Spammers, Reporters and Bullies

[AB Editor]

Good Day everyone, hope we're well.


I wonder if we can discuss and agree the best way to deal with spammers?

The Editors do their best to get to reports as soon as they come in. Those which have come through today have been picked off asap.

I would suggest though that those who spot spammers avoid posting on their threads. By posting on their threads - even to say "reported" pushes the post back into the "latest posts" box which encourages others to look and comment.

While this is of little benefit to the spammers (they'll be gone shortly after anyway) it is a bit like forcing ad breaks into everyone else's AnswerBank viewing.

The following is mostly directed at the CB crowd:

There also seems to be a habit of some users of trying to "shout down" anyone who reports - something along the lines of "no one likes a grass".

This is nonsense. We provide functions to keep the site free of trolls and banned users. Use them.

The only time "no one likes a grass" has weight is in prison. If you are currently serving time in jail, I can only suggest a visit here: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/ to see where you went wrong.

I noticed a rash of bullying bubbled up last night. If you've found your account suspended, and you were involved, please don't contact us about it - it is permanent.



I hope you have a good weekend.

Spare Ed

[yogi-bear]

Bugger,

Saw 'spammers' .....thought it was a party....brought eggs and chips too :0(

[cazzz1975]

wow is TT gone for good or is it a naughty step suspension?

[jackthehat]

I'd better keep an eye out for flaming torches and pitchforks, jno.

I think they want my head on a pointy stick.

"OK, boys. I have blue hair and I smoke".....:o)

[B00]

And TT?

[jno]

just suspended, probably because of the Godfather impersonations... 'Nobody likes a grass, capiche?'

[Jan1957]

Hi yogi. I have a tin of spam in the cupboard if you fancy a fritter. :-)

[cazzz1975]

lol, the 'capiche' classes it up somewhat..

[jackthehat]

Sorry, AP.
The Scout Hut is a some-time (much inferior) sister-site to AB.......now, in the main, peopled by those expelled from AB.

[Answerprancer]

Ah ...SAB ?

[steg]

that's not the scout hut, that's the out house

[Answerprancer]

Oh yuck ! ...the lower echelons !

[jno]

asylum seekers, AP

[yogi-bear]

TT likes to stir and says things about some of us over on the defunkt site to keep in with Abbott and Costello, so i would be a bit wary. If he's suspended, it was because of obviously something he said. I,for one, am glad Man-On-The-Top-Of-The-Clapham-Omnibus and legend are'nt here anymore, as it makes for a better site for you guys who are on here regularly and for those of us who 'dip'.

So, Ed, if you ask your monitors and Deputy Ed's to keep an eye on the site, happy days can only be ahead, and well done for addressing this issue. :0)

[yogi-bear]

Hiya Jan,

I would love a rummage in your drawers and have a fritter, sweetheart :0) xx

[craft1948]

I was inkwell monitor at school :-)

[yogi-bear]

I bet you drove the boys crazy, crafty :0) x...........i always had lead in my pencil.

[B00]

Ahhhh, think i know who TT is. Hat wearing dude in his avatar- right?

[yogi-bear]

You got it, Boo :0) x