Persons abusing this site are still getting benefits from it

[tertius]

I frequently get email updates from this site, about new posts that are clearly made by persons with no other objective that to sell their (usually questionable) product / service / investment opportunity.

Granted, the posts are usually quickly removed by moderators etc. but not before the email alerts have gone out to any number of subscribers, and therefore the person posting has already got some outreach.

Of course, I delete the emails but it's nuisance and waters down the genuine ones, and reduces the effectiveness and value of the platform.

What can be done to cut this back, and (a) reduce the spam, but (b) more importantly prevent these people from benefiting in the way they do

 

[Ethan39]

Thanks for your feedback. This is something that we're aware of and we understand the impact that this has on our users.

We have a few items on our upcoming work schedule designed to tackle these kinds of meaningless posts and to help make notifications more useful for our users.

Unfortunately, I can't talk about these items at the moment. We're still working out how best to implement our ideas and I don't want to explain our current plan here if it's subject to change in the next few weeks/months.

We'll be posting more information about upcoming updates once we're more settled but in the meantime, if you have any suggestions about what improvements we could make, feel free to send them over.

Thanks again for reaching out.

 

[bodgitt&scarperLTD]

Let's be realilstic- the spammers are not getting any benefit. They are looking for mugs. I'd like to think that not many that frequent this forum...

 

[fisicx]

Spammers? All look legit to me. The ****** investor I gave all my money has been endorsed by a Nigerian price so it’s all good.

 

[MOIC]

if you have any suggestions about what improvements we could make, feel free to send them over.

First 3 posts from a new poster to have a time delay for (say) 3 hours and goes into a 'mod file' for review which should give mods sufficient time to check/verify/remove a post deemed to be a spam. . . .

 

[Nathanto]

First 3 posts from a new poster to have a time delay for (say) 3 hours and goes into a 'mod file' for review which should give mods sufficient time to check/verify/remove a post deemed to be a spam. . . .

Rather than relying on a small number of mods being able to intercept dodgy posts, instead use the 200,000+ strong community; any posts from new users that receive even one "Report" flag to be put into a pending state and not sent out as an email update until manually approved by a mod.

The single "Reported" post could also be hidden from all other users on the site or it could be refined to only hide the post if two or more "Reports" were received.

 

[MOIC]

Rather than relying on a small number of mods being able to intercept dodgy posts

Leave it to the mods filter out new poster's posts they deem as spam. Members already flag posts (I do).

 

[MOIC]

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There you go. Great timing!

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

For good and honest businesses to benefit from this site this will always be a bi product and little can be done

 

[MOIC]

For good and honest businesses to benefit from this site this will always be a bi product and little can be done

Probably right.

 

[tertius]

Spammers? All look legit to me. The ****** investor I gave all my money has been endorsed by a Nigerian price so it’s all good.

Nice. Glad you're doing your due diligence ??