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Grey
07-02-2011, 04:56 AM
I seem to have been secretly given some moderation powers by TB (secret even to myself!) It allows me to ban users and delete their posts. Unfortunately I can't delete their actual profiles, which I think is still a problem when they have links in their profiles. But still, this gives us some way of dealing with spam interfering with the forum.

If you see any spam posts please click on the warning triangle on the top-right of their post. This will result in me being sent an e-mail about it (so only do it for 1 post from a user, not all of them). I'll get over and take appropriate action as soon as possible.

I can't be attentive at all times, so hopefully Thomas will appoint a couple of other moderators too.

Also, please note that I shall only be moderating spam. I don't care about petty disputes or people being rude to each other. This forum has always been good at sorting itself out in a mature and respectful manner, and I sincerely hope it stays that way.

Edit: A track of my own purges... 2378 (pg 27) - 3951 clean. Many more to check :(

Laukku
07-02-2011, 07:36 AM
About time. Who else has ascended to modhood? TB should post the full pantheon of mods. With modlike powers like these, the spammers should be easily gotten rid of.

(can't think of any more god/mod puns :-( )

Grey
07-03-2011, 01:25 AM
There are no zero spam posts left on the forums. I searched through every user with posts and deleted those who had spam links (and their posts). We are clean again! I still need to go through the couple of thousand 0 posts users and delete the ones which have spam links in their sigs. For ongoing new users I think the question TB currently as implemented is sufficiently confusing the spammers - it asks what people's favourite race/class combo is. Mind you, I was tempted to delete the fellow that said his was human farmer - surely he can't be real?! :/

Also, I've made some threads Sticky in the ADOM forum. If there's other threads you think should be stickied let me know.

Chris
07-03-2011, 01:34 AM
Good job! Must have taken you a few hours...

Laukku
07-03-2011, 07:26 AM
Sticky thread suggestions:

ADOM links: http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php?t=25

EDIT: Huh, did you delete one of my posts? This was supposed to be my 401th, not 400th.

Grey
07-03-2011, 11:49 AM
It shows as the 401st to me.

ADOM Links should be sticky, but also really needs updating :/

gut
07-03-2011, 12:23 PM
Isn't stickying the 'guidebook work' thread be kinda pointless?
I think everything in it can also be found in the GB, right?
As far as whether Andy still frequents the forums and checks it,
(of course I don't know for sure) I'd have to think that is
pretty unlikely.

Grey
07-04-2011, 02:01 PM
Hmm, true, Andy ain't been on in a while, but he might come back :/

Laukku
07-05-2011, 06:40 PM
I found where to get the mod list: View forum leaders (http://www.adom.de/forums/showgroups.php)

Seems that Grey is the only one TB made a moderator.

Molach
07-06-2011, 06:06 PM
Good work.

Also a big smile from me with regards to the threads title.

Grey
07-07-2011, 04:59 PM
Just to note I'll be away from now until late Sunday. If we get a sudden attack then PM me and I might be able to get on to help. However things have been very good lately, so hopefully there won't be any problems.

Soirana
07-08-2011, 08:23 AM
Seems that Grey is the only one TB made a moderator.

Not bad as solution. i think we are all happy it is not someone like me or gut afterall.

Congrats to irishman anyway.

gut
07-10-2011, 01:37 PM
Congrats? That he has loads of work to do now?
Hahhahah! Yes, congrats :D

While you're at it, please delete my old psuedo
account 'nut'. I actually tried to give that to
someone durring our lockout of new members.
Seems I have forgotten the pass, so it is of no
use to anyone. Delete Soirana's alias while you
are at it, lest he be tempted...

Aielyn
07-10-2011, 04:32 PM
So, which artifact does Grey guard, then?

nathrakh
07-11-2011, 01:32 AM
So, which artifact does Grey guard, then?

I haven't seen it but rumors say it contains essences of chaos and corruption...

Silfir
07-11-2011, 09:35 AM
Nathrakh, your signature is easily the single most obnoxious thing in the entire forum. How about you tone it down to just one oversized "Eternium Edition ADOMer", if it is that important?

Grey
07-11-2011, 01:29 PM
Indeed, you should only be allowed multiple if you did the challenge multiple times. I do like the "Never forget topler" though :)

gut
07-11-2011, 03:07 PM
i like it just the way it is :D

Silfir
07-18-2011, 03:25 PM
What the hell are infractions and why can I add them?

gut
07-18-2011, 05:20 PM
yes, I can add infractions as well, and am sorely tempted to smite you
for asking that question, as I have no answer to it.

My guess is that we can call Grey's attention to spam posts???

Grey
07-18-2011, 08:01 PM
We have some extra moderators... Check your private messages.

gut
07-18-2011, 09:48 PM
On my way to deleting the account of 'buycialis', I couldn't help
noticing the reasons (and point deductions) for infractions :D


http://i51.tinypic.com/2ywg7cw.jpg


We would each be banned how many times by now?

Anyway, fun aside, I cannot delete posts. At least I explored for
a good while and couldn't find a way. I will just limit myself to
deleting the zero posting 'buy cialis' types of bots.

Silfir
07-18-2011, 09:56 PM
Ban, ban, ban, lovely ban, wonderful ban

gut
07-18-2011, 11:47 PM
MWUHAHAHAHAH!

http://i54.tinypic.com/wswf8x.jpg


And I think I just got all the B's. Well, there were a couple I was only 99% sure about, so
decided to leave them a while. Out of fear that I might accidentally delete someone's
account who just may have unwisely advertised their site, I started pasting (some of) the
offending urls beside the name list I was keeping. Figured Grey might find some of these
of interest, or maybe just good for a few laughs.

EDITED OUT BECAUSE LAUGHS ARE OVER :D

Silfir
07-19-2011, 12:56 AM
You know, it's much better advertisement to have a handy list in a forum thread than signatures of spambots that never even posted. Kind of counter-productive isn't it? ;)

(I have to say, if all that my corporation did was make and sell spare tires for lawn mowers, I'd be grasping for any straw I could get my hands on, too.)

EDIT: Something constructive, too; I found spambot users by sorting for posts; for some reason if there's the same amount of posts (say, zero) they get sorted by join date. The spambot users tend to clump together this way. Besides, spambots are going to have 0, 1, maybe 2 posts, or go all the way to the top(ler).

Grey
07-19-2011, 01:10 AM
There are only 0 posts spambots on the forums - I have purged all others. In the Members List go to Search Member > Advanced Search, choose post count == 0 and order by join date and you'll have a simple list to work through.

This isn't hugely necessary mind. I asked TB to make some extra mods to cover me in case I'm away for a week or more and we get some terrible attack. Monitoring new users is easy since there aren't many and you can straight away see from the answer to the "favourite race/class" question if they are a spambot. Still, I'd like to get the forum purged of all the inactive spambots with links, and I have been slowly working through them with this end goal in mind.

If any posts crop up that need deleting then mark them with the "Report Post" button and I'll get to it as soon as I can.

JellySlayer
07-19-2011, 06:01 PM
Can I count it as an infraction every time gut posts a picture of his foot?

Grey
07-19-2011, 06:07 PM
No, that'll just encourage him...

JellySlayer
07-19-2011, 06:12 PM
Interesting. Looking through the profiles of recent joins, an awful lot of them seem to have joined the forum because they wanted to see pictures. I think the Paint Picture thread is attracting a lot of attention.

gut
07-19-2011, 10:17 PM
Decades from now, 'JADE Forever' shall be released, as an effort
to further promote the dwarf merchant paint thread which has
long since made millions.

Wait, foot pic = infraction?????

I just can't understand the logic behind that in the slightest.
People love my foot pics, right? right?

Anyway, I got the C's done, and noticed that bot makers seem to have rather nice taste in females.
http://i53.tinypic.com/1gi36.jpg

Grey
07-19-2011, 11:07 PM
They also like generic pictures of flowers for some reason...

nathrakh
07-20-2011, 07:42 AM
I'm still not a moderator for some weird reason.:confused:

Silfir
07-20-2011, 11:51 AM
Dude I'm totally gonna make you one once you get rid of that obnoxious signature of yours :D

nathrakh
07-20-2011, 04:19 PM
I made it a little prettier, thanks for the advice dude.

gut
07-21-2011, 01:04 AM
The adom forum hasn't had a post in over a week. Not too surprising,
considering that we only had maybe 4 people posting somewhat
regularly... and now we are all busy deleting spam.