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graudeejs
February 3rd, 2009, 06:05
There have been lots of spam recently....
I'd like to offer my help to elimenate it faster.
If you want, you could give me some mod permissions.

I'm usually online in this forum a lot.

Or if i can help somehow other that just report spams, let me know, I'd really like to help, with what i can.
danger@
February 4th, 2009, 10:52
We will discuss this internally among other admins and moderators.
kamikaze
February 4th, 2009, 12:51
We will discuss this internally among other admins and moderators.Now, that is surprising. In all the forums I have been active so far the general rule was that no one who asks for moderator rights would ever be granted such privileges.
graudeejs
February 4th, 2009, 13:40
Now, that is surprising. In all the forums I have been active so far the general rule was that no one who asks for moderator rights would ever be granted such privileges.

I just want to contribute to FreeBSD, this forum and community.
kamikaze
February 4th, 2009, 14:16
I don't question your motives. It's just how things commonly happen in my experience.
danger@
February 4th, 2009, 14:54
When I actually say that we will discuss it, it doesn't necessary mean the the user will be granted with such permissions. The point is that we have several users here who might be a very good candidates for this position. If we are going to add new mods, we have to carefully consider this fact.

Anyway, AFAIR the FreeBSD project works the way that we promote (or sometimes we refer to punishing :)) our users with special privileges when we consider that they deserve it (either it is commit bit, or say, mod privileges)...
irkkaaja
February 5th, 2009, 17:30
I don't question your motives. It's just how things commonly happen in my experience.

I'd imagine people here don't need to justify themselves by acting like a jerk to other people through http.
DutchDaemon
February 5th, 2009, 17:44
We need a mod in here ;)

a.k.a. "Move along, nothing to see here"
brd@
February 6th, 2009, 04:28
Yeah, what he said...

*cough*
kamikaze
February 7th, 2009, 11:59
I'd imagine people here don't need to justify themselves by acting like a jerk to other people through http.I didn't see that happen. In my opinion this place is surprisingly spam-free.
Pushrod
February 7th, 2009, 16:14
I have only seen a handful, and I just press the Report button and call it a day.
DutchDaemon
February 7th, 2009, 19:05
Modding is more than removing spam and rogue accounts.
anemos
February 7th, 2009, 19:56
Modding is more than removing spam and rogue accounts.

+1

In general, it would be good to see a simple member of this forum being "promoted" and it seems that killasmurf spends much of his time around here. Also, by looking at his posts I see that he does like to contribute.
vivek
February 10th, 2009, 12:30
How about activating askimet anti spam system. I think it is inbuilt into VB itself.

Another option limiting time between posting.

Also, you can mod system such way only member with 10 or more post should be able to post urls.

HTH
danger@
February 10th, 2009, 13:27
We are well aware of these options and some of them were implemented already. We currently don't consider deploying akismet though.
vivek
February 10th, 2009, 19:46
We currently don't consider deploying akismet though.
I see.. Is it related to privacy issue?
brd@
February 11th, 2009, 06:11
Well we have a good handle on it now so more that we don't need it and don't want to deal with a 3rd party system as a dependency.