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  1. Mene

    Mene <b>ACCOUNT CLOSED</b>: <em>Officially</em> Quit iO

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    is it me or are we having a lot more spamming than usual at the moment?

    :(
     
  2. Eli

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    Seems pretty normal?
     
  3. saansilt

    saansilt 👮 Spam Police 🚓

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    *Shotgun Blast*
    *Shotgun Blast*
    *Shotgun Blast*
    Sorry Eli, I'm at work right now. I'll clean up when I have break time.
    This wave seems done.
     
  4. Mythbuster

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    If you need "cleaning helper", just PN me. ;)
     
  5. saansilt

    saansilt 👮 Spam Police 🚓

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    Ya know, I think Mene overreacted here.
    It was a normal spam attack.
    Nothing like the social groups thing.
    THAT was bad.
     
  6. undeadcow

    undeadcow Well-Known Member

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    Is it really that easy to spam Touch Arcade? I think there's just certain times of the day/night when moderators/spam squad are less active and the scum come out.
     
  7. Echoseven

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    It's actually pretty constant. Usually if a mod is on they catch it before most people notice.
     
  8. Mene

    Mene <b>ACCOUNT CLOSED</b>: <em>Officially</em> Quit iO

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    I wasn't trying to be an ass! I honestly thought it was worse than normal.
     
  9. saansilt

    saansilt 👮 Spam Police 🚓

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    Slow down mate.
    Twas but a freindly jab. ;)
     
  10. undeadcow

    undeadcow Well-Known Member

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    I agree with Mene; there feels like a noticeable increase in spam or, if not in quantity than duration, maybe a decrease in responsiveness with deletions. For example, the prior most recent post in the site feedback right now is spam. Not that I'm complaining; unavoidable hazards of the web.
     
  11. Echoseven

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    Actually from my end, I noticed it comes in bursts a lot more than it used to.

    A while ago it used to be consistent and fairly random. More recently there's a burst of a dozen or so spammers, a reprieve, then another burst and so on. So even if someone's online to delete them, it might take them some time to get through everything one by one.

    We get notifications for every post you guys report. For my part, if I'm awake and not otherwise occupied I try to respond to reports within the hour, so reporting spam does help. A lot. Huge thanks to those of you who do it! <3
     
  12. saansilt

    saansilt 👮 Spam Police 🚓

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    Yeah.
    Multis are easy but taking out each individual one does take time.
     
  13. psj3809

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    As you say theyre mostly seperate which is a pain rather than some huge chunk

    Plus a lot dont get reported, every morning i check new posts and try and find anymore of these annoying spam messages. (And delete peoples posts who dont report it and instead quote them !)

    Still it feels good nuking them, specially when you see on the spammers profile theyre creating a new post , so you 'zap them' and you know they wont be able to finish what they're doing. Scum all of them !
     
  14. Mene

    Mene <b>ACCOUNT CLOSED</b>: <em>Officially</em> Quit iO

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    Not complaining, more curious but why when you report spam does it take 20+ seconds to process the report?
     
  15. saansilt

    saansilt 👮 Spam Police 🚓

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    If you are in the app, double tap the submit button.
     
  16. JBRUU

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    The 60 second wait timer is pretty irritating
     
  17. saansilt

    saansilt 👮 Spam Police 🚓

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    Phew.
    That was quite a wave.
     
  18. cloudpuff

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    I always report any spam i see, I use the app though and pressing once doesn't seem to do anything, when I press the second time it I tells me I have to wait 60 seconds so I never know if it's actually been reported, could a mod confirm that any of my reports get through?

    Agree about the 60 second thing making it difficult to report, I know it's not a long time in the grand scheme of things, but would make reporting quicker if it were reduced or done away with altogether, especially in cases where more than one spammer is active.
     
  19. Eli

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    You really don't need to report every spam thread, usually when there's one there's a bunch and it's pretty obvious. :)
     
  20. cloudpuff

    cloudpuff Well-Known Member

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    I don't report every thread, just one post by the spammer, and on the occasions there's more than one person I'll try report one by them too, after reading psj say the more the merrier and it's better to report than not to on a recent thread I've been trying to do it more instead if just assuming it'll get picked up.
     

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