# Eliminating spam on Ruby Forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109051 "2007-07-11T00:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109051/1 "2007-07-11T00:47:52Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109051/2 "2007-07-11T00:55:25Z")
Kaps L. wrote: > What do you people think? I think you are on a mailing list 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109051/3 "2007-07-11T01:01:06Z")
Lionel B. wrote: > Kaps L. wrote: > > > What do you people think? > > I think you are on a mailing list 🙂 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](http://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.? ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109051/4 "2007-07-12T07:47:22Z")
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. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid" Cheers, Mohit. 7/11/2007 | 12:29 PM. ---
**Author:** ![kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@kapslok](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kapslok)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eliminating-spam-on-ruby-forum/109051/5 "2007-07-11T03:54:38Z")
> If there’s no moderator Why’s there no moderator? Please don’t give me that “all Rails developers are overworked” crap… – Phlip [Test Driven Ajax (on Rails) [Book]](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/) “Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)” assert\_xpath, assert\_javascript, & assert\_ajax