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Started 1 year ago by Max
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Max
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I have replied to my game thread but when I logout and try opening my game thread, the post is not there so I think it is possibly marked as spam or something.

Below is my newest post:

::I am Morach. I felt that something will happen or have happen to your brother which is why I ask for his location. You are not against helping him, are you?
Do you not feel curious about what happened to him?::

If Oo-hii agrees to search for his brother then I will try to track Oo-hii's brother with his help.

If not, I will to track Oo-hii's brother myself using Detect Material and see if I can detect other fur/hair/skin that is similar to Oo-hii.

There are also another post in between Scott's newest post that did not show up. I wonder if something in that post trigger the filter or something.

Wed Sep 1 2010 10:52 pm #
M. J. Young
Moderator

Your guess was correct, but I don't see why. I've cleared them.

--M. J. Young

Thu Sep 2 2010 12:40 am #
Max
Member

That was weird. I wonder why they were marked as spam.
Thank you for fixing the problem.

Thu Sep 2 2010 9:21 am #
JohnA1nut
Member

I think everyone has had that problem at one time or another. I know I have. Do you often make more than one post in a row? It does that to me sometimes when I multiple post.

Thu Sep 2 2010 9:40 am #
Max
Member

It is only a post to reply Scott's post. Below is the post that got marked as spam. Let me see if it is marked as spam again if I try to copy that post.

That also makes it easy to calculate your GWCharisma, which is 12 (on a scale of 3 to 18).

Good decision.

I've rolled the Reaction Roll already, but we'll get into that tomorrow/next post.

Carry on then.

Thu Sep 2 2010 9:47 am #
JohnA1nut
Member

Who knows? What I don't get is why they can't just tell the computer system to automatically clear posts from known posters. Just tell the Spam filter to ignore posts from the dozen or so regular posters that we have. I'm not a computer programmer, so I don't know, but that's what I would expect to be the best solution.

Thu Sep 2 2010 9:55 am #
Glantri
Member

The properties that make a spambot and a regular poster are very similar John, and that's why it requires MJ to tell it when someone who is marked as spam is a regular poster.

Most spam filters operate on a number priority system. Some of the common ones which I think end up being problems here are:
1.Posting at the same time every day
2.Double posts
3.Posting in quick succession to a second post (implies a potentially automated response)
4.Using unknown words

That's just the most common system, but after seeing how some spam marks have worked so far I feel relatively confident that this is how the system is handling it.

Thu Sep 2 2010 3:34 pm #
JohnA1nut
Member

Yeah, but why can't they tell the spam filter "JohnA1nut is a cool guy. Let him post." "Glantri is a cool guy. Let him post" etc? Tell it the specific people's posting IDs.

Thu Sep 2 2010 4:13 pm #
Glantri
Member

He has, that's why we don't have a problem anymore. :P

You, Max, and I are all on that list now, potentially more. It would just be an unneeded amount of time to do it for everyone though. We all set off a specific trigger or multiple, most people aren't going to do that.

Thu Sep 2 2010 4:21 pm #
JohnA1nut
Member

He has, that's why we don't have a problem anymore

No, that's happened to me 3 or 4 times. Of course, posting in a psychotic state, I'm not the least bit surprised. I've written threads that were 2 dozen posts, some of them a single sentence, that all came in within about 2 hours. Is it any wonder that happens to me?

Thu Sep 2 2010 4:43 pm #
Brock
Member

It has happened to me infrequently, usually when I try to include more than one link in a given post, especially if they are right next to each other in the post.

Thu Sep 2 2010 5:51 pm #
Nikolaj
Member

It has not (yet) happened with me as far as I can remember.

Thu Sep 2 2010 9:06 pm #
M. J. Young
Moderator
It tends to happen with:
- Character Sheet posts when not posted by a moderator, because these look like long lists.
- Posts with multiple links, because these look like ads.
- Multiple short posts.
And I don't have the power to put people on an approved list; I can only tell the system that specific posts are not Spam. If you upset the system again, it will block you again.

--M. J. Young
Fri Sep 3 2010 3:54 am #
JohnA1nut
Member

And I don't have the power to put people on an approved list;

Does Aaron?

(Doing Therapy)

Fri Sep 3 2010 4:23 am #
M. J. Young
Moderator

I do not think that the software supports the "approved list" concept. Although there are things he can do that I cannot, moderation of posts and members is pretty much equal, I think.

--M. J. Young

Fri Sep 3 2010 10:02 pm #

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