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LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
Mods don't exist so PLEAAAAASE, active members of these forums, when you see this kind of shit
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Spend half a minute to go into the thread, pres "Flag", write "spam" in the Flag report and be on your way.

I know that majority of us are probably tech-savvy enough to avoid clicking sus links, but due to mods not existing on these forums I would still prefer if we could save Intrepid's face in front of any newbies that might come here. And having fucking spam on the main General Discussion page is dumb as hell.

My own reports seem to be useless, because I always have to ping a mod on discord to remove those threads, so it seems that no one else reports this spam. And I've seen this shit stay up for 8-15+ hours at a time.

PLEEEEASE REPORT IT

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  • daveywaveydaveywavey Member, Alpha Two
    Petition to let Ludullu and Me be Forum Mods o:)
    This link may help you: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/


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  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Petition to let Ludullu and Me be Forum Mods o:)
    Nahnahnahn, I ain't looking for that responsibility :D I'm here to complain, not to get a job B)
  • daveywaveydaveywavey Member, Alpha Two
    Ludullu wrote: »
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Petition to let Ludullu and Me be Forum Mods o:)
    Nahnahnahn, I ain't looking for that responsibility :D I'm here to complain, not to get a job B)

    Just the kind of person we need. You're hired!
    This link may help you: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/


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  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    The post has been removed. Appreciate everyone flagging these spam posts <3

    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!
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  • daveywaveydaveywavey Member, Alpha Two
    Vaknar wrote: »
    The post has been removed. Appreciate everyone flagging these spam posts <3

    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!

    Is there a list of Volunteer Moderators? Not sure who to go to.
    This link may help you: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/


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  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!
    Glad that it's just a system issue rather than a mod one. Hope it gets resolved soon, cause these spammers are annoying as hell, and I definitely don't want their existence to influence the forum posting flow, like it did at some point in the past.
  • TheDarkSorcererTheDarkSorcerer Member, Alpha Two
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    The post has been removed. Appreciate everyone flagging these spam posts <3

    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!

    Is there a list of Volunteer Moderators? Not sure who to go to.

    Id love to be one, but hate to be one as well. YOU get a ban! And YOU get a ban! EVERYONE gets a ban!
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  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    The post has been removed. Appreciate everyone flagging these spam posts <3

    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!

    Is there a list of Volunteer Moderators? Not sure who to go to.

    This was my first thought as well.

    Would be a worthwhile thing to have.
  • VaknarVaknar Member, Staff
    edited July 4
    Ludullu wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!
    Glad that it's just a system issue rather than a mod one. Hope it gets resolved soon, cause these spammers are annoying as hell, and I definitely don't want their existence to influence the forum posting flow, like it did at some point in the past.

    Yeah, I feel that too. The bad actor(s) involved here sometimes are able to bypass our spam filters. I can increase the filters, but these tend to capture false positives (meaning posts will periodically disappear, before reappearing. You've probably seen this happen in the past). Imo, that's a worse experience and more disruptive than the occasional spam post that lives for a few hours. At least on a day-to-day basis. I tend to turn those on when things get really bad.

    Regardless, we certainly appreciate the thoughtfulness and understanding here. As for the list of volunteer moderators, you're right. Looks like we don't have a public list of active volunteer mods for the forums, and there isn't a way to ping all volunteer moderators at once. I've added it to my list to look into this. I'll also take another look at our filters to see if I can tweak them to catch more of these posts since my last time under the hood tweaking them. Thanks for the suggestions <3
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  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    Vaknar wrote: »
    I'll also take another look at our filters to see if I can tweak them to catch more of these posts since my last time under the hood tweaking them. Thanks for the suggestions <3
    I'd imagine at least a pause on any thread with a link that is not youtube, twitch, kick, twitter (x), tiktok, imgur (or whichever other img site is usually the default for image posts) would go a really long way.

    Not sure if you have the capability to implement that kind of filter relatively easily.
  • daveywaveydaveywavey Member, Alpha Two
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Ludullu wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    Side note - Looks like we're not getting pinged about reported posts on the moderation side, so I'll be reaching out to Vanilla, our forums service, to escalate that. In the meantime, you can always @ me for spam, or shoot me or volunteer moderators a DM. Thanks, all!
    Glad that it's just a system issue rather than a mod one. Hope it gets resolved soon, cause these spammers are annoying as hell, and I definitely don't want their existence to influence the forum posting flow, like it did at some point in the past.

    Yeah, I feel that too. The bad actor(s) involved here sometimes are able to bypass our spam filters. I can increase the filters, but these tend to capture false positives (meaning posts will periodically disappear, before reappearing. You've probably seen this happen in the past). Imo, that's a worse experience and more disruptive than the occasional spam post that lives for a few hours. At least on a day-to-day basis. I tend to turn those on when things get really bad.

    Regardless, we certainly appreciate the thoughtfulness and understanding here. As for the list of volunteer moderators, you're right. Looks like we don't have a public list of active volunteer mods for the forums, and there isn't a way to ping all volunteer moderators at once. I've added it to my list to look into this. I'll also take another look at our filters to see if I can tweak them to catch more of these posts since my last time under the hood tweaking them. Thanks for the suggestions <3

    You're awesome, thankyou :)

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    This link may help you: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/


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  • daveywaveydaveywavey Member, Alpha Two
    Ludullu wrote: »
    Vaknar wrote: »
    I'll also take another look at our filters to see if I can tweak them to catch more of these posts since my last time under the hood tweaking them. Thanks for the suggestions <3
    I'd imagine at least a pause on any thread with a link that is not youtube, twitch, kick, twitter (x), tiktok, imgur (or whichever other img site is usually the default for image posts) would go a really long way.

    Not sure if you have the capability to implement that kind of filter relatively easily.

    Would that include gifs? If so, then you've lost my Sword...
    This link may help you: https://ashesofcreation.wiki/


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  • LudulluLudullu Member, Alpha Two
    daveywavey wrote: »
    Would that include gifs? If so, then you've lost my Sword...
    What a gif if not a sequence of images? And I mentioned "any other site that's default for images". Do an AI sniff of the forums for all gifs, look at their sources - add those sources to the filter exclusions.
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