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Ok haha, actually wasnt meant as an attack on the mods, but I see how it looks that way

I was expecting there to be a sort of algorithm that didnt allow a brand new account to make 100 threads with the basically the same title in 1 forum. But what do I know? Very little because I honestly cant even find the report button

Once again, no attack on the mods but point taken

There’s a triangle exclamation point point in upper right hand corner. But a non sleeping mod will probably get that at around the same they see it in NVG. It’s sort of a high traffic area

But yeah there are common sense measures that would prevent that to begin with

Get your act together, 2+2

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02-01-2024 , 06:59 PM

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I don’t have the report button on my iPhone. I feel like I’ve mentioned this before but nothing changes. I realize this is a software issue and not a mod issue but given how many people use iPhones, I’m sure there are a lot of people experiencing the same issue. Can a mod bring this up to the ownership’s attention? Having people better capable of reporting posts would make the mod’s job easier, I would think.

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02-01-2024 , 07:11 PM

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I was expecting there to be a sort of algorithm that didnt allow a brand new account to make 100 threads with the basically the same title in 1 forum.

Me too. I've already asked internally if that was a possibility.

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02-01-2024 , 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Meh

Posting on forums on a phone? God that sounds horrible.

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02-01-2024 , 07:30 PM

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Posting on forums on a phone? God that sounds horrible.

I don't have numbers for 2+2 specifically but other platforms have >80% of mobile traffic these days with the vast majority of mobile devices being phones now instead of tablets.

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02-05-2024 , 04:03 AM

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I know this isn’t a mod issue but it seems there are some software vulnerabilities that someone is exploiting to continuously make spam threads. Any indication that may be patched soon?

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02-05-2024 , 10:44 AM

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I know this isn’t a mod issue but it seems there are some software vulnerabilities that someone is exploiting to continuously make spam threads. Any indication that may be patched soon?

It's not really a software vulnerability. Unfortunately there's just nothing in the software/settings that prevents spam bots from signing up and creating massive amounts of threads.

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02-05-2024 , 07:27 PM

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It's not really a software vulnerability. Unfortunately there's just nothing in the software/settings that prevents spam bots from signing up and creating massive amounts of threads.

I could probably do it easily, but would need to be paid.

I don’t do pro bono work

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02-05-2024 , 08:57 PM

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Good for you.

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02-06-2024 , 06:30 PM

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Gabethebabe

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If someone claims he can "probably" do it, I'm not hiring him

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02-06-2024 , 07:19 PM

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If someone claims he can "probably" do it, I'm not hiring him

Easily is the key word, but it could be done

I think are quite obvious things that could be done so instead of “probably” we could insert “almost certainly”

But maybe I would have been done on the arm if the crowd was a bit nicer. Always too negative!

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02-06-2024 , 07:22 PM

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I don't think that's a conversation for the NVG moderation thread.

If you're interested in offering your services to the owners of the platform, send them a PM or email.

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02-06-2024 , 09:50 PM

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I don't think that's a conversation for the NVG moderation thread.

If you're interested in offering your services to the owners of the platform, send them a PM or email.

I’m no longer offering my services

But I’d still suggest making the easy fix

This would help ease the burden of those wearing the Green

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02-08-2024 , 10:18 PM

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Spammers are back, but don’t put out the bat signal for me

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02-10-2024 , 03:04 AM

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When exactly did the spam attacks start?

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02-10-2024 , 03:07 AM

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Sucks can’t report more than one post every 40 seconds. It makes reporting and taking the time to report take a while and likely give up etc.

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02-10-2024 , 08:12 AM

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Surely there is a forum setting to prevent new users from creating topics until some certain criteria is met - sure, they probably just post in existing threads instead but at least you can still see existing threads on the first page rather than an entire page of spam

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02-10-2024 , 08:56 AM

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There definitely is. At the MMA forum where I admin, we have a 5-post then one-day delay until a new poster can start a new thread. Sure, they can still spam post, but it makes it much easier to catch before they start creating a bunch of new threads/topics, which is much more disruptive than a few posts that generally get reported and deleted.

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02-10-2024 , 10:25 AM

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Yeah, I'm just theorising here based on what I know from moderating much larger forums than 2+2 and what typical software should be able to handle. The cleverest thing I saw elsewhere was Newbie Tuesday, where you can register an account at any time, but only make your first post on a Tuesday, which makes it easier to keep things clean as you can just have mods pay more attention on one day of the week

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02-10-2024 , 10:56 AM

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Sucks can’t report more than one post every 40 seconds. It makes reporting and taking the time to report take a while and likely give up etc.

Thanks for reporting posts. Doing one report per forum is perfectly fine, we nuke the threads from the forum anyway not from the post report.

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Obviously also depends on the target audience of the forum but I think on average less than 50% of newly created accounts return if they're not allowed to post immediately.

Would obviously help tremendously if new accounts were limited to maybe 1-2 threads per day over the first 30 days or something like that.

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02-19-2024 , 05:48 PM

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I see that the Limon and Grimtard AMA threads have been moved to a new AMA forum. Will that be listed in the "2+2 Forums" column at the left?

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02-19-2024 , 06:33 PM

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02-19-2024 , 06:46 PM

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interesting - still don't see it there on my my screen - do I need to update the software somehow?

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02-19-2024 , 06:48 PM

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Garick

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I'm also not seeing it. Perhaps related to which theme we're using?

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02-19-2024 , 06:48 PM

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interesting - still don't see it there on my my screen - do I need to update the software somehow?

You might have to empty the cache of your browser. In just checked and it's there for me, too.

To make sure you can always use a different browser, for example on your phone if you usually use the website with your computer or vice versa, to see if it looks differently without anything cached.

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I'm also not seeing it. Perhaps related to which theme we're using?

I see it both on light and dark theme.