Hi, On 03.07.2014 12:33, Martin Peris wrote: > Dudes, > > I must have deleted near 100 spam questions just in the last hour in > answers.ros.org > > Right now there is 4 different accounts pouring spam at a rate higher > than what I can delete... how about restricting to 1 question per day to > users with karma < 10 ? As far as I know moderation features are being worked on right now. For deleting questions: I'm not sure if there are different requirements for blocking/deleting questions, but check out the moderation tab. There is (for me) a button "Block user and delete all content". This makes it unnecessary to delete individual questions. Best, Christian > One more suggestion: Right now to delete a question you have to click on > it, see the full text and then hit the "delete" button on the bottom on > the page (which for long spam messages might take some scrolling). The > total process takes about 5 seconds for spam message, but since a human > moderator can identify an obvious spam message only by the title... how > about adding a "flag" and "delete" button (only for moderators and > people with high enough karma) directly besides the title of each > question on the main question list? This might save us a lot of time. > > Best regards, > Martin. > > > 2014-07-02 8:44 GMT+09:00 Isaac I.Y. Saito > >: > > For Gmail users who still like to receive email notifications from > answers.ros.org but want to avoid those > from spammers, I've been > making a blacklist. > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4eRVCbkJoNxh36HCO-5HfvLikaSzYmX7U5rz7nRCb0/edit > > Not perfect but HTH, > Isaac > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Tully Foote > > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > As many of you have noticed answers.ros.org > has been subject to a lot of > > spam recently. We have been working on adding technical issues, > however the > > spammers have been able to overcome standard defenses like > CAPTCHAs which we > > have added. I'm putting out this call to request a few more > moderators for > > the site. Answers.ros.org is powered by > the community and has been well > > maintained by the several moderators who were initially > volunteered several > > years ago. > > > > In light of the persistent spamming by technically savvy > spammers, our best > > defense is to leverage our strong community. We have a very > active site and > > if each person helps just a little the spam can dissapear very > quickly. > > > > To everyone, please use the "flag offensive" for any spam you > encounter, > > whether it's in a question or an answer. This will bring it to > the attention > > of the moderators who can block users. If you have enough karma > you can also > > delete the post, however please flag it first so that the > moderators can > > block the user as well. > > > > We've recently expanded the pool of moderators however I'd like > to expand > > the pool of moderators to include a few more people from various > timezones > > who have demonstrated contributions to the site(>500 Karma). If > you are > > interested in becoming a moderator please contact me off list. > > > > Tully > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ros-users mailing list > > ros-users@lists.ros.org > > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Albert-Ludwigs-University Institute of Computer Science Research Group Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Georges-Köhler-Allee 52 79110 Freiburg Phone: +49 761 203 8225 _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users