Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum

I don’t know about you guys and gals, but the daily spam messages making
their way into these forums is giving me the $hit$. I think what we need
is a button to mark messages as spam, so someone can blow them away, and
then ban the user.

If there’s no moderator, I can imagine it’s not something someone would
want to do constantly, maybe a ranking system where, say more than 10
votes from unique users automatically kills the message and puts the
user into a black list. That way the forum users are the spam police.

What do you people think?

Kaps L. wrote:

What do you people think?

I think you are on a mailing list :slight_smile: and:

  • Google doesn’t provide this service,
  • it wouldn’t help people using the classic mail delivery (which may or
    may not be the majority -> it may not even work at all).

SPAM isn’t really a problem for me, but Thunderbird is throwing them in
my Junk folder automatically, so…

Lionel.

Lionel B. wrote:

Kaps L. wrote:

What do you people think?

I think you are on a mailing list :slight_smile: and:

  • Google doesn’t provide this service,
  • it wouldn’t help people using the classic mail delivery (which may or
    may not be the majority → it may not even work at all).

SPAM isn’t really a problem for me, but Thunderbird is throwing them in
my Junk folder automatically, so…

Lionel.

I only get replies to messages I’ve posted in my email. I tend to use
the ruby-forum.com, it’s annoying to see it seeded with messages about
used cars etc. I was just wondering what other people thought. What’s
the reference to Google? Is this forum on Google G.?

Kaps L. wrote:

What do you people think?

Hi Kaps L.,

A number of things get blocked by my Thurnderbird filter that “Junks”
emails from the following emails (I’m assuming that you’re on the
mailing list - not reading it on the web)

Here are the emails to block.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]"

Cheers,
Mohit.
7/11/2007 | 12:29 PM.

If there’s no moderator

Why’s there no moderator?

Please don’t give me that “all Rails developers are overworked” crap…


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