eye looking icon) in ACP -> Customization -> Themes -> Editor -> Toolbars. BBCode is deprecated so is only offered "as-is".

I meant on here, so I could show it on here. My bad! 😛

5 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Could you please provide the URL to where this is? I cannot reproduce this myself with certain text. Additionally, with a 2 line quote like that, the expand does not appear. I see the post was edited, was content removed?

It's on a localhost, can't link... I'm not all too sure what to say about the expand thing, here's an example from start to finish:

[spoiler]

[/spoiler]

Hey!

Please view the video below. I feel it portrays the issue much better than I can describe with words.

Basically, if you expand a quote and then expand a spoiler within that quote, it will break outside of the quote, and interfere with other elements.

Any way to fix this?

24 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

Thanks! This is just what I'm looking for. Going to stretch my luck and also ask; is there any way to make points also show on a profile? Say... to replace reputation.

On an author card there is info like number of posts and solutions, but any way to show number of achievement points? like... {number="$comment->author()->achievement_points"}?

Thanks in advance!

4 minutes ago, Jim M said:

As mentioned by @Adriano Faria, the SQL Toolbox has been removed.

If you are self-hosted and required access to your database, it is recommended to use another alternative like PHPMyAdmin or Adminer. 

Cheers. Toolbox was just a lot easier to set up for people! 😞

Hello!

I can no longer find the SQL Toolbox in Get Support -> SQL Toolbox. Was it moved or removed?

Thanks.

You know what, I just tested it myself again and this time it didn't happen this time. How odd? I'm not too sure what to say.

I figured it out... how embarassing. One of our Forum moderators just royally cocked it up and tried to cover their tracks without saying anything; but logs don't lie!

My bad.

https://gflclan.com/topic/80967-political-compass-2022/

Hey!

I just merged a fairly large topic (lets call it X) with a smaller one (Y) that was basically exactly the same in terms of premise. X had a poll on it with quite a lot of votes, but upon merging Y into X - the poll disappeared from X!

Is this intended behaviour? I did not see a warning that, that may happen (might just be my ignorance). Is there anyway to get that poll back? Topic X was also unpromoted (is this intended when merging as well?), that isn't too much of a problem as it can just be promoted again, no real harm there though is there any way to stop that from happening in future?

Thanks in advance.

Hey!

Is something like the below is possible:

Basically, just showing what the title was before the change? Can't seem to find a setting for it maybe I could change a template to make it happen though!

Also, is it possible to show all Moderation actions in these meta items? E.g. X moved topic from Y to Z (this doesn't seem to be appearing on my Forum)

Thanks in advance!

I figured out that just doing a rebuild will add members to the badge without meeting the "when" condition. Lovely!

1 hour ago, Randy Calvert said:

If you want to manually award a badge, you need to make sure it's set to be manually awardable.  

ACP > Members > Achievements > Badges

Find the badge you want to manually award, and choose "Edit".  There will be an option to enable to make it manually awardable.  

Once the badge is awardable, you can either award it from the ACP or award it in response to a specific content item.  To award it from the ACP:

ACP > Members > Members

Find the member, and there will be a section called "Badges".  Click on "Manage" and then "Add Badge".

 

I don't feel like doing this manually to 60,000 members... and that would only be for one badge (the one shown in the original post). If I were to give out badges for total reputation, total posts, etc. manually it'd take years - millions of badges!

Hey!

To help illustrate what I'm looking for, I have the following achievement rule set up:

I have roughly 60,000 members who would meet the "and" condition but no where near 60,000 of them will ever get the 1 Year Badge. Could someone help me get badges to people even if they do not meet the "when" condition?

Thanks in advance!

3 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

There would be no other way in which to do this unfortunately. There has to be something which the user does to trigger the action

Thanks for the response, I suppose I'll have to do something custom 🙂

Hello!

I have the following achievement rule set up:

I would like it if all users who have been registered for 5 years to have this badge immediately; not only if they sign in to the Forum. Is this possible? Furthermore, is it possible to have the "Earned" field be accurate to when their 5th year registered was?

I'm fine with doing some janky stuff to get it to work if necessary!

Thanks in advance.

On 10/14/2021 at 1:07 PM, Adriano Faria said:

Just took a look and the pending version simply disappeared. Maybe I forgot to upload? 🤷‍♀️

Submitted it again now.

Seems to be taking a lot longer than usual... could you possibly DM me the files so I could just install it now?

On 10/5/2021 at 9:09 PM, Adriano Faria said:

Will take a look.

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New version submitted to the marketplace for review.

Thanks!

Issue:

For me, if a Member has more than 1 secondary group, you cannot remove just one. You can only remove them all. Adding works just fine, though.

Steps to reproduce:

Step 1: Give member secondary groups

Step 2: Remove one group

Step 3: Save

Step 4: Review member, see no change

On 9/8/2021 at 3:45 PM, Adriano Faria said:

That's how log entry will be from now on:

Thank you! I look forward to being able to use this.