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Community update 22-01

Anil A - Mod

Hi all,

Quick update on what's been going on. 

As many of you have noticed, there's a warning that flashes up when logging into the site. We've asked for a renewal of our certificate and I'm hopeful it'll be done by the end of the week. I'm sorry for the length of time this has taken, but there were concerns it would cause issues with our main site.  

Spam - we were hit with spam again today. Our moderator was able to jump on and remove it, as well as block the user. Once the certificate issue is resolved, we'll be testing our automatic spam blocker. If that doesn't work out for us, or community users have issues, we'll look at alternative solutions. Paull, you mentioned a downvoting system to deal with spam. We've looked into this, and it would be quite a costly and lengthy undertaking as our site doesn't have the functionality built in. If we don't have any luck with the automated spam blocker, we'll revisit it and see if it's something we can do. 

I'm sorry for the issues the site's been having lately and hope to resolve them soon.

 

Kind regards,

Anil

 

 

  • Hi Paull,

    As far as I know, swear words alone won't be enough to trigger it. We've set it to the lowest setting but it's still switched off until we resolve the SSL issue. However, links will trigger a CAPTCHA. 

    I've asked our devs about your suggestion and will let you know what they say - my only concern is that this would be offputting to new users. 

    thanks,

    A

  • Hi Anil,

    spamblockers tend to work on the principle of blocking posts with certain naughty words in, however when these words are used legitimately by users then it can be annoying to them.

    Still there is an option in all forum software to have posts under moderation from certain users, so having any new users first post moderated will cut out the majority of spam.