Flagged for Spam
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@KOM said in Flagged for Spam:
Netgate "taking over", whatever that even means, has nothing to do with the state of the forum software. The old forum was outdated and not GDPR compliant. This forum gets a LOT of spam postings that would flood the boards if not for the anti-spam measures. Those measures are most effective with users with less than 5 reputation.
Okay...I wonder what's my reputation?
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According to your profile, you're at 2.
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@Rico said in Flagged for Spam:
I can't upvote rubbish postings.
Sometimes I wish we could downvote some posts
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@Rico said in Flagged for Spam:
Write something nice so we can add some reps.
I can't upvote rubbish postings.-Rico
Okay; however, I never join forums for reputation...it's for solving problems for either others or myself. I have never seen the back office of forums to see all the spam issues. I am on several forum and have never posted any spam anywhere. Most forum limit posting pictures until a certain amount reached.
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The filter has heuristics that flag things like if you post a lot of topics in a short time etc. Only applies to members with less than 5 rep which weeds out the new accounts that spambots create. Here, now you have 5.
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@KOM said in Flagged for Spam:
The filter has heuristics that flag things like if you post a lot of topics in a short time etc. Only applies to members with less than 5 rep which weeds out the new accounts that spambots create. Here, now you have 5.
Thank you KOM, you made my day!
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@KOM I thought you fixed it. Tried to post to Install section image was too large so I had to reduce the size, then edit and post flagged for spam...I don't need reputation or begging it either...I need to solve a install problem on a Mac Mini.
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One more ^^
Your rep is 5 now - that should take care of things.
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@Gertjan said in Flagged for Spam:
One more ^^
Your rep is 5 now - that should take care of things.
Thank you Gertjan...got the install completed.
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Strange. It was already at five after I bumped him several days ago.
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@NollipfSense said in Flagged for Spam:
I have never seen the back office of forums to see all the spam issues.
You don't want to. It's a f**king mess. And without anti-spam measures you'd simply drown in the flood of bullshit-crossposting-bots that only want to advertise some BS links in their texts or signature. That's why all posts below a certain rep-rating are now looked at very closely (esp. below 5-10) as those bots simply come, post their BS and leave (mostly with less than 5 posts).
Also logging in from addresses that were reported from spam or are VPN links (and shared with many users) can trigger anti-spam. Or posting (many) links in a post - even accidental. So nothing evil with Netgate running (they ran pfsense.org long enough beforehand) but simple the internet being ... the internet.
