May 27, 2022 at 2:18 pm
What generates the "Points" we have in our profile ?
I just reported a spam account that had 200 points.
May 28, 2022 at 12:22 am
Various activities (post new topic, reply to one, post article, etc.). I think I need to file a bug that spam posts don't count as points.
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May 28, 2022 at 12:22 pm
I would add to that a verification - if number of posts = number of spam posts and user has more than 5/10 such posts just block them next time they get a report
May 28, 2022 at 2:47 pm
Various activities (post new topic, reply to one, post article, etc.). I think I need to file a bug that spam posts don't count as points.
It's worse than that, Steve... I seen first timers with just 1 post (spam or not) end up with tens and sometimes low hundreds of points.
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May 28, 2022 at 7:12 pm
I would add to that a verification - if number of posts = number of spam posts and user has more than 5/10 such posts just block them next time they get a report
Sounds like a good idea. I've been doing this a long time. We used to try things like that and suddenly the "user" would add a foreach and we'd see even more spam posts. Usually we want to just keep swallowing the posts and not let the poster know they efforts are being hidden
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May 28, 2022 at 7:13 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:Various activities (post new topic, reply to one, post article, etc.). I think I need to file a bug that spam posts don't count as points.
It's worse than that, Steve... I seen first timers with just 1 post (spam or not) end up with tens and sometimes low hundreds of points.
Be good to get examples reported. There might be other bugs in the point system.
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June 5, 2022 at 10:33 am
Steve have a look at this profile https://qa.sqlservercentral.com/forums/user/papaku
I'm pretty sure I've reported them more than once - and there are similar profiles to this one - reply to one of the messages with a "I got this" and with a link embedded on the commented out text.
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