"Thunder" (Thunder)
03/18/2015 at 15:17 • Filed to: None
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"Thunder" (Thunder)
03/18/2015 at 15:17 • Filed to: None | 0
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So I just posted a story about a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
The ONLY reply to it so far is one of these damn Make Tons Of Money Sitting On Your A$$ things.
I'm "scared" to research this, as it may legitimize that crap post and un-grey it.
So my question is: can't Kinja have a bot or something wandering the forums, looking for characteristically crappy posts? "Start working at home with Google!" for example. If a post is found with that, blow the account away.
Jcarr
> Thunder
03/18/2015 at 15:23 |
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Flag it as spam and dismiss it. I think that's the only solution.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Thunder
03/18/2015 at 15:24 |
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not much we can do. Flag it and we'll ban that user but I do that at least once a day with new users.
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Thunder
> Jcarr
03/18/2015 at 15:27 |
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That takes care of the individual post... but how about the account?
I don't know what's involved in creating these burner accounts, but if it's something that requires a human touch, and they get blown away after perhaps 10 flagged posts (or a percentage of overall posts that are flagged, or something)... maybe we can make progress at plugging the dam, so to speak.
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Jcarr
> Thunder
03/18/2015 at 15:30 |
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When it's flagged as spam it goes to the mods and I believe they have the ability to ban the account from the particular blog that it was posted on (Oppo in this case).
jariten1781
> Thunder
03/18/2015 at 15:43 |
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I don't know that kinja deletes accounts. Individual blogs can block them, but shits like this guy: http://news-making.kinja.com/ continually pop up in other places.
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Thunder
> HammerheadFistpunch
03/18/2015 at 16:24 |
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As a former programmer / software engineer / data architect and now manager of data architects / metadata / reference data folks... can I suggest automating it?
It's gotta have a backend database... I bet there's a SQL query we could use to clean things up.
Also - I didn't know you were part of Gawker staff, HammerheadFistpunch. Learn something every day...
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Thunder
03/18/2015 at 16:27 |
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That's the problem, I'm not part of gawker staff; All the mods here are unpaid volunteers and as such we don't have any backend access. You can make a request to the tech team but I suspect they are getting these requests 50x a day already.