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each time my post gets flagged for spam and 3 escort spams get on the main index, I melt a little

Jan Cumps

Motivational dip. I flagged 3 posts this week-end because they were for escorts, and they are still up. I wrote a nice blog post this week-end about an industrial sensor, related to a road test, and it's off to the spam queue.

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  • Jan Cumps said:
    I flagged 3 posts this week-end because they were for escorts, and they are still up

    Are they? Could you provide a link so I can check that? As far as I can tell they've gone into the abuse queue on verint.


    Jan Cumps said:
    I wrote a nice blog post this week-end about an industrial sensor, related to a road test, and it's off to the spam queue.


    Yep... I had to raise the 'abusive link count' which didn't catch the escort spam which had just under the limit, and then other content gets caught for different reasons. Meanwhile there's still spam content that does get caught.

    I'm not a fan of how Verint's classifying the spam or its 'reputation system' (and neither are other customers of Verint). There are changes to it, but they're in the next version of the platform, and we're moving to that later this year.

    We need a way of whitelisting trusted users, and I don't have that yet (verint believes it should be the reputation system but it doesn't appear to work).

  • in reply to cstanton

    I think I flagged the same escort spam as Jan (unless there was a lot more!), does it immediately go into quarantine when one person reports it, or does it take several users? 

    Because, I too could still see the spam even after I reported it, but I just assumed that it was cached or something - I didn't realize others would still be able to see spam after one person reports it).

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  • in reply to cstanton

    I think I flagged the same escort spam as Jan (unless there was a lot more!), does it immediately go into quarantine when one person reports it, or does it take several users? 

    Because, I too could still see the spam even after I reported it, but I just assumed that it was cached or something - I didn't realize others would still be able to see spam after one person reports it).

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  • in reply to shabaz
    shabaz said:
    does it immediately go into quarantine when one person reports it, or does it take several users? 

    It takes more than one person to report it for it to go straight into the quarantine.

    It has to be that way to prevent abuse from members, of which I've seen a lot of content go into the 'possibly abusive' queue by equally spammy users reporting legitimate content.