http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/tags/spam Gaming Outpost Discussions » Tag: Spam - Recent Topics en-US Thu, 24 May 2012 11:09:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/search.php http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/possible-spam-comment#post-3868 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:19:12 +0000 M. J. Young 3868@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Aaron--</p> <p>Someone posted a comment this morning (2/20/8) on the article <em><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/world_a_week_axe_age_above/">World a Week: Axe Age Above</a></em>. I've disapproved it but not marked it Spam because I wanted to check it with you. He writes under the name Bull Dagger, and it appears to be an effort to get a link to a site that sells weapons made of Damascus Steel. The comment itself is not entirely out of character for Gaming Outpost, but has nothing to do with the article to which it is attached.</p> <p>I wasn't sure whether to delete it; after all, we do talk about stuff like the quality of weapon materials, and I don't know that this is not a new member. However, I don't see an e-mail address so I can't ask him who he is.</p> <p>Thoughts?</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/spam-articles#post-1164 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:43:04 +0000 Aaron Powell 1164@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>They've started popping up. I've been deleting them, but it's kind of a pain. I'm trying to think of a solution to this. I think I may be able to force new articles into a moderation queue for approval before they go live. And once a writer has written something that isn't spam, his status can be updated to allow direct posting. How would a setup like that play with everyone? </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/article-system-tech-notes#post-236 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:51:59 +0000 M. J. Young 236@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I noticed on the front page that there was a comment on an old article, so I went to see it, <a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/game_ideas_unlimited_survival/#comment-61">here</a>. It looks like the work of a bot. The name "Nick" was hyperlinked to some sort of automotive site. I edited out both the link and the e-mail address, but left the comment (it was rather inoccuous, and editing was readily obvious while I didn't see the ability to delete until after I'd done the editing). Probably next time I would just delete the comment, but I thought I'd alert you to the possibility that there's a bot program out there that has figured out how to comment here.</p> <p>I'll keep on it.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p>