How can we prevent "luckyvogue" from spamming our site again?
About once a week, I log onto my favorite website, deals.woot, and find that the website "luckyvogue" has created a new account and spammed their links and advertisements on every single deal posted. Of course we all downvote their comments, but this does nothing. And it's usually several, to many, hours before Woot staff bans them and deletes their comments. So what? They make another account and do it again.
How could Woot prevent this from happening? My idea was to add the term "luckyvogue" to the list of no-no words. If those letters are ever next to each other, even if surrounded by other letters, the entire word is censored. This should prevent them from posting their links at least. And once those are gone, they may lose interest and move on from deals.woot.
Any ideas?
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firebirdude
asked 4 months ago
Tattle on the comments, to bring them to Woot's attention. That works much better than just downvoting...
Yep, I saw one and tattled it, marked it as spam. It gets sorted out soon enough
I do. I think many of us do. But they remain in place anywhere from 1 to 8+ hours after I've tattled.
A well-placed Predator drone should take care of the problem. I'd like to see that in the next CAN-SPAM Act.
At least for the forums, on more than one occasion I've included the suggestion of adding the spammed site's name to the Wootionary.
I don't think there's one over here at deals, though.
Would such eliminate all the spammers? No. Will it reduce the worst offenders? Hopefully yes.
if you banned the word luckyvogue would just have to use a redirect like tinyurl.
Maybe woot will ip ban him/her eventually.
You can't stop them, you can only hope to contain them! I did tattle on a couple of their posts earlier today.
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