Malignant posts

[wossname]

How about this idea...

People with fewer than 50 non-chitchat posts cannot post clickable hyperlinks or attatchments.

This will prevent people advertising or posting malicious code without having gained a respectable reputation on the forum.

This restriction should include signature content too.

[Electroman]

Thats sounds quite good I recon, mind not sure about the attachments because they will sometimes need to show you code in-order to get help.

Images in the Signiture should be included as well .

[manavo11]

But to post attachments would be useful for someone that can't explain the problem or something like that...

[si_the_geek]

Unfortunately there are a couple of issues that I can personally see with that.

First of all, the number of posts is no indicator of respectability. I have seen some members with over 500 posts who still seem to have almost no understanding of VB, and are unwilling to do anything themselves to solve their own coding problems.

I have also seen members with a reasonable number of posts who ask various questions which (when grouped together) imply that they are attempting to write malicious code. These tend to be the type of people who would do what you are trying to stop.


The second issue is that sometimes we need to see code to help someone, and the code can often be too large to post in a thread (or is spread across multiple files, in which case a Zipped project is very useful).


It was a good idea, but unfortunately it wouldn't stop that sort of thing from happening (even though it might reduce it). It would also give problems to more 'genuine' users.

[Electroman]

Here is a perfect example (happened today): http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=288339
The person has one post and I dought they will ever post anything of any use. Even a limit of 10-20 would stop this because I dought the person would have spent the time to write 10 posts just to put this post in.

[NoteMe]

I was just going to post that link. I hate persons like that....I can't belive it, I even clicked that link, and didn't understand anything, so I didn't post a reply. THen I daw Electroman do the same, and he posted that he didn't understand anything. And then I saw Digitals post, and understood what this was all about....I hate persons like that.

Can't everyone that wants to post at this forum send me a mail so I can check them out before they are allowed to become a member here...

[Electroman]

He's posted the same link in the ChitChat section I see: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...postid=1680544

[si_the_geek]

Regarding your questions in the other threads (as I dont want to 'bump' them):

As far as I am aware the "report post" goes to the moderator of the forum that the post is in, and the Administrators (possibly to the 'super mods' too).

It happens like this because moderators don't have 'global' permissions. For example, I only have special rights within the UtilityBank section.


If you see posts like this please report it using the link, and maybe in addition PM the relevant moderator (if you dont know who it is, see the "Forum Leaders" link at the bottom of the front page of this site).


Oh, and no, you can't have the email address of another user

[Electroman]

Posted by si_the_geek
Oh, and no, you can't have the email address of another user

But its for good use . Unless I should be recieving a email soon including it . Or are you going to sign him up for so good portions of spam. .
Ow well. If he gets banned I'll be happy.

Quote from my Signiture
For right amount of money Camel can dance up pyramid.

[si_the_geek]

would you like me to do that with your email address?


There's not a chance I'm afraid, even if I had access to it.
(I dont care how many dancing camels you show me!)

[Electroman]

Posted by si_the_geek
would you like me to do that with your email address?

If I purely misused this forum, like he has (he posts two posts and both are against the rules), then I guess I would deserive it.

If not camels then how about donkeys, donkeys are funny.
Well maybe one of the other mods will contact his ISP to get his address and send the boys round .

[si_the_geek]

I think the most likely course of action is for those posts to be deleted, with extreme cases or repeat offences leading to banning (as this isn't as bad as other things that users can do).

As there are so many users posting on this site it is impossible for the mod's/admin to read all posts (and edits), so we need you to let us know when posts like this (or that disregard the AUP) come up.

[NoteMe]

Marty sendt me a PM back and asked me what he should do about it. Since I was at work, I couldn't answer. But it looks like it is deleted now. It was probably the best the Mods could do.

[Electroman]

Yeah and Brads taken care of the one in ChitChat .