STG, please change your moderator hours...or give trusted forumers theead deletion.

[Zeus]

The spam bot is getting very annoying especially when I am trying to reference threads. So, may STG please change moderator hours or give trusted forum group thread deletion powers specifically to be used for spam bot?

We used to have this before and if the spam cannot be contained, this seems to be an appropriate solution. The spam bot seems to specifically post during moderator off hours.

[Bellaelda]

Yup and yup and yup

[KKIDIRA]

Yes please fix this it's much more annoying than our forum trolls

[BaronB]

Or install a better captcha system or only allow forum posts by accounts that have been activated by email perhaps?

[Trollish]

Yes please fix this it's much more annoying than our forum trolls

Hmm?

[Trollish]

[Fyrce]

Yes, very annoying.

[Xeusx]

They won't do this. I PM'ed Remiem months ago about this and She can't do this solution.

[Nheedles]

They have this website too, its very creepy.

[Candylicks]

Yes they need moderator of Asian TZ who can remove the bot as it pops.

[Soundlesskill]

Please don't give anyone the power to remove threads. Instead, as the post above suggests, get a mod from another timezone.

[Deadroth]

Yes they need moderator of Asian TZ who can remove the bot as it pops.

European central zone is also much desired...

[Suentous PO]

What would "trusted" mean, someone who has never been banned?

[Castellann]

The spam bot is getting very annoying especially when I am trying to reference threads. So, may STG please change moderator hours or give trusted forum group thread deletion powers specifically to be used for spam bot?

We used to have this before and if the spam cannot be contained, this seems to be an appropriate solution. The spam bot seems to specifically post during moderator off hours.

Im sure its imposible

[Zeus]

What would "trusted" mean, someone who has never been banned?

That could be a qualification, yes. STG could create a new permission group specifically for spam thread deletion and invite forum users to this permission group. Forum users in this group would only be instructed to use thread deletion powers for spam thread of the spam bot. Nothing more, nothing less. Deviate from that and one should be removed from the group in order to prevent power hungry people from abusing it.

I personally would recommend those who already help others for the sake of helping alone like: influential members of The Community Guild.

I'm not saying this out of self-gain either. I would personally prefer that I am not made one - would be far too annoying for me to have to handle. So, those who don't mind but are still trustworthy are suitable candidates.

Your opinion?

[dudetus]

That could be a qualification, yes. STG could create a new permission group specifically for spam thread deletion and invite forum users to this permission group. Forum users in this group would only be instructed to use thread deletion powers for spam thread of the spam bot. Nothing more, nothing less. Deviate from that and one should be removed from the group in order to prevent power hungry people from abusing it.

I personally would recommend those who already help others for the sake of helping alone like: influential members of The Community Guild.

I'm not saying this out of self-gain either. I would personally prefer that I am not made one - would be far too annoying for me to have to handle. So, those who don't mind but are still trustworthy are suitable candidates.

Your opinion?

Because of minor inconvenience cuz of some spambot, STG should give post deletion rights to hand picked trustworthy members, give them precise guidelines and monitor their actions constantly.

More work than gain, and what if some powerdrunken "community mod" goes deletionspree and deletes stickies?

[Soundlesskill]

That could be a qualification, yes. STG could create a new permission group specifically for spam thread deletion and invite forum users to this permission group. Forum users in this group would only be instructed to use thread deletion powers for spam thread of the spam bot. Nothing more, nothing less. Deviate from that and one should be removed from the group in order to prevent power hungry people from abusing it.

I personally would recommend those who already help others for the sake of helping alone like: influential members of The Community Guild.

I'm not saying this out of self-gain either. I would personally prefer that I am not made one - would be far too annoying for me to have to handle. So, those who don't mind but are still trustworthy are suitable candidates.

Your opinion?

Either way, I don't think it's a good idea. It's like giving a special group in AL the premission to take another person's items freely if abused. That would just lead to scam and injustice.

[Zeus]

Either way, I don't think it's a good idea. It's like giving a special group in AL the premission to take another person's items freely if abused. That would just lead to scam and injustice.

How would locking threads lead to a person being able to take another person's items? I'm not being sarcastic - I just don't see the connection, that's all!

[Soundlesskill]

How would locking threads lead to a person being able to take another person's items? I'm not being sarcastic - I just don't see the connection, that's all!

Might be a bad example . Just saying that if some of the so called "trust people" could lock threads for their own good. If I know STS right, they won't check what's getting locked anyway. I don't know about the AL community, but I don't trust anyone who doesn't get paid to run the game and forum.

[Zeus]

Because of minor inconvenience cuz of some spambot, STG should give post deletion rights to hand picked trustworthy members, give them precise guidelines and monitor their actions constantly.

More work than gain, and what if some powerdrunken "community mod" goes deletionspree and deletes stickies?

It's not a minor inconvenience if the first thing a moderator does when he/she logs on is handle spam bot threads. Work efficiency goes down if all attention is turned to solely the spam produced. Additionally, the forums are extremely unpleasant and unusable place to visit with multitude of spam threads in every section. So, creating a captcha with improved efficiency could be one method as previously mentioned. Alternatively, this could be another.

STG does not have to monitor guidelines as forumers would be doing that themselves. It's not like someone could go on a rampage to delete other threads and it would not be noticed.

Alternatively, if you have a better solution, I'd love to hear it. It doesn't have to be the way I suggested - I just want to be able to use forums again without spam threads showing up in every search...