Report spam here, include link to user profile of the spammer and urls of spam examples.
Interesting initiative, but... how do we tell about fakes, morphers and so on ? See, the "old" newsgroups allowed to some degree to find out (for example by looking at message headers or posting IP) if someone was just "posing" as someone else but with these
"new, cool" forums we're back at square one; I mean, there's no way to understand if a given "user" (nickname) is just a morpher, that is someone else "posing" with a different nick and possibly just to troll and your request about "posting spam" remembers
me about the old "reports to Alicia" to deal with "manually mantained filters" (go figure ! And no, I'm NOT referring to Alicia, Alicia did a great job but she was struggling with tools and an infrastucture from the stone age)
See, your request makes me think that we're back to the very SAME situation we faced with newsgroups, with spam/trolls/morphers freely and easily playing their games and a handful of people trying to catch up... it really sounds like the same approach, that
is keeping up things by using duct tape and wd-40 and, given that the previous attempts failed, I wonder why you decided to take the same approach and, at the same time, tell us that the migration to the forums was for a "better experience" ... where's the
better experience, please ?
Not just that, the folks using the "bridge" found themselves facing a lot of issues due to bugs (and NOT just due to the "bridge") now, that may have been expected, but given that the trend is to allow online applications to be available in different formats
so that they'll be "consumable" by different kinds of apps/platforms, the whole idea is just crazy; forums should have a SOAP interface and a good one, not only because this may (and probably will) attract developers which may contribute 3rd party apps but
also since the whole initiative will bring more people to the forums and will also improve the whole experience... but it sounds like you didn't get it, just a matter of looking at the answers forums which don't have a "web services" interface anymore
And then... let's go back to the "spam/abuse"; there are working solutions to it and they have been around for quite some years now; all in all, these forums aren't the first ones to appear on the internet, but probably someone decided that any past experience
wasn't worth and that it was a good idea reinventing the wheel or either rediscovering the fire and now... see where we are... back to "report spam here"
how cool !
