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I'll ask our admin if you wish but personally, I don't think so. The forums I've seen it on are much smaller than CD. I'm afraid it would be counterproductive in terms of workload for our moderators here. Reporting alone seems to be working for us.
Gandalara, Spam Squad is a group of members who have the ability to send an offensive post to the moderation queue. It's not for rudeness or anything like that, only for things like porn spam/viagra/insurance. It keeps the real crud off the board.
And yes, I've seen it implemented on smaller forums, especially those where little kids were members and porn spam would have been a disaster if it has stayed up too long.
I suppose how much spam one sees on City-Data depends on which forum(s) one frequents. I see very little in the retirement, history, business, and a few other forums. Of course I report it when I see it.
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I think the mods are very good about removing spam especially if it's reported by CD members. When I see a thread that looks like it may be spam/advertising, I usually open it to verify then use the report post button at the upper right hand corner of the post. You can also DM a moderator as well. Seems effective to me.
Gandalara, Spam Squad is a group of members who have the ability to send an offensive post to the moderation queue. It's not for rudeness or anything like that, only for things like porn spam/viagra/insurance. It keeps the real crud off the board.
Yes, I know what a Spam Squad is.
The point of my previous post was that - every single member can report spam and a lot of us do this already.
Gandalara, Spam Squad is a group of members who have the ability to send an offensive post to the moderation queue. It's not for rudeness or anything like that, only for things like porn spam/viagra/insurance. It keeps the real crud off the board.
And yes, I've seen it implemented on smaller forums, especially those where little kids were members and porn spam would have been a disaster if it has stayed up too long.
Also known as janitors. Slightly more powerful than end users but not quite as powerful as moderators. They have the power to remove posts and clean up the boards but don't have the disciplinary authority thats mods do.
The pecking order goes as follows
Admins.
Super or Senior Mods.
Mods.
Janitors.
End users.
I don't think the concept of janitors would be good for city-data accept on maybe a few of the forums, { P&OC, R&P, Relationships } Everywhere else the mod staff shouldn't have trouble keeping up on it.
They have the power to remove posts and clean up the boards...
Not quite so. They aren't really removing these posts, they are only hiding them from people's sight. Now, you need a moderator to go through these hidden posts and decide what should be deleted and what returned. That, between the regular reports and moderators' own reading, would be a double workload.
That's why I believe it might be manageable on smaller boards but here? I can't imagine that in practice.
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