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05-20-2015 , 10:35 PM

#251

venice10

Referee

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 26,103

I wholeheartedly agree that gregorio remain modded. It would be the only thing in this thread that would make it worthwhile.

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05-20-2015 , 10:40 PM

#252

Low Key

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 33,327

I have other suggestions, if anyone's interested.

Like, a user group that can only OTB&C spammers - no regular bans or other powers, and for their service they can have a color name or change their under title at will, since that appears to be the most requested service.

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05-20-2015 , 10:45 PM

#253

gregorio

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 37,479

At first when I could see the User Manager, I could OTBC. Now I can't anymore. Spank, Lattimer, can you still do this?

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05-20-2015 , 10:48 PM

#254

Lattimer

I is smart

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 15,463

I can, but Mat restored me back to normal, almost... I can't IP check anymore.

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05-20-2015 , 10:54 PM

#255

chezlaw

Limey Bastard

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 48,938

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Originally Posted by Low Key

I did make it clear. You were too busy fighting your own prejudices to notice.

If so my bad. You seemed very bothered by spank being mod and now you're happy so its all good.

Maybe I missed you being very concerned about security in general. If so sorry about that - keep on at Mat to take a minimal access approach.

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05-20-2015 , 10:55 PM

#256

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by metaname2

BTW, any chance I could get a Hamburgler related undertitle?

Metaname has more than deserved this honor. Also, I should get a purple-colored title.

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05-20-2015 , 11:06 PM

#257

Mat Sklansky

Administrator

Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 10,073

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Metaname has more than deserved this honor. Also, I should get a purple-colored title.

bobo or pp do those things.

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05-21-2015 , 12:30 AM

#258

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 21,015

This thread makes me wish low key was my boyfriend instead of just my fwb.

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05-21-2015 , 01:38 AM

#259

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

I think Mat's solution here is good, and it's also probably good that mods in low-ban forums who don't really need access to emails or birthdays don't get that access. Established mods in high-ban forums should, but likely conditional on handing over some personal info to Mat.

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05-21-2015 , 01:57 AM

#260

Bobo Fett

Carpe Diem

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 57,426

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Originally Posted by Low Key

Forgive me my assumption that volunteers of a company that pays you a salary could be described as, "your."

Just to clarify this one point, I was simply trying to clear up any confusion about my role in this matter - basically, I didn't have one.

Seems pointless to reply to the rest now as it appears everything's been dealt with and everyone's moved on, so...

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05-21-2015 , 02:43 AM

#261

C Bids

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,622

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Originally Posted by Low Key

If this happened I'd help out. I was aggressively reporting spam for a while but stopped after I ran out of funny comments to leave.

If I could just nuke them, then I wouldn't have to try and be funny which is a net positive for all involved.

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05-21-2015 , 06:47 AM

#262

MinusEV

Giftastic!

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 12,441

Pretty surprised to find out that 'random' mods here have access to email-addresses.

For one thing, doesn't that make it possible for someone to make a script harvesting addresses and sell them on?

Last edited by MinusEV; 05-21-2015 at 06:54 AM.

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05-21-2015 , 07:25 AM

#263

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,444

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Originally Posted by Low Key

spank, you skipped over the part where you were demodded for being a nutter 8 months ago, and have been trolling the forums nonstop since then, and then when mat made the drunken mistake of modding you again took only three days to start trolling the forum again with random thread merges and title changes

I mean, I'm sure we all know why you forgot to include that part

To help you out, it might just be posts like this that make it difficult for Chez to think that the only reason you are here is because you are worried about site-wide privacy.

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05-21-2015 , 07:58 AM

#264

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by Low Key

Like, a user group that can only OTB&C spammers - no regular bans or other powers

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05-21-2015 , 08:39 AM

#265

Low Key

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

To help you out, it might just be posts like this that make it difficult for Chez to think that the only reason you are here is because you are worried about site-wide privacy.

not my fault unrelated threads got merged here

which is unintentionally hilarious, of course

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05-21-2015 , 09:03 AM

#266

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,444

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Originally Posted by Low Key

not my fault unrelated threads got merged here

which is unintentionally hilarious, of course

There was an unrelated thread about site-wide privacy issues that got merged into one of the two about Spank and PU?

Either way, it would be on you to clarify that what you meant when you said that you hate that Spank was modded and doing moddish things that what you really meant is that you don't mind at all and simply don't like the idea of mods having access to personal information.

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05-21-2015 , 09:15 AM

#267

Jbrochu

banned

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 16,052

I would volunteer to be a SPAM killer. Although when I report SPAM it seems to get taken care of fairly quickly, so not sure how much it would help over the current system. Are normal mods wasting a ton of time dealing with SPAM?

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05-21-2015 , 09:19 AM

#268

Low Key

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

If you're this bored, go back through this thread and pay close attention to the title of the thread in replies.

You SMPers can't expect people to hold your hands for the rest of your lives on stuff like this.

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05-21-2015 , 09:31 AM

#269

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by Jbrochu

Probably not, because its really easy to get rid of.

The benefit is probably more on the side of reducing the amount of time between when spam is posted and when it gets deleted.

I pretty regularly removed spam first thing in the morning my time (Eastern Time: UTC -4:00) that had been up for a few hours.

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05-21-2015 , 10:25 AM

#270

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 19,444

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Originally Posted by Low Key

So you are two different people in the different threads? Am I talking to the one who doesn't mind Spank being a mod and only cares about mods having access to personal data or are you the other one?

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05-21-2015 , 10:29 AM

#271

fidstar-poker

I'm gonna need a hacksaw

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 34,057

Giving other people the power of "SPAM killer"is dangerous. Basically the button to remove spammers is a "one touch ban". This wipes the person off the servers and all the posts associated with that person and can't be reversed. You could do it on a guy with thousands of posts. A normal ban can be reversed. It's like saying "You can't be president, but here's the nuke codes"

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05-21-2015 , 10:36 AM

#272

jjshabado

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Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 22,732

You can't do it on a guy with thousands of posts.

Edit: Actually removed in case we don't want that to be public. But, anyway, there are safeguards in place.

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05-21-2015 , 10:39 AM

#273

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

Correct, there are safeguards, and all the deletions are soft deletions, anyway. The posts could be restored.

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05-21-2015 , 10:41 AM

#274

fidstar-poker

I'm gonna need a hacksaw

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 34,057

Learnt something today. I guess I should ignore the "This can't be reversed" thing too

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05-21-2015 , 11:56 AM

#275

Jbrochu

banned

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 16,052

In any case, if it's not a big problem it probably doesn't need to be addressed. I was just thinking that if it's not any more trouble than hitting the, "report post," button it would be something I would be willing to do with no other benefits required.

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